Civil War | Movie Review 

Yeah....

(Don't take it seriously, okay?) I think you're preferring to the 2016 version. The film you're watching is the 2024 version, whom is not Marvel.

I was in an empty theater and it was dead silent for parts of the film

I completely agree. I also would like to mention that that one scene with plemons was something really interesting, because SPOILERS when Jessie fall into that hole; at that point she part of one of her photo's instead of behind the camera.

ayyy

Atp, whatever she doesn’t like I think most of us on this channel will 😂

She sucks at her job

I never even liked Grace Randolph to begin with. Even back when I was getting into film, filmmaking and the film review culture here on RU-vid, I couldn’t stand her. She comes off as very annoying and also has a weird hatred towards Jessica Chastain for some reason.

Why tf are you even watching her in the first place ???

She couldn’t understand or bring herself to think for herself and come to her own conclusions. She wanted hollywood to tell her the liberals and the left are good and the right are bad yet the movie doesn’t do that. There ARE signs but she won’t get the message that everyone in this situation are wrong.

dawg wtf are you talking about this is is written and directed by alex garland

Bro thought an Alex garland film would be generic

Bro the movie was fucking horror film

@@SasoSasori- literally scared me more than any horror film that has ever come out 10x

@@tatemaier9152 yeah

I don't likeor care about all of their movies, but they disproportionately make a lot of good and interesting original stories. A24 films are doing a lot of heavy lifting keeping the annual movie slate interesting.

@@Tyler_W yee, agreed

well I do for the most part, but I don't think that our journalists are the 'hero's' of the movie. I think that (just like photojournalists and is mentioned in the movie) they just show you what's going on and not giving any opinion, but rather letting the viewer make on opinion about things. That's probably the reason why this movie doesn't try to make you pick a side. It's like this story is told by war journalists.

I'm sad, too. I'd love for him to direct my books into movies.😢

I hope this is more of a Hayao Myazaki situation where he retires and comes back multiple times because he cane up with a story he needed to tell. Unless someone can replace telling stories with something they're equally or even more passionate about, a storyteller is never going to stay away forever.

Alex Garland is a screenwriter in the first place, so if this will happen, we may expect more „Alex Garland” stories, provided by other directors. I’m OK with that.

I suppose whether or not this a problem entirely depends on the point of the story. What could be lerceived as a lack of proper development could, from a different perspective, not be the point of why the story is being told. My instinct is that if the wroter and director didn't feel that kind of exploration necessary to tell the story, then perhaps I need to consider that my focus is on the wrong thinvs before I chalk it up to being half baked.

i agree

Exactly, in the middle of a war nobody cares about the wider geopolitical circumstances. Satire and ridicule are skill sets best used in peace time. I love that it left all that out and got to the bullets and bombs. Because if that's what shakes people awake to the reality of what war is then people will stop this loose talk about war. It's hell. I was in Iraq in 2004-2005. Trust me, it's hell.

AGREED! I understand why they didn't get into it but it made the movie empty. They could have stayed neutral of we got more on the characters at least, so the deaths mattered.

I think that was done purely intentional and was a genius choice by Alex Garland, let me explain. The only way to make this movie was to make a purely objective film focusing on the journalist aspect only where we really had no clue what was happening in the background of the war. We have no idea what the different "factions" wanted or why they succeeded which made us as an audience not pick a side but rather watch a film objectively that reflects a mirror at us to show why a civil war would be tragic and why we as U.S citizens should never want that.

Really I thought she did pretty good. Maybe the character wasn't good but the performance was still good

She's probably supposed to be annoying

well I think the reason she's in the movie is to serve as the opposite of Dunst's character. Dunst's character has been a photo journalist for quite some time and has seen a lot of terrible things, but Jessie has not yet. I really liked the way they changed the character Jessie over the course of the movie. It feels like Lee and Jessie has switched their views or at least changed their views to more of the other one.

It made gunshots so scary and not glorified like other war/action movies. But yeah, it was loud as hell.

Yeah

Sean’s got some videotapes to return after this review. 😂

You are going to hate this. It's not what you think. It's woke trash. Absolutely ZERO STORY.

@@jimgordon3468I don’t think a single character was part of the LGBTQ community so idk where you’re even getting “woke” from. If anything, you would probably love it for that

@@jimgordon3468 This is not a "woke" movie is any way. I'm starting to think you don't know what that means or you didnt see the movie and base your opinions from twitter. It was a purely objective look at war with the most minimal political views in any war movie i have seen in years.

I thought it was good. Wasn’t as riveting as I hoped it would be, and I still wanted some background as to why this Civil War happened in the first place. Great cinematography and performances though.

@@narukamizanagi8645 you’re missing the point of the movie if you’re craving context

A24 dropped the ball again, movies had more potential, iron claw literally only had shock value, and civil war could have just been way more invoking

@@JackJohnson-kl8el I believe it was thought provoking and better than I expected from the cons I’ve been hearing but after listening to the director I’m seeing it for a second time. He did say the reasons, the little details are all there he just didn’t want to spoon feed people (nowadays that’s all ppl want ex being everyone wanting to know why Cali and Texas are aligning, which he explains and it’s as obvious as it’s shown in the film, who and why certain factions are separated and the types they are based on the execution styles and even to what they’re wearing)

@@JackJohnson-kl8el iron claw was good but it could’ve been great … we didn’t see a lot of the brothers on their own, we just saw Zac efron and went from tragedy to tragedy essentially.

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Omg you actually responded

well, I liked the way it was shot in black and white indicating the camera lens.

Well the president sent parastrikes against people. I honestly thought that this movie wasn't necessarily about the war, but rather about war journalism. But that's just my way of viewing it...

I would agree, but Dune 2 exists and there's absolutely 0 chance it doesn't win.

@@educatedduck6618 ah yes thank u for reminding me to come back lol. I liked it but yeah wasn’t as good as dune 2 fs

it mostly avoids politics

@@rickyrougs Good to know, thank you.

There's no such thing as "Blue" states...just blue cities

Missed the entire point of the movie. If you see the president or rebels as your opposing or aligning party, then this movie is having a dialogue about you, and what happens if the us vs. them mentality goes too far.

@@ethanitus8028 i haven’t seen the movie… so i missed no point. That also has nothing to do with my post

Both are border states so for all we know, they could have been invaded.

*Spoilers* I like how Spaeney and Dunst undergo opposite character transformations throughout the film. I found Spaeney and Moura despicable by the end and the new regime worse than the one it replaced.

@@politefan8141 You bring up a good point about the Western Forces, and no one has asked this question: What if the President was the good guy?

Israel is entirely justified in defending itself.

No. The movie is being criticized for NOT taking a side

@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout If you think this movie is apolitical, you must have not been paying attention.

@@operatorzitraa No one said it wasn't political at all, they said the movie didn't take a side, which it didn't. If what your took from this movie was political sides, then you're just not intelligent enough for a movie like this, and it's calling out people exactly like you.

I read The Handmaids Tale last year for a class. I know 💀💀💀💀💀

@@NinthShinigami Yeah. Have you watched the show on Hulu?

@@carter_lovejoy I’ve seen clips of it. That was in the class I was talking about lol. I know past season 1 it goes way further from the book and kinda goes its own way…

@@NinthShinigami Yeah. I’m too afraid to watch it right now a lot of it feels too real to what’s actually happening in our world, mainly in the U.S. I’ve seen enough clips of it online to get the idea of what it’s like. S1 is an adaptation of the book and the rest of the show is its own thing. Right now they’re currently working on S6 and also adapting The Testaments (the official sequel to the book) into a show where it focuses on Aunt Lydia set years after the original book.

@@NinthShinigamibut there isn’t going to be an event that results in only a small percentage of women are fertile so how is it predicting anything?

It's not opposite land. Just a polarizing film. Art is meant to do that. There isn't even a consistent pattern to which categories of people are liking and disliking this film.

You’re making my point. You just presented people you disagree with in the least generous and most extreme light, and you presented the side you agree with in the most generous manner possible. That way of thinking is the problem. The fringes cranking up heat with extremist takes are the problem Normal people people can disagree with someone but not view them as a villain.

Dude he was saying the American auto industry would be killed in a blood bath if he wasn’t elected. You are far more dangerous with massive misinformation than most people who will vote for Trump. You literally took a five second clip out of context and use it what a complete a total moron.

@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout There's no heat from 'the other side' That's my point. We're not threatening anyone. We would appreciate not being threatened. Creating a false equivalency that somehow this is a 50/50 scenario is ludicrous. I watched two Democratic Candidates for President who won the popular vote and narrowly lost the electoral vote utilize their legal options, and then concede, wish George W well and they both attended his inaugurations. While I disagreed with many policies and decisions W made, I would not question that he loves his Country, and saw the Presidency as a duty to it. In a less close election, 45 did his best to burn the Country down, did not attend the inauguration and still has not conceded while proffering conspiracy theories, fomenting divisiveness and pitting American against American. He has worked to push anyone out of his party and media circles that doesn't see this his way. None of this is normal behavior. C'mon man. Enough already. It's time for an honest look. This can't be fixed from the left. It requires leadership on the right to put the Country first, and return to speaking in respectful, factual terms.

@@walterhill9642 But there is heat from the other side. Just not the same way. If look at the extreme Trump people, they're insane. If you look at the extreme branch of BLM or antifa, they're insane. There's cities in liberal areas where they're defunding the police and not prosecuting low level crimes. Those are all things which make people on the right feel unsafe and like the left wants lawlessness. The same way the insane statements and actions of the Trump lunatics storming the capital and threatening violence make the left feel threatened. I don't think either side is doing a good job of policing their extremes or putting forward good candidates.

@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout I would argue that if we focus on FACTS, what's making the right feel unsafe is Right Wing Propaganda. I'm a marketer by trade and I get complex marketing profiles by demographic. When you get to the various conservative voter demographics, what continues to be a thread in these profiles as the primary motivator is 'FEAR'. Sales techniques to this group are most effective when negative and threatening. This is actually a terrible revelation, and once you know it - it's all you see in conservative media, and republican politics. I have no idea how this gets fixed, as it becomes a feedback loop. While I agree that the hardcore members of any organization are unlikely to be very reasonable, I can't imagine that a reasonable person would think that ANTIFA or BLM pose real risks to the Nation. I particularly laugh at the ANTIFA stuff on Fox News, which I watch from time to time. The gyrations that the right goes through in presenting them as some organized army that's 'coming to get you' is laughable (but I'm sure, very effective for them). ANTIFA doesn't have leadership. They are decentralized. They are non-violent as a core tenet. They are quite literally protestors who show up at protests when their message boards fill up. Yes, if you get your news on ANTIFA from Fox News or NEWSMAX, you will be scared, that is their mission. If you look at what happened in Charlottesville. (I was there, btw). There is absolutely no comparison between the right and left on the aggression and violence during that time. Left and Middle were completely surrounded by otherwise normal looking white supremacists saying unrepeatable things and threatening in ways that would have made my Republican grandfather switch sides. You could also take a look at the Duran Report on comparing 'Far-Left and Far-Right Violence' if you want a more objective assessment. It looks like a roughly 15%-85% split when all is tallied. I would oppose anyone on the left who commits a violent act just as I would anyone on the right, but we're never going to solve anything with this 'all sides are equally responsible' horse crap. The right is being incited. That's not normal. As an aside, I appreciate this respectful exchange. More of this is what's needed if we're going to make any progress.

The journalists were not portrayed as heroes at all.

@@politefan8141 then you haven't seen the movie. comment once you've seen it.

@@ppmnox Tell me why you think that is. Feel free to include spoilers.

@@politefan8141 so you haven't seen the movie. why not just go see it and make up your own mind? pretty simple.

@@ppmnox I've just seen the movie. Why are you being intentionally vague? Perhaps you really didn't understand it.