8 movies set in World War II have won Best Picture. So yes, there's nothing the Academy loves more than World War II. I see no reason why they wouldn't, if the film was any good... thought it's probably way too late to make such a film. I think making a film about something that happened 70 years ago is not exactly what documentaries are supposed to examine.

The medical care that our vets receive is shamefully poor. I fail to see how advocating for their rights is somehow anti-war. Shouldn't we be standing up for soldiers after what they have given? Given that the subject of American Sniper was killed in a murder/suicide, it makes the film even more on the point of veterans' rights.

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Posted by Baloo

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Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:27 am to uway

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There were a lot of great modern war stories that could have been told in the last 15 years. Instead we got Stop-Loss, In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, etc

We also got Hurt Locker, which won the Academy Award. And Zero Dark Thirty, which won one Oscar and was nominated for four others including Best Picture. The films you listed were not (though Elah had an Actor nod for Tommy Lee Jones). Hurt Locker is fairly agnostic on the war, while Zero Dark thirty was pro-war.

There also was Lone Survivor and Seal Team Six, which were also on the pro side, not to mention American Sniper itself, which was nominated for a slew of Oscars, and won one. Again, this uniform parade of anti-war films, failing to tell any other stories, is simply not true. And stop-Loss should've been a good movie, but man... it really wasn't. But I don't see how the characters in that movie, or any other modern war film, are portrayed as "rubes". They are almost uniformly portrayed as heroic, even in films that criticize the war. A film that portrayed American soldiers as baby killers or whatever coming from a major studio is practically unimaginable.

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