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Originally Posted by Trollheart
How does BOT4J do that? The scenes where the veterans are jumping every time the fireworks go off in the parade? The protests by the vets against the war? Cruise's mother refusing to believe he shot babies? How does that lionize troops? How is that anything but anti-war?
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I don't know what movie you're talking about so I can't say, but in general those movies, even the anti-war ones, often carry water for soldiers so that anti-war messages become pro-veteran messages, which encourage you to "support the troops", which puts it into your brain that you should support their wars as well. Not all war movies are like that obviously, and generally the ones that aren't are the more controversial, but in general if a war movie has a battle scene that can be described as "cool" then you should probably be leery of its intentions, even if the
intended intentions aren't jingoistic.