Have Critics of American Sniper Even Seen the Movie?
I finally saw the movie American Sniper, and I am amazed anyone could think this movie glorified war or America's involvement in Iraq. As a pacifist, I am extremely sensitive to movies that seem too rah-rah about war, but this was not one of them. The protagonist may come off as heroic, or at least enduring, but war looks pretty sucky, full of hideous moral choices, and led/governed by jerks. Which shouldn't be surprising because I would have described Eastwood's other recent war movies in roughly the same way.