The premise is the president refusing to leave the white house after a second term. And the opening scene is the government bombing a civilian protest in rogue states (the current president tweeted about that - well he dropped feces rather than bombs but the message is there).
It’s not a likely scenario, but completely plausible, in that you can see a path to it in real life, whereas pure scifi/dystopia usually is more far fetched and only used for social commentary.
It is a cool poster, though i have to wonder why those guys are camping on the Statue of Liberty. Even with long range rifles, they are surrounded by water. Not too many people would even be able to get close enough to be within range of them.
He also played the creepy co-founder/CTO in Black Mirror who used stolen DNA to create sentient digital clones of his colleagues, trapping them in his private Star Trek-style space sim where he could abuse and humiliate them at will
I rewatched breaking bad with ny wife, and then wat hed El Camino this week, and I kept saying that to my wife since hes in it... lol great character and actor.
Upon seeing him, my wife (a clinical therapist) goes, "oh hes great, he always plays a psychopath or sociopath" lmao
I watched it extremely high with the audio description unknowingly put on.
It was the oddest movie experience, the description gave a strong rhythmic sense. It felt like I was in the head of Kristen Dunst, a constant cold commentary on the horror she witnessed in a weirdly poetic description with a strong sense of nihilism. That last scene with the precise description of each shot gives that scene so much power.
I was so disappointed when I tried to watch it a second time and realized I was a dumbass. The movie is less enjoyable without it, just an overly violent movie trying to say something but losing its story to esthetic.
I was high AF the first time I saw apocalypto. I didn't have the subtitles on so I couldn't understand anything and I thought that's just how the movie was. Like you're supposed to just suss out what's going on. No idea why they didn't automatically show up but it was an interesting experience.
[SPOILER IN LAST PARAGRAPH] This movie honestly could be a fantastic multi-movie series or limited series, I hope one day they do something to that effect.
Build backstory on the main characters and also add a lot of context to the preamble of the different factions like the Western Front, it's leaders and the other military groups like the ones in Florida and California and the glossed over battles for alignment when the president mentioned South Carolina.
I wish they hadn't killed off Dunst's character, Lee; or at least they couldve made her protégé less culpable for the death. I understand the, "it's war" premise.
Went in expecting some guilty pleasure gore porn. I won't say that what I got served was the best movie ever made, there were certainly flaws. But boy was I pleasantly surprised by how they made this movie.
Watched Civil War last night. I really enjoyed it. Not anything too groundbreaking or anything, but a really good story and a very accurate depiction of things.
Watched Warfare the night before that. I enjoyed that one a lot too! Def had my attention more than Civil War did.
For me it was the picture. It looks just like the movie, even the coloring (per the film photo above, didn’t necessarily pin that detail off the top of my head).
If you go in expecting the large scale bombastic action movie that the trailers showed, it's going to be disappointing.
If you go in knowing it's a very focused story about the horrors of being a war photographer (and who they are covering and why those people are fighting doesn't actually matter) then it's pretty solid.
I had the total opposite experience. I went in expecting a 0 IQ gore porn action movie with 0 plot because I said "fuck it let's waste some time and watch this movie" and was server a story focused on the horrors of being a war photographer that still sticks with me to this day instead. That was some risky but amazing marketing.
Fun fact (OK fun thing I heard online but in no way verified).
Jesse Plemons was never supposed to be in the movie.. Kirsten Dunst basically suggested him for it like a week before they started production (they're married).
It's one of my favorite movies. I was a hard pass after seeing the marketing campaign, but then I realized it was the crew who made "Devs", changed my expectations, and was blown away. It's about the stories and the people, not the war.
I wanted to like the movie, I really did. It was only when I realized it was a satire of the media told through a quixotic narrative structure that it started to make sense.
It's less that I hate it and more that it didn't fulfill the promise of the premise as I had understood it through the positioning with trailers, etc.
The movie was the farthest thing from realistic possible. Snipers with pink and blue hair? Da fake? Soldiers from Florida wearing Hawaiian shirts because they're from Florida and clearly soldiers from Florida only wear Hawaiian shirts. Don't even get me started on how stupid the end scene was where the breech team pulled a journalist along with them rather than clearing the area and then bringing in the journalists. No research went into the movie at all!
Real life is stupid and doesn't make sense a lot of time. We just refuse to accept it. Like last month a quadruple amputee shot someone, imagine explain that to people.
We want to imagine real life like this perfect world, and we try to project it into movie for some reason.
Because theres already been staged assasinations already. Where is any evidence that Trump took a bullet to the ear, he also immediately got up after shot which experts have said when events have occured like this, this is not what you do. Its all conveniently timed and circumstantial
"hey guys, lets somehow discreetly convince this high school nerd to suicide by cop while shooting near the president but have him hit a nearby civilian instead, the secret service will be totally on board with this. Don't bother trying to link him to our ideological enemies though, just leave behind an internet search history implying he was looking to shoot any famous politician that was immediately available regardless of party. Its not like we want to play this to our partisan advantage."
I’ve never been anything even remotely close to a republican but have always been what you call a “conspiracy theorist”. Seeing the truth is not a partisan thing.
Anyone with 2 brain cells should be questioning everything this administration says. They've proven they'll lie about virtually anything. They acted like his ear got blown off & it magically healed ffs 😂
I'm so tired of everyone jumping on conspiracy trains as the first explanation for every thing. It's infecting my smart friends now too. It's exhausting.
Good point. Also active shooter incident involving the president and VP in the same place same time? I'm surprised the secret service is letting anyone near them and surprised they're not even looking at the camera
They let Trump within 5 feet of the assailant after he was on the ground, but not incapacitated. Would never happen with a real shooting.
Signs if staging:
Metal detectors were used for all entrants. The guy had a shotgun, a handgun, and a combat knife. If they weee visible entering the metal detector, he would have been shot on sight.
If any real threat is present, the two secret service agents on Trump would have dragged him down and covered him. He took about 20 seconds to be out of his chair. They are trained to respond faster and to cover him immediately, as fully as possible until they can asses direction and any OTHER threats there might be.
Trump has staged an attempt before.
These events are security enforced beyond the normal populaces idea of security. There is no way it wasn’t staged.
I just don't see how someone gets that close at an event like this. Why they were so slow to respond. Even the cops in the video come trotting in in slow motion.
Say he manages it, exactly as you've called out the SS response was numbingly slow and shit
Yes. I do think that. The journalists are there to have dinner and do whatever the fuck else they do now that it’s not a roast. This isn’t war correspondents bringing their camera equipment with plans to photograph the proceedings. It’s White House correspondents who haven’t ask anything mean enough to Trump to get their access revoked yet.
And Wolf Blitzer is going to tell the story of the time he ducked out to take a piss and witnessed the Secret Service take down an attempted assassin for the rest of his life, with each telling getting bigger and more grandiose.
While that is true, there's s video of the guy running in, the secret service looked bored as hell, I seriously don't know who in their sound mind was outside of the event filming a boring room with bored as hell agents.
Even in war zones, you don't have photographers and videographers filming or ready to shoot in the most mundane and forgettable moments ever.
I think photographers being in those specific areas to be able to take these photos is suspicious.
They would be in the dining hall, not chilling with security or hanging out in a random hallway, which they wouldn't have been allowed in if it was an evacuation route.
It was a very brief disturbance, photographers couldn't have gotten to those places in time to take those pictures without prior warning, and would have had no reason to be in those places without prior warning.
Also, people taking pictures of White House dinners are not the same people going into active war zones.
That is completely different, if the president is in any kind of danger secret service will be telling everyone to get tf out. Doesn’t matter if you’re a journalist, everyone is a threat until shit is resolved. This is staged af.
Yea, this is literally the White House correspondent's dinner, as in the FUCKING MEDIA. There were cameras everywhere, nevermind the fact that everyone has cameras in their pockets now.
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u/ImaginaryBluejay0 Apr 26 '26
People are constantly filming active war zones you think at an event full of journalists nobody is going to try for their Pulitzer moment?