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American Sniper

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Kyle Smith liked it.

Its success will really piss off the Hollywood Left, after all their box-office bombs, after which they said Americans “just don’t like movies about the war.” No, they just don’t like anti-American movies.

13 thoughts on “American Sniper”

  1. We saw it the other night, and found it quite moving. Bradley Cooper was very impressive.

    One spoiler: I kept waiting for the funny outtakes over the credits, like where Cooper screws up and only wounds the terrorist and everyone laughs, but there aren’t any.

  2. Via Box Office Mojo, Total Domestic Gross:
    Valley of Elah: $6.78M
    Rendition: $9.73M
    The Green Zone: $35M
    Lions for Lamb: $15M

  3. I haven’t been to a movie theater in years, but looks like I might have to make an exception for this one.

    Take that, Leftist Hollyweird.

    1. “Unbroken” is another worth seeing, not as good as the book (a cliche I know but true) but a very moving story.

  5. Michael Moore tweet: “My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse”

    My reply: “@MMFlint Sorry to hear about your uncle, too bad it wasn’t your father instead.”

    1. I remember when Michael Moore fans were pretending to care about our health care. I wouldn’t believe a word they say.

      For that matter, I don’t simply take his word that his father was killed by a sniper.

      1. Actually, it was supposedly his uncle. If his father had been killed by a sniper ten years before he was born, he wouldn’t be here to enlighten us. Not that that wouldn’t have been a good thing.

  6. I wonder how many women are leaving the film at the end wondering where J-Law was. Bradley Cooper seems to be the new Ryan Gosling; that’s my guess about the box office numbers.

    1. One would have a hard time recognizing the “Bradley Cooper” we’ve seen in other movies. Didn’t look like him – at all – and his character was completely unlike others he has done.

      1. I always take it as a good sign of an actor that I don’t recognize their character from another movie in a different movie. Example of a bad sign is Leo DiCaprio.

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