I am the kind of person who can only be influenced if I’m not being preached to. If I catch on to you, BEEP! Try again! The trick is to make me think that everything was my idea (even though you planted it in my head). That’s one of the reasons why war movies are not my cup of tea. Either they are too bloody, too nationalistic, too patriotic, or desperately trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize by preaching the message of anti-war, love, non-violence, and peace. But, funny war movies? Count me in! They rope you in with humor and then make you confront the truth, leaving no way to escape. Now that’s the kind of “uncomfortable” I want to get.If you’re anything like me, read on, as in this article, we’ve enlisted the most iconic war movies that are anything but serious. 1. Catch-22 (1970) Mike Nichols challenges the glorification of war in Catch-22 as Captain John, a U.S. Air Force B-25 bombardier, desperately seeks to find a way out of deployment during World War II, after seeing the brutal death of his friends and comrades. The only sure-shot way to be excused from his duties during the Second Great War? Be a clinically certified madman!2. Jojo Rabbit (2019) Hitler is friends with a kid? That is a novel premise for a war movie, if you ask me. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit follows a little German boy in the Hitler Youth, who is heavily influenced by Hitler—so...
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