Planning on going to see it with a friend, probably Saturday.
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Planning on going to see it with a friend, probably Saturday.
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Saw it yesterday with my son. Not what we expected. Not really political but also not a typical war movie. Texas and California team up, but it’s never explained why.
Not the race war the left makes it out to be but also not The Purge.
All in all we thought it was pretty good. Kirsten Dunst did really well in it.
My wife wanted to go see it so I caught it last night. Very interesting little war movie. The director clearly scrubbed it pretty hard to let people know that this isn’t really a message film about anything other than the insanity of war and a sub message about how pointless this “us vs. them” is and how it can be manipulated by unscrupulous leaders. The director is on record saying this movie isn’t even necessarily about America, but that America is where/what people look to so it made the most sense to set it here.
It is clearly a love letter to war reporters but it even has a little criticism for them.
There is zero race stuff. Minorities are portrayed as being on all sides. Again clearly a conscious decision by the director. He deserves credit for avoiding this.
Also, the combat scenes, especially the earlier ones are pretty tense. One of the scenes actually made me jump which is extremely rare for my jaded ass. The later scenes are kind of unrealistic but are still pretty nerve wracking because by then you like the characters.
Political lunatics, who can’t order lunch without thinking of its secret political implications will not enjoy this movie. It’s a good old-fashioned anti-war movie and I don’t think any sane person will leave this theater thinking that the idea of a Civil War is a good idea.
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I blame this on one party figuring out the mentally ill were particularly favorable toward swallowing their ideology, then 1. closing down the asylums so the dangerously mentally ill could vote, 2. turning the education system and media into wholesale incubators of mass mental illness and 3. deliberately refusing to curtail hard-drugs availability to promote the wildfire spread of narcotics-induced mental illness.
I once asked one of my former state legislators "What the hell is wrong with you people down there, do they pump LSD into the Crapitol water supply or something?" and her response was to laugh and tell me "Ya know, I wonder that regularly myself."