No, I don't think so, and I think this is a very lazy reading Without defending DoD partnerships with Disney movies as a whole, you have to work really hard to find anything actually pro-Air Force in this movie Like, at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I don't think the Air Force actually cares that the message of the movie is ultimately anti-military, but that's because they don't actually generally care ] They're not movie critics The Navy got all excited about Battleship and it was obvious that movie was a laughingstock
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I mean the sad truth is that a movie can be anti military thematically but unless someone looks at the camera and says “the Air Force does war crimes, don’t join up” all those cool shots of planes and pilots hopping out against a sunset still do their job.
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Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @AlexJThomas and
I am fine with saying that what a movie's plot and dialogue and themes say is often very different from what a movie's moment-to-moment imagery says, and that since cinema is a visual medium the latter is often more important But that doesn't negate the former
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Okay, so that's just Truffaut's Maxim -- you can't ever really make an antiwar movie because war looks inherently cool There are people who unironically stan the Mobile Infantry in Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and wish they could join it, the satire is totally lost on them
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And fine, those people are real and they matter and they vote and we have to live with the fact that that's a valid criticism of that movie or any movie about war But it's still absurd to say this proves what the movie is "really about"
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @arthur_affect and
Mind you don't injure yourself with all that reaching.
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I mean yeah, but this article provides no actual evidence of any "recruiting win", only expressing hope for one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I think what you're not accepting is that movies can do multiple things, at cross purposes -- in fact they usually do because they're made by huge groups of different people who all signed up to work on the movie for different reasons
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