Because they get sponsored by the Pentagon.
Let’s say you want to make an action movie. Action movies are expensive. Movies in general are expensive, but action movies are doubly expensive. You need special effects, props, extras, action shots. That can add up really quickly. And if you could get someone else to pay for that, then your movie is less of a financial risk.
In Hollywood, that someone is often the Pentagon. They give filmmakers access to military equipment, extras, even training for their actors. All they ask for in return is veto power on your scripts. If the US Military backs a movie, they want that movie to make them look good.
Pretty much every Hollywood movie which features the military, everything from Top Gun to Transformers, had some level of input from the Department of Defense. They’re propaganda, because it’s cheaper to make a propaganda film than one that is critical of the government.
One of the few films that made use of military hardware and wasn’t supported by the Pentagon is Avengers. Initially they had government backing, but the Department of Defense objected to the scene where a UN body ordered a nuclear strike on American soil and the filmmakers wouldn’t budge.
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