If as a filmmaker my choices were beteeen compromising the film or not getting free tanks for footage cause the military decided this works as propaganda, I would choose to be a fucking film maker. People make sci fi movies and shows all the time and for very little money where the wars they show are done with shit that doesnt even exist IRL. Build some miniatures, do green screen with em for scale, use CGI, tanks and planes and shit are easy to do with it.

In general movies look fake af now anyway, so why use real military equipment when it would stand out? Michael Bay's transformers is an early example but a great one. The real military gear and shit contrasts super hard with the weirdly over detsiled cgi mess robots

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Build some miniatures, do green screen with em for scale, use CGI, tanks and planes and shit are easy to do with it.

That costs money, thus increases risk, and the suits don't like that. Having DoD assistance costs nothing, thus lowers risk, and less risk = more good to the suits bankrolling the film.