Civil War reviews

[flipp525]

I saw Civil War on Thursday night and I’m curious what the spoiler was. I really can’t imagine what it could be.

[Sabin]

Anyone who still checks out Jeffrey Wells' site in zombie-rotation mode as I do should avoid it today. He is a fucking monster for several reasons but that idiot just posted a massive spoiler image today at 1pm PST with the audacity to say "I assume most of you have seen it by now..."

It's my own fucking fault for even going there in zombie rotation.

[Sabin]

Okri wrote
Wasn't the recent Ari Aster film on that level (expense wise)?

Beau is Afraid cost (I think) $35m and then spent a lot marketing it. It didn't make that money back at all.

I'd imagine this would have a better shot.

[Okri]

Wasn't the recent Ari Aster film on that level (expense wise)?

[Sabin]

I mentioned elsewhere that the film cost $50m which is A24's biggest budget to date. You have to imagine they wouldn't make an investment like this if they weren't sure about its commercial appeal and how to get it.

[Big Magilla]

Reza, enough with the anti-American attacks. No one is going to take the bait.

[Reza]

There's a smell of deja vu about this film. The United States in post-apocalyptic mode with struggling survivors. Been there so many times in other big and small screen films.

What's always novel is seeing the United States deeply entrenched in violence on its own shores. A delightful change from reality where they are always the cause of so much violence and pain on foreign shores.

[danfrank]

What people seem to be buzzing most about in this film is that California and Texas form an alliance in the depicted civil war. Fiction, for sure.

[Mister Tee]

As Sabin notes in another thread, Alex Garland's newest has premiered at SXSW, and is getting strong reactions (not all good, but it's clearly something):

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/c ... 235942401/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235852455/

https://www.thewrap.com/kirsten-dunst-c ... x-garland/

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/mov ... 234964914/

https://theplaylist.net/civil-war-revie ... -20240315/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ ... 234980226/