• ringwraithfish@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    I’m hoping it’s more like a much needed vaccine for the American zeitgeist. Get people discussing what another civil war would actually look like and hopefully get us to realize the need for civil debates.

    I watched the trailer and Jesse Plemens delivery of “Yeah, but what type of Americans” sent shivers down my spine.

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      11 months ago

      you can’t have civil debates when one side isn’t willing and are nazi terrorists. they’re gonna start a civil war any day now, if historians don’t put the start behind our current date, and trying to debate them civilly is letting them win. they’re a dying ideology lashing out at a society that’s in the process of rejecting them and we need to act accordingly or lots of people will die

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      11 months ago

      A large portion of people on one side are looking to bring about a world ending apocalypse so they can be raptured. American evangelicals don’t care about the world, and are ideologically incapable of civil debate and compromise. When your side is god and the other side is the devil you can’t possibly meet in the middle.

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      11 months ago

      That’s the part that’s been sticking with me as well.

      That, and a creeping dread that 30% percent of the audience is going to view this film as either a masturbatory fantasy or an instructional video, but I imagine that’s probably Garland’s point.

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        11 months ago

        He’s such a great actor. He plays the stoic psychopath really well. I couldn’t remember his name, so I googled “Walmart Matt Damon” and he came right up.