12 Strong: The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers | Formerly known as Horse Soldiers | 19.01.18 | Warner Brothers | Nicolai Fuglsig directing | Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Trevonte Rhodes, Michael Pena, Austin Stowell and Rob Riggle

[Lordmandeep]

American Sniper Broke out for different reasons though and why a lot of these others movies don't do as well is because it lacks any sort of complexity that American Sniper had.

 

American Sniper was based on a very famous real story and frankly was perhaps the first movie about the Post 9/11 Wars that was more about than the politics of the wars. 

 

It was a man who decided to fight for his country and did so rather exceedingly well by being a sniper.

 

I think the expectation that Hollywood has put out that each soldier should feel ashamed about what he did there but instead the film shows simply a guy who did his duty and that the critique of his actions should be put onto his superiors and our leaders in charge at that time.

 

I think this subtly that was in this film really stroke a chord with audiences ^. 

 

American Sniper was a bit simplistic but it had a lot of layers then movies like this and Act of Valor Types. 

Edited January 17, 2018 by Lordmandeep

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, Lordmandeep said:

I think the expectation that Hollywood has put out that each soldier should feel ashamed about what he did

Not sure what you mean by that, Hollywood tend to be extremelly pro US military and even more on the troops themselves:

 

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307

 

EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA

 

Even when Hollywood think they are manipulating the military for their source (say zero dark thirty) it end up that it was the other way around, the military manipulating filmmakers and doing active propaganda for themselves:

 

These documents for the first time demonstrate that the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles.

 

That level of access (to source and props) continue because of how good Hollywood is for them, it is rare you see an studio movie that say that each solider should be ashamed.

[MrGlass2]

1 hour ago, Barnack said:

Not sure what you mean by that, Hollywood tend to be extremelly pro US military and even more on the troops themselves:

It is nothing new of course, better directors have answered the call:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037017/

 

And a movie like Red Sparrow seems as much as propaganda as this one.