IF YOU WANT A PARODY: TROPIC THUNDER
The war movie genre is so prolific that one day someone was bound to poke at it, and that someone was Ben Stiller in 2008. Stiller directed and co-wrote Thunder, a parody of such Vietnam War films as Apocalypse Now and The
Deer Hunter. Following a group of actors filming a Vietnam War movie that accidentally gets caught up in a real conflict, the movie lampoons not just movie tropes but Hollywood and celebrity culture, especially with a surprisingly hilarious Tom Cruise cameo. Stream it on Netflix.