On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:23:44 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

Chris Hedges calls it as it is:

It lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun
culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an
innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds”
of the earth, a grotesque hypermasculinity that banishes compassion and
pity, a denial of inconvenient facts and historical truth, and a
belittling of critical thinking and artistic expression.

The Guardian sees the film as representing a bigger problem with America:

Solipsistic in its suffering and narcissistic in its impulses, it
promotes itself as the upholder of principles it does not keep, and a
morality it does not practise. This alone would barely distinguish it
from most cultures. What makes the west different is the physical and
philosophical force with which it simultaneously makes its case for
superiority and contradicts it.

And of course there's Matt Talibi over at Rolling Stone:

The thing is, the mere act of trying to make a typically
Hollywoodian one-note fairy tale set in the middle of the insane moral
morass that is/was the Iraq occupation is both dumber and more arrogant
than anything George Bush or even Dick Cheney ever tried.


It of course is the movie American Sniper.
Enjoy your popcorn.

You must have creamed your jeans over that, huh Harry?

"Solipsistic in its suffering and narcissistic in its impulses..." Holy ****.

Did those comments refer to America or to the movie? In either case, the box office results tend to
prove your point - America is a real ****ty country.
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Guns don't cause problems. The behavior
of certain gun owners causes problems.