(Newswire.net — January 20, 2015) — A new feature movie ‘American Sniper’ directed by Clint Eastwood, shattered the box offices grossing as much as $105 million over the three-day holiday weekend, according to USA Today. However, in Hollywood, not everyone is hailing the biographical war drama based on real life events, as some celebrities are now saying the film all too grossly glorifies war.
The star of another controversial movie ‘The Interview’, Seth Rogan, said on Twitter over the weekend that “American Sniper” reminds him of a faux Nazi propaganda movie shown during Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 movie ‘Inglorious Bustards.’
Filmmaker Michael Moore, has personal reasons as he was taught by real war heroes that “snipers were cowards.”
Though he said actor Bradley Cooper’s performance was “one of the best of the year,” the film is not without its faults, Moore posted on Facebook last Sunday.
“Oh… and too bad Clint gets Vietnam and Iraq confused in his storytelling and that he has his characters calling Iraqis ‘savages’ throughout the film. But there is also anti-war sentiment expressed in the movie. And there’s a touching ending as the main character is remembered after being gunned down by a fellow American vet with PTSD who was given a gun at a gun range back home in Texas, and then used it to kill the man who called himself the ‘America Sniper’.”
On the other hand, there are those who believe that the ‘American Snipr’ is a masterpiece. Actress Jane Fonda, who made headlines in the 1970s for her opposition to the Vietnam War, wrote on Twitter, that Cooper did a “sensational” job making a “powerful” movie.
“My hope is that if someone is having a political conversation about whether we should or should not have been in Iraq, whether the war is worth fighting, whether we won, whether we didn’t, why are we still there, all those [issues], that really – I hope – is not one that they would use this movie as a tool for,” Cooper previously told The Daily Beast.
News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Monday praised a retired Army sniper for killing 33 people in four months, and then encouraged him to slam filmmaker Michael Moore for saying snipers should not be thought of as heroes.
“Don’t you believe that he should have turned that into somewhat of a thank you?” Hasselbeck pressed.
Irving replied that he wasn’t interested in a “thank you” from ‘9/11’ documentary creator, because a lot of his friends died for his right to freedom of speech.