thought i would wait until it came to the small screen. nope.
my wife and i will be seeing it tomorrow. She wants to see it.
Allan
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Enjoy.
we saw that exact thing in the french revolution.
cut the heads off first, ask questions later
Allan
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We will behead as many people as it takes until morale improves!!
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a-bit disappointed in the movie. thought it wad possibilities in the beginning but dragged in the middle and the final scene were totally unrealistic.
how does the secret service let POTUS be a sitting duck in the oval office.
we are skedaddling down to the bunker. very quickly. i am sure they have ways of getting POTUS out of dodge safely. i know if the POTUS is in New York and there is a problem, they have a way of getting him out. same i assume wherever he is located.
we cant have the POTUS shot and be a trophy for somebody.
no way, no how.
Allan
hmmmm… we’ll see
Movie is out on Max now, watched it last night and it goes into the “okay” category. Had the ending spoiled but it didnt take too much away from it. Still felt like I watched two hours of a four hour movie.
At the end POTUS command had completely collapsed, the military was already negotating with the Western Forces and only his most loyal Secret Service agents remained. The WH was totally abandoned.
So I dont think it was too unrealistic
Exactly the same here. I was pretty “meh”
Watching the movie in the cinema was a different experience for me compared to when i rewatched at home.
For me it is still one of my top 2024 movies.
Urrggh everytime I see one of these posts I want to go all Alex Garland fanboy and go into a long wall of text of why it is so good 
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Must resist the urge to bore everyone LOL.
Please do. I wouldn’t mind interrogating my initial impression.
Let me say this: the acting and effects were very good. It it is the story that let me down.
Speaking of iffy Alex Garland movies.
Men.
A genuinely unsettling movie that just blows it in the end.
It was a letdown sprinkled with a few good parts. The story was a joke which sets up the fallacy Texas and California ya right. They are a few good scenes and fights.
My Travis (whom I adore) score C-
Then again how could they have ended it? No matter what it was going to be weird and defy belief.
Garland said he was trying to make it “beyond politics.”
But the issue with that theory and its bothered me since I watched it is that civil wars of any kind are inherently extremely political. You can’t separate them. I respect what Garland was trying to do, focus on the chaos and mass murder of a civil war while only hinting at the politics but it really hurts the film because a civil war is the ultimate most violent expression of politics.
