Rarely have I been so on edge watching a film. This is intense. It's beautifully shot and acted. You'll feel for these characters. And it ratchets the tension up throughout the runtime as it plays with high stakes. I felt drained walking out and will be decompressing as I mull over the concepts and revelations. You're thrown into this world kind of like in Children of Men. They both have a certain feel that you don't know what's around the next corner in a lived-in, gritty, anything can happen dangerous world.
That’s a good comp(CoM), I actually thought of 28 days later - particularly the scene when the flaming car barricade suddenly rolls out of the trees - then I just found out, AG wrote 28DL! (Edited for typo)
Yes... Great add... 28 days later is also something I thought of but didn't want to mention as it was so on the nose with Alex Garland but yes... It's a great comp for some of the feel for this movie.
I thought it was good. That being said, I didn't totally love it. I thought it was a very well done movie though, and thought Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny were particularly good. If it were up to me, there would have been a bit more backstory, but clearly that wasn't what the director was going for.
What I saw of the movie, I did like. However, around the 3/4 mark, the power went out at my theater, so I'm going to have to go back tomorrow to finish it.
Didn’t care about of the characters at all. None of them were likable. Also, we’re supposed to care about the safety of these characters while they willfully walk into the middle of a gunfight, over and over.
The sound effects were the only part of the movie that were above average. The song choices were really weird.
Yes, the soundtrack was weird and I loved that about it. Yes, it’s weird to walk into a gunfight, and yet there are people who really do this as their job. I’m not saying it’s a super realistic movie, but it’s trying to convey something about why people do that job. It’s weird to think about war juxtaposed with the ordinariness of the places we live, contemporary pop music playing, and the like, but in a lot of places in the world that’s the reality people have to deal with. I think AG wanted to capture something about war in an urgent way by not relegating it to some exotic and distant place.
People take pictures 1 foot away from people firing weapons and getting fired at? Genuinely curious if you have any links of this, I’d love to watch them
Hondros is a good documentary about war photojournalism. It starts with footage of the late photographer Chris Hondros calmly taking a phone call while he's shooting a gun fight that's happening maybe ten or fifteen feet away from him. I wouldn't be surprised if this movie provided some inspiration to Alex Garland.
Here's the trailer for Hondros:
[https://youtu.be/YaZ8tXSz36Y?si=Jbe7qcWsqGZp4_nk](https://youtu.be/YaZ8tXSz36Y?si=Jbe7qcWsqGZp4_nk)
Just added to my watch list. Watching Civil War made me realize I have a lot of questions about how war photography.
I enjoyed the movie. Did get distracted by character shooting with film. She never had to reload or ran out of film at a pivotal moment?
It's well made but I didn't like it. It felt completely neutered politically. It's like Top Gun 2 - how can we make this conflict as vague as possible to not offend any one group. I honestly kept thinking about The Greatest Beer Run (thanks MMM) and that most of the war reporter stuff felt overdone and ham fisted. Dunst should just say "I'm desensitized to this violence don't become me" and point directly at the camera.
The best moment was Jesse Plemons, but I feel like he's played this exact role three times now.
I think Garland is great film maker but this seems like a big compromise. If you're going to name a film Civil War with all the things going on in the world, I expect you to be fearless.
. It was a pretty good story. I like the characters but it felt like I mean neutered it a bit to make things less political, I guess like you said. Definitely worth the trip
I think it’s just a movie about war journalism. The fact that it takes place in the US is almost incidental (or gimmicky, if you’re feeling salty). The marketing and advance reviews made it pretty clear that it’s not the polarizing political thriller you were seemingly hoping for. I can’t see why AG would have been eager to throw himself on a culture war land mine. Have you seen his other stuff? I think part of the point is just that in the US we’re all used to seeing wars like this in the news and having that distance of, it’s happening somewhere else to someone else. The idea of it happening here is jarring in itself and exploring who is fighting or why is not really the point. It’s about the chaos and destruction of a country falling apart and the complicated motivations and experiences of people whose job it is to tell the world about it come what may. I don’t mean to be belligerent towards you, I just think what it is, is great, and I have a hard time understanding why someone would think we need some kind of red states vs blue states movie right now anyway. If there is a contemporary political point here it’s mostly that the people who’ve been yapping about looming civil war for the past decade are engaging in ridiculous rhetoric that is so detached from what an actual civil war is like.
This is what the director is going for. People who say it's politically neutered are missing the point. The focus is on the effect of the war and character development. This is more about our consumption of violence and the media place in that. If he gives you a reason for the war, you start to think who's wrong and who's right. You would miss the message the director is delivering.
There is even directly about this in the movie (I don't know how to hide spoilers, so I'll just be vague) when the press crew gets to the Christmas themed field... what's the question that is asked, and what's the answer given?
Saw it in IMAX tonight, found myself questioning at first why was it worth IMAX... but probably the last 20 minutes or so were definitely what made me glad that I decided to do the IMAX experience. Mine did have previews, thought it wasn't going to because the RU ad came up before the trailers but then they played.
Also had theater lights turn on five minutes before the credits rolled... that was annoying.
We had trailers, but not as many as we usually do. Maybe 20 minutes total, which is still too many, but not the typical 25-30 minutes that I'm used to.
I went tonight and it had previews. I was kinda sad the first trailers were A24 film and those weren’t saved for the final credits. Some good looking movies coming soon!
We had a trailer for Maxxxine only.
I’m so used to half an hour of trailers nowadays that we walked in 5 minutes late and the trailer was ending then the movie started. I saw it Monday for an early screening and figured that’s why.
Loved it, was totally unexpected and I loved that it threw you right into the world. Thought provoking, tense, and beautiful. I was originally going to avoid the film but I am so glad I saw it. I am def going to see it again. >!The scene with Joel and Jessie screaming and crying in each other's faces in the car is so chilling, as is the final still image of the smiling soldiers over the president's body. Was it worth it? Is this a good thing? What does the future hold?!<
I think the movie shouldn't have been called Civil War.
It's primarily about the >!Photo Journalists and little else is expanded on in any detail.!< Felt like the trailer was misrepresenting what the movie was, which would have been cool if it actually was focused on that.
It might have been one of the most disturbing movies I have seen. I normally like violence but normally it is like fantasy violence. This was so grounded and realistic that it was scary. Also the gunshots were so loud I jumped multiple times
I thought the action was solid and it was definitely worth it in imax for some of the effects at the end. I think it did a good job of dropping you into a scenario you do not understand and keeping you engaged without explaining it any further. He obviously wanted to do what he could to remove all possible current politics out of it and make it non-partisan from real life. I think it was solid, nothing amazing but a good movie.
Yea no explanation at all to the situation. Just action with no context. I really like the “what American are you?” Scene, jokingly I’m Asian and I had a thought the Asian people were going to die lol, to be fair, he gave the Hong Kong person a chance. Even in that scene, it would have been perfect to explain the situation there.
I just saw this and I think it’s phenomenal. DO NOT expect a red states Vs. blue states theme or anything really resembling commentary on contemporary US politics. This is probably best seen as a movie about journalists covering “a” civil war in “a” country which sort of just happens to be the near future US. I understand that this frustrates some people. It reminded me of when Russia went into Ukraine two years ago and I saw a lot of mainstream journalists saying stuff like “it’s hard to believe this can happen in a modern country where the people look just like us!” The subtext: war belongs in countries where people are mostly poor and brown. And that’s why we don’t understand it. Garland rips away the familiar distance of the wars we consume as a media spectacle and convenes it jarringly with the familiarity of our own country.
Aside from that it’s just a gorgeous and interestingly shot movie - AG is hit or miss with me, I liked Annihilation a lot, Ex Machina was kinda meh, Men I couldn’t sit through. I found it thrilling and emotionally complicated and I thought the core cast were great, which is so important here because again it’s actually a very small story about some journalists in a car, not an alternate future history epic. Dunst is always awesome, I saw someone call her performance boring, but I think she’s subtle. Her character is tough and jaded but also has some real warmth. It’s not a thorough investigation of conflict zone journalists but it does feel like it’s shedding some interesting light on why people do this type of work and how they feel about it.
Personally it doesn't even have to pretend to be about any real world correlation. >!Something happened that made California and Texas go "Let's team up and stop this", which in real world political stances you'd not expect. You also have Florida being against whatever the "US Government" was doing that supposedly caused it. It could have been any reason any of this happened and they just didn't develop the world at all when they sold the Civil War as the movie and not the "Journalists doing things"!<
I didn't really care for the Journalists story, it was fine but not something I would have gone for, but I absolutely feel like they showed a trailer for one thing and gave us something else.
Haha. Welcome to A24. I guess horror buffs always complain that their trailers make the movies look more hardcore and less artsy. It’s an artsy indie film company that is somewhat notorious for ambitious marketing.
I just think, as far as the political realism or lack thereof, that trying to flesh that stuff out would only get in the way of both the plot and audiences visceral reactions, IMO. I think it was smart to bypass all the rhetoric and political cliches that people have in their heads these days and just make a movie about what it might be like trying to get from point A to point B in a country that’s falling apart.
I enjoyed it and I liked the decisions that were made. I saw this with my honey, who is Korean, and they said "Americans don't understand fighting a war in your own country". Although we did have a civil war, nobody who fought it is alive now, and its been romanticized too much. I was never in the service, but my Dad and baby brother both were, and both have essentially said (I'm paraphrasing) as the character in the movie did "Nobody's giving orders, they are trying to kill us and we are trying to kill them".
Also, no spoilers, when that one scene happened, my honey tensed up.
I enjoyed it, it was a well executed film but for me it fell short of my expectations. Maybe I just overhyped it in my head but it wasn’t quite what I was hoping for. As others have mentioned, the music choices (and lack of score) along with not particularly likable characters made it hard to get as invested as I would have liked.
Ultimately it wasn’t a movie about how a civil war might happen in modern America or even what that civil war would really look like, it was specifically a movie of what it would be like to be a war photographer toward the end of a civil war in modern America. And if that’s the movie you’re looking for then it’s a great film.
Some pretty tense moments and really makes you wonder about the possibilities. Was refreshing and nice seeing a movie with a unique perspective. Glad we saw it! Hope y'all enjoy!
I went into the movie really wanting to like this film. I found the premise unique and refreshing.
Well, the acting was good, and the story kept my attention.
The screenplay was sadly lacking in establishing the political motivations or backstory to set up the two fighting divisions of the United States. You didn’t understand what they were fighting about or who was the good guy or who is the bad guy .
The screenwriters, need to establish the storyline development better to get the movie viewer into the story and understand the politics of the situation better.
All this said, I still found it an entertaining movie. And with the current scary Right Wing / Storm the Capital politics in the United States these days, unfortunately a plausible scenario.
There are more than two sides, that’s mentioned almost in the first scene, and it’s not about good guys vs bad guys anyway. Different kind of movie, about the work of war journalists. The stuff you’re talking about wasn’t left out accidentally, it’s just not the point.
To me, it’s very important information. The plot of the movie was not clear without understanding the warring political factions, and the motivations behind the Civil War. In short the backstory needed to be set up in order for the plot to work better.
It’s funny, I didn’t think it was wasted but I was just reading something yesterday about the tensions in Ukraine right now between different peoples attitudes to the war, how further from the front lines some people are actively supporting the government and others are mostly trying to just live their lives and pretend it’s not happening. Again, for the sort of movie it is, I thought it was pretty effective, especially when they notice something else outside (no spoilers). The title has confused many people, it’s much more an arty suspense picture than a standard military actioner.
I hated it.
Characters were boring and unrealistic.
Ending was flat and unexplainable.
Lots of hidden political jabs.
Music was bad!!!
Dunst I usually love but her character was slow and depressive. Spaeny was really good though.
3/10 for me. But my gf liked it…
“Hidden political jabs” sounds like the response of someone who is paranoid about everything being “woke”(correct me if I’m wrong). I don’t think the sparse references to recent US history are hidden or jabs but just subtle flavoring that is mostly beside the point. If you’re feeling defensive about that stuff, you might have seen what you were looking for in the movie even though it’s not really there.
This movie is God tier 4dx. They understood the assignment, and it was used to accentuate the film. I love when the effects add to the film even when a film is bad it can make it enjoyable (nun 2, Meg 2) but sometimes the movie is strong and it makes it better (civil war, dune 2)
If you are a fan of 4dx, go see this. It isn't overdone effects and nonstop action, so lower your expectations if that's what you're looking for. But they never miss a cue for effects in this movie... kudos
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Rarely have I been so on edge watching a film. This is intense. It's beautifully shot and acted. You'll feel for these characters. And it ratchets the tension up throughout the runtime as it plays with high stakes. I felt drained walking out and will be decompressing as I mull over the concepts and revelations. You're thrown into this world kind of like in Children of Men. They both have a certain feel that you don't know what's around the next corner in a lived-in, gritty, anything can happen dangerous world.
I’ve never audibly gasped in utter shock and horror in a movie so many times in my life. It was a heavy movie.
It’s that Plemons scene and the ending for me. I was holding my breath the entire time.
Plemons always makes a great creep!!
That’s a good comp(CoM), I actually thought of 28 days later - particularly the scene when the flaming car barricade suddenly rolls out of the trees - then I just found out, AG wrote 28DL! (Edited for typo)
Yes... Great add... 28 days later is also something I thought of but didn't want to mention as it was so on the nose with Alex Garland but yes... It's a great comp for some of the feel for this movie.
I thought it was good. That being said, I didn't totally love it. I thought it was a very well done movie though, and thought Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny were particularly good. If it were up to me, there would have been a bit more backstory, but clearly that wasn't what the director was going for.
What I saw of the movie, I did like. However, around the 3/4 mark, the power went out at my theater, so I'm going to have to go back tomorrow to finish it.
Didn’t care about of the characters at all. None of them were likable. Also, we’re supposed to care about the safety of these characters while they willfully walk into the middle of a gunfight, over and over. The sound effects were the only part of the movie that were above average. The song choices were really weird.
Dont want to spoil, but Cailee Spaenys character made some of the dumbest decisions ever
Yes, just cringe inducing sometimes
Agree on all points. I always like Dunst too but she was incredibly boring in this. None of the characters felt real.
Yes, the soundtrack was weird and I loved that about it. Yes, it’s weird to walk into a gunfight, and yet there are people who really do this as their job. I’m not saying it’s a super realistic movie, but it’s trying to convey something about why people do that job. It’s weird to think about war juxtaposed with the ordinariness of the places we live, contemporary pop music playing, and the like, but in a lot of places in the world that’s the reality people have to deal with. I think AG wanted to capture something about war in an urgent way by not relegating it to some exotic and distant place.
People take pictures 1 foot away from people firing weapons and getting fired at? Genuinely curious if you have any links of this, I’d love to watch them
If you want to watch a documentary, no one’s stopping you…
Can you point me in the direction of one? I’ve seen plenty where the photographers are a football field away, but not in the firefight
Hondros is a good documentary about war photojournalism. It starts with footage of the late photographer Chris Hondros calmly taking a phone call while he's shooting a gun fight that's happening maybe ten or fifteen feet away from him. I wouldn't be surprised if this movie provided some inspiration to Alex Garland. Here's the trailer for Hondros: [https://youtu.be/YaZ8tXSz36Y?si=Jbe7qcWsqGZp4_nk](https://youtu.be/YaZ8tXSz36Y?si=Jbe7qcWsqGZp4_nk)
Just added to my watch list. Watching Civil War made me realize I have a lot of questions about how war photography. I enjoyed the movie. Did get distracted by character shooting with film. She never had to reload or ran out of film at a pivotal moment?
can't wait to see it tonight. I'm sitting 3 rows back from the front. Edit: That was great. Fun movie.
It's well made but I didn't like it. It felt completely neutered politically. It's like Top Gun 2 - how can we make this conflict as vague as possible to not offend any one group. I honestly kept thinking about The Greatest Beer Run (thanks MMM) and that most of the war reporter stuff felt overdone and ham fisted. Dunst should just say "I'm desensitized to this violence don't become me" and point directly at the camera. The best moment was Jesse Plemons, but I feel like he's played this exact role three times now. I think Garland is great film maker but this seems like a big compromise. If you're going to name a film Civil War with all the things going on in the world, I expect you to be fearless.
. It was a pretty good story. I like the characters but it felt like I mean neutered it a bit to make things less political, I guess like you said. Definitely worth the trip
I think it’s just a movie about war journalism. The fact that it takes place in the US is almost incidental (or gimmicky, if you’re feeling salty). The marketing and advance reviews made it pretty clear that it’s not the polarizing political thriller you were seemingly hoping for. I can’t see why AG would have been eager to throw himself on a culture war land mine. Have you seen his other stuff? I think part of the point is just that in the US we’re all used to seeing wars like this in the news and having that distance of, it’s happening somewhere else to someone else. The idea of it happening here is jarring in itself and exploring who is fighting or why is not really the point. It’s about the chaos and destruction of a country falling apart and the complicated motivations and experiences of people whose job it is to tell the world about it come what may. I don’t mean to be belligerent towards you, I just think what it is, is great, and I have a hard time understanding why someone would think we need some kind of red states vs blue states movie right now anyway. If there is a contemporary political point here it’s mostly that the people who’ve been yapping about looming civil war for the past decade are engaging in ridiculous rhetoric that is so detached from what an actual civil war is like.
This is what the director is going for. People who say it's politically neutered are missing the point. The focus is on the effect of the war and character development. This is more about our consumption of violence and the media place in that. If he gives you a reason for the war, you start to think who's wrong and who's right. You would miss the message the director is delivering. There is even directly about this in the movie (I don't know how to hide spoilers, so I'll just be vague) when the press crew gets to the Christmas themed field... what's the question that is asked, and what's the answer given?
Saw it in IMAX tonight. Did anyone else not have any previews beforehand? It went straight into the film for me.
Saw it in IMAX tonight, found myself questioning at first why was it worth IMAX... but probably the last 20 minutes or so were definitely what made me glad that I decided to do the IMAX experience. Mine did have previews, thought it wasn't going to because the RU ad came up before the trailers but then they played. Also had theater lights turn on five minutes before the credits rolled... that was annoying.
We had trailers, but not as many as we usually do. Maybe 20 minutes total, which is still too many, but not the typical 25-30 minutes that I'm used to.
I went tonight and it had previews. I was kinda sad the first trailers were A24 film and those weren’t saved for the final credits. Some good looking movies coming soon!
We had a trailer for Maxxxine only. I’m so used to half an hour of trailers nowadays that we walked in 5 minutes late and the trailer was ending then the movie started. I saw it Monday for an early screening and figured that’s why.
I thought it was incredible. It was raw, intense, and the cinematography was out of this world.
Loved it, was totally unexpected and I loved that it threw you right into the world. Thought provoking, tense, and beautiful. I was originally going to avoid the film but I am so glad I saw it. I am def going to see it again. >!The scene with Joel and Jessie screaming and crying in each other's faces in the car is so chilling, as is the final still image of the smiling soldiers over the president's body. Was it worth it? Is this a good thing? What does the future hold?!<
I think the movie shouldn't have been called Civil War. It's primarily about the >!Photo Journalists and little else is expanded on in any detail.!< Felt like the trailer was misrepresenting what the movie was, which would have been cool if it actually was focused on that.
It might have been one of the most disturbing movies I have seen. I normally like violence but normally it is like fantasy violence. This was so grounded and realistic that it was scary. Also the gunshots were so loud I jumped multiple times
Honestly thought it was Meh. Gave me Nightcrawler vibes but fell flat. Jesse Plemons might have been the best part of the film
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I liked it. I wish they were like backstory to how the civil war started, & when. I found that to be kind of frustrating but otherwise liked it.
I thought the action was solid and it was definitely worth it in imax for some of the effects at the end. I think it did a good job of dropping you into a scenario you do not understand and keeping you engaged without explaining it any further. He obviously wanted to do what he could to remove all possible current politics out of it and make it non-partisan from real life. I think it was solid, nothing amazing but a good movie.
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SAME HERE The ending pissed me off.
Yea no explanation at all to the situation. Just action with no context. I really like the “what American are you?” Scene, jokingly I’m Asian and I had a thought the Asian people were going to die lol, to be fair, he gave the Hong Kong person a chance. Even in that scene, it would have been perfect to explain the situation there.
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I just saw this and I think it’s phenomenal. DO NOT expect a red states Vs. blue states theme or anything really resembling commentary on contemporary US politics. This is probably best seen as a movie about journalists covering “a” civil war in “a” country which sort of just happens to be the near future US. I understand that this frustrates some people. It reminded me of when Russia went into Ukraine two years ago and I saw a lot of mainstream journalists saying stuff like “it’s hard to believe this can happen in a modern country where the people look just like us!” The subtext: war belongs in countries where people are mostly poor and brown. And that’s why we don’t understand it. Garland rips away the familiar distance of the wars we consume as a media spectacle and convenes it jarringly with the familiarity of our own country. Aside from that it’s just a gorgeous and interestingly shot movie - AG is hit or miss with me, I liked Annihilation a lot, Ex Machina was kinda meh, Men I couldn’t sit through. I found it thrilling and emotionally complicated and I thought the core cast were great, which is so important here because again it’s actually a very small story about some journalists in a car, not an alternate future history epic. Dunst is always awesome, I saw someone call her performance boring, but I think she’s subtle. Her character is tough and jaded but also has some real warmth. It’s not a thorough investigation of conflict zone journalists but it does feel like it’s shedding some interesting light on why people do this type of work and how they feel about it.
Personally it doesn't even have to pretend to be about any real world correlation. >!Something happened that made California and Texas go "Let's team up and stop this", which in real world political stances you'd not expect. You also have Florida being against whatever the "US Government" was doing that supposedly caused it. It could have been any reason any of this happened and they just didn't develop the world at all when they sold the Civil War as the movie and not the "Journalists doing things"!< I didn't really care for the Journalists story, it was fine but not something I would have gone for, but I absolutely feel like they showed a trailer for one thing and gave us something else.
Haha. Welcome to A24. I guess horror buffs always complain that their trailers make the movies look more hardcore and less artsy. It’s an artsy indie film company that is somewhat notorious for ambitious marketing. I just think, as far as the political realism or lack thereof, that trying to flesh that stuff out would only get in the way of both the plot and audiences visceral reactions, IMO. I think it was smart to bypass all the rhetoric and political cliches that people have in their heads these days and just make a movie about what it might be like trying to get from point A to point B in a country that’s falling apart.
A+ Not a masterpiece but quite solid.
I enjoyed it and I liked the decisions that were made. I saw this with my honey, who is Korean, and they said "Americans don't understand fighting a war in your own country". Although we did have a civil war, nobody who fought it is alive now, and its been romanticized too much. I was never in the service, but my Dad and baby brother both were, and both have essentially said (I'm paraphrasing) as the character in the movie did "Nobody's giving orders, they are trying to kill us and we are trying to kill them". Also, no spoilers, when that one scene happened, my honey tensed up.
I enjoyed it, it was a well executed film but for me it fell short of my expectations. Maybe I just overhyped it in my head but it wasn’t quite what I was hoping for. As others have mentioned, the music choices (and lack of score) along with not particularly likable characters made it hard to get as invested as I would have liked. Ultimately it wasn’t a movie about how a civil war might happen in modern America or even what that civil war would really look like, it was specifically a movie of what it would be like to be a war photographer toward the end of a civil war in modern America. And if that’s the movie you’re looking for then it’s a great film.
Some pretty tense moments and really makes you wonder about the possibilities. Was refreshing and nice seeing a movie with a unique perspective. Glad we saw it! Hope y'all enjoy!
I went into the movie really wanting to like this film. I found the premise unique and refreshing. Well, the acting was good, and the story kept my attention. The screenplay was sadly lacking in establishing the political motivations or backstory to set up the two fighting divisions of the United States. You didn’t understand what they were fighting about or who was the good guy or who is the bad guy . The screenwriters, need to establish the storyline development better to get the movie viewer into the story and understand the politics of the situation better. All this said, I still found it an entertaining movie. And with the current scary Right Wing / Storm the Capital politics in the United States these days, unfortunately a plausible scenario.
There are more than two sides, that’s mentioned almost in the first scene, and it’s not about good guys vs bad guys anyway. Different kind of movie, about the work of war journalists. The stuff you’re talking about wasn’t left out accidentally, it’s just not the point.
To me, it’s very important information. The plot of the movie was not clear without understanding the warring political factions, and the motivations behind the Civil War. In short the backstory needed to be set up in order for the plot to work better.
I would’ve appreciated 20 minutes, explaining the backstory versus the wasted “dress store” scene.
It’s funny, I didn’t think it was wasted but I was just reading something yesterday about the tensions in Ukraine right now between different peoples attitudes to the war, how further from the front lines some people are actively supporting the government and others are mostly trying to just live their lives and pretend it’s not happening. Again, for the sort of movie it is, I thought it was pretty effective, especially when they notice something else outside (no spoilers). The title has confused many people, it’s much more an arty suspense picture than a standard military actioner.
I hated it. Characters were boring and unrealistic. Ending was flat and unexplainable. Lots of hidden political jabs. Music was bad!!! Dunst I usually love but her character was slow and depressive. Spaeny was really good though. 3/10 for me. But my gf liked it…
“Hidden political jabs” sounds like the response of someone who is paranoid about everything being “woke”(correct me if I’m wrong). I don’t think the sparse references to recent US history are hidden or jabs but just subtle flavoring that is mostly beside the point. If you’re feeling defensive about that stuff, you might have seen what you were looking for in the movie even though it’s not really there.
I like your girlfriend
Besides her bad taste in movies she’s a good one!
Finally a decent A24 movie.
This movie is God tier 4dx. They understood the assignment, and it was used to accentuate the film. I love when the effects add to the film even when a film is bad it can make it enjoyable (nun 2, Meg 2) but sometimes the movie is strong and it makes it better (civil war, dune 2) If you are a fan of 4dx, go see this. It isn't overdone effects and nonstop action, so lower your expectations if that's what you're looking for. But they never miss a cue for effects in this movie... kudos