CIVIL WAR was SO BAD I wanted a REFUND
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2024
- When I saw the trailer for CIVIL WAR, it looked amazing! But it was basically, FALSE ADVERTISING THE MOVIE. Here is my honest review.
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This movie COULD have been good, but it LIED about what it was. I think most people expected an action packed thriller about a second American civil war, when in reality it was just a three day timeline of a war journalist. Look, I truly think if this movie marketed itself for what it really was, it may have been "passable." But even after all that, theres no story, theres no progression, everyone dies and there's no, "whoops I feel bad." I looked forward to this movie for months, and i was let down so hard.
This movie had such protentional to explore ideas, make war scary, show America the dark sides of war and politics, but all it did was just make me feel nothing for two hours of charachters who are self centered on their own agendas that all i felt was distain. It was a horrible movie from a standard viewer and if you go into this movie with the anything other than "this is about the experiences of war journalism" Your going to have a bad time.
"This movie COULD have been good, but it LIED about what it was."
Never saw the trailer? You could already see that we would experience the civil war from the perspective of journalists. It's not that surprising...
I'm surprised no one could tell it was gonna be ass from the trailer lmao I knew immediately as soon as I saw it weeks ago. I mean like you can honestly tell that they were just showing everything they possibly could to get people excited for the movie and when you show everything you possibly can to get people excited for the fucking movie that's really sad.
You have to do what i do my guy. You have to now wait a week. Wait.7.days.more. Come to true reviewers. Not that ish on Rotten Tomatoes. See what they say. Like Alteori
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@@dontgiveinfo 👍 👍
I've seen a number of pretentious and annoying critics who were ragging on this movie because it didn't take a political side. Not naming names but- *CoughGraceRandolphCough*. Ahem, pardon me.
Also I just wanna say that I'm not even American but Texas and California uniting for a second civil war is about as likely as Half Life 3 being released next week 😂
she's so awful
“Texas and California have united” - it’s possible the screenwriters aren’t familiar with the US either.
if a civil war really would happen - those two would be at each others' throats within a minute
@@kimberlyoldschool Well the director is from the UK. I think I remember that his intentions weren't to take a political stand on either side with this movie and have it be its own in-universe thing, hence the strange Tex/Cali alliance.
I'm not even from the same continent still know that Texas would fight and die by themselves, rather than allied with California.
Fun fact: The guy who looks like Pedro Pascal is a brazilian actor called Wagner Moura, he was the voice actor for the Death Wolf in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
He was the wolf?????
@@Alteori Yes, He was The Wolf in Puss in Boots
Yes!@@Alteori
He also played some pretty famous Columbian drug guy in Narcos. Pablo something or other.
@@hibernopithecus7500 The name is Pablo Escobar.
So basically the civil war started from a debate about garlic bread vs breadsticks.
Bread sticks are the winner
Garlic bread sticks with cheese is better.
Both would had been good. I mean Breadsticks and Garlic Beard both taste good so what's the difference?
fuck u garlic bread is better shitter
EXCELLENT WORK. AITEORI 😊😊😊❤💙🩵💜
I would be shocked if modern Hollywood could manage to pull off a modern day civil war movie like this. No way. And of course it is all about the journalists. Such brave.
Indie studio Angel Studios is putting out a film in a similar setting this Christmas called Homestead, maybe they'll do this in a more palatable way
@@actualnotanewbieThat one looks better because from the looks of it, it is focused on an individual community trying to survive through a civil war. Which allows for the details of the war itself to be more vague. When you're following a journalist, you'd expect to know more about what's and why the war began.
I went to see it because I fell for the trailers. I was worried (keeping in mind it's from Hollywood) that it would be a political/progressive wankfest, or a cringe war movie from people who don't understand war. Although to be honest, sometimes I can enjoy cringe in an ironic kind of way. But it was neither. It was nothing. You have no idea why there was a war, you know nothing about either side, were we suppose to feel good about killing the President? We knew nothing about him, so all I could think was that they killed someone who was trapped and trying to surrender. It was so boring!
To be fair, it is about wartime journalists trying to get the actual truth instead of blogging and pandering and farming clicks, views, or subs.
@@KeybladeMasterAndy It's unfortunate for real reporters and journalists that the concept of "journalist" has been co-opted by people who know very little about the world, pumping out their hot takes from New York cafes or their studio apartments, surrounded by their cats. I like to read those listicles where they compare America to the rest of the world, because it's so clear they took one trip to France, and that's their understanding of "the rest of the world."
I bet they didn't read a single page off a history book talking about civil wars of the past. A war is not a zombie apocalypse, 90% of the time, people in a country at war go about their day as normal outside of active combat zones. You don't see a highway full of abandoned cars unless is that place in Iraq where USA carpet bombed a highway full of civilians. in the Syrian civil war, people living in the combat zones became refugees in other countries but in non combat zones close to the coast people were enjoying their time at the beach as if there was no war.
It's a literally a huge point in the movie that this president orders Airstrikes on the Citizens, did you watch it?
You do understand that they're going into the most heavily contested area of the country, right? There would be mass collateral damage.
Yeah Texas teaming up with California is nuttier than a bag of nuts
You do know it’s fiction right ?
@@RB01.10 Even fiction requires some basis in reality.
@@SpaceJawa Fair point.
I’ve seen tons of fictional films with elements that could never happen in real life (such as supernatural elements in horror films) yet even at some points in the film I’m like “that’s a bit *too* unrealistic and far fetched even for this” LOL
@@RB01.10 The key is "Does it break the suspension of disbelief?" And that is the key problem at play.
If nothing else, credit to you for recognizing how it applies to other movies you've seen and being able to recognize how it could apply here.
Even movies 'based on a true story' have elements of fiction. The question it not 'is it real', the question is 'is it *believable*?'. The less believable it inherently is, the more work has to be done to convince the audience to suspend their disbelief for the sake of the story.
In theory, California and Texas teaming up could work, but it would require a lot more explanation for the audience to suspend their disbelief in the idea. Given the nature of the movie, it probably would not be worth the time or effort of the movie to explain that particular background element.
Thus, even the idea of creating a two-state nation that is just California and Texas is just a bad idea from a story perspective, unless that two-state nation is the core and central focus of your story.
As it happens, Civil War is Alex Garland's final movie. He has retired from directing.
Are you sure about that?
Says on his Wikipedia page there's another film he's directing coming up.
Perhaps that's for the best.
@@Alteori😂😂😂😂
Sadly not true, apparently he is working on a movie called. "Warfare." which is in pre-production and he is slated to be the director.
I am looking at his filmography and honestly, it just seems medi-ocre. He has writing credits on some good stuff, but every single thing he directed is so clearly propaganda movies.
he directed a movie just called. "Men." which is about a woman being hunted by evil men who are evil because... they are men I guess... I wonder what the message is here... Men. How dare they?!
@@MoonPhantom Well, that's disappointing that his big pronouncement that he's leaving directing is untrue.
I am 50, and have been watching and reviewing movies for various outlets for some time. Alex Garland is not an isolated incident in the propaganda category. Ever since ESG funds promulgated DEI initiatives and forced Angelo conflation of 'Diversity', every film that's released from a major studio label is predictive programming and propaganda. It's tragically stupid.
Damn, I wanted it to be a movie about how armed conflict can turn a normal person into a ruthless killer.
Breaking Bad does that good.
you, along with the main character, have time to ponder flowers during a shoot out scene. Literally. It was the highlight of the movie for me. they were pretty.
Watch apocalypse now or full metal jacket
Try the Gundam anime, most of them do that. (Basically every series is a teenager thrown into a giant death machine and told to go end a war).
"Red Glasses Guy" is Dunst's husband who filled in for an actor who couldn't film for some reason. So the best person in the movie wasn't even supposed to be there lol.
Really? If he isn't an actor he should consider being one
@@tereza1959Jesse Plemons is an actor, and a fantastic one.
And the Oscar for best leading actor goes. . . to the 2003 Ford Excursion for being the only memorable character in Civil War with more than 10 minutes of screen time.
Even if it sucks the combat scenes were pretty awesome
Embarrassing video
This seems like a movie that was based entirely off an elevator pitch:
“Lets do a movie about a modern American civil war following journalists covering it”
That’s it.
The writer makes a world, says 'this world is very interesting.' Wrong. The world is always boring. All the entertainment comes from the characters. In this case, the news truck, primarily. 😅
@@jameso1447If you want entertainment, watch Twilight, that movies hilarious
What do you mean thats it? bro thats a fire pitch 😂 u want aliens to come down too or what? Ur trying to make something interesting sound so mundane
As a Texan, the idea that we would team up with California is laughable.
Edit: I'm saying this in both fictional and non-fictional sense. I find the idea that Texas and California teaming up funny. Lol
Me when fictional movie is fictional 🤢🤢🤢😫😫😫😭😭😭😭😭☝️🤓☝️🤓☝️🤓
Without any states between them, even!
@@gaelorellana9648 Even fictional movies need some kind of basis in reality.
If anything Arizona would Join And Force New Mexico to as well while California Splits into peices and trys to not have its capitals razed
@@SpaceJawa Nah they... famously don't
With each passing day I’m starting to believe the US has the duty to not answer to any nuclear strike against LA😂
is it even worth targeting? the place is already a apocalyptic hellscape as is
🤣🤣Damn can't be that bad
You leaved out San Francisco, why? :)
@@Film_Sushi one city at a time🤣
the worst people in LA are the ones who move here looking for stardom from all over the country we natives wish yall stayed in your state
Should have just been real with the title and called it
"Journalism Truck".
But now look, there is this one facty that makes this title absolutely brtilliant
Journalists lie
It wouldn't have made this "steaming pile of crap" movie any better... 🤢
@@tonyzuco6144 Yes
🤣🤣 perfect name
I guess you could say it was: "dividing"
Dude had his finger on the trigger when he wasn't ready to fire his weapon. You can tell this was directed by someone who has ZERO idea about how to handle firearms.
Or any idea about filmmaking either
I mean thats how most action movies are
@@boggart159most action movies have been doing a fantastic job lately actually, where the actors actually get some firearms training for the movie
Jessie Plemmons in the thumbnail? Having seen the movie, I think that was a deliberate choice. That's the tensest scene in the film, and the guy's finger on the trigger is a cue the situation is a hair's breadth away from going south.
@@why8298Case in point, Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies.
"California and Texas have aligned"
I almost spit out my water when I heard that. You would be hard pressed to find 2 states that hate each other more or are more politically opposite.
That is not as far-fetched as you may imagine. In a situation of civil war maverick entrepreneurs are calling all shots in those two states, even though they don't sponsor the same street political movements, and they have far more in common to lose from a federal government growing soviet-like. Moreover they have on their side the Spanish speaking who dream of traditional America not of a Washingtonian neo-Soviet system.
I watched this movie today.
Was basically a boring love letter to Alex Garland's former profession: Journalism.
Was afraid to stand for anything. Asked no questions, and gave no answers.
A great premise wasted.
I’ve seen so many ads like “THE BEST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN” I’m tired of that shit
It definitely wasn’t bad this girl is off her meds. I think it needed more backstory but that’s it.
@@Beanman546The Background doesn't really matter, the best scene in the movie, the scene with red glasses guy is good because you don't know if he's WF or with the U.S., and it doesn't matter if you know, because people on all sides of wars commit atrocities like that guy does. War isn't ever good vs evil it's just evil vs evil
@@gaelorellana9648 well I know that I think it would be nice to know how something’s happened
@@Beanman546 well in the movie it seems like the president is crazy tyrannical like he's in his 3rd term and he like airstrikes citizens
@@Beanman546 You just want more context? That's fair :)
An ad for Civil War played while watching this.
Same lol
Same. XD
Use the Brave browser and those won't bother you anymore.
RUclips has been giving us Ads mostly good and bizarre movies like Civil War.
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20:55 The meaning was made by Kirsten Dunst' character saying: "don't do this, don't repeat this".
And that's it.
A "meh" movie.
Shoutout to The Red SunGlasses guy, he's probably becoming a meme, he played good.
It's like when the end of the world movies starting coming out around 2010
The “red sunglasses guy” is Jesse Plemons. He’s already been in a bunch of things. Most notably, he was Todd Alquist in Breaking Bad.
@@BJJohnson98 He's also married to Kirsten Dunst
@@BJJohnson98Thanks, that’s who I thought that was
well, he's pretty much the only character, apart from the 2 dudes who asked the main characters if they're r*tarded.
I was most impressed with them getting enough fuel for a Ford Excursion
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seriously.
Wait wait wait. Texas joins with California?? THATS the most unbelievable part, and that’s the premise of the whole movie!
Journos being important was equally unbelievable.
It boggles the mind.
@@majorgear1021 they weren't even journalists, they were war tourists.
@@majorgear1021it makes sense why thought it would be a good idea to make then the central figures, though. The point of the story seems to be, "look how horrible this scenario is and what this turns people into. Don't do that here." An argument can be made that ine of the best ways to convey that is to follow people who have a reason to travel all over the country observing everything from hostile checkpoints to massive gunfights and refugee canps.
Not "that" hard to believe in context if you watch the movie (I think it's decent, but not great, btw). They seem to be independent factions working together militarily in order to maintain their independence from DC. Whether or not they're politically and ideologically aligned is kind of irrelevant to the fact that they've teamed up to defeat a common enemy, though a comment in the movie suggests they could start fighting each other as soon as the US government is taken down.
Actually if the situation was this bad , the president, his staff and congress would have long been evacuated to Mount Weather or other number of hidden retreats.
Same thing I thought. As if he'd hang around waiting to be killed. (There IS a secret door in the Oval Office to escape, ya know!) What a shitty movie. OMG.
There is so huge a network of tunnels, bunkers and nuclear bomb shelters under the WH and reaching all under DC to the Pentagon. Many decision rooms in the WH where real decisions are taken are underground. Normally the final battle should have taken place in the tunnel network, like in Gaza. As you say the president has so many secondary residences and hidden retreats. He normally would have ensured only his media presence to be constant. The starting part of that film is not too bad but the more it progresses the more it passes from A to B series category.
Well, even if the movie wasn't very good, I hope to see more of Truck's work in the future. Hopefully this will at least help Truck's career.
I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one that didn't like that movie. The whole film I kept asking two questions over and over, "What's the point of this?" and most importantly, "WHY?". Texas and California join forces to overthrow the rest of the country. There was LITERALLY no reason given for the war.
Truck-kun!
Truck-kun is MVP both in Isekai and in Hollywood.
XD
Truck-kun really drives the plot for a lot of media nowadays
Run over me, Truck-kun! *ahigo face*
Optimus Prime.
As soon as I saw the map I thought it looked lame. A true civil war in America would not divide based on state boundaries like the war in the 1860s. At worse it would be an explosive mess akin to what we see places like Syria, because the truth is that the states are not politically homogenous. There are many conflicting groups in this country (militias, cults, people outside of the political mainstream) and we are all held together by the idea that if we don't like something, we can vote to fix it. As soon as that idea is seen as dead, people will start carving out territory. Yeah, some semblance of state authority might exist somewhere, but you won't be seeing giant blocs like "The Florida Alliance" or "The Western Forces." This film was obviously made for the journalist class who for some reason cannot fathom realities that are different from their preconceived notions of how things work.
LMAO i knew it would suck because it portrays Journalist as being some noble ones.
So brave and stunning!
A complete work of fiction that makes Star Wars and Valareon of a 1000 Planets feel like a historical documentary. Lol
The journalists aren't noble. They are very much out for the scoop and not some higher calling. They repeatedly stand by as people get tortured or shot just to get a decent picture.
At the end of the movie they even cause the death of someone they know and just move on to get the shot they came for.
The journalists definitely aren't "good" or "noble" and very much just people.
I like how you can't tell the difference between war photojournalists and people who write about pop-culture. Pundit brainrot has clearly set in.
Not really tbh. They're not really painted in a purely good or bad light. Some of them espouse some lofty ideals, but then in another scene, they're portrayed doing something rather manipulative and duplicitous. They're definitely the protagonists, but they're not necessarily heroes. They're not "the good guys," though some seem better than others. They're just multilayer characters. The whole reason they're going to DC is kinda morbid, actually. They basically want to get an interview or a quote from the president before the Western Forces either capture or kill him. It definitely isn't really trying to tell you who to root for. If there's a specific point to any of it, it's just to show you how horrible a scenario like this would be and what it would turn people into, so avoid it at all costs, hence the writer director's assertion that he's not making a partisan statement.
"And the award for Best Supporting Actor goes to...Walt the Truck!"
The young journalist made the old journalist her surrogate mother. It was a kinda corny and predictable passing of the torch type deal. It was so predictable when she died for her at the end, In the beginning she was like " I don't care if you get shot or blown up" at the end she was like " I have to protect this cute little thing that wants to be just like me, shes basically my daughter"
Journalism as a profession has been destroyed. For years now. It's bedlam unless you go really niche specific and then there's some unexpected journalists left to tell the tale. That's just how it is. Now, making a movie about journalism during a proposed civil war? Nah. The journalism in such a time would be what's my next meal. People will record it while they can but those products weren't built to last and so all that will be forgotten in the violence. If it were believable, we wouldn't be following a war hardened journalist. We would be following something like a machinist working to develop tools for manufacture. Someone who is a 2nd generation immigrant wondering what the hell is going on and surviving. That would be compelling.
Knew this movie would suck when I saw Cali and Texas aligning. What fantasy world is that possible those two are the FARTHEST drom teaming up
It's... not a documentary, it's actually, and this might blow your mind, a fictional movie
@gaelorellana9648 I know that but suspension of disbelief i mean come on
@@gaelorellana9648 Imagine a movie that is ostensibly set in the 'real world' where people can just naturally fly for some reason. It has no relevance to the plot, nobody ever comments on it, it's just a thing they can do, put into the movie because the screenwriter or director felt like putting it in for some reason.
Totally fine 'because it's fiction', right?
@@SpaceJawa Yea, it's fiction, that's the point, hope this helps 👍 No, but I get what you're saying, the whole reason that it's California and Texas is to set it apart from our world, it isn't meant to be political it's meant to be anti-war, and no one would listen to that story if they're to busy jacking themselves off to people killing lefties or right-ies or whatever. So it IS relevant to the plot, you just missed that I guess. The plot isn't "this is what would happen in a real civil war in our world," it's "this is what war looks like, DON'T DO WAR!" So yea it IS meant to be realistic, but their are WAY more "realistic" movies with way harder to beleice premises, look at John Wick, that guy should NOT have taken 4 movies to die 💀 But people love those movies, I love those movies. So it's not like it's crazy unbelievable that Texas allied with California, you just want this movie to be something it isn't
@@gaelorellana9648 The problem is 'suspension of disbelief'. The idea of California and Texas teaming up to form their own two-state nation is too much a stretch to make the story 'believable'. It just stretches disbelief beyond the breaking point.
It doesn't matter what the reasoning is. There are far more reasonable ways to keep the movie apolitical without introducing a story element that is inherently unbelievable without giving the audience a reason to suspend their disbelief. Using "We're making a two-state nation out of Texas and California" is just bad worldbuilding that is entirely to the detriment of the movie.
It is not the audiences job to say "I guess this unbelievable thing is meant to tell us it's a work of fiction". It is the movie's job to convince the audience to suspend their disbelief in an inherently unbelievable story element.
Whenever critics say "This movie is the best thing ever!!!!!" I know it's really garbage. #@$^ing Ghostbusters 2016 had a 98% rating on rotten tomatoes for f#@%s sake.
My idea for a rewrite: Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada, are known as the Eastern Maoists States, ruled by a Chinese magistrate. Idaho, east to the Dakotas and south to Utah, are known as the Northwestern States of America, where the Electoral College selected "Illegitimate President" presides. Texas to Florida is known as the Southeastern States of America, which is presided by another "Illegitimate President". All the other states are known as the "Loyalist States", presided by the democratically elected "Legitimate President" who is a puppet of the UN.
The journalists are imbedded with a military unit traveling west to Utah to oust the "Illegitimate President" in Salt Lake City in coordination with the Maoists States. Over the course of the journey they witness war crimes and human rights violations being committed by the loyalists that they aren't allowed to report on because they don't want to be accused of trying to subvert the "legitimate president". At one point they see a prison gang doing manual labor. Their crime? Being election deniers. Allowed to interview them, the older female journalist is passed a note by one of the female prisoners that says they're being tortured, but the female journalist gives the notes to the soldiers monitoring the prisoners who execute the female prisoner on the spot.
When they reach Utah, the loyalist forces have a long, bloody fight to gain control of the Salt Lake Temple, where they believe that the "illegitimate president" is "hiding", only to discover that the building is empty. So, the military goes from high-profile building to high-profile building, can't find the "illegitimate president", taking fire and being cut apart until they're forced to retreat. Turns out, their target was in a bunker, coordinating the resistance, the whole time, but the International Rainbow Brigade, with officers appointed to meet DEI quotas, couldn't figure that out. Instead, the Loyalists lose Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, while the Maoists lose Nevada.
See, *this* is an interesting idea
Vegas might go Maoist, but Reno would be... disputed. And the rest of Nevada wouldn't be down for that.
That's a movie I'd pay to watch
@@tenchraven Well, we could say that Nevada had been recently conquered by the Maoists in preparation for the assault on Utah, and in the aftermath of the failed campaign, Nevada was able to regain independence and rejoined the Northwestern States.
@@tenchraven its the same with all the "blue" states.
one dense urban center votes blue. the 99% of the state that isnt the city is deep red.
ask anyone from rural Oregon, northern Cali or upstate NK who they would vote for.
probably more radicalised than the average texan
I haven't seen the movie yet, but another reviewer was speculating about this movie's originally having a political slant, but after reviewing it, the Producers told the film makers to cut out anything political and piece together a movie with what you have left.
Defeating the whole purpose of even making a movie on the civil war.
It's A24 they famously don't give a fuck what their directors/writers make
@@HK47_115 Not really
@@HK47_115 Not at all, the point of the film is that your country is messed up and politically divided and that the politics don’t matter and you guys should stop fighting and be United. ITS IN THE NAME OF YOUR COUNTRY FFS
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is a "journalist" finding there humanity...
Journalists would be hiding in their safe space until the war was over
Honestly they didn't even do that. I think if they'd had the guts to make it clear Lee was dying but not dead when Jessie left her, it would've sold that she'd become just as detached as her idol, since she left her to die alone to get a good picture. The movie *doesn't* do that but nothing suggested to me any of the main characters were particularly likable.
@@AJadedLizardI think the girl photographing Lee being shot carried that message across. I don’t know how you missed that, it was the clear implication.
@@AJadedLizardAlso characters don’t need to be likable in films, are you that soft? 😂 you’d absolutely hate Breaking Bad
*their 🤓
Sorry I’m a nerd
This ''movie'' sound more like Civil War between real audience and ''modern audience
''.
American film post 2012 has been definitive trash at $150M-$330M production budgets
yep. I find reviews of the movies to be way more entertaining that the movies themselves
Budget was $50 million
@jimjimmiesii4465 I'm mostly talking about post 2019 productions like Rise Of Skywalker, The Marvels, Dr Strange², Indiana Jones and the whatever title etc.
Meanwhile Godzilla Minus One was $9M-$15M and looked better than anything I've seen in years. Written/directed better, acted better. Had actual characters to care about
@@majorgear1021Jesus Christ….
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_IttoGodzilla Minus One was great. But so was: Barbie, Oppenheimer, Civil War, Spiderverse, Dune parts 1 & 2, Top Gun Maverick, Avatar 2 etc.
Also Godzilla Minus One is always the movie that the “movies suck now” crowd points to as an example of a good movie 😂 bro, every year theres amazing films being made and released. Why is Godzilla the only one you dorks reference?
@21: 18 THANK YOU! fellow artiest here I 100% agree the example you gave is crazy because there is actually a painting like the only the dot is red.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and it cost mad money too
@@Alteori millions!!! That shit really works my nerves every time I think about it or it happens to come up in conversation....that's not fucking art as you said.
@@myster_ink8115 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You know behind closed doors they're making bets with their friends.
"I bet you 4.2 billion I can take a speck of my sh*t and sell it to these idiots for 10 million."
His friend replies, "Alright, bet!"
And then that dot on a canvas or a garbage can painted red costing millions and billions is the result 🤣
Nobody should be civil to this piece of crap movie
It’s not crap, it’s just fiction and quite frankly well made
Once again you saved us from a disaster. Not all heroes wear capes! Thank you😅
Well that's another good thing that came out of this, saving you guys the trouble bc damn. I'm so mad I'm never getting that time back. Tickets were hella expensive too bc of where we went. See Monkey Man instead.
Nah. The Force Awakens was me awakening to assume all modern movies are poop. I watch youtube videos for affirmation of my assumption.
its a good film, go see it
Kinda of ass licking
The best thing about this movie releasing is that we got to see a new alteori outro 😅
Even after watching the trailer, I knew I won't be wasting any money on this movie!
Same. At first I thought it had potential but watching the trailer it was pretty clear they had no story.
Watch the damn movie, not reviews about it
@@kristoffarkas9909 shity trailer mean shity movie.
@@kristoffarkas9909 Dude if they can't even make a good trailer then Clearly didn't make a good movie period I'm not wasting my time and money on it period
@@Adrian-yi8fl I liked it
The best part was when Walt pulled over and whent on a diatribe about how he hates sand.
Can't blame him. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
If you want a real Civil War, watch Hotel Rwanda
Do not watch that movie unless you are interested in a depression simulator.
That movie was good
but it will ruin your day
Bro! That was such a GOOD movie! Hard to watch since it's based on a true story.
@@jemhoare2105Eh, it ain't that depressing. I bought it and another one (forgot the name) when I was around 12 from the same conflict but the other one was harder to watch. Like, you are seeing the lucky ones so you don't really have to endure character loss.
Though I'd dare say the worst side of the conflict would have been for the frontline soldiers of both sides.
I'd say First They Klled My Father is closer to that topside because if you know about the history of Cambodia you are seeing a rather lucky minor in the time period compared to many others. Remember, a fifth of the population, gone.
I'd give some non western made ones but doubt it'd be good if that's your reaction hæhæ. Neither would soldier focused ones would work that well since I'm biased because, paramilitary when young lol.
My biggest gripes with the movie were that 1) the redneck red glasses dude shot that one guy for saying he's from Hong Kong when Hong Kong sees itself as its own country and actually opposes China, and 2) soldiers are able to use cement pillars as cover for gunfire. I'd understand if it was a popcorn flick, but grounded stories like 24 usually get this right (normal cars, walls, etc. can't be used as cover for gunfire, bullets will just go right through)
Wait, you mean you actually think a racist redneck would care or know the difference between Hong Kong and China? Lol.
But the point is, Red neck guy doesn’t see HK as different from China. The character would just be Chinese if the movie was that stupid, they made him from HK so Jesse Plemons can say “Hong Kong, China” before shooting him. To him its all the same.
Oh and the concrete pillar thing, it looked like the concrete was surrounding a steel beam, because you see chunks of concrete flying off when its shot and something black underneath
@@danculbert6349yes, its the script
Rednecks don't know or care about stuff like that. Most of the people in our country know little to nothing about the rest of the world or the different religions and cultures. Hence we have Christians in this country who do not realize there are a substantial amount of Christians in Southwest Asia being massacred by US allies.
I don't need a movie to know that America is fucked
And that's my problem this movie feels exploitative especially in an election year like this
@pbh9195 have you seen the movie?
It’s fiction
I gotta say Alteori, I actually really appreciate this review. Most of the other ones I've watched have just been bogged down in politics, but yours got straight to the point: It's trash. Regardless of what your beliefs are, it's boring, poorly written, and trash. Thanks for saving me the cost of the ticket.
Definitely. Usually, I'm like.... go watch for yourself and see. NOPE. NOPE. Do not waste your money. If you're gonna waste your time, don't waste your money with it lol.
@@AlteoriYarrr, what be ye suggestin' there, lass?
@@Alteori Suffering through the movie so we don't have to!
If the cost of your ticket was saved, then you didn't watch the movie... right? How are you so sure it is boring, poorly written and trash, tho??
@@jonaspetty8767go buy a ticket, watch the movie...and make a video about it...
Like Alteori did...you know...the one you are commenting on?
Dafuq weetard.
I find it hard to believe but also entirely plausible that the creator of Annihilation failed to make this well.
Discount Pedro is the same dude from Narcos series and Elysium movie (he was fatter in those).
And he's a beter actor than Pedro.
He was overweight in season one to portray Pablo Escobar. In season 2 he used a fat suit. He’s a good actor. Much more likeable than Pedro p u s s y Pascal. He’s a crybaby weirdo.
I'd say Pedro is better in action films but goddamn, watch Elite Squad 1 and 2 (specially 1) and he nailed that role so freaking well
This entire movie is leftwing fear porn.
Truck-Kun saving the day once again XD
Lol the ad for this video is the civil war movie. 🤣😂🤣😂
You're joking 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Alteori Lol NOPE! Haha and I was watching the whole video just thinking ohhhh the irony haha.
@@cavebear7261Thats not irony at all. It’s a targeted ad
for many years now i´ve often times had the suspicion that the best parts of many movies where only used in the trailers and sometimes i wasn´t even sure about these scenes being in said movies at all.
So basically Civil War is kinda the same thing as Generation Kill which was marketed as this semi-documentary military action but turned out to be a roadtrip movie. Except nowhere near as good
at least we know the world building of that series...
Generation Kill was actually good because the dialogue was well written and the characters (being real people) were interesting. Also what little action there was was actually good.
Toby Spider-Man Peter number one was not there to save his woman
Holy crap, didn't realize its MJ cus she's blonde here. 😂
Clueless out-of-touch ideologues made a pretentious film about journalists.
Ironic.
Wait what? What do you mean, explain
So you’re telling me, the only interesting character in the movie shows up only in the end, and dies in the same scene… trash
and 90% of the dialogue is in the trailer. and then he just gets run over, but the main characters have plot armour, so they don't, even though they were standing right next to him. And one of them gets shot in the side, even though his buddy was shooting at the BACK of the car while it was driving away. It's not just stup*d. It's stOOOp*d. but that dude was supposed to die bc they kept telling us that throughout the movie. Like, literally, almost every scene this dude was in had a ''ya gonna die" joke in it. Everything is foreshadowing. Like the foreshadowing, has foreshadowing...
I'm so glad your channel came into my recommendations. You're videos are so well thought out and presented. Huge fan
Ya wanna know how I knew this movie was gonna be Gorbage just from the Tailer?
"California and Texas succeeded from the US"
Yeah when a Magical Wish Granting Dragon blackens the sky and gives people free popcorn. Those two states are MORE LIKELY to fight each other.
I knew the movie would be bad the moment I saw it centered around a Random group of civilians, the interesting thing about a Modern day second civil war should've been about the war itself
They don't have the cojones to make that movie. They could gather up every pair in Hollywood and it could never fill that cup.
It's about why to NOT do Civil War, not "Hey War is awesome look at how cool it is!"
@@gaelorellana9648 it's not that but what about the actual politics of it? WHat would that look it but they glossed over that to watch 3 assholes go cross country to take a photo of the president. While never giving any context on why its bad.
@@Bilbo122333 They give plenty of context on why war is bad, you watch a ton of people die brutally. And characters have panic attacks at how horrible the sights they're seeing are. It's not about the politics, it's about war. Evil is committed on all sides of war that's why the identity of all the soldiers we meet is never really clear till the end of the movie when the WF marches on D.C.
Civilians are the most affected in a civil war and are often the most overlooked. I think it's good that civilians are the focus.
Disparu did a great video mocking partisan reviewers complaining this film wasn't partisan enough.
Sounds like a movie made by journalists trying to tell you how hard their jobs are
What if the movie isn't even about the journalist? What if it's literally only about the civil war?
Hear me out...
What if the journalists are just a plot device to get from point A to point B? I mean sure the journalist characters are well developed, but what better way to show the effects of a civil war other than basically a cross-country road trip boots on the ground?
Not really sure why there was so many abandoned cars on the interstate, as if there was a electro magnetic pulse bomb or something, but I assume there was some kind of fuel shortage and people just drove their cars as far as they could before abandoning the vehicles and walking to refugee camps or towns and cities not entirely directly engaged in the civil war
But, journalist are the people that bring us the story in real life so it's kinda only fitting to use them as a plot device to tell a nationwide story...
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Now let's tell the same story with no journalist and no road trip. How would you direct the movie? There's really only one way and that's to actually introduce characters from each side and jump back and forth to each story or follow one side until they reach the white house, but remember your telling the story during the same point in time in the film and the journalist didn't encounter any official military until they were virtually near DC so if you tell it from the military perspective it's a 30-minute movie as the military appeared to be staging operations while the journalist was traveling on their road trip
But anyway I'm getting off topic, what I'm saying is that people are letting the characters profession get in the way of the actual experience of the movie, what I'm saying is people are looking at the characters as journalists and not characters, people are reaching for connections with journalism that just aren't there, it's like saying teenage mutant ninja turtles is about April O'Neil struggling as a news anchor when all it is is character development...
The film is about a Civil War the main characters just happened to be journalists
@@BoHodges-mh1tq seems you missed the first two words "sounds like". Haven't watched the movie myself bucko. I don't really want to ,and yes I understand nuke=EMP EMP=fired electronics unless they're hardened or protected. That doesn't mean a journalist was the best showing or that they didn't try to cast it a more flattering light. 🧐
@@bobsmith1313
Intriguing, did you know, high voltage transformers can cause an EMP?/ Electromagnetic pulse bomb, not all emp's come from nukes...
What I'm saying is, sounds like it's a whole Civil War going on, I doubt work is seriously on anyone's mind... It was even snipers on the roof in the town with the boutique
The fact they thought Texas and California would unite was insane enough.
Anyone who knows the basics about American politics, geography, and the resource distribution of the country can instantly tell that this civil war will be over in a matter of months. It's less of a war and more of a skirmish.
Ah yes cause our one Civil War in America was famously, 3 months long
@@gaelorellana9648and they had amazing resources.
here ill keep this simple.
AZ and NM still being loyal is a death sentance as the Loyalist states would be pincered into oblivion Through excursions on almost all fronts.
The only thing Cali and Texas have in this scenario is Naval possibilities.
and since they didn't explain ANY logistics i can only really assume its just a skirmish warfare with encampments and fanatics.
@@peteynutt4104 That's just your assumption, nobody gives a fuck about that... the movie is about war and war happens in the movie, it's not called Civl Skirmish. In the movie it explains that the states that consider themselves loyalists are kind of just ignoring that the war is happening at all, and basically aren't really loyalists, they just aren't super focused on the war as a whole. The movie isn't meant to be a step by step breakdown of what Civil War would look like strategically, it's a cautionary tale about why Civil War is a BAD IDEA
Name me one civil war that ended quickly also If you Talk about the gun owning more rightleaning Side you forgot to mention that they mainly want to BE left alone also there are no terrorities of rightwing or leftwing its all over the place IT would BE a Mess and way more anarchy than frontlines
So this seems like one of those movies that could have gone in two different directions and got stuck in the middle.
On one side it could have been a shlocky action movie about "guns! Explosions! Political message? Nah more explosions!"
Or it could have been a serious and deep message about how "war is horrible and brutal. How man could be so savage and neighbours could become enemies"
But instead got stuck in the middle in the worst way, all the boring and bad parts
No, it's pretty, 'War is horrid and Brutal and how could man be so savage,' it didn't get stuck it just seems like this lady didn't get exactly what she expected in this movie which seemed to be like a Marvelesque brain rot good v evil movie
Shocker shocker.
BUT LIKE.......THE TRAILER...... LOL
@@Alteori They release a blatantly divisive movie during a controversial election year. Yup.
@@bigtony4930that means it's gonna be a bad film?
@bigtony4930 kinda just makes you sound sensitive. It's just a movie after all. You're saying you'd like it if it came out 2 years ago?
@@hollowkid97 I'm sensitive because I'm calling them out for releasing an intentionally divise movie out during a controversial election year? I don't follow.
>makes a movie about a second american civil war
>Makes the main characters two female journalists
Why? Why do this? All you had to do was make the main character a rural white kid who gets press ganged into a militia.
Or black for diversity, could have worked better actually since the whole division thing of the community would make him have a very cynical and perceived cowardly perspective until he slowly becomes loyal to his unit and his moral restraints and political drilling fade away as he is utterly desensitized by the conflict.
Otherwise if he fights for a left leaning force, it would be how they take a man that lived peacefully and rurally, free of the state (unlike the first one who should be a city dweller) into an abomination of a fanatic, willing to do almost anything for the cause he was trained for.
But eh, Hollywood. Their writers protest because they get 75k a year when even I can come up with better plots in a matter of minutes.
We should do a writers strike to make the mid ones get paid less.
Garland announced he’s retiring from directing to focus on screenwriting instead. I can’t imagine that’s not a coincidence
Never completely trust a trailer.
Oh my god, even from listening to your describing and explanation of the movie I could feel myself starting to go asleep so the moment that when the outro music started playing before the outro transition happenedI was like: What's going On?? Where's that coming from?? XD
I fell asleep halfway through the review.
That's because she skipped like every important detail
i love the fake BOUGHT FOR praise by the reviewing sites
The glazing from Tiktok reviewer's been insane too
Yeah never use a review cite or critics lmao
I salute you for watching this dreck so I didn't waste precious time checking it out thinking it was going to be a large scale, 'The Hunt' the one with Betty Gilpin. Not only that, but you kept me smiling and laughing throughout your delightful review.
It wasn't a review it was a complaint because the movie about WAR wasn't fun enough
A24 & Focus Features needs to have their false advertising reigned in. Every single time the movies never what it’s advertised as; Focus Features Comedy = sad drama,
A24 horror movie = misunderstood monster/sad drama
Every. Single. Time.
No, I think you just interpreted it wrong, I pretty much expected what I got, and it was good :)
I just watched this movie, and it was truly an abomination. Zach Snyder I’m shrooms slow mos, false advertising, pure stupidity and nonsensical decisions by the characters, ridiculously unrealistic and flat combat, ZERO world building (at least a little would suffice) and poor character building all wrapped up in a pretentious community college art class veneer. I normally search out reviews for movies I truly loved to get more immersed or hilariously bad movies to garner a good laugh. This is the first movie in a while where I wanted to see a review out of pure irritation.
@Alteori - what is that game you are playing? I tried it long ago, wanna check it out : 0 pls
I absolutely hated the ending. Doesn't fot the concept at all. Feels very Hollywood type ending.
How would it end?
Thank you very much for taking a bullet so many of us didn't have to. This movie seemed like a pizza cutter: all edge, no point.
However, I have a very important question: what was the video game you were playing to provide background filler?
I thought the same thing as you when I saw the trailer.
I have not seen it yet, so thank you for your review. I'ma save my money lol
great vid Alteori.
It took me eight minutes into the video to realize you were playing Streets of Rogue in the bg. That game goes hard and you have great taste, my friend
That truck carried the movie
Texas Toast vs Avocado Toast. There’s nothing Texas hates more than these elites fucking up their food. Allies😂
I read a comic series a couple years ago, by brian wood, it was called “DMZ”, it was about the immediate aftermath of a second American civil war, and the DMZ is manhattan, the story follows a journalist working in the DMZ called Mathew Roth, they should have just made that into a movie.
what game are you playing ?
Streets of Rogue the first game. The sequel looks much better but the first one was on sale so I bought that one.
Your Elite class vocalization was supremely hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
I was very disappointed with the film, nothing was ever explained in the movie. Why America even split, what the civil war was even about.
Whose side are we on? Like EXPLAIN!
The music selection in this movie was HORRIBLE! There are many serious moments that get undervalued because a rap song is playing in the background. It’s just so stupid.
The ending was just dumb, I don’t even know the message that was supposed to be conveyed.
I think the FBI agent who tried to negotiate for the presidents escape was a Candance Owen’s insert
“Gargling fish gonads” GOOD LORD, LMAO
"We're Godzilla fans!"
*Godzilla Fandom*
"Okay... what kind of Godzilla fan are you?"
I'm not sure how I found this channel a few months ago but it's fun, love that animated cat also well i think it's a cat 👍
Fox lol
What's the name of the game in the background?
Thank you for this video. Was thinking of seeing this movie.
Your commentary is amazing and amusing.
Buy the way, Alteori 🤣😂😅🤣 with this movie Civil War, I totally expected Tim Pool to direct this; because the man can’t go a day without saying the Civil War is coming 🤣😂😅🤣
😂 I wouldn't even know. I don't watch him but this movie enraged me 😭
Tim Fool :)
@@Alteori he’s right about a lot of things but he’s been saying civil war is coming for at least 5 years to the point of meme
Hi should i make Godzilla vs the waters snake but low budget it based on Godzilla x Kong
Not funny, didn't laugh
It wasn’t a joke. It was a question
When you said the best character was the truck I choked on my spit lmao.
Exactly how I felt with "Beau Is Afraid." Utter crap and I was actually able to get my $25 back.
Thank you so much for telling me that. You was looking into seeing that as well but maybe I'll avoid that
@@Alteori 3 hour slogfest of self-indulgent "look what crap I can make you watch" nonsense with an ending that will make you question your life for having wasted time watching this film.
I think people were talking the movie was more like Red Dawn.
Red dawn is 10 times better then this
A24 is a plague. I don't know why they're so successful when they've built 90% of their movie premises on "it looks like something might happen but rhen nothing happens and we hope you think it's deep". 😩😮💨