And Dillon.BassCowboy33 said:zgood10 said:
If I ever run into Jesse Plemons and he asks where I'm from... might sh** my pants
The pride of Mart, TX.
And Dillon.BassCowboy33 said:zgood10 said:
If I ever run into Jesse Plemons and he asks where I'm from... might sh** my pants
The pride of Mart, TX.
Jesse Plemons was cast in Alex Garland’s ‘CIVIL WAR’ just days before they filmed the sequence.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 15, 2024
It came after the original actor dropped out a week before filming began so Kirsten Dunst suggested asking Jesse.
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Me neither. Such a minor role...so terrifying.Brian Earl Spilner said:
I honestly can't think of a better example off the top of my head, of an actor stealing a movie with such little screentime.
At least not in recent memory.
El Gallo Blanco said:Me neither. Such a minor role...so terrifying.Brian Earl Spilner said:
I honestly can't think of a better example off the top of my head, of an actor stealing a movie with such little screentime.
At least not in recent memory.
On certain things I'm 100% ok only partaking in media that pushes my world view. One of those world views is that facism is bad. I feel the same way about ethnic cleansing, rape, and a ton of other adherent *****BassCowboy33 said:
What a boring world we'd live in if we only partook in media that espoused our personal viewpoints.
johncAG said:
So did anyone else really enjoy that Sturgill Simpson sequence in the burning forest? I loved how it comes right after the most intense moment of the movie and resets us for the final act. Needed to catch my breath after the interegation scene
Yep, that was great...never thought I would hear that song in a movie TBH...great song, just wouldn't expect it...but damn they made it workjohncAG said:
So did anyone else really enjoy that Sturgill Simpson sequence in the burning forest? I loved how it comes right after the most intense moment of the movie and resets us for the final act. Needed to catch my breath after the interegation scene
If softcore political sparring online is too much...this movie ain't for you. Bring your binky if you go, and have that latina wife of yours cuddle and reassure you.Urban Ag said:
Also, you dipsh**s have ruined a thread on a movie I actually want to see, a rare occasion.
Booooo.
El Gallo Blanco said:If softcore political sparring online is too much...this movie ain't for you. Bring your binky if you go, and have that latina wife of yours cuddle and reassure you.Urban Ag said:
Also, you dipsh**s have ruined a thread on a movie I actually want to see, a rare occasion.
Booooo.
jk amigo
Texas Gator said:
The way that this movie captured just how much people's basic humanity can be lost in a civil war felt pretty spot-on to me. From the characters the film comes across that don't flinch to do awful things to people they may have known for years to the journalists that become detached from the horrors of war, I thought that the film captured the pretty thin thread that holds together civil society. I wish that folks that purport to yearn for a new American civil war had a chance to see this.
I don't know that Garland was thinking about people who talk about Secession lightly when he made this film (Maybe, IDK) but I agree 100000000000000% this is a great film for those people to think about.Texas Gator said:
I am not sure that I have ever been more wrong about a movie than this one. My research and teaching focuses on the study of civil wars, so when I first saw the movie poster with snipers on the Statue of Liberty my initial thoughts were (1) this is going to be pretty stupid and (2) this exactly the kind of movie that we do not need right now. I was 100% wrong on both fronts.
The way that this movie captured just how much people's basic humanity can be lost in a civil war felt pretty spot-on to me. From the characters the film comes across that don't flinch to do awful things to people they may have known for years to the journalists that become detached from the horrors of war, I thought that the film captured the pretty thin thread that holds together civil society. I wish that folks that purport to yearn for a new American civil war had a chance to see this.
Which political side consistently is more likely to exhibit extreme/fascist/tyrannical behavior? Again, the only slight issue some are taking is that they just HAD to make the dictator president a right winger...otherwise leftists would have lost their sh**. It's just rich when I constantly see left wingers driving conservative speakers violently off school campuses, torching entire sections of cities, committing political violence (one SHOT a GOP congressman just a few yrs ago), blocking highways/airports, showing ZERO ability to tolerate any dissenting viewpoints. Just imagine a world where the right behaves like the left and gets away with it...you can't.MBAR said:
People toss out terms like left wing without understanding that this is a literally an anti facist movie. This is literally antifa.
sometimes he doesn't have to say anything for you to think that...zgood10 said:
If I ever run into Jesse Plemons and he asks where I'm from... might sh** my pants
I mean, I guess if you want to get right down to it, the only President thus far to serve more than two terms has come from the political left. He also wasn't too fond of civil liberties.TCTTS said:
Literally all we know is that he 1) somehow forced a third term, and 2) abolished the FBI.
Are those two things something only a right-winger would do? (And if so, what does that say about your commentary of the right?)
Otherwise, he's simply a generic fascist dictator who even Texas is pushing back against.
Claude! said:I mean, I guess if you want to get right down to it, the only President thus far to serve more than two terms has come from the political left. He also wasn't too fond of civil liberties.TCTTS said:
Literally all we know is that he 1) somehow forced a third term, and 2) abolished the FBI.
Are those two things something only a right-winger would do? (And if so, what does that say about your commentary of the right?)
Otherwise, he's simply a generic fascist dictator who even Texas is pushing back against.
I do think that the character presents more as stereotypically right wing (e.g., he's a white dude that says God Bless America), but it's muddy enough that it's open to interpretation. Would've been funny if he'd acted like Jerry Brown from the Dead Kennedys song "California Uber Alles" - it's the suede denim secret police / they have come for your uncool niece.
TCTTS said:Claude! said:I mean, I guess if you want to get right down to it, the only President thus far to serve more than two terms has come from the political left. He also wasn't too fond of civil liberties.TCTTS said:
Literally all we know is that he 1) somehow forced a third term, and 2) abolished the FBI.
Are those two things something only a right-winger would do? (And if so, what does that say about your commentary of the right?)
Otherwise, he's simply a generic fascist dictator who even Texas is pushing back against.
I do think that the character presents more as stereotypically right wing (e.g., he's a white dude that says God Bless America), but it's muddy enough that it's open to interpretation. Would've been funny if he'd acted like Jerry Brown from the Dead Kennedys song "California Uber Alles" - it's the suede denim secret police / they have come for your uncool niece.
This.
And well said overall.
Probably a right winger, but not conclusively by any means.
Either way, on the surface, all Garland technically gives us is "assh*le fascist dictator," and I just find it funny that certain conservatives keep interpreting that as "Republican."