Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, were about the war everyone likes, for now, WW2 and remember the scene where our guys were about to kill the german prisoner and were only stopped by Tom Hanks. Band of Brothers, a good pick, again, WW2 the last good war, for now, But Tom Hanks went on to do the Pacific where he then went on to say to the world press that we fought the Japanese simply because they were different and implied that it was like what we are doing now.
Methinks you missed the point....
again....:lol:....... Here's what
you said:
I would have to say yes, movies about the military today are majority left wing. Can you name a recent, say last 20 years, movie focusing on the military that didn't show them as rapists, nutjobs, and murderers?
and those are
two, regardless of what Tom Hanks had to say later, or which war they were about.
We Were Soldiers, good pick. It did portray our guys in a good light. Mel Gibson was involved in that one so that was the reason for that.
Actually, if there's a 'reason for that," it's that it's the true account, based upon the book by the same name, written by Lt. Gen Harold Moore-the Mel Gibson character (then Lt. Col)-about the first major engagement of the Viet Nam war.
Crimson tide, a racist sub commander is all set to launch missles because he is too stubborn to listen to reason. A miss.
Actually, the racist angle was really nuanced-it was more about the conflict of following orders in those situations-unlike the people manning land based missiles, who are tested to be not particularly introspective or thoughtful, so that they're more likely to just launch after authentication, submariners are supposed to think-this was the conflict: what one officer thought vs. what the commanding officer saw as an authenticated order, and one which, when received, initiated a communications blackout.
Simple human conflict-and not one that portrays the military "in a bad light" at all-it just demonstrates that the men making such decisions are..........well,
men, and fallible.
Letters from Iwo Jima, and Flags of our fathers, didn't see, although humanizing the Japanese at Iwo Jima, was one criticism I read about pertaining to the film. Also, Both films were by Clint East wood, a libertarian if not conservative guy, much like mel gibson.
Again, movies based on factual material-you're right, it has a lot to do with the director's artistic vision-but way less to do with his politics.
Japanese aren't human? How ironic that you claim to do iaido, of all things......
Great Raid, another film made by a conservative. A good film that portrayed our guys in a good way.
What leads you to believe that John Dahl is "a conservative?" Certainly not the rest of his work.
A few good men, portrays marines as brutal, ignorant, and religous zealots? Not a good pick for your point.
That's part of why I left it out: crime procedurals by their very nature are going to portray military personnel acting like men-that is to say, brutal, ignorant and zealous.
Rules of engagement, another one that shows a moral equivalence between our guys and the killers in vietnam, but at least it did show the people with guns in the crowd at the end.
See above-and, weren't our guys "the killers in vietnam?" :lol:
Three Kings, a boring, bad movie that once again showed america in a bad light, as well as showing our guys in a less than flattering way.
None of those people were nutjobs-at least, no more than the rest of us-rapists or murderers. This was, essentially, a heist movie set in a war zone: an American tradition of sorts, since we are a nation of outlaws, bent on getting away with it.
It also shows all the characters deciding to do the right thing.
Wind Talkers, showed a policy of shooting the wind talkers that military historians claim did not exist. Only saw parts of this movie.
The code talkers
did have bodyguards-to keep American soldiers from mistaking them for Japanese and killing them. Otherwise, though, the movie fits the criteria: portrays the military in a positive light and made in the last 20 years-you know:
what you said.:lol:
Taking Chance, a nice movie, but as I pointed out on the plane, anti-war cover, and the story is about the death of a soldier in the war. Soldier as victim, as I have pointed out in the past.
Water is wet. Women have secrets.
Soldiers die.
Just the facts......
Jar head, didn't see it, got bad reviews, some reviews pointed out a poor portrayel of our guys in the first gulf war
Nope. Just guys portrayed as
guys.
How about all those uplifting movies about the war against islamic terrorism.
Restrepo, Gunner Palace. You know-
documentaries