American Sniper

[TexasRedNeck]

I saw American Sniper for the first time today.  I know why the libtards rejected it at the Oscars.  Not a single one of them understand principles and commitment. 

It was a gut wrenching movie for me and I've never been in combat.  Eastwood did a superb job depicting combat from what I can tell, even if he took some creative liberties.  Making a first round head shot at 2100 with a 300wm is highly unlikely.  That shot would have likely been made with the TAC-338 he used.  The shooting range they showed him training on was way too short as well.  Your trainer ain't snapping up a set of 10x binocs to see hits on a plate at 1000 and he'd have been run out of the Navy for missing that plate at 300-500 which is about what the distance looked like on the screen.

And I highly doubt some hajji is routinely making a 1000 yard shot with an SVD

I'm sure some of y'all have picked up on other faux pas in the film.  None the less, what a great movie.

Damn proud to be an American and a Texan.

An even more repulsed by our current president who has given all that territory back to the hajjis.

[cudakidd53]

Great movie- saw it as well for the first time 2 weeks ago.  Did a good job conveying a few of the many internal conflicts that the job must come with.  Anytime you'd have to shoot a child or a woman must be gut wrenching, but the first action one sees combining both - beyond comprehension; especially for someone that's never had to even fill the sights with a human target.

Thanks again to all of you who've put yourselves in harms way-

[Flyin6]

My wife took me

I was good, but when the Marine gets hit in the leg, breaking it, then returns fire only to receive a fatal head shot, I broke down...Yea have to admit it. You see that was real, actual footage. A young American was savagely killed for all to witness. I love those guys...

Over at the Blackwater compound they have a nice 1000 meter range set up and by now it is probably longer. I used to sit in a car down at the impact end and hear those .338's come zinging in...Wicked is all I'll say. They even teach shooting from a helo. I used to teach that, a lot. I have a metric, imperial tonne of respect for a good gunner and I have known a bunch.

[TexasRedNeck]

Yeah. I hear you Don.  Some parts were just plain tough to watch.  If people think that EVIL was contrived for the movie, they are sadly mistaken.

As for shooting from a helo, its the toughest thing I've ever tried. The leads just don't naturally compute.  Unfortunately I can't afford to stay up for long periods of time on my own dime. 

[cruizng]

My wife and I went to see it on Valentine’s Day. She is a good woman.  The theater was packed which was surprising for VDay. 

I thought it was a great movie. I am also glad it was Clint Eastwood that directed it because he just doesn’t give a crap what anyone says.

Like Tex I have not been in the armed forces and have no relative reference for 90% of what you guys talk about. I can’t imagine the full breadth of hardships and challenges serving the country both while active or with post active service. At the end of the movie while the credits were rolling and they were showing his funeral procession, the service at Dallas Stadium, and with the people lining the freeways you could have heard a pin drop. Once the credits finished everyone stood up and walked out without saying a word. It was emotional for so many. I wondered what each of their stories was. I’m not sure why but I was wiping away tears through many scenes. Must be getting old and soft.

I tend to look at the positives. He was a true representative of the desire to be a sheepdog. I had seen that reference in a Higher Caliber post a while back but wasn’t familiar with it until after the movie I looked it up and read it. Hopefully I won’t be the only one wanting to know what drove Chris Kyle to duty. By looking at the revenue and attendance numbers of the movie so many good things are coming out of it. Hopefully the Kyle family is taken care of and also might able to help other families in similar situations. There are many. It also shows that there is a silent majority that does support exceptionalism and patriotism and just possibly enough of a kick in the pants to evaluate if they want to be a sheep or not. How many Dads will now have the Sheepdog talk with their kids because of the movie? I hope many. Maybe the movie will help discussing the current crisis of suicide within the military? How can they be helped so they see positive long term options? It really breaks my heart that 20 a day would feel that is the way out.

We are currently living under the dark cloud of Obama and his associates but maybe this movie might highlight what this Republic needs. Not socialism. Nor Theocracy. We need a republic constitutionalists. Ready for Hillary makes me gag.

If the movie will help people drive towards holding the VA responsible for care and driving out the corrupt administrators then it is a positive. If it will drive fair pay it is positive. If it will drive companies to hire vets before others it is a positive. If it will push our military leaders to fight against the neutering of the greatest fighting force on the planet it is a positive. I could go on and on….. terrible

I think people are sick of the Jesse Ventura’s, Michael Moore’s, Sean Penn’s, and Seth Rogan’s, of the world. Hopefully the Sniper will stick if the back of everyone’s brain when evaluating decisions.

Thank you all that lived and breathed it.

[husker77c]

I watched the movie a little while back and there was some creative license applied in the adaption from the book.  I read the book twice and listened to it on audio book a few times.  It is a good adaptation and hits most of the high points from the book but they did have to add something's to make it hollywood material.  For example in the book His lonGest shot he took was not to kill a rival sniper but was almost set up like a challenge.  Them seeing bad guys a long ways out and them telling him there's no way he could hit them. He dialed all the elevation in and used a crazy holdover and basically got lucky to hit the guy at that distance.  At least that's what was said in the book.  Great movie and great book.   Very disheartening to lose a true patriot like that.  We don't have very many to begin with.  :'(

[TexasRedNeck]

What ever happened to the jackass Ventura's suit against the Kyle estate for getting his butt punched out?  Did the Kyle family appeal?

[Drunksailor]

There have been so many of these movies lately "Hurt Locker", "Act of Valor", "Lone Survivor", now "American Sniper". I am undecided on wether on not this helps the American peoples view on the military because I'm sure there are still a large populous that think the evil represented in these movies is fiction. While there is some hollywood glamour thrown in to bring in the cash i think maybe people are realizing what the men and women of our armed forces have and still do fight against. Even TV shows are now showing a lot of solders not as war hungry better than thou personalities but for the heroes they are and the things they face returning home. I think maybe the pictures and names of actual fallen heroes at the end of each movie make it sink in what has been given or at least it makes me well up. I hope they continue to make these rather than fast and furious 13

[Flyin6]

Concur

My wife took me to see it

the one scene really bothered me when the marine was shot through his leg, breaking it, and he continued to return fire, then the head shot. That was real footage.