War is a terrible thing but is it always unnecessary? For instance, like I said before, is anyone going to say we shouldn't have fought the Nazis because war is terrible? Plus is battle of Algiers pro-war because it's anti-colonialism?

That's a little bit of semantics. The point of people saying war movies glamorise war is that war movies make killing look cool which basterds definitely does do

And inglorious bastards, you could argue is unapologetically pro-war. Even Quentin Tarantino might argue that

I don't necessarily agree that war movies before 1970 typically were pro-war. Obv there are exceptions & they couldn't be very graphic in their depiction of war but they could nail the emotional, systemic & culture of war like with Sam Fuller movies who was a veteran

I get that but the thing is other people interpret it to mean that most war movies fail because they're not explicitly anti-war & I think it's a simplistic way to criticize them. Especially with a WW2 movie because is anyone really going to say we shouldn't have fought the Nazis because war is bad?

You could say the same thing about war movies. They don't cause real wars & they can be about unreal situations like starship troopers or Alex Garland's civil war

I disagree. The reason why I compared war movies to musicals is because they're a genre like any other & can be as complex & diverse as any other without being outwardly jingoistic & if that's not the case, then does that mean action or horror movies are pro-violence propaganda?

I don't want pro-war movies, I just think the term "pro-war" is overused. It's basically saying that any war movie with good cinematography is pro-war & if you want to be Anti-war, then you should have more complex things to say about it then just show how brutal it is which everyone knows already

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