Alex Garland is a weird writer. Action and sci-fi are his specialities.
@Alan-fd5py5 ай бұрын
Sunshine (Written by him) is so underrated.
@MerylCheap5 ай бұрын
I really liked it a lot. Favorite Alex Garland by far. It’s not what I thought it would be at all. It’s a movie about the horrors of war and how jaded we are to violence. Kirsten Dunst was incredible. Definitely not an Oscar contender at all.
@ktom52625 ай бұрын
A civil war is the context, not the content of this movie. It's not as much about war as it is about journalists during war.
@Alan-fd5py5 ай бұрын
Some are really looking for this movie to "Say Something" or have a "Stance" but I appreciated that that didn't really seem to matter as much as the journey the characters were on. I didn't really need a message, and it all worked. I think people heard Civil War and immediately wanted to start looking for parallels with society. Thought it was refreshing/worked for a movie with this subject matter to just be matter of fact.
@pb.j.17535 ай бұрын
It has no parallels to society whatsoever?
@pb.j.17535 ай бұрын
So all its ideas come out of thin air?
@mattcollins35914 ай бұрын
Best movie I’ve seen all year so far, and my favorite from garland. I haven’t stopped thinking about it
@guest_informant5 ай бұрын
A real mess of a film. Watching from the UK I wondered how Americans would react to more or less realistic depictions of civil war on home soil. This did seem to be the point of the film. Mentor/mentee was awful. No realistic character progression on either side. The young girl ends up in a pit of executed civilians and reacts with all the trauma of getting dogs**t on her trainers. Kirsten Dunst suddenly questions her life choices after 30 or 40 years or so. Really? Most of what the film seemed to be aiming at had, been done so much more viscerally and powerfully before; a couple of obvious comparisons might be Apocalypse Now, wandering around a war torn country (compare the puppy on the boat scene, with what we get here), and for civilians in amongst the brutality of war, it's hard to get past Oliver Stone's Salvador. That said, there was a lot of tension, you never knew what was around the next corner. A massive wasted opportunity to say something important and impactful. If America does end up in an actual civil war in the next 5 or 10 years so I'll blame Alex Garland.
@pb.j.17535 ай бұрын
💯
@OliverTheRicketts5 ай бұрын
Wow first! Loved this movie, despite not being a huge fan of Alex Garland
@ryangoodrich41485 ай бұрын
I love how this movie is so divisive.
@TylerPKegger5 ай бұрын
Awwwww where’s brother bro??? He’s the hottest ever!
@mbithiz5 ай бұрын
This film is about war journalism. Period. That ending took me back to dozens of photographs that exist of the death of dictators. And the film made me wonder about all the people who took those pictures, those who took pictures of death and violence in Vietnam -- like Eddie Adam's Vietnam War photo of the solider shooting the civilian in the head. It haunts me to this day! It's specific to their perspective. It's not a global story, to me.
@pb.j.17535 ай бұрын
Yes it is and that makes it meh. A film like A Private War with Rosamund Pike is way more compelling on that theme.
@RB-.-4 ай бұрын
I agree with basically all of your points. Was surprised how much of the film was just a procedural. Which I guess is fine but I really wanted the juicy stuff and this subject had so much potential conflict to grapple with but the characters for the most part are just kind of…there
@saraamw5 ай бұрын
Its about photojournalism and war journalist thats all. I liked it a lot. And how we become desanitize about war.
@WizKlafka5 ай бұрын
Just got home from the film and I agree with everything you said here. I also am surprised that the film is all about war journalism, but not once are we told how the war coverage is being perceived by the public. I feel like that is such a big thing with any modern journalism.
@elijah02085 ай бұрын
They're back! At last! Edit: oh its just cole, its fine its ok. Justin's picking up his costume, obviously, couldn't make it yo the vid cuz he's Busy!!!! No hurry, i totally get it, take ur time J. (to deliver later on!)
@paulofuokwu31375 ай бұрын
What are the Oscar chances for this film
@thetraveldrunk5 ай бұрын
Below zero.
@quintonposs32865 ай бұрын
Near zero.
@MichaelBriggs35 ай бұрын
Absolutely none.
@joelanthonylim67925 ай бұрын
Best Sound at least I think, no chances for ATL
@jupap245 ай бұрын
Nothing but sound but we already know Dune 2 won
@tonycourant97715 ай бұрын
I loved this movie
@thefinaltake39025 ай бұрын
Can't wait to see it ASAP. I hated 'Men' but I'm a huge fan of Garland's work.
@marcelkuhn53105 ай бұрын
Same. Like everything you Just Said.
@rogeriopenna90145 ай бұрын
whats the name of the actor with the red glasses? I thought at first (in the trailer) that it was Matt Daemon lol
@dogtrainer46455 ай бұрын
Jesse Plemons
@duhlorean59915 ай бұрын
Meth Damon
@Dandyd475 ай бұрын
Jesse is Kirsten's husband. She asked him to take the role.
@rogeriopenna90145 ай бұрын
@@dogtrainer4645 he doesn't look at all like Matt Damon. I have no fucking clue why I thought it was him
@rafaelcruz99734 ай бұрын
If you don't know Jesse Plemons, then there's a lot of good stuff that you're missing
@bendanzi83385 ай бұрын
You touched on most of what I felt. I think for me it almost focused so much on the psyche of being a war time journalist that it could've just been that and taken place in a real war going on presently. When I see a title like Civil War I expect a movie focused on the intrigue of that. It had flashes of it at times but really didn't seem too concerned with uncovering anything new about our country having another civil war
@tonyg765 ай бұрын
Wished this movie explained how the war began. It may have helped me see meaning in the violence and spoiler: needless character deaths.
@bugsyn5 ай бұрын
It just felt pretty underwhelming and shallow, not a bad movie but if you’re gonna make a movie with this concept you gotta embrace it not at such a surface level
@zacgale42315 ай бұрын
Disagree
@rah_rah_radio5 ай бұрын
Yep
@Nerdzombiedisco5 ай бұрын
I enjoyed his other films. This one is hot garbage.
@auntvesuvi38725 ай бұрын
Thanks, OE! 🆚 Since you asked, I'd be on the anti-fascist side.
@muel36285 ай бұрын
wow so this low
@ryantrent21145 ай бұрын
Looks powerhouse
@rah_rah_radio5 ай бұрын
Just saw it. This is the most I’ve ever scoffed and rolled my eyes in the cinema. Such horrible writing but well directed. Garland should stick to scifi.
@Swiftrabbit875 ай бұрын
I thought the movie suck hard-core. I want my money back.
@terrancemoore4965 ай бұрын
Nah, it's not the movie. You just don't like the movie's subject. Something that is gritty, and something REAL with substance. You just don't get.
@MichaelBriggs35 ай бұрын
So disappointed in this movie.
@frasercard77145 ай бұрын
sorry folks..... just a noisy movie. Nothing to see here K ?
@beck42185 ай бұрын
All hail Gavin Newsom's Western Forces!
@nycartist34215 ай бұрын
"What side of the nondescript war would you be on?" Food for thought. I'd be on the "Pro Democratic, One Person One Vote, Affordable Universal Healthcare, Pro Equal Woman's & LGBTQ Rights" side. I’d be on the “Peaceful Transition of Power” side ….
@RB-.-5 ай бұрын
Not at all.
@TheImportantQuestion-cc4ow5 ай бұрын
“Wish fulfillment” of the right? Try wet dream of the left. It ends with “Trump” being executed by a black woman. Take off your blindfold and look at the screen next time.
@rodsterlingoftwilightzonefame5 ай бұрын
I'm team pineapple on pizza (or tolerance for such)
@joaoflintino5 ай бұрын
Virtue signal
@HeEde.5 ай бұрын
One Person One Votes is a Democracy, the United States is a republic
@drewmcgill52905 ай бұрын
The against you for giving this a 6 when it’s a 9 bub lol