Sure, a lot of American film makes war movies all “RAH RAH RAH USA USA USA,”
Here are the 3 “original” movies in my local theatre, to get more of what I mean:
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
harlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge…
Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
The last one (Warfare) kinda stands out, but see the pattern? “Ex black ops protag” is super popular, and I posit that, on average, it’s a turn-off for leftists.
Oh, I don’t dispute any of that. There’s tons of media in that vein, and it is indeed all a turn off. I just meant there’s occasionally a diamond in the rough, but they are indeed a rarity.
Hell, most of these just seem like movies that all want to be 2008’s Taken with Liam Neeson really badly. Even Taken was honestly very silly and absurd. Like, he just walks away from these situations where he fucks up half the city and the cops somehow can’t find him? It just cuts away and suddenly he’s fine and on to the next bit.
However, it was an incredibly popular film, spawned multiple sequels, and there’s definitely a whole genre of films in this vein. Nobody said Hollywood was very original, even when it comes to an original film. They still want formulas that they think will sell. Action tends to be the most popular, and to make action believable you have to have some backstory that makes these guys top tier fighters.
At least the John Wick films didn’t rely on him being ex-military, I guess.
Yeah. I mean, there was stuff before Taken (Bond, Die Hard, many more I’m sure), but in terms of movie plots, Taken has to be one of the most influential movies of the millennium, lol. It’s even leaking into TV (Reacher, and many others).
Here are the 3 “original” movies in my local theatre, to get more of what I mean:
The last one (Warfare) kinda stands out, but see the pattern? “Ex black ops protag” is super popular, and I posit that, on average, it’s a turn-off for leftists.
Oh, I don’t dispute any of that. There’s tons of media in that vein, and it is indeed all a turn off. I just meant there’s occasionally a diamond in the rough, but they are indeed a rarity.
Hell, most of these just seem like movies that all want to be 2008’s Taken with Liam Neeson really badly. Even Taken was honestly very silly and absurd. Like, he just walks away from these situations where he fucks up half the city and the cops somehow can’t find him? It just cuts away and suddenly he’s fine and on to the next bit.
However, it was an incredibly popular film, spawned multiple sequels, and there’s definitely a whole genre of films in this vein. Nobody said Hollywood was very original, even when it comes to an original film. They still want formulas that they think will sell. Action tends to be the most popular, and to make action believable you have to have some backstory that makes these guys top tier fighters.
At least the John Wick films didn’t rely on him being ex-military, I guess.
Yeah. I mean, there was stuff before Taken (Bond, Die Hard, many more I’m sure), but in terms of movie plots, Taken has to be one of the most influential movies of the millennium, lol. It’s even leaking into TV (Reacher, and many others).