Originally Posted by mike
You see, I didn't say glorification of war. It was a glorification of heroism in war at the expense of any sense that what the Americans (By the way, where were all the allies in this film? Apparently the only country in the war was the US) were fighting were not just two-dimensional enemies waiting to be shot at or to kill off some character to move the plot along. The only war film I have EVER seen in which it seemed like they were Germans in Nazi uniforms rather than Nazis in German uniforms was The Longest Day. Another good one along a similar vein is Midway. I don't mind war movies, in fact I like some of them. But it's dumb when the villain characters are portrayed with no character development or personalities whatsoever, so that the audience just hates them and isn't allowed to identify with them at all. To me, this has the potential for dangerous psychological consequences.
