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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2024 7:23:07 GMT
Preposterous, offensive nonsense that exploits the currrent US national tragedies for the equivalent of dumbfuck virtue signalling too easy drama...........not the worst movie I've seen this year because it's too well made and too well paced - takes 5 seconds before you are IN it - but in how you read it is actually way worse than the more minor cinematic travesties of 2024 (Immaculate, the very end of Love Lies Bleeding) In the first minute I was reminded of Elizabeth (1998) except that's actually insightful in its " My people" manipulations and I was also reminded about how characters can just do anything and I'm just supposed to buy it let me tell you, I see a bunch of bodies dumped from a truck I'm pretty much out and not going TOWARDS Jesse Plemons Plemons kind of reminded me of Brando in his big scene - he knows what Reuters is, pfffft........but yeah it's not enough .......I'll just be over here watching Late Night With The Devil again, thanks........at least that's fun and just uses a little AI.........Civil War rather uses my thoughts, my feelings, my POV against me and my perception of my countrymen.........that's far worse........ Armond White is going to shred this btw.......can't wait to read his review
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 13, 2024 19:11:32 GMT
Armond White is going to shred this btw.......can't wait to read his review White's take, below reviewed yesterday............good use of the term "Hipster fakery".........I'm totally stealing that ........ That old political reprimand “Have you no decency?” has lost its force. Politicians and media folk show no compunction about lying and tyrannizing, which is how we get Alex Garland’s shameless new movie Civil War. You can’t trust Garland, one of the least of the demi-Kubricks. His topical subjects are less outré than Yorgos Lanthimos’s; plus, he’s less of a craftsman than David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, or Jonathan Glazer. Yet, in Civil War, Garland tries for visionary virtuosity, faking rawness and sensationalism, all to predict America’s collapse. Designed to be fun, it is, instead, offensive.
Obama’s Leave the World Behind proposed an appalling vision of apocalypse as the State of the Union. Garland’s Civil War is equally appalling because it isn’t political. Garland never explicates the real-life lead-up to civil destruction: corrupt pols who betray their constituents, the moral bankruptcy of society, the degradation of popular culture, and the temerity of rich journalists dedicated to whatever political power endows their privilege. Garland lacks the necessary skepticism of the media — such as that expressed by Lee Smith, a conservative think-tanker who recently called NPR “a US-taxpayer-supported core of media infrastructure that has destabilized America in partnership with intelligence services and political operatives on behalf of oligarchic interests.” On a different scale, Civil War unintentionally indicts irresponsible news media. Garland’s hipster fakery is so outrageous and ludicrous that only a clod would take its indecency seriously.
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Post by stephen on Apr 13, 2024 20:04:24 GMT
Why do I keep giving Alex Garland my well-earned money?
Not only is it Fisher-Price's My First Dystopia, it's also centered on some of the most odiously idiotic characters I've seen of late. Cailee Spaeny's Jessie is such an albatross on this movie; almost every major character of note dies because of her stupid decisions. She's the new Vince Vaughn in The Lost World; if she caused a triceratops to stampede through a Red Cross tent, it would've been fully in character for her. Kirsten Dunst is so stone-facedly checked out in this movie that I almost forgot she was in it whenever she wasn't actually present on-screen. Wagner Moura's Joel is played as both charmless and creepy to the point I kept thinking he was up to something truly nefarious. This is very much a case where I was actively rooting for the demise of our protagonists in favour of the most compelling side-characters.
And look, there is stuff to like about Civil War. Loved the sound design, I thought Jesse Plemons and Karl Glusman were both great one-scene wonders in their respective scenes, and some of the camerawork was really good like them driving through the fiery forest at night. But overall, I think the biggest disappointment was that Garland walked back his retirement announcement.
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 14, 2024 10:30:15 GMT
Lol, well I liked it
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Post by dazed on Apr 14, 2024 22:32:22 GMT
i loved this. i liked that they didn’t really delve into the politics in great detail (although i do think it gave quite a few hints of the president being a fascist such as the western forces keeping the press around while the press gets killed on site in DC/president not giving an interview in years, president disbanding the fbi, running for a third term, etc the movie putting its main focus on deconstructing war journalism made for a more raw and intense experience. i really dug how jessie started off as a naive and emotional journalist due to her lack of experience while lee was desensitized due to her experiences. then after sammys death and the plemons standoff, they kind of switched places where lee was becoming emotional (deleting the picture of sammys body, saving jessies life and not being eager enough to put her life at risk for the ‘money shots’) while jessie was becoming cold and desensitized (taking a picture of lees dead body, quickly moving on after her death, and constantly putting her life at risk for the big shot). probably burned damn near 75 calories with my heart rate lmao especially those last 20 minutes or so. there were nerve wracking scenes sparsed throughout the entire movie though (a huge thanks to how well the action was shot as well as the great sound design). dunst and spaeny killed it. also i can kind of see the children of men comparisons but i think they’re both quite different movies. bit surprised to see the comparisons as much as i do. love both of the movies though (children of men is a top 5 movie for me). 9/10
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Apr 15, 2024 14:14:46 GMT
I liked it overall. Sure it has some issues, but it’s still really solid. I’m also ok with just getting thrown into the world in the middle of the conflict and going along with the journey. I still need some time to reflect on it so it may go up or down for me but regardless of which it still had good performances, great sound design, and some damn intense scenes.
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Apr 16, 2024 2:36:35 GMT
Would've liked this a lot more had Garland ditched the laughably underdeveloped sociopolitical commentary, and fully leaned into his obvious intention- making an ode to war photojournalism. As it sits though, it's distracting how the movie does absolutely nothing with the actual American civil war premise that it was sold on to begin with. It's a stunningly empty film with some great imagery and sound design, and a standout Plemons appearance.
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Post by Pavan on Apr 20, 2024 10:43:13 GMT
I don't know what to make of this. Felt like i was watching some well made sequences sewn up together and not a complete film, like its missing some essential details and the story itself is underdeveloped. A couple of them sequences are intense and pretty well executed and that's it.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 21, 2024 20:40:51 GMT
"I thought I was sending a message home: don’t do this. Yet here we are." That line said by Kirsten Dunst is the pretty clear thesis statement of the movie. It's a movie that is all about the experiential horror of seeing an America torn apart, repeating the visceral quality of the opening of 28 Days Later seeing Cillian Murphy amid an empty London, shouting out how we should not let this happen here. Unfortunately, that's about all the film has going for it. Just the novelty of seeing wartime scenarios on American soil as happens in much of the rest of the world (and is currently happening right now in a war where one side is specifically targeting journalists). Those who've called the film "apolitical" are misspeaking; no work can be apolitical, but Garland with this film is about as interested in exploring politics as your average Call of Duty game with little more than some lines suggesting the fascism of the president ("Antifa massacre," dismantling the FBI and going beyond his 2nd term). What the film is more interested in exploring is the detachment necessary for war journalists to function at their job, even to the point of seeming ignorance. All these journalists have to attach themselves to are their press badges, bandied about as shields even in situations where they are fundamentally useless - you can always count on Jesse Plemons to spruce up a scene. Empathy fatigue is the name of the game until it strikes just a bit too close to home. But still, you have to get the shot. I thought this aspect of the film was explored decently enough, though coming from an angle that willfully ignores the larger context of what these war journalists are in strikes me as woefully unchallenging. Not to mention that much of the action on this front comes about because Cailee Spaeny's Jessie is so dense light bends around her. While I usually have no issue with allowing a work to speak for itself and ignoring the dumb comments of creators, I do think it's worth noting how Garland has waxed sanctimoniously about how the left and right are little more than ideologies on running a state that have been perverted into a sense of since the film very much seems to fall along those lines. No matter what happens politically, how much the process puts the fundamental rights and lives of people at stake, Alex Garland will show up like a parent trying to get their kids to stop fighting. "Don't do this." Easy to say when you blissfully ignore what all this means.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 21, 2024 22:31:59 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 23, 2024 10:29:35 GMT
Hey man - Your website looks fantastic btw - so do the links to your Youtube page - very easy to follow layout and you can go down rabbit holes in a fun way Real (or um, uh "Reel") good stuff ......... good creative outlet ........well done stuff - and quirky too........I really like Bizarre Movie Tie-In Songs and ones like that just because they make you say "Oh yeah Dragnet.........that was something"
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Post by Film Socialism on Apr 23, 2024 15:28:44 GMT
bad but kinda fun where the funny lines are all like 15-20 minutes apart and there's some excitement in knowing when you're gonna hit the next one
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 24, 2024 3:38:24 GMT
Hey man - Your website looks fantastic btw - so do the links to your Youtube page - very easy to follow layout and you can go down rabbit holes in a fun way Real (or um, uh "Reel") good stuff ......... good creative outlet ........well done stuff - and quirky too........I really like Bizarre Movie Tie-In Songs and ones like that just because they make you say "Oh yeah Dragnet.........that was something" Thanks, haven't posted a video in a over month, been having writers block, but am in the middle of working on something. Not all on my videos are on there, just because it requires money and space, lord.
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Post by dazed on May 3, 2024 0:21:31 GMT
watched this a second time and found out the morning after that i’ve been living with tinnitus for as long as i can remember lol
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