Disregard my other thread about this movie
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Civil War
CrystalRaindrops — 1 year ago(April 22, 2024 09:21 PM)
The one called, "Civil War debuts at SXSW: "Best movie of the year," "masterpiece," phenomenal." Any of those reviewers who were giving their real opinions must be easily impressed.
This movie is not good. There's barely a plot or an explanation of what's going on. The movie just starts in the middle of the "war," which seems like lazy storytelling. There isn't much about the actual war either. Are there supposed to be "good guys" and "bad guys"? Is there anyone we're supposed to be rooting for? How much of the country is still "normal" or close to it? (Apparently it's mostly parents on farms?)
The "What kind of American are you" scene shown in the trailer has some suspense, but that's about all this movie has going for it. Also, why does the guy
immediately kill someone from China, yet he doesn't care that the character who says he's from Florida has an obvious accent? Did the "bad guy" not notice or was he going to kill him later
?
When Jessie asked Lee if she would (
major spoiler
)
take a picture of her dead body, it was obvious it would end up being the other way around
.
No way would the President of the United States
still be in the White House after all that time, with just a random employee negotiating his safe release
.
Who were the main characters even taking photos for, assuming they were planning on selling them/having them published? They can't even get a phone signal, but Getty Images (or some other company that buys photographers' photos) is still in business?
Or did the photographers not care about selling them, and the message to the audience is that some photographers risk their lives to take pictures because they're so passionate about photography and want to share reality with the world? Most people who watched the movie expected a depiction of a modern US Civil War; they weren't watching to find out how hard photographers work to get good photos. -
Phaenon — 1 year ago(April 22, 2024 10:14 PM)
It was marketed well enough - that's how I got to hear about it.
Perhaps it was all the Trump election stuff that got in the way but it deserved to do better and hopefully finds its feet either as a DVD/Blu-Ray classic or streaming thing.
Ding Dong
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