"Why we're allowed to hate a movie about the military"

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/why-were-allowed-to-hate-a-movie-about-the-military?hf_exp=social_title_off&title=Why%20we%27re%20allowed%20to%20hate%20a%20movie%20about%20the%20military


"Personally, I have always been troubled by what our pop culture depictions of war say about us, and by the attributes war gains any time you point a camera at it, fact or fiction. Truffaut said, "There's no such thing as an anti-war film," and I understand that he was deeply troubled by the thrills that are delivered when we watch combat, the visceral reaction that he had to footage that upset him on a moral level."

[sharp_stick]

1. You're allowed to hate a movie about anything

for any reason. For example you couldn't drag me to see anything with Tyler Perry in it.

[valerief]

2. I remember when Top Gun was a big hit. It was then I realized the PTB was seeding the lust

for another war. It wasn't long before we had our televised Gulf War.

Not sure when Truffaut said that, but 1971's Johnny Got His Gun is a frightening antiwar film.