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Another American war film.

The trouble with all war films is its hard to make one that young males won't take as in some way glorifying war. When you have soldiers exercising power over others, they don't identify with the victim. They identify with the one lording over them, and they get off on it.

This could be the anti-war war film of the century and still young males will get off on it and be even more ready to sign up.

About the only way to really make an American anti-war war film that would turn young American men away from war would be to make it insulting of American soldiers and have them totally lose and look like idiots. But all that would do is spark a faux patriotic outrage in America and have quite the opposite effect.

What America needs is not another anti-war war film. What it needs is an anti-war culture that raises young men to be disgusted by war before they ever set foot in a movie theater.

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"What America needs is not another anti-war war film. What it needs is an anti-war culture that raises young men to be disgusted by war before they ever set foot in a movie theater."

team player

Can't speak for a lot of my peers but as a young-ish American male, I can tell you that I am disgusted by war. I think films like "The Thin Red Line", "Saving Private Ryan", and some of the VietNam flicks do a good job of showing how war is disgusting, as do some of the other war flicks I've seen and of which I know. Even some of the classic war movies show the brutality and awefulness of war...

Just my two yen's...

plink, plink

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Right on Jason. Saw both of those movies at the theatre, as well as Platoon.

Looking forward to this movie.

This could be the anti-war war film of the century and still young males will get off on it and be even more ready to sign up.

Highly unlikely since there should be no need for any Americans to be in the film except for historical context about how the US destabilized this once successful country, allowing the Khmer Rouge to rise.

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I think films like "The Thin Red Line", "Saving Private Ryan", and some of the VietNam flicks do a good job of showing how war is disgusting

Jason, I am sorry you don't get this. But many American soldiers watch movies like Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line and all they can say is "badass". They get off on movies like that. And there are many, many such movies out of America and look: America is the world leader in military spending with a huge military and no real shortage of volunteers.

Even the movies that seem to denounce war promote it. One of the few movies that failed to make American soldiers look cool in any way was Redacted. It was a true anti-war film for not promoting soldiering by showing a bunch of American soldiers as raping, murdering idiots. Look at all the hate it received and its poor box office showing.

I am telling you. Most anti-war war movies promote war in an accidental and sometimes underhanded way.

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Disagree, team player. I have family members who spent a lot of time in the military who think otherwise as you state, and know many, many more military people who disagree diametrically with the "bad@#$" idea when watching The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, and others. Even the movies form the `70s such as A Bridge Too Far, Midway, and Zulu Dawn portray the stark realities of war. And Redacted showing the US Military as a bunch of raping, murdering fools is not only culturally and historically inaccurate, but also goes against the USMCJ, and should receive a lot of hate.

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Wow, her face has changed. Has all this war stuff darkened her?

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What America needs is not another anti-war war film. What it needs is an anti-war culture that raises young men to be disgusted by war before they ever set foot in a movie theater.

I was pretty disgusted when I saw Angelina Jolie's, "Unbreakable." Which reminds me. . . will this movie ever be released in Japan? Why not?

@Jason. . . Nice list of flicks there but you forgot, Apocalypse Now. Now that was a sick war movie!

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