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Originally Posted by Frownland
Depends but generally yes because they tend to focus on personal traumas and create sympathy for our military as opposed to the war itself.
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Agreed. It's generally a way to lionize troops, and by extension the military, but on a deeper level it's a way to indulge in our instincts to be Grecian heroes who gain glory by combat. Which is kind of interesting to take in if you make a point of not buying into the jingoism. It's just a basic part of human nature that's intriguing to imbibe.
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Oh, I guess you don't know how I am about propaganda. I care. Also that movie just draaaaaaags on for way too long.
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Who cares if it's propaganda so long as it's entertaining cinema? Being opposed to the reason the movie exists is all well and good, but that **** stills hits a spot that, like I've already said, taps into a part of our human nature that is satisfying.
Saving Private Ryan is most definitely overly long and filled with cheese, but can you not derive entertainment from the D-Day scene or the last battle? I mean that part when they get past the machine guns on D-Day and up to the first bunker, send some dudes up to get past and lay down covering fire is just a beast with the sound engineering. So ****ing loud and awesome.