One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I fell asleep three-quarters in and have no intention of finishing it.
I’ve never seen a story so poorly written that it drags everything else down with it. The performances are terrible because the characters are terribly written. Not a single memorable shot.
All the supposed questions about morality and justice that the journalists think they’re exploring carry no weight—because the conflict is entirely made up and never clearly explained. It just seems like an excuse to portray rednecks or conservative-looking people as heartless and cynical villains.
If this were an American movie, I wouldn’t be surprised. But it was made by a British director who apparently sees journalism as a sacred path to truth or something, all wrapped in nonsense that only a Brit might believe.
Plenty of films treat their audience like idiots, but this one treats you like a complete moron. I’m not even American and still felt it was an insulting and reductive portrayal.
Easily one of the worst films in recent years.

The best of this movie comes in the form off cailey spainey and her ass, for some reason she looks like she's 17 years old in this movie and has a huge butt that looks like its gonna pop out of her blue jeans, delightful.

>>212288807 (OP)
>I fell asleep three-quarters in and have no intention of finishing it.
Man you missed the best part.

>>212288807 (OP)
>IT. WAS. NOT. SUPPOSED. TO. BE. A DOCUMENTARY

>>212288807 (OP)

The story makes little sense because Garland spent all his time and energy on the tactical shooting.

>>212288913
is there more of cailey's butt? i might actually

>>212288807 (OP)
I don't know what you're really talking about this movie being explicitly pro-journalist. The protagonists are all journalists but the movie focuses on two photojournalists, a field a journalism that's hard to really get angry at.

>>212288807 (OP)
>the conflict is entirely made up and never clearly explained. It just seems like an excuse to portray rednecks or conservative-looking people as heartless and cynical villains.

This. Political critique/satire since the 2000s went from pseud posturing (if corporate speak is strong) to agitprop. At least Costa-Gavras + Kubrick would show the people in charge, understand the nuts & bolts of a conflict then show a hyperbolic version that is actually not already pummeled into the public by the media. Garland, Aster are both repeating what the media says daily ("RW followers are dangerous morons killing the country"), so what's brave & stunning about repeating what the media wants to be the consensus?

> the hypothetical situation must be as illogical + implausible as possible, to have real life relevance.

Pure doublespeak

>>212288996
who cares, the story is shit people dont sit on the theatre knowing nerd shit like this plus the shooting scenes are horrible

>>212288807 (OP)
>not a single memorable shot
I really liked the close up of the clover flowers when they're hiding from the sniper. And the gang driving through the forest fire at night

>>212288807 (OP)
Alex Garland is the biggest case of wasted potential I have ever seem in film. Ex Machina is so incredibly good in every way and Annihilation and Devs have flashes of even deeper brilliance, but you can see the mind virus start to set in with these last two entries. The characters become more unrealistic and wooden to fit into ideological roles, and the narrative and themes as a result become confused. His God tier gift for creating atmosphere remains but even that starts to degrade with bullshit like Men and by Civil War he has nearly lost it altogether. The basic detachment from reality infects everything about the art eventually.

I cannot even express how mad I am that he was ruined by woke faggots and didn't get to fully develop his art. He was supposed to be THE director of the 2010s and 2020s, I am so sure of this. Nobody else was confronting modern society and technology in such a natural and intelligent way, grounding so many important ideas in tightly wound plots and characters, and all of this in the most pleasing possible aesthetics and mood which in concert with the heady subject matter reach up into actual sublime mystery, yet all perfectly accessible, all something you could see being a popular Hollywood movie, this nigger was like an ancient tragedian transposed into 21st century mainstream film.

And it was all thrown away and ruined so he could make stupid fucking poltical
commentary with the honesty and intelligence of a 2014 teenage girls Tumblr post

I still believe there is some hope he will realize what a tremendous faggot he has been and correct course so that his generational talent can be unleashed

>>212289757
I liked Ex Machina and Annihilation and I even thought Men was decent but I haven't seen Civil War yet since it seemed weirdly cynical.

Meth Damon carried hard with this scene
>What kind of shitposter are you?

>>212289757
>Ex Machina is so incredibly good

>>212290888
Literally the best movie of the 2010s it is FLAWLESS

>>212290171
It's not that cynical is the wrong way to describe parts of the film, but I guess "spineless" would work more? It's absolutely capitalizing on political tensions within the US, but at the same time the film is too detached from what's actually going on and says so little that it doesn't really work as a provocative think piece either. It'd be easier to digest if it were more exploitative action slop, but it takes itself so seriously that you can't help but be disconnected.

>>212290888
This guy doesn't know how to tear up the dance floor

>>212288807 (OP)
why cali and texas? texas and literally any other state, maybe not NY, but fucking california?
comeon man

i liked the movie but the ending is straight up unamerican and really weakens the movie for me

>>212292242
Because Garland didn't want the movie to turn into a wankfest of political bickering online and wanted an apolitical narrative to instead focus on the chaos of war aspect. In the end the lack of politics just ended up confusing people. It's the same error Force Awakens made.

>>212288807 (OP)
total shit. really fucking bad movie. so cringe. I switched it off after like 5 or 10 minutes. and god that bitch is so fucking ugly and depressed.
kirsten dunst and "better call saul" diarrhea seehorn, they both fucking look the same

>>212288807 (OP)
>a huge butt that looks like its gonna pop out of her blue jeans
>jordanbelfortbittingfist.gif

>>212288807 (OP)
It was kino and you have to go back

>>212288807 (OP)
I turned it off the moment I noticed it was going to be another journalists are heros movie