(12-13-2024, 08:17 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-warfare-from-a24-co-directed-by-iraq-war-veteran-ray-mendoza-and-alex-garland-trailer-monday.1060770/#post-132942396
axlp wrote:i know a guy who saw a test screening and signed something promising not to reveal anything about it on social media
on an unrelated note I think I'd really hate a movie that dramatized an event from the American occupation of Iraq that provided no context for the presence of the Americans and broadly glorified their actions and "sacrifices" while all the Iraqis, the people in whose country the movie takes place, remained generic and nonspecific threats or background victims
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-warfare-from-a24-co-directed-by-iraq-war-veteran-ray-mendoza-and-alex-garland-trailer-monday.1060770/#post-132946608
Kusagari wrote:Garland directing another problematic movie based on war? Shocking.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-warfare-from-a24-co-directed-by-iraq-war-veteran-ray-mendoza-and-alex-garland-trailer-monday.1060770/#post-132952113
Zeliard wrote:It's Alex Garland, after Civil War and especially his comments about it after the fact I don't respect him at all. Would you expect anything more? Apparently it's a virtue to have nothing to say. Wow California and Texas teamed up. Well isn't that fucking riveting.
I'd be genuinely shocked if this movie had an even a smattering of empathy or insight. Garland is demonstrably clueless about American politics and he's buddying up with an American Iraq war veteran. Why not an Iraqi director?
Garland going from ResetERA darling to 'chud' status in a flash because they can't get over the notion a red state and a blue state can set aside differences to overthrow a fascist dictator will never not be hilarious to me. Like, if Trump does all that they fear he'd do, you'd think ResetERA would welcome different political groups coming together to defeat the greater threat. That's apparently the case when going against the healthcare industry, but it's a bridge too far for them when it come to taking down a fascist dictator in the White House?
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