Civil War | A24 | Alex Garland action thriller | 04/12/2024

[BoxOfficeZ]

Having seen a screening for it, the trailer is misleading. It's more of a drama with horror elements than an action movie. 

 

I'd personally put it below Ex Machina, maybe around Annihilation, but way above Men in terms of rankings for Garland movies. 

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, BoxOfficeZ said:

Having seen a screening for it, the trailer is misleading. It's more of a drama with horror elements than an action movie. 

 

I'd personally put it below Ex Machina, maybe around Annihilation, but way above Men in terms of rankings for Garland movies. 

Completely missed Men.

[eddyxx]

12 hours ago, YM! said:

Why would California and Texas work together? Why would California even secede in the first place lol?

There are secessionists in California.

 

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Independence_Referendum_in_2021_Initiative_(2020)

[Belakor]

Cool concept but Texans allying with Californians, at least in terms of ideology and political structure is pure sci/fi 

[Spidey Freak]

Why make this gimmicky movie only to have nonsensical alliances like California/Texas?

 

Unless Texas has become a blue state in this movie's universe 😛 

[karlleng]

Looks hilarious

[TomThomas]

Budget is 75 mln, the most expensive A24 movie.

[Torontofan]

They should have sold this to netflix who always likes to have a very popular end of the world movie around nov/dec lol 

[WittyUsername]

This looks pretty schlocky, but if the trailer is misleading, then I’ll be interested to see how the actual movie plays out. All I know is that the idea of California and Texas working together is hilariously absurd. 

[titanic2187]

All the talk about California and Texas fight alongside is absurd is an absurdity itself.
 

Aren’t California and Texas in one nation? If two hates each other so much, why not just split the country? And let the rest of the world to finally get over the so called “most powerful nation” in the world, USA number 1 BS, when the two biggest state don’t even want to be seen a single entity of each other. 

[MovieGuyKyle17]

Everyone's talking about the idea of California and Texas working together when they should be discussing Nick Offerman as President of the United States. All i'm picturing is this is some alt Parks and Rec universe where Leslie and Ron switched places. 

[Torontofan]

19 hours ago, WittyUsername said:

This looks pretty schlocky, but if the trailer is misleading, then I’ll be interested to see how the actual movie plays out. All I know is that the idea of California and Texas working together is hilariously absurd. 

 

They could work together in the future as they run out of water or their shitty electriacal systems collapse lol 

[Hatebox]

Nazis and Soviets worked together. War makes strange bedfellows. 

[AniNate]

On 12/14/2023 at 5:31 AM, TomThomas said:

Budget is 75 mln, the most expensive A24 movie.

 

Let Garland cook, I say. Apparently he's done directing for awhile after this regardless, so I appreciate that A24 gave him that kind of latitude.

 

These are the kinds of perceived "bad investments" I'd like to see Hollywood make more of.

[Torontofan]

19 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

Nazis and Soviets worked together. War makes strange bedfellows. 

 

Yeah people are viewing any potential war being about pronoun debates...the story likely is something else. 

[Ozymandias]

45 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

Nazis and Soviets worked together. War makes strange bedfellows. 

 

Lol much more like the Nazis tricked the Soviets before turning around and killing 25 million of them

[Firepower]

1 hour ago, Ozymandias said:

 

Lol much more like the Nazis tricked the Soviets before turning around and killing 25 million of them

They still had collaboration before that, Poland says hi.

Edited December 15, 2023 by Firepower

[Ozymandias]

47 minutes ago, Firepower said:

They still had collaboration before that, Poland says hi.

 

I'm well aware of that.

[TalismanRing]

On 12/13/2023 at 10:58 PM, eddyxx said:

There are secessionists in California.

 

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Independence_Referendum_in_2021_Initiative_(2020)

 

There's a Divide New York State Caucus but that doesn't mean NY would believably partner with Mississippi in a Civil War.

 

22 hours ago, titanic2187 said:

All the talk about California and Texas fight alongside is absurd is an absurdity itself.
 

Aren’t California and Texas in one nation? If two hates each other so much, why not just split the country?

 

Well, we had an actual Civil War about that ...

[AniNate]

The ideological part of it is really more urban v rural than larger territories. There are plenty of liberals in the Texas cities and deep red conservatives in California's farming regions.