Current Events > Watched Civil War on saturday with friends and it's really good.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Went with 3 of my friends and all of them had some criticism, most of it being that there's almost no world building, you're kind of thrust into the movie with little knowledge to what the war is actually about other than there's different factions and the President is going on three terms. One of my friend said he wish he knew which side was fighting for what so he could pick a side to side with. My second friend said he hated that there's a lot of scenes that make no sense to him because he couldn't tell which side they were in or if there the different groups he met were part of any group or side. My third friend said he hated all the talking and wished there was more fighting (he loved the third act for that reason).

Now I'm the type of person that never wants to tell people they "interpret" things wrong, because art is subjective and there's no objective way to measure it, but I think the main problem a lot of people seem to dislike about the movie is that they're judging it for what it's not rather than what it is. For me, I think it was all intentional. Yeah it does sound like I'm dismissing the criticism, but in an actual war it makes sense that there is no clear good guy or bad guy because history has always been written by the winners. Things are never black and white, there's a lot of grey and the fact is almost all the scenes where we aren't sure who's on which side shows the messiness of it all. We're seeing things from the perspective of the protagonists.

But I think the main thing the movie wanted to come across was journalism, particularly war journalism (journalist and/or photographers that go in the middle of a battle ground to get the scoops) and how that can affect a persons perspective and their mental health and attitude. Even though the characters were as deep as I wanted them to be, they do go through transformations and we get to see different takes and sides to journalism.

Though overall I think this is a 9/10 movie. In terms of movie making and production value as a whole, this movie is a masterclass when it comes to the sound designs, the cinematography (there were some really gorgeous shots they got in this movie), the special effects, the music, editing, etc. I do have some minor gripes though when it comes to individual scenes that made it hard for me to ignore or I thought was just really dumb (nitpicks) like I couldn't suspend disbelief that the soldiers couldn't hear the car that rammed into them like that. I get it was an intense scene, but come on.

I recommend a watch, come in with an open mind.

Is it an OK first date movie?

WarfireX posted...

Is it an OK first date movie?

No, that's what the new Ghostbuster movie is for.

But I don't want to see the new Ghostbusters movie.

InB4 BuT bOtH sIdEs!!!

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

InB4 BuT bOtH sIdEs!!!

I can see people getting annoyed by the lack of worldbuilding, there are some movies that I got annoyed by this as well. I just think this movie had everything else going for it to make up for it.

Prestoff posted...

I can see people getting annoyed by the lack of worldbuilding, there are some movies that I got annoyed by this as well. I just think this movie had everything else going for it to make up for it.

The BoTh SiDeS!!! people haven't even seen it, (they were shrieking about the movie just off the trailer).

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

The BoTh SiDeS!!! people haven't even seen it, (they were shrieking about the movie just off the trailer).

Oh I know, I was in that other topic. I don't think it's wrong to not be interested in something that hits to close to home, but I do think they do a disservice to themselves making false claims about a movie they never watched.