Five Years Later wrote:
 I also doubt the appeal of WWII films outside of the USA. Do they play well in Germany or France (or any of the occupied countries)? I know that China is a small market, but they don't even call it WWII there - it's the Sino-Japanese war. And I'm not sure why Japan would want to see it. All I know is that if next year Aussie Stu's people invade and occupy the USA and South Korea has to come and rescue our American ass after three years that wouldn't be something that I'd enjoy cinematically reliving for the next 40 years. So there are two huge factors against.  

Fun fact: Here in Norway, we spent most of WW2 under Nazi occupation, waiting for someone to bail our asses out, but not only did we recently get a hugely popular WW2 movie (Max Manus - go watch it, it's great), but just before Christmas, we also got a new war anthology comic book series.

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War comics were also quite popular here up through the 70s and 80s, long after they had disappeared from American shelves.


Out yonder, under the shining vault, among men the saying goes: 'Man, be thyself!'
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls, the saying goes: 'Troll, to thyself be-enough!'