[boxerblues]

Let's not get all agog over this. There have always been military comedies.

Hollywood many moons ago used to produce movies that put the military in a very good light. Sure dont see many of those coming out lately.

[IYAS9YAS]

True, and I missed the line about the flag being marched on. So I take some of my "Let's not get all agog" statement back.

Other than that, I think that it will probably flop anyway.

[A Simple Soldier]

"We Were Soldiers"
"Blackhawk Down"
"Saving Private Ryan"

all three reinforced the core military values of duty, honor, country, valor, and fidelity.

"Three Kings" was a notoriously anti-GHW Bush movie, but it did have some very accurate depictions of troops.

I wouldn't get all worked up about this.

FWIW, instructors at West Point use excerpted scenes frm "Stripes" for various courses on leadership and military history (The Army of the 70s). They even showed us an excerpt from "Platoon" in Florida phase of Ranger School to emphasize a point about perimeter security in a patrol base.