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muscles like this! posted:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/30/alex-garland-civil-war-interview "I'm directing cinema now!"
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/30/alex-garland-civil-war-interview Hes not a bad filmmaker, he just has colossally stupid takes Anyways hope his next film is good
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I've heard nothing but praise from people I trust since I posted the Beavers trailer, so it is now high on The List
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Hundreds of Beavers is fantastic and I'm praying it gets a wide streaming release somehow
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trevorreznik posted:Hundreds of Beavers is fantastic and I'm praying it gets a wide streaming release somehow Alamo is showing it, and I was hesitantly interested because of the concept. And now that I've seen even the slightest hint of praise, I'm all in Actually, re subscribing to Alamo pass for this months offerings. The 1994 anniversary stuff alone is worth it
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1775237559116845279 So, does this mean there’s a Maoist insurgent army in control of the Northwest and the Upper Mid West? I feel like the name is meant to give that impression, but knowing that region… Nucleic Acids fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Apr 3, 2024 03:51
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Apr 3, 2024 05:15
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That map makes me wonder how much of a poo poo I as a European am supposed to give about anything happening in Civil War. It seems to be a dumb movie intended as Commentary on... something that not even Americans are clear about, why the gently caress should I care?
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You know those Twitter maps where Russia or China are randomly balkanised and presented as obvious and inevitable? This is what they look like from the other side.
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it seems that naming the movie “Civil War” and being cagey about what that means seems to distract from what the story seems to be.
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Apr 3, 2024 07:09
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like all fights men always forget why they started all they remember is "wow cool robot!"
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Nucleic Acids posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1775237559116845279 quote:”Furthermore, the actual political commentary of Civil War is wildly complex. Alex Garland wisely leaves out the full context behind his war movie. There’s a brief mention of “the massacre of Antifa” that happened some 20-30 years before the film’s events. “ This review makes the synopsis sound like it came from an Onion article
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There’s a brief mention of “the massacre of Antifa” that happened some 20-30 years before the film’s events. I'm starting to think Alex Garland might be an idiot.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You know those Twitter maps where Russia or China are randomly balkanised and presented as obvious and inevitable? This is what they look like from the other side. I've never seen one of these but I've seen a bunch of the US
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Why are they trying so hard to make you hate the wood peckers laugh so much. At the end is literally just looping in the background for seemingly no reason. It's like they're trolling parents, making sure any parents who are going to be forced to watch it over and over, knows how annoying the laugh is and that they purposefully made it that way just to gently caress with them.
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dr_rat posted:Why are they trying so hard to make you hate the wood peckers laugh so much. At the end is literally just looping in the background for seemingly no reason. Hasnt that always been the way? I refuse to watch the clip because I hate that laugh so much
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I'm starting to think Alex Garland might be an idiot. That “I QUIT!” article that came put ahead of the movie does not bode well lol
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I thought the Woody Woodpecker movie came out years ago and everyone just ignored it.
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Professor Shark posted:That “I QUIT!” article that came put ahead of the movie does not bode well lol He actually wrote “I acquit.”
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I thought the Woody Woodpecker movie came out years ago and everyone just ignored it.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I'm starting to think Alex Garland might be an idiot. It's delightfully ambiguous. Is Antifa a location?
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Per a quote from last month:Alex Garland posted:“Why are we talking and not listening?” he asked. “We’ve lost trust in the media and politicians. And some in the media are wonderful and some politicians are wonderful—on both sides of the divide. I have a political position and I have good friends on the other side of that political divide. Honestly, I’m not trying to be cute: What’s so hard about that? Why are we shutting [conversation] down? Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all they are. They are not a right or wrong, or good and bad. It’s which do you think has greater efficacy? That’s it. You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it out, and you try again a different way. That’s a process. But we’ve made it into ‘good and bad.’ We made it into a moral issue, and it’s loving idiotic, and incredibly dangerous … I personally [blame] some of this on social media. There is a an interaction that exists human-to-human that floats away when it reaches a public forum.” "Why can't we all just get along?"
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Cage posted:You were right, it did and they did. This is a sequel to that movie! Well, poo poo.
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I'm hoping Civil War continues Garland's uninterrupted trajectory of getting worse with every movie he directs because I really want to see how this manages to be somehow worse than Men.
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Usually whenever someone tries to balkanize a country in their alt-history fanfiction or whatever, they only succeed in outing themselves as laughably ignorant about real politics/culture. See also that map Putin or one of his cronies put out recently that was just a list of historical U.S. land purchases.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Per a quote from last month: Does Garland think the government is just the post office and the DMV?
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Grendels Dad posted:That map makes me wonder how much of a poo poo I as a European am supposed to give about anything happening in Civil War. It seems to be a dumb movie intended as Commentary on... something that not even Americans are clear about, why the gently caress should I care? Early reviewers are pretty clear that the movie is not trying to offer political commentary of the kind that justifies that map. You're probably supposed to take that map about as seriously as an electoral map that appears in the background of a West Wing or Veep shot. The movie's not about that, as far as I can tell it's about "it's really loving scary to be a random person going about their business in a country undergoing civil where the fault lines aren't purely geographic and everyone might be heavily armed"
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Pinterest Mom posted:Early reviewers are pretty clear that the movie is not trying to offer political commentary of the kind that justifies that map. You're probably supposed to take that map about as seriously as an electoral map that appears in the background of a West Wing or Veep shot. The movie's not about that, as far as I can tell it's about "it's really loving scary to be a random person going about their business in a country undergoing civil where the fault lines aren't purely geographic and everyone might be heavily armed" feel like there are plenty of actual conflicts you could tell that story in but then you'd have to, y'know, have an opinion on something
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I would go so far as to say that as an outsider the differences between the Hutus and Tutsis may not be readily apparent, but if you are in the conflict you sure as gently caress know what they are.
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I know I've mentioned this before, but to be fair to Garland, California is deeply chuddy. On the other hand, I'm not really sure how Texas and California could function together given that they're both gigantic and, for all intents and purposes, a thousand miles apart. It's like if France and Greece decided to unite against the rest of Europe. I know it's all just supposed to be sort of fantastical but it's very like, "huh? How?"
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It would be better if they showed no map and Garland never said a thing about the conflict than doing whatever this is
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:feel like there are plenty of actual conflicts you could tell that story in but then you'd have to, y'know, have an opinion on something 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I know I've mentioned this before, but to be fair to Garland, California is deeply chuddy. On the other hand, I'm not really sure how Texas and California could function together given that they're both gigantic and, for all intents and purposes, a thousand miles apart. It's like if France and Greece decided to unite against the rest of Europe. I know it's all just supposed to be sort of fantastical but it's very like, "huh? How?" Given his braindead “both sides are equally bad” comment, I think it’s pretty safe to assume his thinking only went as far as “what if I paired the most stereotypically left-wing state with the most stereotypically right-wing state together against the US hmmmmm does that make you think?” Except even that dumb take is muddied by making Offerman a quasi-Trump president according to the review.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Usually whenever someone tries to balkanize a country in their alt-history fanfiction or whatever, they only succeed in outing themselves as laughably ignorant about real politics/culture. See also that map Putin or one of his cronies put out recently that was just a list of historical U.S. land purchases. I'm pretty sure that was a joke about how the balkanized maps of Russia and China are exactly that.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I know I've mentioned this before, but to be fair to Garland, California is deeply chuddy. On the other hand, I'm not really sure how Texas and California could function together given that they're both gigantic and, for all intents and purposes, a thousand miles apart. It's like if France and Greece decided to unite against the rest of Europe. I know it's all just supposed to be sort of fantastical but it's very like, "huh? How?" Maybe LA and SF got nuked and OC took over. At that point, are Arizona and New Mexico really going to put up much of a fight?
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The dumb Rogan listener I know was rambling about it being a super lefty movie last time I saw him. So I don’t think a middle of the road approach is going to work.
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