Somebody actually told me today that they wouldn't see #Selma because it looked depressing, yet they really wanted to see #AmericanSniper.
— Cinema Dave (@FhantomFilms) January 19, 2015
From Mr. Charles P. Pierces’ review “Selma and the Way We Look at America“:
… The attack on the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge is as good or better than any action scene I’ve seen in any war movie, and it far surpasses the kilted grunting-and-groaning for which Mel Gibson won in Braveheart, and the bloody war-porn for which people never will stop congratulating Stephen Spielberg. To me, the clearest message that DuVernay puts forth in this film is that it is, in every sense that matters, a war movie. Tactics are different. Nonviolent protest is the weapon wielded by one side, but it was a weapon nonetheless. That one scene on the bridge blows up the cotton-candy redemption myth of the Civil Rights Movement into tiny splinters. The people who led this Movement are the equals of any generals in American history, and John Lewis (to name only one person) is as much a combat veteran as John Kerry ever was. That is the truth of things that DuVernay puts front and center, shrouded in clouds of tear gas, throughout the movie…
Tragically, we American like our war movies the way we like our snack food: Pulverized, mixed into a fine slurry with plenty of HFCS and artificial flavoring, and extruded in air-packed, uniform pellets wrapped in shiny brand names…
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Every word in this paragraph is condescending hogwash including “with” and “an.” http://t.co/Pxr5xJfawD pic.twitter.com/Od4IBzZ54R
— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) January 19, 2015
Eastwood film ‘American Sniper’ sets box office record while setting off flurry of racist tweets http://t.co/Jc48wvjB65
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 19, 2015
'American Sniper' is a big hit for Americans who fantasize about shooting Arabs but are afraid to go where Arabs shoot back.
— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) January 16, 2015