Pro-war OR Anti-war??

Having recently read the following quote by Mary O'Hare:

"You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs" (Slaughter-House-Five, p. 14).

I believe myself to agree with Mary O'Hare. She points out that whether men live through or die during a war...they will be played by actors/ actresses that are more appealing to the audience. Though that has no relevance to whether or not movies promote war...I believe that movies back in the day were meant to promote war, but movies today are meant to display the reality of what does happen during and as a result of war.

Take The Patriot for example, a movie about the Civil War, shows that no matter how much you defend yourself and your family...somebody is going to get hurt...like the children in this movie...it's totally anti-war because the father refuses to be drafted to help fight against the British, but it's meant to show wars' reality.

Another war movie, Braveheart is the partly historical, partly mythological, story of William Wallace, a Scottish common man who fights for his country's freedom from English rule around the end of the 13th century...a pro-war movie...because Mel Gibson moves to fight for his country...promoting war.