Are Modern War Movies Better?

I'm glad that you wrote this good essay in which you explore whether modern war movies are better. I agree that special effects have made today's war movies more realistic. However, what attracts me most is an interesting plot and many of the older war movies had excellent story lines. Your report was highly readable and engaging. The bibliography will be helpful to those who wish to do further reading in this area. Way to go!

No offence meant, but you are generalising a fair bit here by saying old war movies are 'based on fact but with little realism'.


First of all, what do you classify as an 'old war movie'? Before the 60s? So EVERY war movie made before the 60s had little realism? You classify realism as 'blood and gore'. Come on! I feel like the realism in war is not just about seeing how much blood is spilled, its also about the reasons behind war, the REAL events that happened. Hollywood fails miserably every time at portraying war accurately. First of all, America is also portrayed as the hero, the do-gooder, when blatantly, as history has shown us, it is most often not.


Secondly, Hollywood tends to leave out facts, and i don't just mean the date, time and place that battles happened.


Your so-called explanation of realism does nothing else except make stupid people believe that war is about nothing else but blowing up the 'enemy' and watching 'blood and gore'.


Not everything is in black and white. For example, during the second world war, not all Nazis were 'evil'. Certainly Hitler was, but most of the soldiers were just ordinary people, just like american and british soldiers. There are amazing stories of compassion from both sides during the war. Things are not as simple as you make out, and war is so much more complex and involves so many more emotions than any blockbuster war film will depict.


Also, why don't you research your work properly? Watching 4 blockbuster films is hardly research for a topic on war.

This paper shows the difference from old movies to newer, but it is written as only as a personal opinion is what it sounds like. Old and new movies are different and similar in some ways, and I do like how this writer conveyed their opinion.