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‘American Sniper’ Complaints Grow in Hollywood: Should Clint Eastwood Be Celebrating a ‘Killer’?
The Wrap ^ | 18 January 2015 | Steve Pond

Posted on 01/19/2015 8:18:44 AM PST by jda

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To: jda
BTTT.

5.56mm

41 posted on 01/19/2015 9:07:03 AM PST by M Kehoe
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Celebrating a killer?
DId they ever watch CHarles Bronson in the Death WIsh franchise?
How about Dirty Harry?
Die Hard, Harder, A good Day TO die Hard?
How about Gone Girl, which celebrates sociopathy?
Natural Born Killers celebrates a murderous crime spree.
TAKEN, TAKEN 2< Taken 3? He kills. How about martial arts films? Hollywood celebrates murderers and vigilantes alike. Didn’t they watch the movie No Country For Old Men?


42 posted on 01/19/2015 9:09:58 AM PST by ransomnote
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Another famous sniper, Dr Ruth Westheimer.
Not of the caliber of Chris Kyle but pretty good...all 4'7" of her.

43 posted on 01/19/2015 9:22:07 AM PST by Bobalu (Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.)
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Just saw the movie “John Wick” yesterday (don’t worry - Hollywood made no money from my viewing, heh) and it was literally 1.5 hours of watching a guy shooting people, often in the head point blank. Hollywood loves killing and death, as long as it isn’t done in the service of any greater good.


44 posted on 01/19/2015 9:28:15 AM PST by fr_freak
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My 82 year old friend was traumatized by the movie “Gone Girl.” She had a hard time getting over the gratuitous brutality - she thought the promo looked like star crossed lovers and wasn't prepared for the sociopathy.
The nerve of Hollywood elites decrying killing when they routinely make movies too bloody for me to watch. I was horrified by a movie with, I think it was ray liota, in which a man is shot in the face with a shotgun. THe director waited for the audience to look away (those of us who wished to, and then when we looked back, after a second cut back to the graphic picture of a mans blown away face. I resented that -the director wanted to “catch” those of us who looked away. Gotta watch your required blood and guts curriculum. If the movie is Natural Born killers or some other sociopathic killing spree, it's suppression of artistic freedom if we say anything about the gore. But if it's clint eastwood, well then, he's not moral enough for them and we, the audience, should feel bad about watching his movie because it “glorifies” killing. Hollywood, the ones who brought us Friday the 13th and Freddy Krugar...
45 posted on 01/19/2015 9:40:51 AM PST by ransomnote
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I wonder if the liberals believe that the American air crews who bombed Nazi Germany during World War II were “killers?”


46 posted on 01/19/2015 10:07:46 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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One correction:

It’s the Texas State Cemetery.


47 posted on 01/19/2015 10:50:50 AM PST by Rockpile
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Yet Hollywood has no problem with ‘Enemy at the Gates’, which depicts a “hero” Russian soldier whacking off Nazis?


48 posted on 01/19/2015 11:18:50 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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I also liked what he said. Those bastards have been killing our soldiers and agents, and enslaving peace loving Afghans to their yr 1000 ways. So yes, lets kill more of them.


49 posted on 01/19/2015 11:20:01 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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As much as I am not really a Medved fan, he made this point way back in his 1992 book I think it was. All factors of Hollywood are driven by those with an agenda to push. The big money is made by Toy Story and other family movies. No one watched “The Last Temptation of Christ” for example. Weirdly, they are willing to lose money to make their point. I am not sure why this is. I am sure shareholders of Universal, Sony, ect would rather make money, but they don't seem to be calling the shots.
50 posted on 01/19/2015 11:23:03 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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Indeed.

This has been a “Feature” of Hollywood for a number of years now. It may have started with the “anti-hero” trend in the 60’s and grew out of that.


51 posted on 01/19/2015 11:33:30 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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The left has no heroes, and jealousy is a terrible thing.


52 posted on 01/19/2015 11:52:23 AM PST by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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...and call these ignorant leftists other things.


53 posted on 01/19/2015 11:53:52 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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There was some dumb female interviewing a sniper...she sarcastically ask him ...what do you feel when you pull the trigger.......he answered recoil; end of interview.. LOL
54 posted on 01/19/2015 12:01:24 PM PST by goat granny
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