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In reply to the discussion: Things NOT to say when seeing "American Sniper" [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)30. Reviews are stating that it's getting military support.
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The biggest propaganda coup is that a movie that celebrates fighting the wrong
Baitball Blogger
Jan 2015
#1
Thank you for summarizing, you've just changed my mind I think I will go see it after all.
2banon
Jan 2015
#52
does it explain that the war was based on lies? that we invaded for no reason?
Skittles
Jan 2015
#60
I would not nominate a propaganda movie personally, but we live in an 'Empire now' airc being told.
sabrina 1
Jan 2015
#69
The story that he shot a woman with a grenade in one hand and a toddler in the other is absurd
Ash_F
Jan 2015
#38
I can't put into words how I feel beyond what I've said, not without getting banned here.
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2015
#23
Yes I saw it. Wish I had not but I wanted to see the view from the "other side".
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2015
#27
Its kind of like the movie The Green Berets during the hight of the Vietnam war
project_bluebook
Jan 2015
#11
I read Kyle's book, and from the movie trailer it looks like they give him a lot more anguish
tclambert
Jan 2015
#14
"Why doesn't he just shoot at the ground and get rich like Jed Clampett?"
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2015
#17