Honestly, I think they put CA and TX together so as to not pick a political side in the movie.

I've seen many comments on different platforms surrounding this movie that there is no way or it's ludicrous that California and Texas would ever ally themselves in a modern-day civil war, IMO I think the concept of this is " The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend", despite having opposing views other times between the two states.

They did have patches showing who they were with . The loyalists had American flags and the western forces had the two star flag

When I saw this film the final scene impressed me the most. The final battle in DC is what I believe is what a Roman civil war would look like. The fall of the White House was the most brutal with the Western Forces fighting the holdout Secret Service was the most visious.

I think each of the factions troopers look like this: Western Alliance guys seem to wear some form of Multicam. Meanwhile Loyalists/US Army guys still wear OCP. It's hard to see but when the WF were invading Washington DC by the end the Loyalist troops definitely wore a more 'darker' or browner looking camo than the almost all green Multican the WF uses. Florida Alliance are confirmed to be the Hawaiian shirted guys that show up in the middle of the film, so I guess that's their official uniform. And finally we don't really see the New People's Army in the film at all since they're all based up in the Pacific Northwest.

I just watched it last night as I was curious about it. It had some good stuff but also a lot of weird choices.

Liked and subbed just because of your name "8mm Mauser Man". My first weapon was a VZ24 Mauser. As war movies go, it's pretty inaccurate

It was intentionally ambiguous about who the “good” and “bad” guys are.

Been following since you were at 600 subscribers. Makes me happy seeing a good guy like you growing.

Thanks for providing this thoughtful analysis of the new Civil War movie. We really need people doing this kind of work, people who can look at movies or the media and who can help us to understand what is unstated or understated in these products, and that can be challenging to do well. You have a solid moral foundation, and it helps you to give an accurate analysis of the movie. In this you are a credit to the firearms community. Thanks and keep it up!

awesome vid dude thanks for uploading your thoughts

The film had me making comparisons to earlier films, such as: “The Killing Fields” & “Salvador”… not really anything more than a movie about combat journalism and bad decisions 🤷

I got to admit if you don't have a prison what do you do with prisoners

I really appreciate your review as I felt exactly the same way about the film. I was left surprised at the real lack of modern political discussion, despite the film's context. I enjoyed that. It focused more on the combat and more plausible small scale scenarios that one would encounter if our nation went down this route in the future. I was left wanting more background though.

So in the movie they low key talked about what the president did in the beginning when talking about what questions they would ask during the interview talked about killing political rival disbanding the fbi and allowing himself to run a third term

This review earned you a sub!! So far, other channels have turned this entire movie into some kind of "L/R" thing and fixated on "TX/CA" alliances as "not happening".... The lack of contextualization IS the point. Chaos insues and no one knows who's who and there are small pockets of what is going on as these 4 individuals go through their trip. I'll add this, war movies are and have been about propaganda. It is a moral booster, a story told to fill in gaps in journalism and it's define who our enemies are and how we defeated or lost to them. It's to honor our war dead and our veterans who survived and a telling of their stories through their own eyes as well. Hollywood adds it's flavor, regardless if we like it or not, but we are still enthralled by it's telling of events. You as the audience and individual, make the choice to subscribe to the stories by going further into educating yourselves, one way or another. With that, I enjoyed the movie, and loved your review!! Rangers Lead The Way!!

Haven't seen the movie yet, but an interesting take you have. I think I shall see it.

Saw it last night expecting it to be so bad it was decent and ended up really enjoying it

Im the old guy with the Eotech with the LBC on his A1 for the civil war hahaha

Nice reviews with good argument . Just watched this movie, and was still confusing the context the movie may have assumed. The director seems to be over ambitious to present such a story that requires serious,detailed political hypothesis. Overall I would personally rate this movie "unsatisfying" for even failing to tell a complete story.

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Well done.

Haven't seen it,the trailer made me think it was a psyop

I did my research before watching the movie. I went into the movie with the knowledge that this movie was going to be apolitical, the reason for the war wasn’t going to be given, and most importantly, that the movie was going to be a love letter to war journalist who put their life on the line to get the perfect picture. Probably this is why at the end, I thought this movie was amazing

I'd still call this a political movie in the sense that the subject is inherently political but it veers away from being partisan in the 'red vs. blue' sense. Highly recommend Annihilation and 28 Days Later to get a greater sense for Alex Garland's style.

Oh I love Wes Anderson! How exciting!

I shouldn't be here. I've not seen this movie yet. The video isn't giving it away as much as the comment section is. I always check the comments. Be back soon.

I think the reason why they left it up to ambiguity is to stay neutral. It gets more viewers to show up if there isn’t a blatant “side” that it’s taking.

Why is “freedom” all wrapped up in guns? Why not cross-bows or flame throwers, for that matter? Why are guns, in particular, on the altar of freedom? To me, they are just tools, like rakes and shovels. Useful, but I just don’t get the sentimental love that people have for guns. People aren’t in love with their rakes and tire irons like that.

Eotechs are on safe queens

Cool shirt!

This is so funny because the very idea of Texas and California being allies for any reason is so unbelievable.

I don't really think this film is future prophesy or leftist propaganda. It doesn't really have a political message at all beyond the implication of making a film about civil war in the U.S. at all. As for not knowing who was killing who I think you're right that it was intentional; we are definitely missing a scene somewhere that adds just a bit of context, even if only posing the question to the audience more obviously. Also I think if anything the film paints gun ownership positively, the town that seemed isolated from the war the crew pass through is only kept peaceful, ostensibly, by an armed civilian garrison. Pretty good movie overall I guess, it's fine. I don't think they should have made the film overtly political, but I do think making a film about civil war in the U.S. and having it stripped of anything political can only hurt that story. I guess what I'm getting at is maybe don't make this movie. Make a film about civil war somewhere else, make it political, as civil wars are.

Politics aren’t the point of the movie. Most people are just straight up missing the point

As a liberal that believes in the second amendment, and truly loves my country. I liked your movie review, thank you for being honest and fair. There are super rich people spreading Neo fascism cancer across the modern world. George Washington once said: Few men have the virtue to resist the highest bidder.🤓

Haha. Yes! The most violent & sad Wes Anderson movie.

My problem with the mere idea of it is that it's way too disturbing to make entertainment out of and should not be a legal movie. It's not something that should be allowed to make entertainment out of and fetishize when its a legitimate threat to everyone's safety and could inspire people to act violent in real life. I personally think the idea of the movie is deplorable, a movie about a modern civil war in North America should never be made and I think is playing with fire.

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The whole point of the movie was the war not the cause 😒

I was wondering if this would end up being propaganda in a way, glad to hear it isnt. Though it does leave a lot of vagueness left to assumptions, which could be propaganda for people with a specific mindset. Hard core leftists or righties would likely end up thinking one side was dems and one side was reps, and im betting both groups asked would have mixed decisions on who is what in the movie.

Answer to your thumbnail, neither. Just an empty script, with no world building, character development or backstory. Just a movie that's 9/10 boring with the 1/10 of action being decent, but not amazing. Best part of the film is the battle in DC and the sound is the MVP of it all. Tactics were garbage, they tried to make the reporters more important than they were (no soldier in active combat is gonna care where the press is). I could go on and on about how bad this movie was. Garland goes the lazy route and says, I left it up to the viewer, because they're smart enough to come up with a backstory. Nah chief, movies like this need context. Can anyone actually tell me why we should hate POTUS, or how this war has affected the 4 main characters? Nope.

I keep imagining trump and/or putin in that final scene. A fitting end for a pos dictator. Excellent film.

I swear if I see or hear another “TeXas And CaLiForNIA aRe TeAmEdD uP?! That’s so unrealistic” than I am gonna snap 😂😭. Relax and have some imagination, it’s fiction, which means it’s okay to be fictional btw.

I can't trust this guy's opinion about anything if he really considers himself "average".

Whether or not you like him there's only choice come this Nov. 2024 ....

Either way Trump sucks.

It’s funny that you think anyone or anything that voices an opinion /view that doesn’t align with your beliefs is considered propaganda put forth by people who for some reason want to take your freedom , but you blindly follow the biggest propaganda based doctrine of all time , the Bible. You seem like a decent dude and no hate on you.

I liked the movie weapon accuracy was good but a bit off the last scenes with the SF guys were a bit off mainly because of the bump helmets in a war zone :) I enjoyed it will re watch