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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by molodec on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:40AM (#29837932)
I grew up watching Soviet movies about war, which usually depict very different picture. Sure, there are heroes, but they are not super heroes as in American movies. They get injured, die. Soviet war movies show that wars really suck.
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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by arethuza on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:03AM (#29838610)
Some UK war movies fall into the "wars really suck" category - an obvious example being The Cruel Sea based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat who served in Royal Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic:

"This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of the ocean, two ships, and a handful of men. The men are the heroes; the heroines the ships. The only villain is the sea, the cruel sea that man has made more cruel."

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