IT'S WHAT THEY REALLY THINK OF THE MILITARY!!!!
They've portrayed their "vision" of the best America ever had in such worthy stories as Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H*, Platoon, and countless OTHER films and TV shows which depicted a military staffed by drunken, drugged-out buffoons and corrupt officers. I doubt that ANYONE in Hollywood, with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger (who IS a veteran of the Austrian Army) holds any view of the military counter to this.
I'm tired of it...they portray us this way to assuage their own weakness as Americans, and their certain knowledge of their own cowardice. They slander real American heroes so they won't feel so bad about NOT doing their part themselves, and about their own pathetic irrelevance to history's march.
We have come a LONG way from the Hollywood of the '40s. To our shame.
I've never been able to figure out how Hollywood could make such a 180 in such a short time.
Anything's gotta be better than the crap uber-RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger puts out. That guy has all the range of a daisy air rifle. Same goes for John Wayne who NEVER served a day in uniform!
I will withold my judgement until the movie comes out. I myself liked MASH and Apocalypse Now (which wasn't really ABOUT Vietnam in many regards) was based on Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Hearts of Darkness."
I guess according to many on this board, the only crap we should watch would be Iron Eagle or Missing in Action.