Yes that is true. luckily war is so terrible, or else we would grow too fond of it. I'm looking for things that made the public feel that it is necessary to fight this war, such as when Corporal York was made in sometime between 1940-1943 as an attempt to show that you can still be a good Christian and be a soldier and was used as a type of recruiting tool , or made them believe that the war is too terrible to have ever sent our people there such as in the Deer Hunter when they were tortured and the characters made to play Russian Roulette by the Viet Cong. I'm sorry if any know better than I and knows whether or not I am actually misquoting the the movies.

Nobody wants to go to war.
If a war never the less comes down the pike there are various degrees of willingness to fight that war.
There are the people that feel it´s their duty to be first in, there are people dodging until they get called upon and there are people that dodge it all together.
IMO only the ones that have not seen a wartorn nation would ever concider a war anything then a last resort.

So to answer your original question. NO, so called warmovies does not make people want to go to war.
To answer your second question. Seeing the towers go down would be enough for me to bring it home that this one was the last resort and make my blood boil.

Those are my answers to your as I see them two different questions.

Just my two cents (and well worth what you paid for them).

I agree with KJ. Nobody, unless absolutely forced to, likes a fistfight or an argument. War is a totally different being entirely- it is wholesale killing at its finest- government-sanctioned violence. It is the absolute last diplomatic option of a country; I'm no peacenik by any standard but I believe it is not something to be taken lightly at all.

Anyone who's ever considered joining, myself included, has to consider the moral and ethical possibilities of warfare and come to grips with that beforehand. However, I have to consider the words of Sgt. Matt Eversmann: "I don't believe that there is anyone who hasn't wanted, in some way, to go to war."

Do the very good films depict a skewed version of combat? I didn't notice anything skewed about Black Hawk Down- the men there have earned their lionization, and with a good PR department they could possibly be a recruiting tool.