No one really wins in Dr. Strangelove
That is a really good movie!
Day After Tomorrow
Most of the population of the United States has to flee to Mexico as refugees after a devastating ecological disaster makes everything north of Florida a frozen wasteland (and yes they make as many ironic immigrant jokes they can)
The third man. It’s a 1949 movie so I hope spoilers are ok:
There are only 2 Americans in the movie. One gets dead and the other doesn’t get the girl.
But the Americans win by featuring in an escape they did not in fact participate in. At all. Screwed over are the two Norwegians and one Dutchman who actually were the three successful escapees.
“A Bridge Too Far” (1977)
***Corregidor ***with John Wayne, and ***Bataan ***with Robert Taylor (both 1943). ***The Purple Heart ***with Dana Andrews (1944).
With regard to the Battle of Little Big Horn, it should be noted that Native Americans were not considered US citizens at the time, nor would they be until 1924 (and then only those born in the United States).
Platoon. At the end the US base being defended by the platoon is overrun by the Vietnamese.
A Fish Called Wanda. I may be remembering this wrong, but it comes down to a fight between Kevin Kline and John Cleese, right?
The Cabin in the Woods. I won’t say any more except to say that the Americans do not win… nor do the Japanese, nor does anyone else.
I know this is the traditional perspective on how The Day of the Rangers went down but considering that the Somalis went back to what was left of their homes with about 4,000 casualties, I’d say it was an absolute curb stomping by the US forces. I have said it before and I will say it again: they didn’t lose, they left. As I recall from the book, Super Six Four pilot Michael Durant was returned intact after a general explained to the Somalis that if he was not returned in pristine condition with the quickness, not a single stone would stand upon another stone in Mogadishu. Black Hawk Down tells the story of how these soldiers were caught off guard and under-prepared and still handed the whole city its ass. Hence why the locals don’t refer to it as “the day we beat the Rangers”.
The Man in the High Castle (book and Amazon series) is set around the scenario of the aftermath of the Allies losing WWII. The US is divided into the Greater American Reich in the east, and the Japanese Pacific States in the west.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid don’t do so well against the Bolivian army.
Not entirely true. There were American s in on the digging but they were transferred before the escape.
E.T. presumably (I surprisingly never actually saw it) escapes government agents.
Not a film but on Babylon 5 Earth is defeated by separatist and a coalition force of aliens.
It’s not a Hollywood movie, though. It’s British.
Avengers: Infinity War if you don’t count Endgame.
It’s a fantastic (and eerily prophetic) book, as well.
Red Alert? As I recall, it bore little resemblace to Kubrick’s movie.
And all the Brits were killed.
As I recall, there were quite a few Brits who were recaptured and returned to the camp in “The Great Escape”.
There are very few Vietnam movies where the Americans are “winners”. The only ones I can think of offhand are “The Green Berets”, and I suppose the movies where Sylvester Stallone singlehandedly defeats evil postwar Vietnamese.
The trend in Hollywood movies in recent years is to depict Americans as, if not outright losers in international conflicts, Pyrrhic winners.
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As I recall, there were quite a few Brits who were recaptured and returned to the camp in “The Great Escape”./QUOTE]
Of the 76 prisoners who escaped, 50 were machine-gunned en masse in the movie. In real life, they were executed individually or in groups of two and three, on Hitler’s orders.