Finally watched American Sniper....
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Finally watched American Sniper....
I'd read Kyle's book in 2013, and just finished reading Taya's book 'American Wife'.
Figured I'd watch "American Sniper" Thursday PM, "The Patriot" Friday PM, & "Shooter" Saturday PM. Those should all be good 'patriotic' movies appropriate for this weekend.
It was a good movie, although I never saw a scope where adjusting the focus or magnification resulted in 'clicks'.
Figured I'd watch "American Sniper" Thursday PM, "The Patriot" Friday PM, & "Shooter" Saturday PM. Those should all be good 'patriotic' movies appropriate for this weekend.
It was a good movie, although I never saw a scope where adjusting the focus or magnification resulted in 'clicks'.
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
Mel Gibson's heart is usually in the right place, but he can take hollywood liberties.
I think the real stories of Daniel Morgan and Nathaniel Greene were much better.
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I think the real stories of Daniel Morgan and Nathaniel Greene were much better.
If you ever get a chance to watch The Revolution miniseries (the one narrated by Edward Hermann), it's the best presentation ever of our nation's origin
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
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My only real issue with the American Sniper movie was the bogus baby "Kyle" carried at the birth of his child - the producers spent all the $$$ to make the film, then used a doll ? ?
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My only real issue with the American Sniper movie was the bogus baby "Kyle" carried at the birth of his child - the producers spent all the $$$ to make the film, then used a doll ? ?
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
Great choice of movies! I'll need to add "American Wife" to my to-read list.
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There are severe restrictions filming kids and especially babies which is why they often use twins (more shooting time).
From what I uunderstand they did the best they could when the baby wasn't cooperating and the crew was ready.
From what I uunderstand they did the best they could when the baby wasn't cooperating and the crew was ready.
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Did you mean Clint Eastwood... I don't recall that Mel had anything to do with "American Sniper".bulldog1935 wrote:Mel Gibson's heart is usually in the right place, but he can take hollywood liberties...
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
He was referring to the patriot I think
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
IIRC from the book he did not actually SHOOT the first boy with the grenade, but did shoot the mom, or did I miss something in the book?
If you think about the complexities of making a film from a book, I am sure there is always something to keep it from being 100% accurate, but overall it was real close. Very entertaining. While I served in the Viet Nam "era" I never served in combat, but to me, the battle scenes they depicted seemed about at real and confusing and scary as they could make it.
I am 100% positive no movie can make it as real as having bullets and bombs all around you, but for us un-experienced folks, it was pretty close. Seems like the only ones that would NOT have a PTSD would be office clerks.
The shame was for him to have served and survived only to die at the hands of one he was trying to help. No sympathy for that fellow at all.
If you think about the complexities of making a film from a book, I am sure there is always something to keep it from being 100% accurate, but overall it was real close. Very entertaining. While I served in the Viet Nam "era" I never served in combat, but to me, the battle scenes they depicted seemed about at real and confusing and scary as they could make it.
I am 100% positive no movie can make it as real as having bullets and bombs all around you, but for us un-experienced folks, it was pretty close. Seems like the only ones that would NOT have a PTSD would be office clerks.
The shame was for him to have served and survived only to die at the hands of one he was trying to help. No sympathy for that fellow at all.
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He never says that he shot the boy in the book but I think he wrote something about taking two shots that day - so perhaps he was alluding to it. Either way, that had to be an extremely difficult thing to do and deal with.
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I never read the book, but the part where he was riding in the back of the truck, getting briefed on what his overwatch job was going to be on the mission that he was already en-route to bugged me. Hollywood does this a lot for dramatic effect.
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No doubt he was a great American, but IMO, it was BS when Hollywood wanted to show him talking to the wife on a satellite phone during the middle of a mission. There were other distractors similar to that but HOLLYWOOD goes for the drama.
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He wrote that he would do so in the book. That part wasn't made up. During one phone call he got into a pretty severe fight and dropped the phone. His wife heard it all over the open line.
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So what you are saying is he was a dumbazz! Not sure where he grew up in the military, but operational security is paramount regardless of how special you might think you are. IMO, definately not SOP for any unit even SPECOPS.kragluver wrote:He wrote that he would do so in the book. That part wasn't made up. During one phone call he got into a pretty severe fight and dropped the phone. His wife heard it all over the open line.
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I found the constant use of the "F word" to be vulgar and offensive to me and my wife. Yes, I know that this is the way that many soldiers talk but it's still vulgar to me. The movie would've been much better without all the foul language and cursing in my opinion.
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Re: Finally watched American Sniper....
You want real, you got it.
You want nice, clean, antiseptic non-actual-reality.....watch Disney.
As to the sat phone call..... yes, it apparently really happened. The fact he was in Iraq was no secret. As if she didn't know. IIRC he had been making a regular "i'm here, i'm all right" call, without any real details, when a fight kicked off. It's not like he deliberately called her mid firefight.
You want nice, clean, antiseptic non-actual-reality.....watch Disney.
As to the sat phone call..... yes, it apparently really happened. The fact he was in Iraq was no secret. As if she didn't know. IIRC he had been making a regular "i'm here, i'm all right" call, without any real details, when a fight kicked off. It's not like he deliberately called her mid firefight.
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It's interesting that we get offended when we hear the F Word and other cursing, but watching someone get shot by another human being is all right. I know, I go to watch the action too but this departure from our moral code is interesting. Bad words, no good. Graphic war violence, yay, good movie!
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Yep. I've talked to others who were 'over there' who did the same thing on occasion.kragluver wrote:He wrote that he would do so in the book. That part wasn't made up. During one phone call he got into a pretty severe fight and dropped the phone. His wife heard it all over the open line.
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