10 days away. I just saw this map and understand that California and Texas are joined together as "separatists". Here is Wikipedia's limited plot summary Premise[edit] In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist "Western Forces" led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the U.S. government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.[5] Damn - hard to determine strategy for personal survival. My daughter currently feels safe in California. Whether that is wise or not is debatable. But it may be hard to figure out how to survive. And it feels all too plausible
Will likely watch it. A very divided nation at present, so I can see why a movie like this would be made. Unfortunately, some fantasize about a new American civil war as if they would actually love to see such a thing. It would bear no resemblance to the first one (Union versus the confederacy). We are divided, intermingled, and well armed. Our adversaries would be orgasmic if that were to happen.
A2A is good with craziness when you see their list of movies but the previews look like a run of the mill thriller of a family trying to avoid the mess of people fighting - Im sure it wont work and I bet it will be dark. I didnt mind the unrelated mediocre action derivative "The Hunt" where they made everyone caricatures of politics where stereotyped lefties hunted stereotyped armed righties which went bad for everyone. Good for silly gore comedy.
Well said about our adversaries. The American Century would be over quickly. We would likely not even remain a preeminent power. This was a GREAT book envisioning the next American Civil War. American War (novel) - Wikipedia In 2074, after the passage of the Sustainable Future Act, a bill in the United States that banned the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the country and was the catalyst for the assassination of the President of the United States in December 2073 in Jackson, Mississippi by a secessionist suicide bomber, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas secede from the Union, starting the Second American Civil War. South Carolina is quickly incapacitated by a virus released by the U.S. government known as "The Slow," a biological weapon that makes its inhabitants lethargic. Texas is invaded and occupied by Mexico, and the remaining bloc, known as the "Free Southern States" (Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, or "The Mag"), continues to fight. The novel is told from the point of view of Sarat (Sara T. Chestnut) and her nephew, Benjamin.[1]
We werent holding hands singing campfire songs in the 60's or 70's either... its always a mess here. Seems to work for us.
My Tik-Tok following MAGA employees have informed me the US Government is going to stop this movie from being shown.
Of course they are. There is always a prediction that their view is being suppressed, and then more outrages.
Garland has been both-sidesing the campaign for this film, so either he's being disingenuous for the sake of box office, or the film is just milquetoast freshman level social commentary.
and if it is, they will round up those in the theaters and hold them in detention camps in converted wal marts staffed by heavily armed trans guards.
If there is a commentary I would suspect its about the importance of journalism, not contemporary political ideologies or culture war signifiers
That's right, its banned in all government-owned movie theaters, fortunately the heroes in the private sector are letting us see it for a nominal charge
So will seating be " maga and non maga" like old school airlines used to have smoking and non smoking? Here's a nickel that at least one yelling match or fist fight breaks out in a theater somewhere lol
Maybe it will be like Barbie where people dress up for the movie and wear tactical gear and carry guns, of course that could just be people being normal Americans
I dont know. Lets say California and Texas both tell the Federal government adios, they both basically want to conduct their own foreign policy and have economies equivalent to other nations. A marriage of convenience isnt out of the question if the Federal government is determined to keep the country united.
Its like the Hitler/Stalin pact, you team up on the Polish question and then maybe later you fight one of the bloodiest wars in human history
