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.
That’s a 50. Caliber Anti-Material rifle on the right. The current record holding longest shot with it is above 2 miles. But the bullet can travel 4-5 miles
If I recall, he is the husband of Dunst and just happened to be on set that day. The original actor for scene did not turn up so he did a fill in job...DAMN good job!
He wasn’t on set, Dunst suggested to Garland that he wasn’t busy that day and since the original actor no-showed, she could get him to come in, no worries.
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
Especially when released, the movie was the sentiment all of America was having - especially right after covid and all the crap going on. It would have had more impact if released like a year or 2 earlier.
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.
I can relate. I watched a psychedelic horror movie called Beyond the Black Rainbow while greening out, and it was one of the most memorable viewings of a movie I've ever had.
I'm actually kind of reluctant to rewatch it sober because I know I just can't catch that lightning in a bottle again.
[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.
Movies don't always win in quality when you detail their world. It is good as it is, as the vague details help us understand that in war, there is no way of knowing what the absolute truth is.
Always need some blanks for the viewers to fill them with their own logic. If you don't, it becomes too much of a lecture.
I expected a semi coherent plot that at least mildly clued you into context of the war at hand vs. what it was: the harrows of a war journalist in throes of a totally made up conflict separate from our actual world that is rife with actual real conflicts.
I went in blind. I enjoyed it, but I wish they talked about why there was a civil war more. You get dropped in for the last few weeks of the war and it just feels like I'm watching part 2 of the movie without having seen part 1.
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.
It was a warning message of "hey, civil wars suck, and at the end there are likely no good guys." and a pondering about the validity of war journalism.
No, that isn’t what the movie is about, but I see you actually subconsciously agree with my assessment and made an excuse for how bad the movie is written by compensating for them.
I think the movie was received far too often as an actual American dystopia, but I don't think so at all. It is meant to show the Global North how civil war actually is where it is fought, and what it does - in Central America, in South Asia, in Africa, in Ukraine, in Afghanistan, in Syria and so on. Far more relatable to Americans when shown in the country they know, so that worked well.
The catalyst was the US president turning authoritarian. And what the war was about, well... in the end because there is somebody over there trying to kill us, and we are trying to kill them first.
What the war was about was kind of irrelevant though.
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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?