I’m not reading that much into it. I think those who really appreciate the new sequel are just genuine fans of the first movie. The original came out when I was like 4 years old. My little brother and me grew up watching it with my dad and grandfather. Grandfather was a pilot his whole life and my family was big into aviation. And the movie I think was at least partly responsible for my little brother wanting to join the Navy, and he eventually did go to the Naval Academy and was in for like 10+ years. But again, he also just had a love for flying passed down from grandpa and even our great grandmother had a pilots license. I guess you can call that propaganda? 🤷‍♂️ The pentagon did at some point say that movie shot up enlistment/interest like crazy. For us, it’s just nostalgia and the fact that they finally made a sequel to a movie for which we all wanted to have a sequel. I for one, am not a Hollywood fan and avoid 99% of the shit they put out. This was the first time I’d been to a theater in probably a decade. I thought it was a really good movie, personally. And FFS, how about the fact that there was literally ZERO “woke bullshit” in the entire thing? I mean, c’mon, give me a hallelujah for that, if for nothing else!