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Dark_Arbron posted...

Detest the material being depicted or the concept of war movies itself?

Detest is an overly strong word. It's more like I generally dislike and it is just because I dislike that period of US history. I loved World History in school but hated US History. I'll take a a movie about Greece or Rome or something like that with war all day long but anything to do with WWI, WWII, or Vietnam I just generally don't find very interesting.

I have seen a lot of War movies but I generally never watch them more than once and often don't like them that much. It's the actual war part I just don't really enjoy. For instance Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite movies when they are in boot camp. Once boot camp ends I generally stop watching the movie as I don't much care for the rest of it.

If it deals with the characters and the military itself I often like many of them. It i just the actual war part I dislike, but again only when dealing with the US military. It's hard to explain why and I'm sure it makes little sense to you or anyone else.

Ironically one of my favorite book series is Brotherhood of War by W.E.B. Griffin. An excellent book series about many different people in the army and their spouses and how their lives all intertwine over the course of their military careers and it deals with war at times.

I know I can't explain it accurately.