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Civil War - It Looks like A Truly Great Movie To Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daJoVd3b9R8&list=PL0EUn8oclzyb2NcBhj5KIl05nwtvr94Vo ^ | 13th May 2024 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 05/13/2024 12:36:12 AM PDT by Ozguy1945

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1 posted on 05/13/2024 12:36:12 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
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[...] these are some of the film makers I have revered: Charlie Chaplin (more for his silent features than his talkies) and Shirley Temple, (both as a child and adult for the former and as a child only for the latter) [...]

Wow! I just examined Shirly Temple's complete filmography on Wikipedia, and couldn't find a single silent film listed.

Do you know something we don't?

Regards,

2 posted on 05/13/2024 1:22:26 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Ozguy1945

I haven’t seen it because I’m not sure from which political persuasion the movie is coming from. I’ve heard recently that it’s actually more a movie that is pro left than to conservatives. But I’m glad you’re asking the forum here so we can find out exactly what is fact and fiction.


3 posted on 05/13/2024 2:11:02 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Ozguy1945

The timing of this movie is interesting as we do seem on the edge of a civil war. Arguably much more so than in the 1850s.


4 posted on 05/13/2024 4:02:27 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Ozguy1945
Am I wrong on this one?

The movie is predicated on a ridiculous suppostion: CA and TX are mortal ememies and would NEVER join forces.

5 posted on 05/13/2024 4:03:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Perhaps that was the point


6 posted on 05/13/2024 4:06:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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Spoiler alert: This movie ends with a black female soldier standing over a fictional U.S. president who refused to leave office. The female soldier shoots and kills him, explaining it’s the fastest way to end the lie...to save democracy.


7 posted on 05/13/2024 4:09:32 AM PDT by batazoid (Plainclothes cop at Capital during Jan 6 riot...)
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To: AppyPappy
Perhaps that was the point

The point being the movie is ridiculous and written by an idiot? Is that the point? But if you liked it fine. Not my cup of tea.

The natural division in the USA would be the South + the mid-west forming a union agains the rest of the USA. Maybe electing a congress and placing their capital in Dallas. That would be a REAListic civil war movie plot.

PS: CA LOVES the federal govt.

8 posted on 05/13/2024 4:11:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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The Elites want you to follow their narratives. They want you to believe “If I don’t think their narrative is believable, maybe I am the problem”.
That’s why I refuse to participate.


9 posted on 05/13/2024 4:17:17 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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"Spoiler alert: This movie ends with a black female soldier standing over a fictional U.S. president who refused to leave office. The female soldier shoots and kills him, explaining it’s the fastest way to end the lie...to save democracy."

That's the unconscious subtext of the movie people are missing. It's a non-white coalition of females, blacks, and hispanics who take-down the White president.

10 posted on 05/13/2024 5:08:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: central_va
It was engaging but they had a hard time hiding their disdain for the revolutionaries.

The whole strong women, saintly minorities and Nazi-infused Whites tropes where slathered "subtly" throughout the movie.

I was pretty disappointed.

11 posted on 05/13/2024 5:09:40 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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To: central_va

They’d need Southern California for agriculture and access to the Pacific.


12 posted on 05/13/2024 5:22:09 AM PDT by ealgeone
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"Perhaps that was the point."

In fiction, it's the writer's responsibility to give reasons and explanations for things that may seem absurd.

The fact that many people ask about the California-Texas alliance goes to show it's confusing to people. A good writer could have added on sentence to fill in the blanks. It's a big plot hole for many people.

13 posted on 05/13/2024 5:29:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Ozguy1945

Kurt Schlicter said it’s a woke dog.


14 posted on 05/13/2024 5:32:20 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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Come man, it is called the gulf of Mexico.


15 posted on 05/13/2024 5:46:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah the minute I heard “the Texas-California coalition...” in the trailers I said to myself “skip it”.


16 posted on 05/13/2024 5:50:59 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Ozguy1945

At least the South had several months to organize and prepare for war. It had leaders trained by the best US Military academies. That is why a 90 day dust up lasted four long years. I see no preparation now just bold talk.


17 posted on 05/13/2024 6:08:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ozguy1945

It’s a road trip movie, not a war movie.


18 posted on 05/13/2024 6:36:01 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: Ozguy1945

It’s Marxist commie trash. The message is that if you’re anything but a progressive Marxist commie then you’re the enemy. Notice the Yellow Vests (France) and the Blue Helmet (The UN Soldiers). The messages are sometime blatant and sometimes subliminal but they are all pushing a single narrative.

Notice the bad guy in someplace like the Ozarks who plays an ignorant mean hateful hillbilly bully. Are there people like that, maybe, but there are far more rural folk who are not.

Civil War is progressive trash.


19 posted on 05/13/2024 7:28:09 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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I don’t watch movies just to note the woke BS in them so I didn’t notice any of that. All I want is to be entertained.
What I did notice is.....it was boring!!


20 posted on 05/13/2024 7:46:41 AM PDT by sheana
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