It turns out that Hollywood magic isn't dead, and many of the scenes that had you screaming 'Fake!' at the screen took way, way more effort than you realized.
For whatever reason, a popular means of expressing one's enthusiasm for a piece of pop culture is to look at said thing and ask: 'What if this was the size of a hamster village and made out of something completely stupid?'
As awful as war is, it has a way of bonding people. We'd imagine that goes double for these guys, who found themselves having to pretty much fight battles themselves.