But it doesn’t necessarily mean to link the two as identical on all levels. The obvious link, that we and they have the same goal of killing every last member of the opposition, doesn’t necessarily link the motivations. And motivations are the difference in wars between the good guys and the bad guys. The Axis and the Allies had the same goals, but for different reasons, and the reasons are why the Allies were the good guys. Same thing in the WOT, they want to kill us because we’re not them, we want to kill them because if we don’t they’ll kill us. There’s nothing wrong with a movie linking the two and reminding audiences this is a fight to the finish.
You make a good point about it being a fight to the finish. I guess I am hypersensitive to this stuff because, working as a conservative in Hollywood, the relentless leftism and anti-Americanism of so many of my colleagues gets tiresome after a while. I just didn’t like the implication of the link between the heroes and villains. Would have preferred that Foxx said, “We’ll get them all,” instead of “kill them all.”