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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > American Sniper
 
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 Yo this movie was boring as hell.

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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Cole posted:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/otherize

what

if you can find the definition of otherize in a legitimate dictionary i'll respect what you're saying. otherwise you're gonna have to reword it so i don't immediately think you're just kind of dumb.

Otherizing would be when Kyle had a disapproving look on his face when his brother said "gently caress this place" or said that the other soldier (I can't remember which one because every non-Chris Kyle character in this movie was a cardboard cutout) deserved to die because he questioned the point of going to war.

But if you want to get hung up on the use of "otherize" then replace it with, I dunno, denigrate or something similar.

* # ¿ Feb 7, 2015 18:08
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 Why assume that it's an ineffective anti-war movie? It felt to me like a pro-war movie.

* # ¿ Feb 7, 2015 19:21
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 Lol

* # ¿ Feb 17, 2015 16:34
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 The Outlaw Josey Wales is a good Clint Eastwood picture.

* # ¿ Feb 22, 2015 04:28
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Written, funny enough, by a die-hard white supremacist.

It is, but, aside from Josey being a Confederate, it doesn't feel like it.

* # ¿ Feb 22, 2015 15:29
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 I think that when a film ends with real life footage of its subject's funeral, it becomes harder to hide behind the "it's just a movie" defense.

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2015 00:16
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Cole posted:

then what was i watching

You seem intent on quashing discussion of the movie's politics even though a movie made on this topic is, and arguably all movies are, inherently political.

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2015 00:19
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Cole posted:

That's fine and dandy. A movie can be about politics. But if you watch it and you're so influenced by it that you can't discern the difference between Hollywood and real life, the problem is not with the movie. People seem to be defending ignorance. Watching a movie, any movie, that doesn't fall under a documentary title (and even then), even those that are "based on" real events and getting your political ideologies from it is lazy ignorance. Can it influence you do to more research about it? Yeah, but don't ask me to accept people being lazy about it.

Think about those news stories that people post on Facebook that are solely to smear Obama. Most of them aren't true, and anyone who takes them as fact without doing any research is lazy and ignorant. This movie is the same thing as those news stories, it's just a movie and not a news story.

The American populace, by and large, is lazy and ignorant.

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2015 00:30
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 Fiction has historically played a very important role in influencing public opinion, for better or worse. Think Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle, etc. It's always going to be A Thing.

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2015 00:36
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 Agreed, taking a human life is dope as gently caress.

* # ¿ Mar 3, 2015 17:03
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Cole posted:

I still maintain that just because something is based on something, it does not have to 100% follow it to a T.

You've made like 50 posts complaining about the inaccuracy of The Hurt Locker.

* # ¿ Mar 3, 2015 17:29
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 I think, that killing people, is bad.

I also, think, that American Sniper is, bad, but not for, that reason.

* # ¿ Mar 3, 2015 23:40
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

FreudianSlippers posted:

Can't wait for Oliver Stone's Juba The Baghdad Sniper film.

Same

* # ¿ Mar 4, 2015 19:38
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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Astrochicken posted:

the movie was alright

I disagree.

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Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

 This thread is proof that the terrorists won.

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