SoberChef Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 HOLY FUCKING SHIT 😳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Yeeeeaaaahhh - I'm gonna pass on this one considering the current real-life political climate. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 It’s funny, when I heard Alex Garland was making a movie with Kirsten Dunst called Civil War, I never thought it would be about literal civil war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 Between this and I.S.S. 2024 is certainly thought provoking as to where we as a country are headed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 It's Alex Garland, I'm all in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Seems like this would be a lot to try to cram into one movie, but it looks, uh... interesting...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I like Alex Garland, and that sequence with Jesse Plemons looks great, but selling that premise is going to be hard work. I know trailers are chopped up and often provide incomplete or misleading context, but it sure seems like it's Texas and California against the rest of the US? That's an odd line to draw for a new civil war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Lemme guess, the non California/Texas side turns out to be the actual bad guys. I love Alex Garland but I dunno if I wanna sit through this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I will eventually see this movie, but FUCK!!! Does this ever look like a preview on things that have yet come. Fuck! Are we being Scrooged by Hollywood? Like already mention with this trailer and I.S.S. trailer of paranoia (which I also would like to see) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I mean I'll see it, but I don't know about this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I'll watch it but can't say I'm looking forward to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Having the thumbnail be someone aiming down sight with their fingernails painted trans flag colors is… a choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Kal-El814 said: Having the thumbnail be someone aiming down sight with their fingernails painted trans flag colors is… a choice. Yeah, that's too on the nose for me. While the trailer doesn't exactly get into the whole sides or nature of the conflict, having not been born yesterday it feels like this is probably going to be a fantasy of the very correct liberals killing the bad conservatives under the guise of a "cautionary tale." I don't think this is a subject that can be handled tastefully, especially when it's clearly an action movie, and I think when it inevitably reaches the conclusion of "well actually both sides bad though" it will be just as empty as it is politically divisive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 11 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Yeeeeaaaahhh - I'm gonna pass on this one considering the current real-life political climate. Yahhhh this almost felt gross to me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 My reactions in order that I felt them: California and Texas? Surely not. Maybe it's non-bay area and SoCal California and Texas. LOL, Fat Damon as a chud and Ron Swanson as president. This is going to be so bad. Whatever this movie is trying to say will probably fall flat, if it's trying to say anything at all. Given the state of the country at the moment, this seems ill advised at best and really harmful at worst. This looks like shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpvoteShittyTakesOnly Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 alex garland is a phenomenal author and filmmaker so i dont get the skepticism based on a couple of minutes of a trailer cut by people who werent involved in making the film man has literally never made a bad movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 30 minutes ago, CayceG said: California and Texas? Surely not. Maybe it's non-bay area and SoCal California and Texas. The movie is going to try to have it both ways, concocting something similar to current politics but not quite and setting it in current times with lots of imagery and symbols for currently divisive political issues (ala the thumbnail). The creators realize that having it be a clear continuation of real world politics would be a disaster, so they're going to make it just off kilter enough to pretend to not be fanning the flame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Firewithin said: Yahhhh this almost felt gross to me Considering the subject matter & what it's trying to relay (in my opinion, it's screaming at us that IF we continue down the path we are currently on, this IS a highly potential future of sorts), pretty sure feeling gross is a good compliment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 What the fuck are you sniping from the torch of the Statue of Liberty? Seagulls? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Idiotic. Just what do these filmmakers think Minnesota has in common ideologically with Idaho? Let alone TX and CA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 32 minutes ago, CayceG said: Idiotic. Just what do these filmmakers think Minnesota has in common ideologically with Idaho? Let alone TX and CA. They don't want to offend anyone by making this remotely realistic. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 23 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said: They don't want to offend anyone by making this remotely realistic. This is as good of a justification as any as to why Nebraska and Utah are on opposite sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5timechamp Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 lol.. people will be cheering for different sides…. Curious to see how the political heads are portrayed … I wonder what the inciting event will be did Lebron get 6 titles and piss off the Jordan heads or will they go full monty and say stolen election Nice to see Wagner Moura involved.. makes me want to go watch the siege again just for the subtlety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Isn't Alex Garland British? That might help explain things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Oh man, I saw the headline and thought we were going to get a civil war movie that actually portrays the confederates as evil! Get innnn (see any of my previous posts about civil war movies for context), only to find out they are ALREADY "both-sidesing" a war that hasn't even happened yet. Gotta love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 I should explain a little: in every single big budget civil war movie ever made, the confederates are either not portrayed at all (Lincoln, Glory), the movie "both sideses" the war (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), or the protagonist IS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (Josey Wales, cold mountain, ride with the devil, etc). No movie ever even attempts to say the cause of the south was evil and the people were evil for supporting it. None. Why do we attempt to keep gently caressing these long-dead slavers that lived 150 years ago? Fuck em. I have no less than 3 ancestors who fought for the South in the civil war, and the only reason I hope an afterlife exists is to ensure they're burning in hell. Either that or the Buddhists were right and they got reincarnated as a fucking bed bug. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Ron Swanson lived long enough to see himself become the villain or he is playing the ultimate long con to finally destroy federal government from the inside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 On 12/13/2023 at 10:31 PM, CayceG said: Ron Swanson as president Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 On 12/14/2023 at 9:48 AM, LazyPiranha said: What the fuck are you sniping from the torch of the Statue of Liberty? Seagulls? New Jerseyans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Fizzzzle said: I should explain a little: in every single big budget civil war movie ever made, the confederates are either not portrayed at all (Lincoln, Glory), the movie "both sideses" the war (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), or the protagonist IS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (Josey Wales, cold mountain, ride with the devil, etc). No movie ever even attempts to say the cause of the south was evil and the people were evil for supporting it. None. Why do we attempt to keep gently caressing these long-dead slavers that lived 150 years ago? Fuck em. I have no less than 3 ancestors who fought for the South in the civil war, and the only reason I hope an afterlife exists is to ensure they're burning in hell. Either that or the Buddhists were right and they got reincarnated as a fucking bed bug. IMO you're right about it being a long ass time ago and the fact that people should get the fuck over it already, be on the right side of history, etc. BUT.... I also wonder if practically speaking, unfortunately too many people are still attached to the Lost Cause narrative for studios to want to alienate them (i.e. not get their money). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Also for the movie itself, I didn't think it actually looked that bad, though I suspect it will be very hamfisted with its morality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 8 hours ago, Jason said: New Jerseyans It’s half a mile from the statue to any part of New Jersey, and that’s just a park. It’s a mile until you get to an actual building. On top of that, if you believe the implausible map for the movie, the entire east coast is on the same side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 How many gummies and alcohol am I going to need for this shitshow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/18/2023 at 8:05 PM, Fizzzzle said: I should explain a little: in every single big budget civil war movie ever made, the confederates are either not portrayed at all (Lincoln, Glory), the movie "both sideses" the war (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), or the protagonist IS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (Josey Wales, cold mountain, ride with the devil, etc). No movie ever even attempts to say the cause of the south was evil and the people were evil for supporting it. None. Why do we attempt to keep gently caressing these long-dead slavers that lived 150 years ago? Fuck em. I have no less than 3 ancestors who fought for the South in the civil war, and the only reason I hope an afterlife exists is to ensure they're burning in hell. Either that or the Buddhists were right and they got reincarnated as a fucking bed bug. Fizz, respectfully, I have a freaking SS officer in my familial history and yeah, I've never felt like that over dead ancestors that I've never met. Chill & be easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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