Posted on 04/12/2024 8:09:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A hundred minutes into writer, director Alex Garland’s Civil War, I was hit with a wild case of déjà vu. Since the movie wasn’t engaging, I had plenty of head space to explore this feeling. What is this? Where is this déjà vu coming from? Maybe it has nothing to do with the movie. Maybe this is how everyone feels after eating a bag of licorice purchased at Big Lots?
Then it hit me.
This is the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen.
I mean, Civil War is dumb—as in first-draft dumb. Garland directed exactly one good movie — Ex Machina — followed by two flops. So, it’s beyond me that no one told him how much work his script still needed.
Anyway, so I’m sitting there wondering why Civil War felt so familiar, and then it hit me—Elysium! The dumb in Elysium (2013). Remember how all that dumb rained down like hailstones the size of car batteries? Oh, yes, I’d been here before—a sweaty, desperate, left-wing wankathon undermined by smug plot holes that scream: This will hit so many left-wing sweet spots, there’s no reason to bother with logic or reality.
First things first…
The entertainment media, filmmakers, and stars are all lying to you (big surprise). The idea Civil War is not partisan is nothing less than a cinematic-roofie slipped into a publicity campaign so the Beautiful People can sit back and laugh, knowing the opening minutes bend us Trumptards right over the seats. Civil War opens with the Evil White President with the Great Hair and Red Tie using this cadence to spread a lie: “Some are already calling it the greatest victory in the history of military campaigns.”
To expose how dumb this movie is, I have to spoil the whole plot. You’ve been warned…
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Just another movie I won’t be wasting my time with.
I was actually looking forward to seeing it. Now I won’t bother..................
I knew when I saw Nick Offerman as president and in a red tie I knew he was going to be a Trump-like figure, in the twisted minds of Hollyweird and it was going to be a hit piece on Trump supporters and used to bolster the idea that we are yet another “threat to democracy.”
These people are so boring.
I was actually looking forward to seeing it. Now I won’t bother..................
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Yes, someone posted an article on here recently that appeared to put it in a good light and it had me curious.
But then I saw a trailer for it and even the trailer looks bad. The whole flannel wearing, gun-waving, drooling, low-brow redneck trope that coastal idiots think are “MAGA voters”.
So if they aren’t even bothering to hide how it supports leftist propaganda tropes on their published trailers, then it’s obviously meant to be consumed by coastal morons, and it has me wondering why someone posted such a glowing article about it here. I’m going to go back and see if I can find it.
When a trailer starts out telling you it is THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME (according to “experts”) then one can assume it’s going to be tripe.
So, if I understand it correctly, the film is a fantasy, ultimately focused on finding a way to kill a Trump-like president who is every evil-bad thing the Left assumes Trump is.
Not only that, it portrays anyone who is a Conservative as dumber than dirt and worthy or nothing but being exterminated.
Have I got it right?
Well, that does describe me pretty much, but I do bang out some mean Bach and Rach on the piano et forte.
Wanted to take my Sugar-Woogums to movie this week and went through the list of movies and the area. The best was Lizard fights Monkey. Which was not bad for what it was but still.
Me too.
Or a movie adaptation of John Ross' 'Unintended Consequences'.
What is “Anifa Massacre”?................
Pretty much.....................
"The Beast" website, maybe?
I like Kirsten Dunst, but her role as a "politically neutral" war photographer is absurd.
Curiously, I just read an interview with Dunst.
She has two kids and a mother to support, and she said she would love to get back into franchise films like Spider Man because they pay so much more money than the films she is usually hired for.
I thought that was unusually sharp honesty from a professional actor.
She’s just stating the obvious. Franchise films that are successful can make your career and bank account blossom, or if they are a flop can make you a pariah in Hollywood...............
Made by a Brit who doesn’t understand US politics. You think if Texas secedes most of the Southern states wouldn’t join them?
Yeah I didn’t know he was a brit. That explains a lot...................
Ditto
More left wing trash. If you want to see a hokey right wing movie that is poorly acted try “Amerigeddon”, while bad, it does hit some of the so called right wing points.
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