It’s insane how much Garland is vindicated this year

For… calling that we were going down the authoritarian rabbit hole? Like that didn’t take any sort of genius. And the biggest sin that Civil War commits is that it fails to actually *say* anything about the country. Nothing about why we get there, nothing about what we could have done differently.

The “impartiality of journalism” is so thoroughly embedded in this movie that it forgets to say anything else, or justify why that is even good. How the fuck is he vindicated?

It's one of those movies that is more concerned with -feeling- like a movie with something to say than having something to say. Takes the trappings of modern events and better movies and pretends there is something behind it.

in a word: pretentious.

In the actual sense of the word, yes.

Why the fuck did he have the young next generation journalist shooting black and white 35mm instead of livestreaming on an iPhone. Fucking stupid boomer shit. The movie is supposed to be about journalism and he's like "kids love film"

i know he was trying for an aesthetic with the camera's viewfinder on screen, but at least the reporter guy should have been getting video while they were running around b/c it's not like he was writing stories. i mean weddings these days usually have a videographer and a photographer together

I love black and white film photography but Getty isn't going to buy her photos for publication. And I doubt she's a Magnum photographer yet. She's just out there doing it for funsies.

Civil War is a film about what happens when America treats America like it treats the rest of the world. I can assure you it’s all pretty obvious to anyone outside the borders.

I’d believe that if it ever bothered to distinguish between American soldiers, the civilian militias fighting with them, and the civilian militias fighting each other

You are so fucking close to getting it

If you think those are all the same thing you're a lot dumber than you think you could be

You’re so close fam

I'm closer than you are that's for fuckin sure

I know the point you’re trying to be witty about and it breaks down because it just wound up being Some Guys shooting at Some Guys and they all suck and that’s pretty fundamentally different from “These guys came in, rained death, deposed our government, and shot anyone who looked at them wrong.”

There is a way to do that story and it’s not by following a war journalist who doesn’t give a shit about anything and is heralded as noble for her unbiased documentation of Some Guys killing Some Guys for no clear reason while slowly making her way to the US capitol.

If that was directorial intent he sucks at putting his intent to film.

Maybe you’re just too blissed out in the slop to see it - sucks to see

Fuck, you’re almost there

Go jerk off somewhere else

Yeah, it all is pretty stupid

I bet Trump just watched that movie and thought huh I should try that