American Sniper: Where Patriotism & Duty Sickens the Modernists

Apparently films about war, like American Sniper, are jingoistic, the rhetoric that comes from non-progressives is "right-wing political mumbo jumbo", black and white (which speaks of modernism -- its fetish with greyness and ambiguity) and as one poster said "Very pro-war, black and white, GO MURICA BS in that movie"

That's IMDb for you, at least in the Movie Awards board section.

EDIT: More thoughts on the film by IMDb posters. Here as well. This thread has more reasonable responses, but still has a couple of responses that are laughable.

Some are saying the real life Chris Kyle was a douchebag - I have never met Chris Kyle nor have I read his book, American Sniper (same name as the movie) - but these are people who tend not to be pro-military and lean on the non-conservative side of politics. He may have been a d-bag in real life, I don't know, but I find this accusation peculiar since I gather they, too, have never met or read his book either, yet these are the same people that stand up for actors pulling the "We don't know them! There humans just like us!" card. See this post.

As I've observed before: Actors/entertainers are the protected class of public personalities. People like Chris Kyle and (conservative) politicians, corporate CEOs and (some) professional athletes? D-bags. Losers. Greedy.

Oh, and if there's any doubt that those who tend to be "movie buffs", ya know - like film so much that they think it's some grand intellectual journey and some medium that peers into the human condition like no other medium, have drunken the Modern Kool-Aid here's evidence that washes that doubt away -

  

More: The Guardian article, written by Linda West, (through alternet.com) and, as she notes, the "exhaustive" efforts of Rania Khalek's documentation of supposed "swift and violent" opposition of right-wing on twittersphere.

Swift and violent? I'm trying not to laugh. It's true, ISIS would not take in women with the amount of respect that, I hope, most American would - as with most men in civilized societies. Sure, the twitter backlash towards that one female twitter poster could've been more polite, more sanitized (ironically), but it's hardly anything "violent." The violence was to show the reality that is ISIS. It's like saying "Go swim in the Pacific and get eaten by sharks." A threat? Sure, but hardly anything remotely "OMGush I could you say such a thing?!" Did I say that I observed the left is mightily sensitive and takes any threat as deeply offensive? If I didn't, now you know.

What's more disrespectful than a "Go to ISIS you cunt!"? Saying that Chris Kyle's death was "poetic justice."

The comment sections of both the alternet articles adds to the amusement. I mean, after I watched a couple  of segments (here and here) on US military snipers -- I'm pretty sure that those who deem snipers as "serial killers" are a bunch of wussies in real life, too self-involved to even volunteer on a regular basis at a homeless shelter or punch the shit out of the bully that's terrorizing that little kid at recess.