EARLY RELEASE: YT CUT Civil War
Added 2024-07-18 02:33:31 +0000 UTCYT CUT Civil War
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What's wrong with tracer rounds every 5 rounds?
ElmSt Reactions
2024-07-18 17:54:43 +0000 UTCOak is right about the gunplay. It's John Wick all over again. A24 should've known that none of the characters were wearing ear protection. 10 seconds of no ear pro in that situation it's enough to go deaf. There's also tracer rounds every 5 shots during that Capital battle. I know it's Hollywood, but that felt more like a video game cutscene. Also, civilians using full auto ARs in the US is such a Hollywood thing. The Hawaiian shirts is a reference to the Boogaloo or the Boog. Boog bois are Civil War accelerationists that are itching to murder their democrat/liberal neighbors while wearing Hawaiian shirts. Yes, there are people like that and a lot of them are preppers. Overall, I'm glad the movie kept it apolitical, but the lack of explanation for the Western Forces and Florida/Southeast states forming a union is a bizarre plan in a 2 hour movie. They showed the Civil War, but didn't take the time to tell us about the why or the how. They also didn't give us a reason to care about any of the characters. Lee was super unlikable and cold. Joel's an asshole who forget common sense things in tense situations. Jesse was just there for the audience. This was an intense experience in IMAX, at least. I wish it was a better movie given the political climate we're in and it being produced by A24. A lot of the gun/pro-2A communities didn't like the movie.
Johnny Blue
2024-07-18 13:35:11 +0000 UTCThis was a very very interesting movie that made me think a lot. I have never thought about what press go through and that's how we get a lot of info is through photos where they are put in such danger, it's very wild and I have a new appreciation for press for sure. The parts where they showed Kristen's character in all the other previous war scenarios really got me, seeing what war is really like, I don't think most people know how bad it can really be and just made me think a lot about the world and the state of everywhere and everything. Well done movie, besides of course the lack of ear protection π
Michelle Kaiser
2024-07-18 06:37:54 +0000 UTCThat killing field/mass grave scene, is the most intense scene in a movie I have ever watch in a long time. Because that definitely can happen in real life to anybody. Good realism there, and good acting too. and I just found out that he's Kirsten Dunst husband, since you mentioned it π
Fajar Kurniawan
2024-07-18 04:31:16 +0000 UTCWhen I first saw this movie I assumed the Hawaiian shirts were there to show that these were irregular soldiers. They had guns, but no uniforms, and so all of their equipment was strapped on over whatever clothing they happened to have already. But I looked into it afterwards and apparently it's a reference to the "Boogaloo movement". I'd never even heard of that beforehand, but according to Wikipedia it's a sort of vaguely connected series of right-wing extremist groups that want to instigate a Civil War. They wear Hawaiian shirts as their identification, partly because they refer to the 'upcoming' war as 'the boogaloo' (party). This is definitely a very well-made film, but I was underwhelmed overall. Mainly for a lot of the same reasons you all pointed out in your review. I've seen people specifically compliment the scenes in the 'time warp' town and the scene with Jesse Plemmons, but I felt those were the two most underwhelming scenes in the film. In their introductions, Jessie and Lee BOTH said that their families were sitting on farms pretending that nothing was going on. After the opening scene with the water riot we saw all of our main characters relaxing in a hotel lobby in NYC drinking at the bar and complaining about the wi-fi. With this setup already establishing that people are ignoring it whenever they can, to then have the characters go "OMG I can't believe this town is pretending nothing's going on" felt so bizarre since they ALREADY know that. Then the scene with Jesse Plemmons was just plain stupid. Tony and Jessie leap across cars at high-speed like drunk teenagers, while Tony is supposed to be a long-time colleague of Joel & Lee who has survived warzones and combat for years. Joel & Lee see people burying bodies in a mass grave and seem completely unprepared for them to not be reasonable people who will let them go after seeing their ID. Jesse Plemmons flat-out TELLS that Tony that he better say he's an American, and Tony doesn't lie and say he's from New York but instead says he's from Hong Kong. Where's that come from? If somebody points a gun at me and says "tell me you're from Finland" my next words will be "I am from Finland. I am Finnish. Yay Finland!" I didn't find it tense or suspenseful, I just thought all of the characters were acting like idiots. The rest of the film really is very well done from a technical perspective, but unfortunately it couldn't sell me.
JBK405
2024-07-18 03:48:55 +0000 UTC
