CIVIL WAR (Spoiler Review) - Journalism Circle Jerk

[@Jbergrion]

I’m so glad I found this channel. Best reviews I’ve come across

[@hardcutreviews]

Appreciate it, dude!

[@OffTheCover]

Lol, mini boss Jesse Plemons 😂 Great review guys! Totally didn't notice the technical element with the filter.

[@hardcutreviews]

They should have given Plemons more screen time. He was great.

[@wowsew]

how the fuck am i finding this channel now, y'all rule.

[@hardcutreviews]

Welcome to the party, pal.

[@MerchantOfClicks]

I can't believe the girl in the film is supposed to be like 23. She looks 13, maybe 14, and she's only like 3-4 years younger than me (I'm 30). Am I just completely disconnected on what people look at that age? It's just surreal to see what looks to be a child being escorted around a gunfight, almost laughable.

[@hardcutreviews]

Same. After 30 you lose all orientation of how old kids look. That girl looked like a sophomore in high school at best.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Perhaps it was ‘Take your daughter to the battle’ day.

[@tdrewman]

In real life she's 25 years old, when she did film this movie about a couple years ago she was 23

[@MerchantOfClicks]

@@tdrewman yeah, I saw she was born in 97 or 98 and I was born in 94, ergo why I said she was 3-4 years younger than me, but fair enough. Still looks super young to me.

[@MerchantOfClicks]

@@hardcutreviews glad it’s not just me. Feeling out of touch with reality lmao. Great job on the review, guys!

[@BoomTribeEntertainment]

Wait isn’t Obama the one who is a 3rd term president

[@ravissary79]

Shhh. You're not supposed to notice.

[@tahnadana5435]

Jesse Plemons character is suppose to be one of the good guys, but since its war, theres war crime, that is why his wearing the gay sunglasses, i have a theory on this, this must've been suppose to be a dredd prequel script, that got evolve into this nothing burger, since the dredd movie from 2012, didnt do well, because there is a storyline in judge dredd comic where we get to see the time before the judges, and it reflect this movie a lot

[@TheChadTI]

Journalism hasn't been like that since...the early 70' maybe?

[@guygadbois3010]

"Heroic journalist" or even "ethical journalist" seems too much like an oxymoron or an anachronism for me to credibly endure it for an entire movie. If I want a TED Talk on "Journalists are Cool, Hmmkkay" then I'll go watch an actual TED Talk. And someone should take Dunst's cigars away while she still has some voice box left.

[@hardcutreviews]

Dunst looks like she’s 41 going on 61.

[@pukeachu]

Yeah... That's as absurd as J. Rogan's assertion that comics are truth tellers

[@whitworth5s248]

The original War of the Worlds novel also pushed the war itself to the background too, I think.

[@F5BOTD]

It was a 1st person experience of the day the aliens came to england

[@timstark3312]

Is it more like _Full Metal Jacket_ meets _The Year of Living Dangerously_ (a/o _Salvador_)? Both of those "journalist-centric" movies are heavy-lefty but lack the non-reflective, self-righteous pretentiousness of assumed/presumed heroic integrity of the journos described here (and glaringly overplayed in the trailers & clips). Maybe?

[@GoonerVen]

Good stuff as always guys. What happened with the Snyder live stream? Saw it in the queue but it fell through, obviously. Happening soon?

[@hardcutreviews]

Yeah we had an issue with our audio mixer and couldn’t get the guests audio to come through. Once we fix it we’ll reschedule.

[@matane2465]

The film maker played the Spider-man games and really liked the MJ missions so he made an MJ mission movie.

[@maskedman1980]

Great review. I’ve been torn about seeing this movie. As soon as I heard anything about it, I immediately thought it was as would just be more leftist propaganda. I might give it a watch just out of curiosity. I look forward to seeing more reviews from you gentlemen.

[@NeoDJDAN]

I love the term "leftoid." Like a reptoid and a leftist had a baby. haha

[@rachelhines7818]

Great review! I considered watching it because the trailer looked good but SO sick of Hollywood injecting their bull💩.

[@hardcutreviews]

It’s definitely a well made film and has some great moments in it, but you have to put aside your feelings about modern journalism and Hollywood to fully enjoy it. Proceed accordingly, haha.

[@rachelhines7818]

​@hardcutreviews I got around to watch it and this review is spot on! Wasn't total leftoid propaganda like I thought, I stand corrected. Pretty good movie, wish they explored the actual background war a little more but I liked it. 👍🏼

[@hardcutreviews]

@@rachelhines7818 Glad you liked it. The film dabbles in lefty propaganda but it’s not as bad as some might say.

[@Vineyardfrat]

Review boy kills world!! I bet you two would really enjoy that film no bs just balls to the wall action

[@Lestat21500]

Leftoid. LOOOL! About as funny as soy based entity. Another fantastic episode folks.

[@hardcutreviews]

Appreciate it!

[@haitch2676]

War, huh? What is it good for?

[@johnaslover]

LOL, I never would’ve made the connection to Almost Famous, but that’s pretty spot on. I was pretty middle-of-the-road on this. I’m an Alex Garland fan (especially his early Danny Boyle collabs like The Beach and Sunshine), and I might be Kirsten Dunst’s biggest fan, so I was very excited about this. I went to an early IMAX screening, and I left just totally underwhelmed. I thought the whole ending seemed so far fetched- like, all these people are just waltzing into the White House and the President is just in there alone? Idk, I had a real hard time buying that. It was too easy for them to get to him. Regardless, it was still an impressive set piece. I do set design and I was in awe of the siege on the White House in that regard. A little more lore and scope overall would’ve been nice, but I do respect the attempt to remain neutral. Also Karl Glusman was woefully underutilized.

[@sunshinestate28]

plemons is probably the only great thing about this movie.

[@Stress-Free-K]

I think the main media journalist or news presenters we see on tv do have boy scouts attitude about their job. But they have producers. For instance, I could not watch Don Lemon on CNN but now on his podcast he's seems legitimately sincere. And his interview style allows for engaging viewing. But good war movies always have a why. Because wars are all about the why. Vietnam, WWII, the real US Civil War, the US Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crusades. The why is what matters most in history. Otherwise, that's why we never learn from them. Because we forget how it started in the first place.

[@donaldzehms1821]

This movie was so boring. The last 20 minutes were entertaining. The rest is pure travel footage. Boring drive so they can get 1 line from the president. even the gun fights were boring.

[@MrDman21]

Only civil war I liked was the Marvel one. Make that movie again.😄

[@hardcutreviews]

Sign us up. Marvel’s best.

[@arminb101]

I took the setting as the hook. It's not really about the war, but the setting really only gives them a chance to put these characters into situations to reveal things about themselves. So who and why is really not the point.

[@randomrey002]

Nice

[@AeonPhoenix]

Why do you guys have such an issue with journalism? Who else could play the main characters then?

[@hardcutreviews]

We don't have an issue with journalism. Our point is that the film portrays all of these journalists as completely impartial and "heroic" in their impartialness. In reality, journalism is replete with partisan hacks masquerading as impartial. Being a war correspondent is no small job and it takes a certain person with steel in their guts, but to act like they are morally superior to all of those around them and they live in this inpenetrable bubble of impartialness is just not the state of journalism today.

[@posmoo9790]

I hate offerman how much does he talk

[@hardcutreviews]

He has about 40 seconds of screen time.

[@ravissary79]

He's pretty good in DEVS imho.

[@hardcutreviews]

@@ravissary79 True.

[@leonwoodley99]

Really enjoyed this movie.