Originally posted by Lord Lucien
The guy gets nothing when it happens, but a movie gets made about him suddenly he's some sort of war hero or something.
Um, TIME magazine put him on the cover and gave him a full article when he died. And American Sniper was a popular book far before the film was announced. I know because I own a copy of it. It's not like Chris Kyle is just becoming famous.
I read that Chris Kyle was a liar about some of his exploits. So much so that he lost a civil suit to Jesse Ventura because he claimed Ventura punched him (but he didn't).
This makes me skeptical of Chris Kyle. I also do not want to praise him because of some of the racist things he said about Arabs.
Edit - I should note that I don't really admire people that boast about killing others.
Originally posted by Robtard
Ventura is a known assbag thoughWhat Ventura should have done, after winning the lawsuit to prove his point, given the money back to the widow/son.
I am unsure if the money was paid out because the article just says Ventura won the case (and, as you know, civil suit wins do not mean you automatically get the money).
Also, Ventura should have given all the money back and then punched Chris Kyle, anyway. lol
Originally posted by Robtard
He's apparently been 86'd from all military events
He's...uh...not been the nicest guy, ever, when it comes to the US Military.
Originally posted by Robtard
Ventura is a known assbag thoughWhat Ventura should have done, after winning the lawsuit to prove his point, given the money back to the widow/son. He's apparently been 86'd from all military events
Agreed, Ventura is a douche. He went after his family after Kyle had passed.
Originally posted by Lestov16
https://storify.com/RaniaKhalek/american-sniper-chris-kyle-in-his-own-wordsShots fired....
Some of the whining on that site is just stupid. I saw the same scene they did and got an entirely different perspective (about the man, his family, and his boy). I saw a family that was torn between giving off intel on insurgents and an EXTREMELY angry and abusive US Military busting down their doors, at gunpoint, yelling at them, physically abusing them, etc. They clearly did not watch the same film I did. Eastwood did a good job of capturing how brutal and *ssholish the US Military could be in Iraq. All that man and his family wanted to do was be left alone and live a normal life. His son died because he decided to give up information to the people currently pointing guns in his face.
What I saw was Iraqi people fighting and killing each other as well as them fighting and killing Americans. The boy being tortured and killed to death was not an isolated incident. The other scene which shows many body parts from what appears to be a torture-house was not isolated, either. It was war. It was shit. It was scary.
Also, that site seemed to gloss over the part where Kyle said he was glad he killed those harming Americans and the people loyal to the new Iraqi government. Oh, what's that? That doesn't fit their agenda that Kyle was fighting for two nations? Sure, Kyle has a clear ignorant bias towards Americans but that's to be expected from a member of the military because they are literally brainwashed (systematically) to believe those things to their core. This is necessary to keep their operations running as efficiently as possible (if you have a bunch of soldiers, in a combat zone, constantly questioning their orders and what they are doing there, you're going to have a bad time).
None of this, however, justifies some of the bullshit Kyle said about Muslims or Kyle's exaggerations and lies about his accomplishments. Just pointing out that bullshit coming from that site, is all.
Liam Nessen made his millions off his movies killing bad guys and destruction and he has the audacity to talk shit about this movie.
****ing hypocrite.
Guess he should not have opened his stupid mouth, cause its biting him in the ass.