Alex Ross Perry

There's way less variety in the...

I agree.

There's so much less variety.

Yes.

And the sort of, but, you know, similar to World War II, I think one of the better genres of the Vietnam movie is the soldier after Vietnam, which is what you like, Griffin.

But this is the interesting thing that we love splitting the difference on of curating worst season is like, there's movies that, like Nuremberg, that you're like, this is one-to-one.

This is a Hollywoodized version of a, everyone in this movie is a real person.

And then there's stuff like this where it's like,

This is sort of based on a thing.

And what really went out of vogue kind of post Saving Private Ryan for a long time, even though that movie is fictional, was making these big ticket war movies of like, no, we just made this up.

It became much more popular in the 2000s to really be like, this is a true story.

We're adapting a memoir.

We're adapting something true.

Whereas prior to that, Schindler's List was almost like an outlier, where a lot of these movies, even music boxers I just watched, are like, well, it's kind of inspired by this thing, but mostly we're just trying to tell a good story.

There just weren't World War II movies before that for a long time at this level.

They were being made in other countries, and there's a lot of good...

foreign war films in the 80s, and France was making a lot, and they sort of tried to grapple with their horrible history.

America just... Vietnam was in vogue for over a decade, kind of until Schindler's List made World War II big business.

Well, it's like anything.

The distance between these things started getting really short.