5SOS and American Sniper

I don’t get why people are getting upset over them saying they love that movie? Like, American Sniper is a great movie, it is directed by Clint Eastwood, who’s a genius in the movie industry and it deals with the topic of soldiers coming back from their tour, feeling like they don’t fit in anymore and struggling against themselves thinking back about the things they did as soldiers.

I don’t get why some people are overreacting and saying that the movie promotes genocide against people from Arabic and/or Muslim descent and that them loving it make them cry over and over?

Like if they’d watched Gran Torino, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, which are three other beautiful movies by Clint Eastwood, would people accuse them of being racist against Japanese and Asian people? Or if they’d said they loved Amish Grace, would people have assumed they hate Amish people?

Or, eh, Die Hard, a lot of people are executed in there as well, some Germans, some Japanese, some Americans, does that make them racist against every single ethnic group that has ever been featured in a movie?

If yes, you need to reassess your life and realize how immature you’re being, rushing to stupid conclusions without ever thinking one second about the context.

Or maybe you’re just American and you have this really weird and fucked-up relation to races.

Either way, stop making a big deal out of it. American Sniper is amazing, them liking it doesn’t make them anti-Muslim/Arabic/etc. It just show they have great taste in movies dealing with serious adult subjects (as you might be too young and biased to understand.)

4 stars (out of 5)

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Rated R

2 hours, 14 minutes

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller

Directed by: Clint Eastwood (as director Jersey Boys, J. Edgar, Invictus, Gran Torino, Changeling, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags Of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Space Cowboys, The Bridges Of Madison County, Unforgiven)

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So how about that Sniper movie? Director Clint Eastwood must be celebrating with glee at his bungalow on the Warner Bros. studio lot as it broke box office records for a film opening in January; earning $89.5 million over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday ($107 million as of today). Not to mention that this is Eastwood’s – as both director and actor – highest grossing film to date. Eastwood’s week just got better with its Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, his first nomination, among several other nominations. So… back to the movie. Cooper plays real life U.S. Navy SEAL American Sniper Chris Kyle, a Texas cowboy who loved the rodeo, but excelled in gunman-ship. Having been deployed to Iraq over numerous times, his main priority was to shoot to protect his brotherhood, saving countless of American soldier lives. The U.S. Government has credited Kyle with over 160 kills, the largest number of kills of any American soldier. So how good is Cooper as Chris Kyle? He’s very good. Actually, he’s excellent! Cooper has never given such a better performance than he does in American Sniper. He clearly became another person which is quite astonishing, since he only had one single phone conversation with the real Kyle before embarking on the role. Kyle was by far, a saint. His racist and conservative religious side was clearly overlooked (aside from a “savages” remark) in the film. Sienna Miller, who plays his wife, was a stand-out. It was her honest portrayal that made their relationship in the film completely believable. American Sniper is a brave, bold and definitely a heart-breaking movie. We all know that war is an ugly reality of humanity. Is it entertaining? Hardly. But it most certainly is intense and an important film. Whatever you may think about the real Chris Kyle, American Sniper is a patriotic film. And one of Eastwood’s best-directed films. 4 stars out of 5.

American Sniper

Dir. Clint Eastwood Dec 25 - 2014

If you like: Bradely Cooper; Sienna Miller; Clint Eastwood; Flags of Our Fathers; Letters From Iwo Jima; Jarhead; The Hurt Locker; Zero Dark Thirty; Black Swan; The Wrestler; war films; true stories; Chris Kyle; snipers; war on terror; broken homes; moral quandaries; military heroes; despicable villains …you might like American Sniper.

Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort American Snipertells the story of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Kyle, portrayed impressively by Bradley Cooper, has been credited as the most deadly sniper in the history of the United States. The film, based on Kyle’s book of the same title, is largely a highlight of Kyle’s military exploits juxtaposed against his crumbling home life on American soil. The film also explores, albeit briefly, Kyle’s youth and relationship with his father who largely shaped the man he grew up to be.

Bradley Cooper’s performance is no small part of the triumph of this film. The actor becomes unrecognizable behind the hardened, Texan veneer of Chris Kyle in an exceptionally vivd way. Eastwood also manages to create a fairly lukewarm affection for the character throughout the biopic, which, in a military story, is of vital importance so as not to demonize or heroize somebody with the dubious morality of a military sniper. Due to Kyle’s accounts, the film is able to ruminate on the most important beats of his extensive military career while also providing unbridled insight into his personal life at home with his family.

Truly the greatest flaw of American Sniper is its source material. Since the creators of the film do adhere to Kyle’s autobiography so religiously, there is little exploration of some of the most interesting facets of the film. Things like Kyle’s brother’s military term are left on the floor baiting the audience and the travesty of the end of his life is unfortunately given in text over footage of his funeral. A whole film could be done simply on Kyle’s work rehabilitating army veterans, but this stone too feels left unturned. Eastwood, also while walking the careful line of politics, errs too far on the side of correct and doesn’t quite make the statement we all want to see which is evidence of Kyle’s definitive heroism or demonism. However, a great deal of this is less a fault of the film and more a symptom of the single perspective of the original book.

American Sniper (2014)

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