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more about #warmovies more comments → Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Annalee, Annalee, Annalee. I think you may have made a couple of good points, but sadly my friend, Tiny Dr. No, disagrees with you. more » JohnnyZito: There's a lot of fetishistic soldier as super hero lately. Probably has more to do with the protracted land wars. The citizen super hero will make a ... more » dry-roasted-peanuts: Watch Where Eagles Dare (1968). Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood kill an entire castle and outlying base of Nazis, uncover 4 moles in MI6 and bust a... more » Zack Stentz: I think the closest thing to a straight up war movie you're going to see this summer is Terminator: Salvation. And what makes the Terminator war myth... more » lightninglouie: I think you can get away with a lot more subversive material if the movie is seen primarily as a superhero or SF film and only tangentially as a war f... more » omgwtflolbbqbye: This will come full circle once the WWII Captain America movie comes out... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Lord of War... I enjoyed that movie a LOT. I just realized that I said something positive about a Nic Cage movie. I... I'm going to go into my corner ... more » -
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Have War Movies Become Superhero Flicks?
War movies from Apocalypse Now to Rambo used to be where we dealt with issues like the morality of violence and the meaning of honor. Now superhero flicks like Wolverine and Watchmen are replacing them. More »
