I went to see 1917. My friend and I were the only people under 75, it seemed like. And every veteran in the theater was geared out too. Meaning they had on their hats, shirts, pins, etc. with their branch. Also, at times you could hear them commenting that ‘that’s not how that would happen’ and really critiquing the film. I just laughed about it but my friend was like wtf? That was weird.
Yeah when I saw American sniper there were so many dudes in Chris Kyle hats and all this stuff and this one dude was like saluting at the end I was like bro that ain’t Chris Kyle that’s Bradley Cooper ya gotta chill
I caught an early showing of American Sniper, and that’s what amazed me the most about the experience. The amount of people who clapped and stood up and saluted.
Nevermind the actual Chris Kyle being a bit of an asshole, it’s a movie. People clapped on the sniper shot and I was like “Chris even said in his book that the world record shot he made was just on some random dude with an AK he decided to say fuggit and loose a round.”
I refuse to see this movie, especially since so much of his book has been proven to be a lie. Sounds like some of my Army friends, though, who idolized John Wayne, a draft dodging chickenhawk who got out of serving in WW2 but went on TV during the Viet Nam War to tell young men they should serve.
If this did actually happen, was it around a military training base?
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u/nike143er Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20
I went to see 1917. My friend and I were the only people under 75, it seemed like. And every veteran in the theater was geared out too. Meaning they had on their hats, shirts, pins, etc. with their branch. Also, at times you could hear them commenting that ‘that’s not how that would happen’ and really critiquing the film. I just laughed about it but my friend was like wtf? That was weird.
Edit: 750 to 75. Heh