To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
27 posted on 04/24/2015 1:36:33 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
Posted on 04/24/2015 11:57:53 AM PDT by Kyle Olson
As a Marine combat veteran and former Marine of the Year, I am extremely disappointed in the University of Maryland’s decision to silence the story of a man who valiantly served our great nation.
Just like the men and women I had the privilege of serving beside in the Marine Corps, Chris Kyle put on his uniform every day to protect and preserve liberty, the open discussion of ideas, and the opportunity for every American — regardless of race, religion, culture, or gender — to succeed and achieve the American Dream.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanmirror.com ...
Yeah, but the University will gladly play tons of other war flicks? Gimme a break phonies!
I’m glad they’re showing it but honestly, it’s a really lousy movie. I watched the darn thing all the way through but it was cartoonish, formulaic, slow-moving and worst of all, unconvincing.
I haven’t seen many worthwhile war movies but this one is towards bottom.
Yep...sticking your head in the sand is a great way to avoid what you don’t want to see. It also turns your butt into a terrific target.
I've read the book.
Have you?
I am responding to the topic.
Ahh. . .makes sense then.
The movie isn't. I am a combat veteran and I hate lousy war movies.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Like I said, I’m sure that Chris Kyle was a great and and effective fighter but the movie was atrocious. The pacing is erratic, the military tactics were ridiculous ( people bunching up, loud yelling when approaching concealed enemy positions, very poor fire discipline, and my favorite, Chris Kyle chatting away with his wife on a Satphone in the middle of firefights) Everybody just rattled away all their ammo without aiming (after all, it’s just blanks) and almost nobody seemed to aim. Lesson 1. If your enemy is stupid enough to run at you in the open, kill them. Cranking away at full auto sounds great but all you do is make noise.
I’ll add this to my list of totally unrealistic and unwatchable war movies.
You’d think that the director could have found at least one unemplyed Iraq vet that could’ve made things a bit more accurate
For the benefit of those of us who are not combat veterans but liked the movie, would you please explain what you did not like?
Also, are you a combat veteran of the Iraq war, or a different theater of war?
Never mind, I see you have already answered.
What do you say, Hulka? Was this type of thing claimed in the book?
You have some points of disagreement with the way the actors and director portrayed the weapons scenes, which may be quite accurate objections. However, your words "totally" and "unwatchable" are extreme and absolute. For those of us with less experience in weaponry, there was still much to learn from the film.
I was struck by the two scenes of the children handling weapons, the woman and child approaching the squad with a weapon hidden in her hijab, the scenes inside the home where a meal was served and then a weapons cache was discovered, the outdoor scenes showing both the countryside and the towns with satellite dishes all over the primitive houses, the uniforms and equipment in general, the scenes in hospital with the wounded, his interaction with the wounded, and many other things, including the news footage of Chris Kyle's actual funeral procession and funeral in a stadium in Texas. My experiences with combat wounded as a volunteer at Walter Reed were well represented in the film.
It's good to take movies with a grain of salt, or even a bag of salt, but overall, the film was not so distorted as to mis-portray the main gist of the story.
If Chris Kyle was on the phone with his wife during a firefight, he was derelict in his duties. Leaders lead, they don't distract themselves from the mission and leading those around them. In combat, distraction is death.
The movie had some small OK moments but in the main, it was amateurish and unrealistic. Note to people who want to make war movies: incoming fire makes a ton of racket and when somebody's hit, it makes a loud bang like breaking board. You almost never see that many enemy out in open. They're not that stupid.
Don’t recall reading this in the book, and something like that should stand out.
Sat phones are used and sometimes they make a call when “out,” but never back home—other than some command center—and never in a situation where they may be compromised or in a situation where a fight may be imminent. They take ops security VERY important. Game face on. . .
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