Shooter and Marc Walberg...

[Mike Sr.]

Saw the movie tonite.

About a Marine Sniper, who was assigned a misson by Lethal Weapon**danny glover, secretary of defense in the movie with the cloak & dagger direction and collaboration with a US Senator.

Marc and his spotter are abandon by washington and left to die. Spotter gets killed. Then 36 months later Marc is shown in his cabin in the mountains living like a recluse.

While there a *black* government car with d.glvr. and associates drive up, find Marc and offer him job of protecting the President from another sniper.

At first M declines but glover -who doesn't know schidt about God, Country and honor- preach to Marc about those attributes and protecting the President attempting to presuade Marc he is the only one for the job. As for icing on the cake glover shows Marc a 'medal' of honor that glover(traitor) and Marc's Dad had earned.

Camera zooms in on M's face and music temp climbs and marc accepts.


As far as I am concerned using the Medal of Honor in this movie was tatamount to burning the flag in Arlington or pissing on the American flag on Normandy Beach or on ground at Khe Sahn(my generation).

As the movie unravels its about how 'bad' our country is and corrupt and that our Government had orchastrated geneocide....for oil.

Kinda like the movie a number of years ago with leslie snipes -a super soldier- fight's a plot that our government is going to kill a chinese ambassador coming to the here.


I've never seen another movie with snipes in it...SINCE.

As for Marc...his participation in the US bashing...I'll not see any more of his movies either.

HollyWood has no god before them but the dollar-god. They would prosititute their own mothers and daughters before presenting our country in a positive, truthful manner.

**JerkFace...thanks for reminding/correcting the error...I shoulda remembered that....

 

[wooderson]

As the movie unravels its about how 'bad' our country is and corrupt and that our Government had orchastrated geneocide....for oil.

Really? Awesome, I assumed this was set in one of those Tom Clancy crypto-fascist fantasylands so common to modern pulp.

Maybe I'll give the book a try after I see the movie.

 

[Owen]

From what I've seen of the trailers, the book is radically different

 

[psyopspec]

At first M declines but glover -who doesn't know schidt about God, Country and honor- preach to Marc about those attributes and protecting the President attempting to presuade Marc he is the only one for the job. As for icing on the cake glover shows Marc a 'medal' of honor that glover(traitor) and Marc's Dad had earned.

If he's the bad guy that would make sense, though I could be wrong. Might want to put a spoiler warning at the top of your post on this one either way.

 

[waynedm]

Spoiler or not, Mike saved me a few hours and $8.

 

[psyopspec]

I'm lucky - there's a cheap theater in my area where movies can be seen for $1.25 after they've been out a month or so.

 

[Highway_Star]

Definately try the book.

 

[pcruz]

I really want to see this movie sinced it's an action flick with lots of gun action, but it has Danny Glover (liberal nut job I refuse to support via movie ticket). I think I'll pay for 300 (great movie), but watch this one.

 

[Husker1911]

"I believe Charlton Heston is America's best villain because he loves guns so much," Wahlberg snottily proclaimed at the MTV Movie Awards. "Maybe he should get the award for being president of the National Rifle Association."

Upon meeting Heston on the set of Apes, Wahlberg rudely told him that it was "very disturbing meeting you."

There's lots more:

http://www.keepandbeararms.org/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2360

 

[jtpickensj]

This movie looks to be a typical hollywood bastarization of a great book I hear they were gonna do a movie adaptation of Dirty White Boys With john Frankinheimer directing but when he died it was scrapped hope they Don't decide to do Blood Meridian or A Coffin Full Of Dreams they would with the bunch that are in the movie scene today they would screw it up.

 

[Husker1911]

Please tell me about the book. I'd like to give this a worthy consideration, but I despise Wahlberg, and Glover. So tell me about the book version.

 

[gunsmith]

there is no way I'm gonna plunk down my

hard earned bucks for celebretards like marky mark and dingleberry grover

I am sad that Hunter would give up so much artistic control, his book was great...how did he let hwood do this to him?

 

[hceptj]

I am sad that Hunter would give up so much artistic control, his book was great...how did he let hwood do this to him?

I second that...great book and a good series of books...disappointing to say the least...

 

[Pappy John]

Husker1911... Look up Stephen Hunter. Many books, all good.

 

[Guntalk]

Here's what I wrote about the Wahlberg/Shooter "thing."
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Felony On the Big Screen?

Quick, someone call the ATF hotline (1-800-ATF-GUNS) to report a convicted felon in possession of a gun!

Okay, maybe not. But it might be interesting. It might make a point.

This weekend a new action thriller movie opens. It's based on one of my favorite books, "Point of Impact" by Steven Hunter. The movie is "Shooter," and it stars Mark Wahlberg, who is red hot, coming off his recent Oscar-nominated performance in "The Departed."

There's only one problem. If what I read in press reports is true, Wahlberg is a convicted felon. It appears that he was sentenced to more than two years in prison several years ago, but served less than two months. As we know, a convicted felon can't own a gun. Even picking up a gun is a federal felony.

(continued at www.guntalk.com)

 

[jerkface11]

Danny Glover was in Lethal Weapon not Die Hard.

 

[Pilgrim]

I was on the 'fence' about seeing this. Now that I know it doesn't follow the book and has danny glover too, I'll pass.

Pilgrim

 

[BucksDC]

Hello

I am a huge fan of Stephan Hunter and his Earl Lee Swagger novels. Please don't be put off to his books by Hollywood movies based loosely on them. Hunter is pro gun. Visit his websight. I seem to remember him saying he has thoughts about guns(a gun kick if you would) and creates stories, plots, and characters around them.
Marc Wallberg is an anti-gun turd burgler.
Having said that, I will probably rent the DVD, cause I am a sucker for movies with guns.

 

[meef]

I have a very simple filter I use on a movie - either at the theater or in the rental stores......

If it's got that vehemently anti-gun walking colon Markie Mark in it, I don't give them my money.

Life's too short to be spending it earning money to support offal like that.

 

[usp9]

Dan Glover is the reason I dropped MCI. I actively boycott that racist, anti-American "blankity blank". My money does not go to support those people who believe in the opposite of what I believe.

Same reason Senator Warner recieved a nastygram from me. He's turned liberal and I don't support liberals... period.

 

[Leanwolf]

Stephen Hunter is not only "pro-Second Amendment," he is a hunter, a shooter, and a reloader. I've talked with him about this... and some of his books.

Once a writer sells his/her novel to a studio or producer, he/she no longer has ANY control over how the flick is made. That's the way it is in Hollywood.

FWIW.

L.W.

 

[lysander]

As far as I am concerned using the Medal of Honor in this movie was tatamount to burning the flag in Arlington or pissing on the American flag on Normandy Beach or on ground at Khe Sahn(my generation).

As the movie unravels its about how 'bad' our country is and corrupt and that our Government had orchastrated geneocide....for oil.

Kinda like the movie a number of years ago with leslie snipes -a super soldier- fight's a plot that our government is going to kill a chinese ambassador coming to the here.

I saw the film last night as well...and for the purposes of full disclosure I admit that I have never read any of Hunter's work. That being said, what you are showing here (in your above comment) is an inability to distinguish between a fictionalized indictment of those in power who abuse power and the philosophical and political foundations through which the United States was born.

It is pretty clear that Wahlberg's character is a highly principled individual...who LOVES his country. The bad guys in this film are people who use the love people have for the idea that is America against them...it isn't about how bad America is...at worst it is about how short we fall of fulfilling the promise of what we could be as a nation.

Or it could just be a highly stylized, frenetic, action flick in the mold of Dirty Harry meets Martin Riggs meets Carlos Hathcock.

I enjoyed it...but deep political thriller it is not. Mindless shoot 'em up with lots of neat guns...sure.

Expect a run on EDM takedown rifles at your neighborhood gunstore shortly...

 

[Husker1911]

I enjoyed it...but deep political thriller it is not. Mindless shoot 'em up with lots of neat guns...sure.

Featuring two of the most blatantly anti-gun actors in Hollywood, who would deprive you of the "neat guns" you own.

 

[lysander]

Featuring two of the most blatantly anti-gun actors in Hollywood, who would deprive you of the "neat guns" you own.

Ironic isn't it? That two anti-gun actors would continually profit as individuals from making hyper-violent films? Why...its almost like they hate what they are. Sort of like Ted Haggard and homosexuality.

Maybe I really like Antoine Fuqua movies and my $6.00 went to support him as director.

 

[Seancass]

man, i opened this thread hoping to learn a little about the movie. i guess i learned more about the actors.

anywho, somebody who actually bothered to see it, want to run down the guns used. they looked like quality deer rifles!