this doesn't make it redeemable in any way but i think one of the reasons the parade looked so especially bad was how ordinary it looked, which is in stark contrast to how the US military is often depicted on a screen (cinematic, epic, etc) in advertisements and movies.
adding some exaggerated depth of field, some more military style dark color tinting, and slowing down the framerate, changes the feeling a bit to something slightly more ominous, but ends up looking overproduced since the actualy content itself is underwhelming and probably wouldn't have made sense to actually do any of this in practice since the parade just looked like some kid-friendly fun day, not an actual show of force