September
17
Category: Movies, The Hollywood Crowd
I watched a pretty good movie yesterday from Blockbuster that’s been sitting on the table for over four weeks. Twenty some minutes in to the movie and I couldn’t believe I had put off watching it for so long. The name of the movie was Shooter and it was an action packed movie centered on the main character, a battle hardened former Marine Sniper.
Not unlike most movies out of Hollywood, it was basically an Anti-American theme portraying our Military and government as the evil doers and the maltreated former Marine hero as the good fighting those evils. Of course there was a great looking heroine and another male accomplice helping our hero combat those forces of evil. The movie was great from start to finish and if action movies are what you enjoy. I highly recommend it.
As far as the Hollywood left and their extreme hatred towards our county goes, I just try to enjoy their movies without getting too upset and just admire them for their many talents. I struggle to overlook the disparaging political comments made by actors such as Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Barbara Streisand, James Brolin, and the rest of the far left Hollywood radicals and enjoy what they are paid those millions of dollars to do. Perform and play make-believe. It’s amazing to me how people who live and earn their income in a fantasy world can be such experts on the harsh realities of world affairs. Especially those who pretend to be experts on war just because they starred in a war movie. Most of these actors wouldn’t know reality if it smacked them upside their heads and I doubt any have ever served in the military.
I do draw the line however with those purely propaganda type films and the lies put before us from the likes of Michael Moore and Al Gore. I wouldn’t walk across the street to see one of their movies even if it were free and I had a free popcorn and soda voucher.
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The movie was based on Stephen Hunter’s “Point of Impact.” The movie was good the book however was GREAT!
Hunter continues to use the Bob Lee Swagger character in a bunch more books, so if you like to read, I highly recomend!
Thanks for the tip Jeff. I will have to put his books on my to read list. I’m currently reading a very good non-fictional book called Descending from the Clouds. It is a war memoir written by Col. Spencer Free Wurst, USA (RET). Col. Wurst is an Erie area native who joined the Army at 15, volunteered for the 82nd. Airborne (All Americans) and made numerous combat jumps during WWII. Check the book out when you get a chance. It’s an inspiration to read a book written about a true American Hero whom I have had the honor of knowing and serving under.
If I may be permitted to disagree on one point? The movie wasn’t Anti-American so much as it was Anti-Government. I got the feeling that the film came much more from the Libertarian standpoint that it’s very hard to have a government that doesn’t become evil. Poisoned by the exercise of power. The film venerates the All-American ideal of a man standing alone against those who would destroy freedom and democracy in the service of power. I’d have to say this film is unabashedly pro-American. Puzzlingly so in fact since it came out of Hollyweird.
Mark. You have made a very interesting point about the movie. I never gave the Libertarian standpoint a thought and yet it makes very good sense to me now that you’ve pointed it out. Thanks Mark for sharing your thoughts and view on the movie with me and others who watched it. I really like that “Hollyweird” thing too.