Pride blooms as bullets fly.

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2003)

I'm stuck in Norway at the moment. These people just can't stop being ironic and ignorant and poppin' my chops over the Gulf War. Luckily, there was an article the other day about fine, T3, model chick, Kristanna Loken, and how she has a couple Norwegian roots. This was able to steal the wars attention.
Anyway, the question is, after all the American war movies that have been coming out, how can you blame 'em for this anti-America, world cop crap.
Some are just action movies in disguise, searching for reason and realism. Others are more serious and want to show us that war sucks. Right. Heard of that before.
So, we're at war, fighting people all over the world. Something that often isn't clear enough is why are we fighting? The characters are heroic but robotic. They sloughter with no questions asked.
Saving Private Ryan does ask these questions. The characters want to follow the system and obey their orders, but they can't help but question and doubt it. The military isn't a machine which is oiled and fueled. Soldiers are not robots. This is are army and it isn't perfect, but we're doing what we can and we're proud Americans.
Besides this is WWII. The one war where we had support of most of these big European countries, so we don't need to explain to them what we're fighting for. Some of the other sides involved in this war even complained that we were hogging to much of the credit in this movie. That's when you know you're doing something right.
So, we need more war movies like Saving Private Ryan because it gives you the naked thruth about the military. A relief. It will make you a man, not a robot. So, war movies should be walking in the footsteps of this masterpiece or we'll be coming up short on manpower.
But the machines are taking over anyway, right? Just look at Arnie back down in Cali.
"My mission is to protect you."