Harvey Weinstein Defends ‘American Sniper,’ Says It’s Better Than The ‘Junk Our Kids Are Seeing’

Why would “American Sniper” need defending, you ask? After all, its $249 million domestic grosses have made it the most lucrative war film of all time, the best wide-release January opening and the now the record holder for strongest Super Bowl weekend (take that, Miley Cyrus). It also boasts six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

“It might have been misquoted because I will tell you, at Michael’s theater, which we book a lot in Michigan, is probably the only theater I know that’s free to servicemen,” Weinstein said. “So, if you’re a serviceman, you go to Michael’s theaters in Michigan for nothing, and your families for nothing too. So, I think it’s something about his family looked at snipers a certain way and that became the quote like ‘snipers are cowardly.’ It wasn’t a reaction, I think, to this movie. I think people put two quotes together.”

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