iron man! transformers! king kong, star trek, the silence of the lambs! dozens of shameless war propaganda films barely disguising themselves as sci-fi or horror that were obvious enough even without this list! there aren’t any real surprises here but its worth a read
David L. Robb wrote a book called Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors Movies. This Film is Not Yet Rated featured a little bit of an interview with him:
“The military and the film studios have colluded for more than 50 years. Anytime filmmakers want military assets – ships or tanks or planes – they have to give the Pentagon five copies of their script. And, if there’s anything in the script that’s negative, the Pentagon wants them to take it out. And so they negotiate, and take out any war crimes or foul language, or drinking. Anything that would make the military look bad. And than, after the agreement is made, the military sends a minder onto the set, when the film is being shot, to make sure it’s shot just the way they agreed. And then, once the film is completed, it has to be shown to the Pentagon, admirals and generals, before it’s shown to the public. Dozens of films have not been made because they couldn’t get military assistance. So, people have no idea what they’re not seeing.”
If anyone was also wondering, yes, Karate Kid II is on the list
Honestly I’m not gonna survive the apocalypse. Y’all go on gathering berries and drinking cockroach milk (apparently) and forming barter economies and I’m gonna stay in my house until the last of my seltzer runs out and then I’m gonna put on an all cashmere outfit and lay down and die. Have fun fending off the coyotes and doomsday cults and living on expired canned goods in a world with no more Netflix. Pass.
Idea: Someone desperately wants to not survive the Apocalypse, but every one of their attempts to die fails. They stand out in front of a horde of zombies, a group of hardnosed, embittered survivors scares them away. Walk into the infected zone, turns out they have a genetic immunity and are the key to humanity’s survival. The survivors around them keep dying tragically in their comrade’s arms, and the protagonist just holds their arums up to the sky, screaming, “Come on!”
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