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Funny story, my friend in high school was obsessed with that movie. I liked guns and airsoft and he used to rope me into playing paintball with him. We went and saw jarhead in theaters along with his brother that was in the national guard...it was awkward after the movie. I don't think either of them had ever seen an anti-war movie in their life and this was the height of the gwot.
jarhead isn't even that anti-war, it's just like "war is a lot of boredom and shit work and any individual's contribution to it is negligible" aka a modicum of realism instead of cawlladuty operators bravely massacring hordes of [racial slurs omitted]
Yeah but that's the mindset my friend had, he wanted operator shit.
Every one of these operators types that went to Ukraine either got blown up or came scurrying back as fast as they could the millisecond they realized they were in for an actual war
If your movie is hostile to the pentagon they won’t loan you fancy doodads.
The infamous “helicopter attack” scene from Apocalypse Now was filmed with Filipino Army helicopters because the script didn’t worship the troops enough
"Obi-wan Pedo-be" 
cw: self harm
The DoD also censored a line in the first Michael Bay transformers. A soldier in the beginning is talking to another about how war is tough, and that he had a squadmate with ptsd who committed suicide. DoD told them the same, remove the reference to ptsd or get no support.
"US military hero" 
SVist, torturer, mass murderer, oppressor
Just a reminder or for those who weren't already aware, there is a list of ~~all~~ many of the movies that are known to have had direct US military (DoD, CIA) involvement ("script approval") after a series of FOIA requests. A number of people have done this, but to my knowledge the first and most well known is the list made first in 2014 and then updated in 2016 by the person who runs the spyculture.com website: https://www.spyculture.com/updated-complete-list-of-dod-films/
As letterboxd puts it:
Movies made in conjunction with the US Department of Defense or Central Intelligence Agency. Pentagon assistance is only granted after scripts have been reviewed, changed, and/or significantly re-written to the US military's satisfaction. This list includes Hollywood collaborations with the US DoD, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and CIA.
This list only scratches the surface and was compiled from information acquired through FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests by investigative journalists. FOIA documents can be found on this website: www.spyculture.com/category/documents
The list has been acknowledged and reproduced on imdb and wkipedia though it is well known to be incomplete. The original author noted discrepancies between the information they got in 2014 and 2016, like films that appear on the first list but not the second and vice versa, and discrepancies with others who have done the FOIA thing. This alone makes it clear that the list is not complete and probably represents only a portion of the interference that these agencies are willing to admit to.
Still, it makes for a great resource when talking to people who might be reluctant to recognize the amount of pro-US empire propaganda that saturates our entertainment media.
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
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.
