This weekend Pam and I did something we hadn’t done in several years – went to see a movie on Saturday night. Being semi-retired, we can now orchestrate our calendars to go to events during the week vice a weekend splurge. However, Saturday night seemed like a good idea. I had coverage in the Store, it was a movie we both wanted to see and the 7 p.m. start time worked for us.
Fortunately, we were there early enough to garner a ticket for what was eventually a sold out showing of American Sniper. Good flick, worth seeing, and Bradley Cooper is great as Chris Kyle. Movie may have been a tad too long and definitely had a bummer ending. (If you don’t know how the movie ends, and don’t want to know, then stop reading here and just catch the video below. If you do know what goes down then continue reading. For all you gun nuts, you may want to stop reading here too.)
Movie ends with Kyle being murdered at a shooting range where he has taken a Vet with PTSD to do some “shooting therapy.” Made me wonder “Why would you ever take someone having emotional problems, PTSD or whatever, to a shooting range in the first place?” With Kyle having been in Special forces, a Navy SEAL with 4 tours over there under his belt, and yet he didn’t think twice that maybe this wasn’t his greatest of ideas (click here.) Didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but then again there’s a lot about the whole guns-are-great thing that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I know the bummer stick pablum that guns don’t kill people etc. etc. but still, it seems like a lot of bad crap goes down when guns and wacko’s, such as Kyle’s murderer, meet up. Overall then, the movie made me very sad and ultimately very mad.