What war movie will discourage anyone from joining the military?

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Originally Posted by RJMacReady (Post 896905)

None. My dad was in Vietnam and he used to make me watch Vietnam and other war movies. My favorites were the anti-war films like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, and Apocalypse Now that made war look like hell. They just made me want to join the military more. I joined the National Guard when I was 18 but was discharged a year later for medical reasons. So yeah, no film will ever make anyone not want to join the military who has their mind set on it. The only time you realize you've made a mistake is your first week of boot camp, or when your using your helmet to hold your intestines in.

I was going to post some of my dad Vietnam pictures but I need at least 25 posts. :(

I think it's probably true that, especially for boys, a steady diet of Hollywood war films, regardless of which ones, will actually encourage them to go to war.

Once a boy/man is 16 or so and set on joining the military I can't think of much that would dissuade him, including the documentaries I mentioned in my earlier post in this thread.

However, if parents are dead-set against their sons (or daughters) joining the military, they could forbid all Hollywood movies and commercial TV, and from the time they are very young, only show their kids documentaries like those. That might do the trick, although a fascistic domicile like that might be hard to rule for 18 years.

Originally Posted by Guaporense (Post 896982)

Perhaps a documentary against the military? A documentary stating: "if you go to the military, besides the health risks involved if you sent to the battlefields, you will be underpaid by the time you hit your 40's if compared to a private sector jobs".

Join at 18 and you are retired before that once you hit your twenty year mark.

But a documentary is the better choice as opposed to a film because it is reality. However the DS's showed us Restrepo to us in basic and that didn't work either. And as for an anti military documentary, I bet someone who wants to join the military will either brush it off and ignore the message, or turn it off when he gets sick of it.

If you are dead sent on joining the military ain't nothing or nobody stopping you.