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I saw the trailer and was sort of excited that this wouldn't be a typical war movie about how the human spirit perserveres and stuff like that and I liked how it was entirely against the british and then 1D guy swims off and then I was super mad when the fisherman is like "we're goin bahck to duhnkihk m8, thar's no runnin from this sonn" and the text "A TEST OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT" flashed on screen and I'm not excited anymore

lol yeah man I hope it has Nolanisms in it though, somehow. Interstellar and Batman were distinctly his own even though those are common genres so yeah. I honestly have not seen many war movies so I am not that familiar with it but they don't seem like they have much range.

Theyre all bad and dumb, showing how awful war is while simultaneously making it Cool

*tom Hanks coughs out blood and grabs private Ryan's shirt*

EARN THISSSSD

"War is bad", wow congratulations you're breaking new ground here, the film industry will truly be shaken

Tbh that starts as far back as The Birth of a Nation though that was kind of a pretense-theme that war is bad really it was that black people are bad but war is bad is an easier thing to get people behind

Anyway honestly I don't think there is any way to make war "uncool" or at least uncompelling without your movie being bad. Like that's just a limitation of movies. like horror and other disturbing shit is made interesting and compelling by being in film. It's part of the detachment and it not being real. So unfortunately that is a limit placed on film.

I feel the same way about cliches, sometimes a cliche would be the best fit for a film but you can't do it because everyone is already used to it and it's a cliche. So it makes your movie worse through no fault of its own.