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Civil War (A24 - Alex Garland, Spring 2024) • Page 23

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by estebanwaseaten, Dec 7, 2023.

  1. Michael Belt

    metadata incarnate Supporter

    tbh, i don't think i've seen any new releases this year (that's about to change since i blindly picked up Dune: Part Two a couple days ago, having loved the first one but not getting around to the second one due to super busy schedules), but i'm desperately wanting to see I Saw the TV Glow. been avoiding spoilers like the plague. unfortunately the closest showing is two hours away from me, so i might have to wait for it to go to streaming to watch.
     
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  2. CarpetElf

    douglas Prestigious


    Wasn't that last year
     
  3. Morrissey

    Trusted

    I looked it up. Critics saw it in 2023 but it got an actual theater release this year.
     
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  4. CarpetElf

    douglas Prestigious

    I thought it got the release last year too, guess not. Excellent cause I was looking forward to it
     
  5. Long Century

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  6. Halitosis Jones

    Howdy y'all! Supporter

    Ghostbusters 2 honestly might be my favorite

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  7. wisdomfordebris

    Moderator Moderator

    I’ve never liked a Garland film so I don’t know why I’m even bothering with this, but so far it feels kind of smug? Idk. I guess it’s competently made but I’m not feeling the writing at all.


    “YOU KNOW THERE’S A CIVIL WAR GOING ON, RIGHT?!” Mark Wahlberg ass line

    (Dunst and Spaeny are good tho)
     
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  8. ItsAndrew

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  9. oakhurst

    Trusted Supporter

    Bought it on digital and it has no special features. Probably won’t release on the digital version until the blu ray releases.
     
  10. You didn't like Ex Machina or Annihilation?
     
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  11. Caught I Saw the TV Glow today and yeah it bumped this one down my list a slot lol
     
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  12. wisdomfordebris

    Moderator Moderator

    Annihilation was fine, but I strongly disliked Ex Machina. It’s been too long since I’ve seen it so I hardly even remember why, although I do recall thinking it was going to have something more interesting to say.

    I haven’t seen Men and probably won’t.
     
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  13. wisdomfordebris

    Moderator Moderator

    Ahhh I was waiting to hear your thoughts and here it was all along! I’m so glad you liked it.
     
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  14. Wild lol yeah, I wouldn't recommend Men to any non-Garland fans but I feel like those first two are relatively untouchable, Annihilation in particular. Oh well!

    Hah, I just saw it yesterday morning! Going to post more in the Last Move You Watched and a Review thread, as well as catch up on the movie's thread
     
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  15. JoshIsMediocre

    oklahoma's #1 dodge hornet guy Supporter

     
  16. Lmao
     
  17. Serenity Now

    deliver us from e-mail Supporter

    Just watched the Netfilix documentary on Dan Rather called Rather. It made me think about the main characters of this flick and buy in more to their ethos of being objective at all costs.
     
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  18. Doomsday

    flora & dany approve this post Prestigious

    This was pretty okay
     
  19. you vandal

    Regular

    Late to the party, but yah, the dialogue was overall pretty awful. And Wagner Moura was not doing it for me...at all.
     
  20. domotime2

    Great Googly Moogly Supporter

    Huh. So tbh this isn't really what I was expecting. On a superficial level, it was a road trip movie during a zombie apocalypse. As soon as the movie started my fear was, "this is just too giant of an idea, there's no way they're going to pull it off"

    And I was sorta right. The looked awesome. Loved the way it was shot and the way it looked. A ton of excellent scenes, good soundtrack, and the aura/atmosphere of the movie is excellent. Dunst is superb in this too.

    I guess overall the movie is making some point about journalism? There's a lotttttttt of "fill in the blanks with your own theories" going on in this movie. The movie isn't going to tell you shit about fuck what's going on...and okay... but I didn't understand why our journalist characters got the treatment they were getting? They are driving through a war zone and act surprised when someone with a dumpster of bodies threatens them (and I can't tell if they're surprised this kind of person exists or they're surprised they would attack someone with the word "press" written on their jacket). They didnt seem overly concerned about the guys with guns at the gas station, even though they have guys hanging in the car wash.

    Since the world building in the movie doesn't exist, i couldn't 100% get emotionally connected to our characters. They were all pretty cliche type characters too.

    I think 6-7/10 is pretty fair. I'll give credit for the original concept, the way it was shot, and I kindaaaa understand what they were going for, but in the end it was a little flat for such a big idea.
     
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  21. sawhney[rusted]2

    I'll write you into all of my songs Supporter

    I was in from the moment Lee turned away to shoot the aftermath while Jeesie was still reeling from it. That’s when I was like “oh it’s going to be that type of movie”
     
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  22. the rural juror

    carried in the arms of cheerleaders

    Finally watched this. The more I think about it the less I like it.
     
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  23. domotime2

    Great Googly Moogly Supporter

    ^ yeah I was thinking this the other day. Mostly a week or so later I'm thinking "for such a huge concept, this has left 0 impact in my head"

    Very forgettable.
     
  24. NJPunkMusic

    Die rad.

    still patiently waiting for this to hit HBO to finally see it
     
  25. Still top five of the year for me. But I also went in with very low expectations and felt some personal connection to the film's tabula rasa presentation of journalistic ethics and disaffection regarding politics.