Neo 'Civil War' Hollywood Blockbuster Coming to Theater Near You, Amid 2024 Election

[appalachiablue]

- Common Dreams, Dec. 14, 2023. Hollywood Blockbuster 'Civil War' Coming to a Theater Near You Amid 2024 Election. "What kind of American are you?" By Jon Queally.

Described by producers as an "adrenaline-fueled thrill ride through a near-future fractured America balanced on the razor's edge," the promotion of a life-like dystopian film called "Civil War" dropped this week, feeding on the very real fears of increasing social fractures in the United States undergirded by Donald Trump's far-right fascism and a Republican Party increasingly hostile to democratic norms.

Written and directed by filmmaker Alex Garland and set for release in April 2024, the movie's trailer opens by informing audiences that 19 U.S. states have seceded as a military confrontation erupts between a standing U.S. government based in Washington, D.C. and the so-called "Western Forces" that are somehow a coalition army based out of California and Texas.

While the exact politics of the film are not made clear, the trailer certainly evokes a sense of chaos and menace reminiscent of the rhetoric and violence on display during the January 6th insurrection attempt by Trump's MAGA mob in 2021. As The Verge notes in its review, "It's hard to glean too many story details from the trailer, but it features a small group attempting to infiltrate a heavily fortified Washington, D.C.

It also features the tagline 'all empires fall,' so you know things aren't going so well."

- Watch the trailer:

- Civil War | Official Trailer HD | A24

"This is not at all how it would happen," said Jim Stewartson, a podcaster who frequently critiques the far-right Trump movement, "but a lot of cult members, preppers, boogaloos, & ammosexuals who have been fantasizing about civil war for years are very excited about this movie." "Dropping this a few months before an existentially important election," Stewartson added, "seems… cynical."...Con't...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/civil-war-movie-2024
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Perhaps the film is.. unhelpful?

[Traildogbob]

1. Yes

This is extremely concerning for me as it should for all of us.
We need a counter with an insurrection movie. Detailing every elected person and their involvement.
How many cameos will Putin have in the Civil War movie? And I am certain Trump, Bannon and Lindsay with the usual MAGA mouths will lead the warriors into battle to end the country in this movie, all on big “white” stallions.

[appalachiablue]

2. Excellent, the makers in charge better get working on it.

[hunter]

3. Hallmark style Christmas romances are high art compared to most dystopian schlock.

Dystopia, especially in the movies, is the laziest form of fiction.