Sunshine and Annihilation are among my favorite sci-fi movies.Ex Machina was outstanding.
Hm. I'm slightly more interested now. Dredd is a fantastic movie, and i did enjoy Ex Machina.Could be a very interesting movie given it involves secession and civil war, which seems to be the kind of disorder you would eventually expect if this country does not come together.
The writer/director (Alex Garland) has done some really excellent work in the past: 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Ex Machina, and Annihilation (all sci fi with a horror/thriller slant) but also Dredd and The Beach, and (unfortunately) Men (arguably an anti-male movie).
He has managed to create some movies that do not appear DEI heavy handed or anti-conservative (Men being the exception, but that movie was so bizarre it was hard to tell it was a comment on toxic masculinity), so I may very well enjoy it. However, the fact that its supposed to be a comment on journalism and involves CA and TX seceding suggests it might have things to say that don't resonate with an American audience knowledgeable about current politics.
Surely Jesse Plemons (of closeted cowboy movie Power of the Dog) with (wife) Kirsten Dunst (supported Kerry and Obama campaigns) and Nick Offerman (of the "homosexual" Last of Us episode and allegedly a democratic socialist) would not likely take a role that is too favorable to conservatives.
I'll take the chance since it should follow the director's vision.
Looks like movie‘s alliance maps is out on net.I'm thinking Texas and Florida, possibly with Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama joining in because they know what's good for them!
Looks like movie‘s alliance maps is out on net.
Don’t forget about our hat, we take Oklahoma with us wherever we go.I'm thinking Texas and Florida, possibly with Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama joining in because they know what's good for them!
Do we have to? Cant we just fight them and Colorado to get some of our territory back?Don’t forget about our hat, we take Oklahoma with us wherever we go.
Nah, don’t attack your friends.Do we have to? Cant we just fight them and Colorado to get some of our territory back?
Nah, don’t attack your friends.
Me, too - at first!The news report or whatever it was mentioning Texas and California did throw me off, lol
Yup! Seems the President turns dictator - hinted at in the preview - and TX and CA secede for different reasons, then form an unlikely alliance to defeat the now-imperial 'American' military.Just a guess: CA and TX both secede in the movie, but maybe not for the same reasons--CA to build a socialist paradise and TX to build a free democracy. But when the feds try to force their return, they can become allies in common cause.
Me, too - at first!
Yup! Seems the President turns dictator - hinted at in the preview - and TX and CA secede for different reasons, then form an unlikely alliance to defeat the now-imperial 'American' military.
I got the impression the writer(s)/Director(s) intentionally kept any of the 'good' or 'bad' guys from being 'left' or 'right' in order to keep appeal broad. Could be interesting!
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Just a guess: CA and TX both secede in the movie, but maybe not for the same reasons--CA to build a socialist paradise and TX to build a free democracy. But when the feds try to force their return, they can become allies in common cause.
Looks like movie‘s alliance maps is out on net.
The enemy of my enemy is my ally. For now. But in reality they probably just were going for a “balkanization of the US” scenario and didn’t think too much about how that would sound at face value. Working together aside, those are 2 likely major power centers in an actual Balkanization scenario. Whether they’d ever actually work together for anything would remain to be seen…Just a guess: CA and TX both secede in the movie, but maybe not for the same reasons--CA to build a socialist paradise and TX to build a free democracy. But when the feds try to force their return, they can become allies in common cause.
I'm not sure the military would necessarily go with the commies, their folks live in these states & are mostly conservative.