The Clint Eastwood-produced movie "American Sniper" opens in a few days. My satellite TV has been filled with trailers for it and it seems to be receiving quite a bit of hype.
I'm 70 yrs old, 28 years in the Army, Vietnam vet. I have no intention of seeing the movie. In fact, if the remote is nearby when a trailer comes on tv, I mute the sound or change the channel.
From what I read, it seems as though the hero of the flick -- the late Chris Kyle -- is something of a self-promoting liar: (1) Jesse Ventura won a suit against Kyle because Kyle claimed to have beaten Ventura in a fight or something like that; and (2) Kyle claimed several years ago that, after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, he sat on the Superdome roof and killed 30 "looters" -- bullshit.
So Kyle enlisted in the military, went to war, did a nasty job, suffered emotional problems as a result. And Eastwood thinks Kyle is the only person with such a story?
The whole idea is sick.