I've felt in more recent years that war films generally tend to be boring.
It's not that I've lost interest in military history, if anything my interest died down for a long time after 2010-11 due to personal issues but it was years back due to Girls und Panzer of all things that a sort of "renaissance" occurred when my interest was practically reborn, reading and watching videos about not only about WW2 but even getting into new, different and less known stuff for me like the German and Italian wars for unification, the Napoleonic Wars, the 7 Years War, the 30 Years War, the Hasburg-Ottoman Wars and the Battle of Morgarten, and following the stories of the Swedish Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mongol Empire, Byzantine Empire and Kiev Rus as well as famous warriors like the Swiss pikemen, Polish Winged Hussars, the Viking Age Norse and Varangian Guards (dat Harald Hardrada), and the Japanese Onna-Musha (female warriors who fought alongside the Samurai)... you get the idea.
But that's just the thing, I now really prefer reading or watching videos about it while I don't enjoy war movies as much anymore because the story will be the first priority and the actual history less so. Not that I don't enjoy some good stories or entertainment but I've just been looking elsewhere for that, anime stuff being a big example in the past several years actually because it's so different from what I'm used to in the past that it's actually refreshing.
I know it might seems like weird reasoning to others, but that just how I feel these days. Whenever I saw the trailer for Fury or Dunkirk or 1917 or Midway I've just been saying "pass, pass, pass, pass", why watch those when you can watch The Lord of the Rings or Alien or Star Wars, and if I want to enjoy my military history hobby I'll read or watch videos about it.
