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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
You are beyond hopeless. Go put a bullet into your brain.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
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.
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Born on the Fourth of July. Have you seen it? None of the second part of the movie backs up what you're saying at all. It's total anti-war to the max, even going so far as to turn a gung-ho soldier into a protester against the war he fought in. AND it's based on a true story.
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Originally Posted by grindy
That's some gratuitous abbreviating.
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I will make that ubiquitous all over the internet before I die next Thursday.
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