WWAW Civil War (2024)?

[Jenna]

Damn good movie, glad I saw it in imax. Maybe it just confirms my apolitical centrist biases, but it's hysterical watching the right screech "this is anti-Trump propaganda!" while the left screeches "they didn't make him enough like Trump!" Completely missing the point that whatever political happenings lead to the Civil War don't really matter, it's about how it affects the average citizen forcing to adapt to the new reality.

The four leads are great, Kirsten Dunst in particular playing a "dead on the inside" photographer completely drained of any motivation or inspiration but keeps slugging on because it's all she knows. The kid overdoes the acting a bit in the first ~30 minutes or so (especially at the gas station scene) but figures it out by the end. Jesse Plemons practically steals the movie in his one scene, probably the most tense moment in a movie full of tension throughout. Of course most of you reading this will probably relate to his character.

Sound design is great and the movie is paced well. Lot of little details are sprinkled throughout the movie that give you hints as to the larger picture in place, but it never really feels like the film is holding your hand through exposition.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

All I know is if civil war breaks out I’m going to be doing whatever JC does

 

[Dennyislife]

I remember people on here saying it's programming people for an up coming war completely unaware they are hysterical and neurotic

 

[Sue2]

I’m uninterested in seeing it because I already get the point. Yes if a Civil War happened Americans would start killing each other and thats wrong and bad. Violence is senseless and etc etc. I don’t need to watch a 2 hour film to get this.

Maybe some people do tho considering how much retards like to talk about killing their fellow citizens for (insert political belief here)

 

[Juschippinyababe]

Nice predictive programming, stupid.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

I’m uninterested in seeing it because I already get the point. Yes if a Civil War happened Americans would start killing each other and thats wrong and bad. Violence is senseless and etc etc. I don’t need to watch a 2 hour film to get this.

Maybe some people do tho considering how much retards like to talk about killing their fellow citizens for (insert political belief here)

No, Sue child. Violence is NOT “senseless” when you’re fighting fascist right wing fanatics who follow a sippy cup drinking dictator. Stay angry.

 

[Honeycomb Hideout]

Fake and gay. Imagine wasting time watching a modern Hollywood movie

 

[Convict Wyzz]

I got a civil war for you right here

 

[Cartoon Redux]

Looks gay and kiked, not watching that shit.

(I say this about every movie and TV show)

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I'm about to completely cut my best friend and his faggot girlfriend out of my life because literally every conversation since he's been with this bitch leads to some fucking end of the world rant and it's all just shit that he's heard her say, which is all just shit she's heard from some Youtube faggot who looks like a model and chops wood with his shirt off. He's the only one who's raved about this movie to me. If you're so scared of a collapse, go build a shack in the woods or some shit. Just get the fuck away from everyone and shut the fuck up. But I'm an asshole and I "don't get it" when I make that suggestion.

It pisses me off because it's just shown me what a fucking pussy the guy is. Some fucking huge meteor could hit the earth tomorrow and destroy everything. You know what I'd do while everyone's out freaking out and looting places for things they won't have the time to use? I'd just sit and wait to die. I'm not gonna flip out over shit I can't control. "You have to PREPARE!" No I don't. I don't have to do shit. If I die, I die. Any amount of preparation can be fucked away from you pretty fast and all your time stressing and worrying like a fucking bitch could've been spent doing something ACTUALLY productive or at least enjoyable.

The whole world is just hysterical fucking pussies who think they have an ounce of control or a say in the way a natural disaster/government takeover is going to play out. I remember my dad feeling this way around Y2K and my aunt's dumbass husband trying to convince my grandparents that they should give a shit about something that wasn't going to happen at dinner one time. My dad got into it with him and ended it with "When January 1st comes and nothing happens I'm going to rub it in your face how much of a pussy you've been about this whole bullshit thing. I'm going to expect an apology and I want you to apologize to everyone whose time you wasted being forced to listen to the dumbest guy we know whine about nothing." Never got an apology. Because when nothing happens, the FAGGOTS who spent all their time worrying and whining just say "I knew it was nothing all along."

Everyone who is concerned about this is a fucking coward. "My kids!" You don't control anything. Your kids could be taken away from you today, You'd have no recourse and you wouldn't do anything about it. You'd say "I'm gonna kill this person and that person" and you wouldn't do it.

 

[Jenna]

I’m uninterested in seeing it because I already get the point. Yes if a Civil War happened Americans would start killing each other and thats wrong and bad. Violence is senseless and etc etc. I don’t need to watch a 2 hour film to get this.

Maybe some people do tho considering how much retards like to talk about killing their fellow citizens for (insert political belief here)

Eh I mean practically every war movie comes with the same "war is hell" message unless it's just straight propaganda. Would you refuse to watch Apocalypse Now or Saving Private Ryan because you already get the point?

No, Sue child. Violence is NOT “senseless” when you’re fighting fascist right wing fanatics who follow a sippy cup drinking dictator. Stay angry.

That's the movie all the politics junkies wanted it to be. The brave diverse liberals fighting the evil white conservatives. Blues go yay, reds cry that they're being oppressed by Jews yet again.

The secessionists are Texas and California - famously red and famously blue - who team up to bring down Nick Offerman. There's like one "racism bad" scene that the Ben Shaprios of the world are cherry-picking to try and dismiss the film.

 

[Saddam Hussein]

I thought it was pretty boring. It doesn’t dig into the conflict at all; no context, just a civil war is happening. Maybe that’s the point but I would like a reason to care about any of it.

It just turned into “War Journalists: The Movie.” That’s fine but why put it in the context of an imaginary war. The DC war scene at the end was laughable.

I agree on the sound design though and the Jesse Plemons scene was great

 

[Jenna]

I thought it was pretty boring. It doesn’t dig into the conflict at all; no context, just a civil war is happening. Maybe that’s the point but I would like a reason to care about any of it.

It just turned into “War Journalists: The Movie.” That’s fine but why put it in the context of an imaginary war. The DC war scene at the end was laughable.

I agree on the sound design though and the Jesse Plemons scene was great

That's what I liked about it, clearly more shit was going on but we the audience weren't hand-held through the exact history of what happened. Instead of gleaning on hints through dialogue.

It's like if some guy from the 1960s was teleported here and wandering around listening to people. Nobody's going to be like "oh Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator who was executed in the War on Terror. You know the War on Terror, which started on September 11, 2001 when Islamic militants crashed planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon?" Everyone just knows that and lives with it.

You're not supposed to have a side in the war, you don't even know what side the soldiers are on until the White House raid. Every dude is just guys in fatigues. Even during the sniper scene it gets said directly - "What side are you on?" "Does it matter? That guy's trying to kill us, we're trying to kill him".

 

[SpaceEdge]

Ben Shaprios of the world

I read you loud and clear, I'll see you at the meeting down by the docks

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I'm about to completely cut my best friend and his faggot girlfriend out of my life because literally every conversation since he's been with this bitch leads to some fucking end of the world rant and it's all just shit that he's heard her say, which is all just shit she's heard from some Youtube faggot who looks like a model and chops wood with his shirt off. He's the only one who's raved about this movie to me. If you're so scared of a collapse, go build a shack in the woods or some shit. Just get the fuck away from everyone and shut the fuck up. But I'm an asshole and I "don't get it" when I make that suggestion.

It pisses me off because it's just shown me what a fucking pussy the guy is. Some fucking huge meteor could hit the earth tomorrow and destroy everything. You know what I'd do while everyone's out freaking out and looting places for things they won't have the time to use? I'd just sit and wait to die. I'm not gonna flip out over shit I can't control. "You have to PREPARE!" No I don't. I don't have to do shit. If I die, I die. Any amount of preparation can be fucked away from you pretty fast and all your time stressing and worrying like a fucking bitch could've been spent doing something ACTUALLY productive or at least enjoyable.

The whole world is just hysterical fucking pussies who think they have an ounce of control or a say in the way a natural disaster/government takeover is going to play out. I remember my dad feeling this way around Y2K and my aunt's dumbass husband trying to convince my grandparents that they should give a shit about something that wasn't going to happen at dinner one time. My dad got into it with him and ended it with "When January 1st comes and nothing happens I'm going to rub it in your face how much of a pussy you've been about this whole bullshit thing. I'm going to expect an apology and I want you to apologize to everyone whose time you wasted being forced to listen to the dumbest guy we know whine about nothing." Never got an apology. Because when nothing happens, the FAGGOTS who spent all their time worrying and whining just say "I knew it was nothing all along."

Everyone who is concerned about this is a fucking coward. "My kids!" You don't control anything. Your kids could be taken away from you today, You'd have no recourse and you wouldn't do anything about it. You'd say "I'm gonna kill this person and that person" and you wouldn't do it.

Writing all that out actually pissed me off. Most people genuinely disgust me. I've said it a bunch and it probably makes me a "nazi" or whatever but there's something wrong with everyone who's not like me. I'll be fucked if I'm going to spend my life being afraid.

None of these pussies have a realistic view of themselves in their own heads either. I remember my one buddy (who is particularly a coward in general) talking about the Larry Nasser shit and being like "I would've fucking killed the guy." No, guy who's never won a fight, you wouldn't. You'd want to but then you'd weigh the options of throwing away your life and leaving your daughter without a father or letting the law deal with it and you wouldn't do anything but scream and cry and be like "How could this happen to ME". That is, if he'd even put himself on the line in the first place, which he never would in a million years.

These are the people who assume they could just take to the wilderness. People who literally can't do anything for themselves. People who can't live without fast food and microwaves. People who can't retain any information and need a youtube video walking them through any simple task EVERY time they do it. I'd rather get fucking nuked than feel like I'm dying a slow death anyways just from suffering idiots.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I remember people on here saying it's programming people for an up coming war completely unaware they are hysterical and neurotic

Didn’t they already do a movie like that? About hunting conservatives or something?

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I’m uninterested in seeing it because I already get the point. Yes if a Civil War happened Americans would start killing each other and thats wrong and bad. Violence is senseless and etc etc. I don’t need to watch a 2 hour film to get this.

Maybe some people do tho considering how much retards like to talk about killing their fellow citizens for (insert political belief here)

Seems like the black community has been having a civil war for decades. Waddle Doodle!

 

[TheRevAlJolson]

I'll probably end up watching half of this pile of shit once it's on video (is that even still a thing?) before checking out and doing something productive. I don't give a fuck about whatever political propaganda is tucked away in this movie, I'm not going out of my way to see it because modern movies suck. I haven't seen a well written movie in maybe a decade. It's mind blowing to me how bad modern mainstream cinema has gotten, specifically the writing. What happened? Did studios just assume so long as there are cartoon action scenes and bright colors flashed on the screen in regular intervals, no one will care that the plot itself doesn't make sense?

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I'll probably end up watching half of this pile of shit once it's on video (is that even still a thing?) before checking out and doing something productive. I don't give a fuck about whatever political propaganda is tucked away in this movie, I'm not going out of my way to see it because modern movies suck. I haven't seen a well written movie in maybe a decade. It's mind blowing to me how bad modern mainstream cinema has gotten, specifically the writing. What happened? Did studios just assume so long as there are cartoon action scenes and bright colors flashed on the screen in regular intervals, no one will care that the plot itself doesn't make sense?

They knew the average person is stupid and will enjoy whatever they put in front of them. Now the average person is so stupid or a complete man child they can just shit anything out and people will eat it up.

When I worked in TV about 15 years ago we had Spike TV want to do something with our production company and we were told they wanted “people to be able to follow it without the volume on” because that’s the brain-dead audience they’re going for. I worked on two seasons of Real World in post trying to put a story together for an episode and any idea that would involve the audience actually having to think in the slightest was rejected because they can’t trust the audience to follow something that isn’t spelled out in huge letters.

 

[Cartoon Redux]

Didn’t they already do a movie like that? About hunting conservatives or something?

Yeah, it was made by the same kike that wormed his way into Homestar Runner. Name is Craig Zobel or some shit. It had a POWERFUL WAMEN who was stronger and a better fighter than all the REDNECKS even though she wasn't even supposed to be there!

Watching new movies is for fags, just read the plot summary on Wikipedia and go golfing or something instead.