This movie is in post-production now. It’s coming out in March, the week after Super Tuesday when Trump wipes out his competition and becomes the GOP nominee for President. It’s going to play in IMAX and it has theatrical distribution. The production company, A24, is “top of the line” in Hollywood.
Oh boy, every MAGAt's wet dream in living color and on IMAX..... The damn fools don't realize that if they take away peoples' rights, eventually the government will come for them too. Granted, there is a contingent of military personnel who are MAGA-friendly if not MAGA themselves, and we do not know who will answer the call to overthrow the legitimate government. The unspoken background of this film - not mentioned at all - is that such an event or situation would lead to a depression. Also, while it is churlish to say so, the 14% of US counties who voted for Hillary in 2016 produced 65% of the US GDP that year - the red states (except for oil-rich Texas) are welfare clients of the federal government. The other scenario they do not mention here is that in this situation, the government will confiscate all privately-owned firearms as threats to public order.....
Ex Machina was wild. So I’m primed to watch. But the premise just hits so close to home. I actually feel apprehensive sitting here thinking about this. They have a distribution deal? A film like that could cause a disturbance in some (bright red) parts of the country.
As the old saw goes “Truth is stranger than fiction…” and in this screwed up MAGA landscape this country’s become, who’s to say that this not a credible scenario going forward? I think most of this secessionist talk is just so much hot air and kabuki theater posturing, but then there was 1861…so you never know in this insane world.
I had a buddy who lived in Rapid City when that film came out and he said the shopping mall had Red Dawn displays all over the place. Apparently it was a big f***ing deal there, which my buddy found very strange.
The Netflix-out-right-now "Leave The World Behind," with Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali is in this genre as is "American Insurrection," which came and went two years ago. I saw it on Showtime. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11737466/
Oh dear God -- watching that trailer gives me flu-like symptoms. But I may have to suck it up and see the movie. No, it's not entertainment: it's what Dunst's character says: a warning being sent home.
I hope this cautionary tale hits its mark, but most of mankind have been poor students. I'm glad I'm old and won't have to see the full devolution of man, a species once believed to be capable of evolving.
I don't know. "The Day After" woke a lot of people up to the dangers of nuclear war, and helped the push for arms reduction. It got St. Ronnie on board with it, from what I understand. "Threads" had the same effect in Britain, only much more so; that film makes "The Day After" look like a Rogers and Hammerstein musical in comparison.
Pulling on my boots to join the rebels. (Grew up in the era of Saturday afternoon double features and still often find myself fully immersed in movies.)
Oh boy, every MAGAt's wet dream in living color and on IMAX..... The damn fools don't realize that if they take away peoples' rights, eventually the government will come for them too. Granted, there is a contingent of military personnel who are MAGA-friendly if not MAGA themselves, and we do not know who will answer the call to overthrow the legitimate government. The unspoken background of this film - not mentioned at all - is that such an event or situation would lead to a depression. Also, while it is churlish to say so, the 14% of US counties who voted for Hillary in 2016 produced 65% of the US GDP that year - the red states (except for oil-rich Texas) are welfare clients of the federal government. The other scenario they do not mention here is that in this situation, the government will confiscate all privately-owned firearms as threats to public order.....
Of course, the "government" in this story is run by the guy who unconstitutionally ran for a third term. I think we know who that's supposed to be.
Yeah, the guy who holds a rally but doesn't know what city he's in.....
we especially do, given the credentials of the people involved.
if the stars were, say, Jon Voight, either Quaid, THOSE usual suspects, we'd know to avoid it.
it DOES sound like watching it will arouse some anxiety, but so does waking up.
Too close to the bone for my increasingly delicate self!
Ex Machina was wild. So I’m primed to watch. But the premise just hits so close to home. I actually feel apprehensive sitting here thinking about this. They have a distribution deal? A film like that could cause a disturbance in some (bright red) parts of the country.
Probably what they intend. Also a warning to the anti-Trump coalition of what's at stake.
As the old saw goes “Truth is stranger than fiction…” and in this screwed up MAGA landscape this country’s become, who’s to say that this not a credible scenario going forward? I think most of this secessionist talk is just so much hot air and kabuki theater posturing, but then there was 1861…so you never know in this insane world.
Its not entertainment, its Pre-History; stuff that’s gonna happen
Not Deja Vu, Prev-a-vu
I sincerely hope not. Civil War is the worst. A bad family fight with AR-15s and AK-47s.
Those dumbF’s don’t know how to hunt or garden, they’ll starve the first month the grocery stores shut down
Again, as Bugs Bunny said, long ago "Lettuce Prey"!
As my fifth graders used to say into their paper flip phones,”Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life on this planet.”
And I thought the Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down movies were terrifying predictive programming tools. Ugh.
Have you seen Red Dawn?
The far right wet dream?
Yes, indeed.
I had a buddy who lived in Rapid City when that film came out and he said the shopping mall had Red Dawn displays all over the place. Apparently it was a big f***ing deal there, which my buddy found very strange.
No. I see there were 2, the original in 1984, an intriguing cautionary tale for a cautionary year.
The Netflix-out-right-now "Leave The World Behind," with Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali is in this genre as is "American Insurrection," which came and went two years ago. I saw it on Showtime. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11737466/
This isn't supposed to happen.
This movie sounds like anarchy and chaos. Not my choice of "entertainment."
Wow. DeSantis will figure out a way so it cannot be shown on screens in Florida.
A firestorm. Will wake a lot of people up.
Salud.
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That just means we'll pass bootlegs around. It will get seen in my state, one way or another.
I think that if MAGAts manage to wrest control in `24, this is the quite likely future in the US.
Sadly, I agree.
Oh dear God -- watching that trailer gives me flu-like symptoms. But I may have to suck it up and see the movie. No, it's not entertainment: it's what Dunst's character says: a warning being sent home.
I hope this cautionary tale hits its mark, but most of mankind have been poor students. I'm glad I'm old and won't have to see the full devolution of man, a species once believed to be capable of evolving.
I don't know. "The Day After" woke a lot of people up to the dangers of nuclear war, and helped the push for arms reduction. It got St. Ronnie on board with it, from what I understand. "Threads" had the same effect in Britain, only much more so; that film makes "The Day After" look like a Rogers and Hammerstein musical in comparison.
Pulling on my boots to join the rebels. (Grew up in the era of Saturday afternoon double features and still often find myself fully immersed in movies.)
If I don't leave, I will fight.
Those double features were my "film school" - the old Park theater on South Gaylord Street in Denver.
Double feature with the original Mad Max🤯🤯. Or, triple feature with Waterworld🤯🤯🤯.