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>The title isn't "war is bad because evil greedy warmongers kill everyone (and everyone is dead so its all quiet now" but "the sheer scale of the industrialized war machine has dehumanized the individual to such an amount that your death will be so insignificant as to not even bother reporting it."
It was awhile ago (before that movie) where my impression of that war was also less "evil greedy warmongers" but more like "incompetent blunderers." That often doesn't get into movies because it doesn't fit the standard adventure-story model. I haven't seen anything like that really except Starship Troopers where the first battle is a complete disaster that they just bumble into, but it's also told within the adventure-story frame as satire of propaganda aimed at civilians back home. The Russian filmmaker Alexander Nevzorov (who made war films in the 90s) predicting a dark-comic disaster in 2021 proved to be more accurate than many military analysts:
https://youtu.be/OutvYSl_TLc

>I blame the utter whitewashing of WWII for this really. Not in a nazi apologist sort of way but in how we think of the European theater as this clean honorable fight.
Yeah. I'm going to metnion Paul Fussell who wrote about WWII (which he was involved in) in a way that tried to bust the myths about it as clean / honorable.