Best jingoist film about American hero worship Ever!

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2015)

American Sniper is another Uber-jingoistic piece of American "Oorah" cinema. As the years have moved on from 9/11 and the United States has become more insulated from the rest of the world; its citizens seemingly have begun to take these fully fictional stories that are "based" on real people and have held them up to a fervour of almost religious pitch, beholding this film as the gospel truth.
"Best War Movie Ever"
Making it worse, is the reaction of these Americans when anyone criticizes this film for being dangerous in the ways this film is perceived as a true story. Automatically labelling anyone who criticizes as "liberal" (as if valuing human life these days has become an affect of the deviant). So, as a liberal person viewing this movie and in seeing how its audiences are quick to praise this portrayal of a man who has killed women and children, I condemn not only Clint Eastwood for making such a trite piece of cinema, but I condemn any person who holds this film up as a great representation of film making because they so blindly believe that this version of Chris Kyle is the American hero they wish to worship.
Firstly, American hero worship in this day and age doesn't require much. Farting through a straw on a windy day will get you called a hero as long as it's aimed at some non-American "Other". Gone are the days when Americans seem to uphold values shared by people from all over the world. Values based on dignity and honour. This war on "terror", this war on a nounan idea, has turned Americans into the biggest bunch of blood-thirsty, cut-throat people-haters I've ever seen. I don't believe all Americans are like this but if you truly believe this is a great film because this rendering of Chris Kyle makes you think that he is what the definitive picture of a true hero is, then I think you fall into this blood thirsty category of Americans that make you no better than the scum of Islamic afterbirth fighting in Syria and Iraq today.
There is so much wrong with both this film and its portrayal of the central protagonist that when you do even a small amount of searching about the real Chris Kyle, this perversion of a "true story" makes you realize how cynical Clint Eastwood really has become. I won't even go into the white washing of truth about why Americans went to Iraq. Most don't even care it had nothing to do with 9/11.
The film is an overly simplistic representation of a shooting gallery, the kind you play with at the County Fair. No more than that. Eastwood would have you believe that his Chris Kyle eventually found the strength to have enough emotion to actually begin to care about his own family. When in reality, the real Chris Kyle was a pathologically psychotic killing machine with zero remorse and fabricated stories about killing American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina. He's been judged in American court as being a liar, telling untruths to profit from the sales of his book.
Whichever Chris Kyle you uphold as a hero; the Eastwoodian emotionally challenged hick from a testosterone soaked heteronormative universe, or the real pathological psychopath with a thirst for child's blood and penchant for telling untruths, the fact that you see this man as a hero says a lot about you.
You likely don't question what your Authority tells you. You're likely superstitious and believe in a god risen from a middle eastern desert thousands of years ago. You probably think that the rest of the world wants to kill you and you probably have bars on your windows at home and maybe a gun or two in your nightstand. You're the type of person that believes that the whole world should be an American world and you're surprised, IF you find the courage to leave your safe little country, that they don't speak "American". You may even be the type that hatesI mean just HATES liberals without even understanding the values they believe in. You hide anonymously behind your screen and keyboard and spout obscenities and join in the derision of people whose ideas are different than yours and you proclaim the USA is the greatest place on earth without having been anywhere to compare it too.
You don't watch a lot of movies but you know, you just KNOW that this is the greatest film made this year and it deserves "best picture" for sure! Why? Because he's an American Hero.