r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 20 '24
Civil War | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA4wVhs3HC04
u/shitty_memes_4_dayz Feb 24 '24
I’m throughly convinced that in the event of this actually happening, Ohio will turn feral and attack everyone
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u/kaziz3 Feb 23 '24
Since people are talking ad nauseum about the supposed goodness/badness of politics in this movie, I'll just keep it to:
Between this trailer and the last, Kirsten Dunst is delivering. Hardly a surprise because she always does but I've never quite seen her in a role like this. The whole cast looks brilliant. Spaeny, Moura, Henderson, Plemons.
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u/wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Feb 22 '24
If Garland pulls this off I'd love to see Pitt give him a shot at a proper WWZ movie
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u/Sparathon989 Feb 21 '24
Capitalizing on America’s dysfunction and planting real life seeds. I guess they couldn’t squeeze any more blood out of the comic book movies, now they’ll just create a new genre of treason porn.
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u/PeanyButter Feb 21 '24
I'm excited for this movie. From the generic title I thought it would be a dumb thing about overthrowing a government deemed corrupt. Something wild and stupid like the 2012 red dawn where one of the poorest and shittiest countries in the world manages a land invasion of the US and teenagers have to defeat them. Seems with Texas and California teaming up, they deliberately smashed that trope to in one fell swoop of this being some kind of conservative vs liberal movie. Hopefully it'll be more about the horrors of civil war that people don't grasp and the tension of your neighbors suddenly being your enemies.
The action scene clips have me worried though. It can be crazy, but It's gotta be grounded in reality for me. The Jesse Plemons scene gives me great hope. Already looks like it's going to be an iconic scene.
I don't think a civil war is very likely though so I'm not worried like some people who have their stomach turning over this possibly happening. The basic needs of an overwhelming majority of people are met and almost everyone has luxuries like AC, TV, and hobbies of some sort.
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u/themorningmosca Feb 21 '24
Cool, cool cool cool… who prints the money and pays all of the government benefits? All the feds would have to do is shut the water off… and wait. Also, the feds have nuclear facilities they would never allow to go.
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u/Wrong-Catchphrase Feb 21 '24
I'm here to see how they handle the partisan extremist militias. The modern day equivalents to the death squads that were roving around Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. They would without a doubt be the most terrifying part of a 21st century civil war in the US.
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u/NorthWoodsGamecock Feb 21 '24
Am I the only one who’ll be disappointed if they don’t play Guns N Roses Civil War at some point during the movie?
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u/Munkeyman18290 Feb 21 '24
Needs more stereotypes.
I want to see inbred diabetic white trash camped out in their trailers with shotguns from walmart vs the purple haired LGBTQ hordes showing up to the fight with pronouns and entitlement.
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u/Grimfandengo Feb 21 '24
This new Marvel universe i can get behind, wonder what super power Ron Swanson have?
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u/Grimfandengo Feb 21 '24
Befor we made realistic war movies of the past .. Now we are making realistic war move about our future.
Premature PTSD a thing?
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u/eastcoastelite12 Feb 21 '24
Texas and California on the same side? Real work of fiction you got there.
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u/uninsane Feb 21 '24
Not sure anyone cares but guns don’t make a cocking noise every time you point them in a different direction. These foley people are killing me!
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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh Feb 21 '24
I'm a long time Alex Garland fan, and while this movie looks stylistically great, it also looks like a conceptual misfire. I'll watch it anyways because of Garland being attached, but I'm thinking it will be a one and done movie.
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u/Substantial-Use95 Feb 21 '24
This is what we need right now. In this extremely tense and claustrophobic political environment, let’s start givin the crazies some ideas… wtf.
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u/bakedl0gic Feb 21 '24
Americans are soft as charmin. If any states did ‘secede’ they’d be shut down within less than a months time.
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u/Canotic Feb 21 '24
I honestly, no joke, thought they were going to go "from sea to shining sea, america will be free" and I was like holy shit.
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u/Combatmedic2-47 Feb 21 '24
What gun is that that dyed hair sniper is using? Looks like an Sig or maybe a SASS?
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u/pocketfart Feb 21 '24
America is literally entertaining itself to death. It would be kinda incredible if a movie about the Civil War started a Civil War. Just imagine the alien history channels.
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u/Majestic_Area Feb 21 '24
Why would anyone want to make our world worse by making a movie about the hate we are in right now. Thanks for more pain
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u/WhatNateHates Feb 21 '24
The idea is interesting, but doesn’t seem like there’s enough here visually to actually excite me.
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u/goddamnitwhalen Feb 21 '24
This movie continues to just be Robert Evans’ It Could Happen Here: The Movie
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u/don0tpanic Feb 21 '24
OK OK OK, Hear me out. I want to see a movie where movie presidents all have to fight one another. They assemble a team made up of characters from their own movies and have a battle royale.
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Feb 21 '24
This movie is too much of a glamorous portrayal of what a modern civil war will look like.
It’s going to be fat weak drone pilots. funded by old weak senile boomers. No triumph just cowards willing to kill but not die for what they believe in.
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u/WarmasterCain55 Feb 21 '24
I'm surprised not to see NATO involved. With how powerful the US, surely all the allied nations together could hold their own against us while removing him from power.
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u/Atticus_Zero Feb 21 '24
The whole quiet melody playing over muted action scenes trope makes me assume this is going to be hot garbage.
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u/RollTide16-18 Feb 21 '24
Seeing people with multicolor brightly painted finger nails while trying to remain camouflaged is funny.
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u/GunSlingingRaccoonII Feb 21 '24
I swear Americans fantasize a lot about killing each other and would love the opportunity to do so.
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u/LordMacDonald Feb 21 '24
I’m calling it now, this movie is going to tank because of its cowardly approach to an important topic.
The echoes of the American civil war are visible all throughout American society. It is vital to understand why we fought it.
Half of the country spent decades suffering under the tyranny of the minority, enduring outrage after outrage until finally, the fire eaters went too far and fired on a federal fort.
I’m told that this movie will be a commentary on the importance of a free press, and their ability to serve as a check on government, but we’ve already done that one, A24; check out Lions for Lambs from 2007.
The media in 1860 was just as responsible in bringing on the Civil War as our media is today in destabilizing our society. They had the same sorts of propaganda back then that we do now. It was even so bad that many of those who fought for the Confederacy did so because of lies they had read in their own newspapers.
So forgive me, A24, but we don’t need a sermon on the sanctity of journalists. Journalism as an institution has debased itself for too long. No suspension of disbelief is strong enough to make us forget how journalists have whored themselves out for clicks and ads these last 15 years.
There is a reckoning coming for America, and we do need a shock to the national psyche in order to avoid it. I fear this film will not deliver on it.
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u/ghstkatt Feb 21 '24
That’s about, what’s happened to America pretty soon, with the South getting fed up having they’re history being erased, by a bunch of libtards it’s only a matter of time of time when a second civil war starts, and this there will be no winners on both sides, America will be divided like North and South Korea, one side multi ethnic States, the other a white republican State.
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u/AFenton1985 Feb 21 '24
I can't suspend my disbelief for this you really want me to think that people from Florida can stop doing meth long enough to fight a war no I don't see that ever happening
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u/MemphisAmaze Feb 21 '24
It needs some splooting of folks who thought they could stir up civil war hooha and head to the hills to ride out the storm.
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u/ichorskeeter Feb 21 '24
From what I can tell, the rift between the two sides is completely manufactured for the film. America has real divisions, and the subject of a future civil war is a serious one, especially in the current political climate. I'm afraid this film will dodge too many uncomfortable questions, and it will do a real disservice to all the current craziness in the country.
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u/HarbingerDe Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 21 '24
The Republicans are a proto-fascist party. They're restricting reproductive rights, trans rights, voting rights (particularly where large ethnic minority populations reside), and Texas literally went to the Supreme Court to defend their "right" to drown migrant women and children in razor wire traps...
You could make a movie about the realities of how divided the country is, and what lines those divisions lie lie across... But I don't think it would ever get real funding as you would have those ideological divisions with the capital behind the project in and of itself, never mind all of the cast and crew members.
If such a movie were made and released during this election year, I honestly don't think its absurd to suggest it would lead to a significant increase in political violence.
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u/ichorskeeter Feb 21 '24
A more honest version of the film COULD get made, but probably not in the studio system.
This probably could have been more effective with a sharper premise and a smaller budget. I do like Alex Garland though, so I'm trying to reserve judgment.
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u/FlashMcSuave Feb 21 '24
It really feels like they pulled their punches by not having this based on the actual cultural and political schisms tearing the country apart.
Texas and California being a team? Nah.
This film could have been a defining cultural moment if they had really gone for the jugular and explored where the zeitgeist cultural conflict could lead if it turned violent.
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 21 '24
Texas and California being a team? Nah
From what it looks like, its that California seceeded with the Western Forces, while Texas did it with the Florida Alliance but both are semi-independant or something from their respective groups and are simply allies with each other out of the convenience of "Fuck the feds" so they fight the loyalist states together.
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u/Allcyon Feb 21 '24
What is the god awful audio edit at 0:02?! Why would you keep that in?
"..the Floridaligent"? What the hell is that?
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u/TheSwillhouseBoys Feb 21 '24
I’m not going to see this in theaters. MAGA people want this so bad, it’s going be a real jizz storm.
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u/mutually_awkward Feb 21 '24
They've been profiting from the country's division this whole time and now they're just being blatant about it.
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u/partiallypoopypants Feb 21 '24
If anyone thinks that the American military wouldn’t absolutely gobsmack the revolutionists, they are full of shit.
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u/Chef_The_Ferret Feb 21 '24
If you think the military wouldnt fracture into different sides, then you arent even worth arguing with.
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u/braxin23 Feb 21 '24
It ultimately depends upon the nature of the secession. Sometimes the military doesn't completely break with the established power into the splinter group and sometimes they do given how little we know from the info provided by the trailers its most likely former national guard elements that make the bulk of the "nation state" armies of the two secessionist groups in question with maybe a spattering of military defectors.
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u/partiallypoopypants Feb 21 '24
The military wouldn’t fracture into different sides, at least not on the scale this movie seems to allude to.
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u/7goatman Feb 21 '24
Bruh this shit looks so goofy 💀. And of course it’s written by a British guy. Weren’t y’all engaged in a civil war like less than 50 years ago?
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u/Beefcake_Avatar Feb 21 '24
It's hard to take this movie seriously when they have California and Texas teaming up. As far as I can tell, Texas and California have a pretty mutual hatred for each other. Or, at the very least, a strong dislike and mistrust of each others general ideals and policies. Wonder what the explanation for two seemingly opposite states will be in the movie
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 21 '24
California and Texas are allies of convenience in this because they both left (along with the Western Forces and Florida Alliance respectively), and simply both share the same goal of fighting the loyalist states because "Fuck the feds".
Its the sort of alliance that would last for about as long as their shared enemy still existed at which point theyd turn on each other.
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u/mutually_awkward Feb 21 '24
California and Texas both have amazing Mexican food.
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u/Beefcake_Avatar Feb 21 '24
Honestly... that makes more sense than anything I could think of. "Fuck you Feds! You ain't takin my sopes!" "Don't tread on me... or my asada super burrito!"
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u/OtakuTacos Feb 21 '24
Imagine if this movie ends with the whole thing being like an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” style twist? Everything happening was because of some alien mind control. Now that would be hilarious. Hype up the movie as a pseudo Civil War movie, to turn sci-fi in the end. A modern day “They Live!”
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u/schnodda Feb 20 '24
Anybody else who thinks this should have been a TV show instead? It's such an expansive story/world to explore. I am a bit skeptical it can be sufficiently done in movie length.
We'll see.
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u/TheFalconKid Feb 20 '24
This movie is going to have drastically different reviews depending on which states the reviewers live in and what the outcome of this movie has in store for said state.
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u/gsx0pub Feb 20 '24
That seems like an irresponsible movie to make, but sure. Why not make some money on the end of the world.
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u/TheFalconKid Feb 20 '24
What's the over/ under on people from all ends of the political spectrum not getting that this is (probably) a presentation why divisions are bad and we need to solve our differences with words not war, and instead they'll pick whichever side slightly aligns with their politics and be rabid fanboys of?
Basically, how many people will come out of this movie and think "Homelander in The Boys is the obvious good guy."
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u/I_ama_Borat Feb 20 '24
Something about seeing a suburban neighborhood with artillery strikes on homes is spooky.
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u/ikebears Feb 20 '24
Damn! I’ve watched the trailers now and this looks awesome. I’ve been waiting for a war movie to come out and love A24
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u/Vivid_Department_755 Feb 20 '24
Take away Starbucks and WiFi and California is waving the white flag
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u/pittyh Feb 20 '24
Should've been a TV series.
As a movie, it will all be wrapped up in a nice little package in 2 hours, done and dusted.
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u/eorld Feb 21 '24
You don't think maybe the creator and writer of the story would prefer to tell it in the medium he wants to?
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u/snart-fiffer Feb 21 '24
No please. We have too many movie ideas turned into shows that can’t sustain 12 hours of story.
More movies when we leave wanting more. Less weak shows we don’t finish.
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u/Slartibartfaster2022 Feb 20 '24
based on the title and trailer this has future documentary potential written all over it, like Idiocracy for the next generation.
*sigh*
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u/higround66 Feb 20 '24
Been pumped for this one since the first trailer. Thinking it couldn't come out at a better time, either.
Give all the fools a taste of what a Civil War would actually look like.... maybe they'll shut up and go back to LARPing on Call of Duty.
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u/CompetitivePeach2784 Feb 20 '24
It won’t be conventional warfare. It will just be anarchy and chaos.
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u/Sabre_One Feb 20 '24
IMO what action we see in the trailer is what we get. It will be very vague in the actual fighting, showing only what the main characters see.
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u/barrbubblegum Feb 20 '24
Alex Garland is great! Though I watched Men high on edibles and that was a rookie mistake. This looks great!
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u/Whysong823 Feb 20 '24
So the President somehow managed to abolish the 22nd Amendment and remain in office for a third term, despite term limits being overwhelmingly popular regardless of political affiliation. California and Texas, the de facto leaders of American liberalism and conservatism, respectively, have somehow teamed up to fight the federal government. Multiple southern states have teamed up, not with Texas, but under the “Florida Alliance” despite that being a stupid name. The liberal states of Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota have teamed up with the conservative states of Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas.
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that the English man who wrote this script has no idea how American politics work. This is like if I, an American, wrote that there was a British civil war in which England and Scotland fought against Wales and Northern Ireland.
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 21 '24
California and Texas
I mean itd be one of those "the enemy of my enemy is a useful temporary ally." They fuck up the feds together and then just turn on each other afterwards. Plenty of times throughout history shit like that has happened and still happens.
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u/kappakai Feb 20 '24
It’s too bad DMZ was so poorly made and got canceled. The graphic novel was a really good second civil war story.
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u/zatch17 Feb 20 '24
Ffs Texas and California would never ally
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 21 '24
Youre telling me that if both of them and the states that left the union with each of them left, they wouldnt both fight the feds together before turning on each other afterwards? Like has happened throughout history?
Shit even jihadist groups did that - fight the US together despite hating each other and then turn on each other once the shared enemy is out of the way for more than 5 minutes.
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u/zatch17 Feb 21 '24
Yes in my opinion there would never be a time where California and Texas teamed up as they're too diametrically opposed
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 21 '24
You know who else is diametrically opposed? Jihadists. You know what they did? Stopped killing each other to fight the US together every now and then.
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u/zatch17 Feb 21 '24
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u/Orapac4142 Feb 22 '24
I mean the whole thing is far fetched, especially with how many states split and the fact theyve got 3 different factions - the florida alliance (with texas), the western forces (with california) and the loyalist states. So the country is now pretty much cut into thirds.
And the fact that any rebellion would have been immediately shut down before it could even take place.
Two forces who dislike each other that are able to not kill each other until they deal with the third party threat, being the Feds, and then they can kill each other is probably the most realistic part of the movie lol. Its not even a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" but rather "the enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy and we can fuck each other up later".
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u/FitzwilliamTDarcy Feb 20 '24
I'm sure it's just a me problem but this feels like the sort of thing we really don't need now.
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u/Corn22 Feb 20 '24
This movie looks not fun. Who is the target audience??
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u/eorld Feb 21 '24
I don't understand this comment. Many good movies are not fun. Near future dystopia is a pretty popular genre. I think the target audience is broad.
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u/AstroWorldSecurity Feb 20 '24
Probably the same jackasses who can't help but scream "Idiocracy was a documentary!!!!"
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u/Mental_Yak_2105 Feb 20 '24
I know I haven't seen this movie, but if feels irresponsible and exploitative. No matter what the actual message of this movie is, there will be so many people that will be like "Man that was fucking awesome, I can't wait until we have a real Civil War". I love Alex Garland, but I just don't know if I can get onboard with this. It would be different if there wasn't an actual attempted insurrection on the books.
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u/Temp_Job_Deity Feb 20 '24
Was this filmed in the US? 40% of US adults are obese, but everyone looked pretty fit in the trailer.
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u/godtrek Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
I think this is honestly one of the most horrifying film concepts I've seen in my lifetime. If this movie came out like 10 years ago, I don't think it would've affected me like it does right now. I can see a world where this movie could actually happen in my lifetime. There are millions of Americans that fantasize about this openly. It's not even a secret desire. We have politicians that literally say out loud this is what they want. I want to say this movie is dangerous, and it shouldn't come out, I know a lot of people will go and watch this and love it and I don't see how this movie could make the situation any better, but this is a movie and I believe that movies, books, art, whatever should be allowed to explore any topic. I think that's why it scares me the most. I see this thing, I know it's bad and the release of this film is at the worst possible moment, and it's all to make a bunch of money, but I have to and want to support it because it's still art, and it makes my stomach turn inside out. This movie is going to make a lot of fucking money.
EDIT: I was unaware who was directing this. Garland is the fucking GOAT. I'm sure, though, whatever deep subtle message this film is trying to convey will be completely missed by the audience this film is trying to speak to and this will just turn into Civil War porn. Hell, the audience that needed to understand Starship Troopers the most, critically haven't, and that movie was fucking obvious and on the nose the entire time. I do worry this wasn't the best idea from A24 and Garland. I do worry this film will make shit worse. But oh well. I can only worry about myself and what little I can control. It's always like that, isn't it? Growing old, is coming to terms that you have no power and happiness comes from staying in your lane and try and not worry about the things outside your control.
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u/Petal_Chatoyance Feb 20 '24
I hope that this movie scares the living hell out of the 30% of America that thinks civil war is a fun and happy way to get the fascist, theocratic, white-supremacist way of life they think they want. I hope this movie shocks them into waking up and realizing that destroying the US is a Very Bad Idea.
But I fear that it will give them a war boner even harder than before, and be a match to the kindling already in place.
This movie kind of worries me, considering the situation in the US right now.
But, I guess we shall see. 2024 is going to be an... interesting... year. I prefer very boring years by comparison. Interesting is usually bad.
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u/Glum_Ad_5790 Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 21 '24
im really looking forward to this movie. i think it will be a breakout film for the year
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u/Ralius65 Feb 20 '24
I don’t feel safe seeing this in the theaters. The whispers I heard when the trailer played was horrifying. It feels a little irresponsible to put this in theaters with how crazy people are. I really hope there isn’t some act of violence that results because of this movie. I want to believe we live in a world where we can just go see this for its commentary/ entertainment, but I fear people will try to send a message
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u/Bludongle Feb 20 '24
This is a bear I refuse to feed.
Not at this time and not in this way.
It's total irresponsible thrill baiting.
Not to mention, too much necessary suspension of disbelief.
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u/tacopeople Feb 20 '24
The Lincoln memorial getting blown up is Roland Emmerich layers of cheese.
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u/CluelessSage Feb 20 '24
I don’t like the idea of Ron Swanson and Pablo Escobar being responsible for forging my new sociopolitical landscape. Can I get a reroll? This game of Civ is fucked….
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u/bighurb Feb 20 '24
lmao this is NOT from my AIVideo channel!
clearly no one watched WKUK anarchy skit ...
so, who is going to run the power plant?
me! I'll do it, in exchange for food! .. etc
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u/bazilbt Feb 20 '24
I'm not going to watch this. It could be a great movie, but like 'Handmaids Tale' it's too damn depressing for me right now.
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u/batsofburden Feb 20 '24
I just watched Mare of Easttown, so it's cool to see one of the cast members from that show featured in this film. (Cailee Spaeny, who played Erin).
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u/CndConnection Feb 20 '24
So is it the Western Forces or the Texas Californian coalition forces who decided it would be a good idea to launch a Javelin's HEAT missile into the steps of the Lincoln memorial for no fuckin' reason?
That shit is so dumb I can't wait to watch this movie and tear it apart.
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u/themightytouch Feb 20 '24
It’s silly seeing people nitpick about it being unrealistic.
My brother in Christ, if you want a realistic 2nd American civil war, wait at most a year.
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u/LazyBones6969 Feb 20 '24
more realistic would be texas and florida vs USA.
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u/Parenthisaurolophus Feb 20 '24
Florida has zero secessionist fantasies and loves establishment politicians. It wouldn't do shit in the scenario presented by the movie.
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u/KID_THUNDAH Feb 20 '24
I just wanna know how California and Texas became a partnership, that’s the most improbable partnership in the states probably
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u/Bron_Swanson Feb 20 '24
I can't fucking wait for this movie, it's gonna be tits. HOWEVER, I can't believe they didn't call it "Civil War 2". HUGE missed opportunity to be accurate and original just in title.
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u/mrweatherbeef Feb 20 '24
Countless dudes with goatees + baseball caps + wraparound sunglasses are now masturbating to this trailer.
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u/blackbelt_in_science Feb 20 '24
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. J.H
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u/niles_deerqueer Feb 20 '24
God damn, that hurt my ears. Terrible whistling on this one.
I dunno, this project doesn’t look very interesting or unique. I love Alex Garland but I’m not getting anything special from this. Looks like a generic war blockbuster.
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u/scmroddy Feb 20 '24
Reddit still obsessing over which "side" in this fictitious Civil War they should root for. Which misses the point entirely.
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u/Namiez Feb 20 '24
If Garland put out Ex Mchina today people would equally be losing their minds before knowing anything about. And it was a masterpiece
"Portraying AI as good? As Human with creativity? Clearly he's stoking the AI/Anti AI debate for promotion"
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u/Squabbles123456789 Feb 20 '24
First trailer was better, this is looking worse with every new info drop
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u/A-Rusty-Cow Feb 20 '24
Im hype. Glad I touched grass today though otherwise I might be in here complaining about the plot
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u/EscapeFacebook Feb 20 '24
Definitely science fiction if california and texas are joining forces....
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u/darthwookius Feb 20 '24
Strangely enough my biggest question here is: Avant Garde? Was that really the font choice? Why the alternate on the A and not the matching one on the W? And in neon green?
I am usually impressed by A24's design decisions... and I am just a little confused at these ones. Type and design have so much communicative power, but I'm failing to see the intention here I guess?
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u/CheekyCheesehead Feb 21 '24
It is the font used for the InfoWars logo
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u/darthwookius Feb 22 '24
AHA! Damn ok I think you found the reference, I’m not sure it 100% translates maybe as well as it could but great point.
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u/ham_solo Feb 20 '24
Yes. I thought this was some fan-made trailer. That font choice is terrible!
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u/TheBatemanFlex Feb 20 '24
One thing I dislike about this premise is the blatant cowardice to construct a scenario that deliberately protects it from commentary on US politics. They didn't want to piss anyone off so they basically "both sides" it. You can say that you want to focus on the "importance of the press", but that's a cop out.
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u/LordMacDonald Feb 21 '24
Yeah, and making the U.S. government the bad guys is right in line with the media we’ve been force-fed for dangerous near 15 years where all of a sudden the good guy is actually the bad guy. It’s not clever, it just smacks of laziness
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u/TaskForceD00mer Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
I don't get how people are so passionate about the politics of this movie without knowing much in the way of details.
What we know based on the trailer, summaries released about the film and cast interviews:
During a Presidents 3rd term in office, the nation is plunged into a civil war. The President is described in a "dictator" in one interview given by Kirsten Dunst.
A group of Southeastern States, labeled the Florida Alliance, teamed up with a group of Western States, headed by Texas and California, called the Western Alliance are "against" the sitting US Government.
A group of reporters covers the war across the country, including an expected assault by Western Alliance forces on the Capitol, which appears to be shown in part during trailer #1 and #2.
At some point one of the groups fighting in the civil war are wearing Hawaiian shirts (drawn your own conclusions)
A comment that "They shoot journalists on site" on what is presumed to be "US Government" territory
Fat Damon wears some dope ass red glasses and appears to be committing horrendous war crimes, because why not
"The film explores Partisan Extremist Militias committing war crimes", again based on an interview given in December.
We literally don't know what the actual film is going to show, which "party" , assuming US Political parties are even identified, sides with whom, etc.
I am going to see this one because I'm curious to see how its shown but without actually seeing the film it's too early to just assume the movie will either skirt US Party Politics or it may even be ON THE NOSE with them.
Keeping this vague has been brilliant marketing because it has people from all political identities engaged.
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u/freqkenneth Feb 25 '24
I feel like this movie won’t have a realistic amount of fat people in it