The Big Picture: American Sniper Sucks (And It's Okay To Admit That)

[Atmos Duality]

Oh you can have an opinion... it just doesn't matter... and yes... compared to the men and women who have died protecting that piece of paper that says you can say what ever you want, Yes! you've done nothing for it.

Done nothing...except pay those taxes and provide the industry that allows the military to operate in any capacity.
But that would mean invoking logic instead of fascist elitism and we can't have that now can we?

 

[marioandsonic]

Looking at Rotten Tomatoes right now, American Sniper (73%) is lower than the new Spongebob movie (75%).

...I don't know how to feel about this.

 

[Verlander]

...aaand enter the people on here, saying that you're blinded by your opinions, or that your political slant skews your opinion on this. Not here yet? They will be.

To be fair, from the tiny amount of Movie Bob's output I've seen, his rather facile politics do seem to skew pretty much every opinion he ever utters but then so does everyone's; his opinions did seem to be a bit more rudimentarily binary than others and so the stuff I saw was polemic and lacked nuance or balance.

That's fair, and I kinda agree. It's disappointing how hard he pushes some things (like super-diversity), even though I agree with his sentiment. When you push an agenda that hard, you end up knocking off the on-the-fencers

 

[Cecilo]

...aaand enter the people on here, saying that you're blinded by your opinions, or that your political slant skews your opinion on this. Not here yet? They will be.

To be fair, from the tiny amount of Movie Bob's output I've seen, his rather facile politics do seem to skew pretty much every opinion he ever utters but then so does everyone's; his opinions did seem to be a bit more rudimentarily binary than others and so the stuff I saw was polemic and lacked nuance or balance.

That's fair, and I kinda agree. It's disappointing how hard he pushes some things (like super-diversity), even though I agree with his sentiment. When you push an agenda that hard, you end up knocking off the on-the-fencers

Suppose it's a good thing he doesn't care about people on the fence.

 

[Rabidkitten]

It may be possible that the success of American Sniper is that it is this vanilla safe war film that circumvents making a "statement" about the war. Often times, war films are so filled with messages and context that people get annoyed with them, when all people wanted to see was a proper filmed story from the war, nothing more. Oh and if you are annoyed with this one Bob, with the success of American Sniper you can bet your sweet ars that we are now getting a flood of right leaning war films. Have fun Bob, have fun.