Thanks for the comment! Agreed!

Good point! I totally missed the space fire!

Thanks for the comment! Good points. I would have thought the Jedi would have better prisoner transport ships. Maybe it's budget cuts.

​@@apocalypsetedium I'd imagine they're like a religion dependent on donations. Maybe government funding. They wasted most their funding on their lavish temples so the prisoner ships are meager.

Thank you for the comment! I don't want to ruin it for the young-lings.

Thank you for the comment! Good points. I thought maybe Moss' character could be listening to the grievances of the locals. It just felt unclear, some were eating, some had nothing in front of them. With the twins, a lot of times when one leaves an institution or group, they will shed themselves of the markers of that group. Sometimes to establish their identity away from the group. Although, that would have cost more from a production standpoint.

Thank you for the comment! I did not know that. I was really surprised at how inept they were made to be.

@@apocalypsetedium ofc. Its leading into how the order fell so easily during order 66. In the old republic there were thousands of Jedi and thousands of sith, and tue Jedi held their ground enough to win at the end of the day. In comparison to the Jedi falling to a handful of sith and clone troopers.

Thank you for the comment! Good point. Seems more like a military junta.

Thanks for the comment! Agreed.

Agreed! I should have used that word.

Thanks for the comment! What did you not agree with?

Thanks for the comment! In the real world, many war journalists ARE reluctant propagandists. Sometimes they're inadvertent propagandists. Trying to "get the money shot," makes them seem less like actual journalists and more like exploitative paparazzi. Garland's point is that, in war, all sides "use violence?" Well, that's not much of a point. It's already understood. If he's making a film with media members as the main characters, why not explore how media shapes the country's perception of itself? That way he can still have his cake of not naming Democrats or Republicans, and still give us something challenging to explore.

Good point! I didn't see much of it until after the fact.

Thank you for the comment!

Thank you for the comment! I agree, there's war journalists in the movie. But the film doesn't examine the vocation to the depths that predecessors like "The Killing Fields" or The Year of Living Dangerously," do. And those films also provide compelling dramatic themes that challenge the audience. In my opinion, with the current state of America, to do a film about a hypothetical civil war, and not provide challenging material, was a cop out.

Thank you for the comment! That's the way it looked to me.

Agreed. Thank you for the comment!

Thank you for the comment! I agree, not naming names was a main idea of the movie. I think people (or media pundits) will politicize it anyway. Everything is politicized in the US. The pandemic didn't bring Americans together, it was politicized and used to drive wedges between people. From a movie-going perspective, I just wished he filmmakers embraced the opportunity to create a more compelling narrative. They don't have to literally "name" real-life parties or groups. This is where the creative license comes into play. It's hard to do. Writing is hard. Writing well is even harder still. But to not provide anything felt like a cop-out to me.

Thank you for the comment! I agree this movie does a good job showing horrific violence. I would argue that movies don't send people to war. Social circumstances do, like resource scarcity. Like not having food or shelter. When people don't see the system as serving them, they will seek to overthrow it. As for this film serving as a warning... There was a great anti-war film made in 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front. Won two academy awards and was seen as such a great lesson on the horrors of war, it was recommended that the League of Nations show it to all countries of the world, so that we may never have war again. Less than ten years later, the world was in the throes of World War 2. In large part because the German govt cut unemployment, sending thousands into the arms of the fashists. We can avoid making the same mistake by showing the system serving the people.

I don’t think the MAGAs want war, fear, and death. I feel like they want peace, respect for Christian values (we’re a Christian-dominant culture after all), incentives for hard work, and decreased incentives for those who wreak havoc on our judicial system and abuse social welfare programs.

Yes. Agreed.

Yes. I didn't learn that until later on. The title of the film refers to him.

Agreed! A lot of that choreography was impressive.

That's the melodrama kicking in.

Yes. The photography was spot on.

Good point!

Awesome! Thank you! Presently working out our format issues. Will definitely be in touch!

@@apocalypsetedium Sounds great!!! Thanks so much!

Yes! You should be able to break away in mid-skin.

I think you're right. I've definitely had a few I walked over and over and they wouldn't pick up.

Thank you for the comment! He certainly does!

Yes! The gift that keeps on giving.

Thank you!

Thank you for the comment! Yes, it is.

Just like basketball! He's boxing out!

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Yes! That was the intention.

@@apocalypsetedium Well played, sir!