21.   He identified with the military more than any other postwar president, even Eisenhower, although his closest brush with war was war movies.

22.   His barbed script and direction make you realize how unexamined the war movie is.

23.   However, the gritty, authentic war movie is marred by some patriotic sermonizing at the finale.

24.   If there were cliches in the old war movies at least they were the original cliches.

25.   If someone later got my diary, in case I went down, he would presume I thought I was in a war movie.

26.   In an attempt to answer that maxim, Edward Zwick has made a great modern war movie.

27.   In the new metaphor war movies seem to be presenting, Americans are no longer distrustful of authority and no longer doubt the cause.

28.   Indeed, an informal survey of moviegoers and customers at video shops found little interest in war movies.

29.   Instead of helmets, many prefer to wear black ski caps or green bandanas, copying heroes in American war movies.

30.   It also changed how Hollywood will make war movies.