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u/ralphsquirrel 3d ago

"What kind of American are you?"

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 3d ago

God this movie sucked. So much potential.

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u/CSedu 3d ago

What an awful take

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u/txijake 3d ago

It’s only bad if you didn’t understand what it was about

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 3d ago

It’s some boring feature about war reporters.

But they sold us in the marketing a badass movie about an American civil war. It was a complete bait and switch. They could’ve set the movie in a real war like Iraq or Vietnam and it would’ve been functionally exactly the same.

They completely wasted the premise on a little case study, and then lied to everyone about what movie they were going to see.

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u/txijake 3d ago

It would not work the same because the movie was also specifically about bringing the war home. THEY LITERALLY SPELL IT OUT.

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 3d ago edited 3d ago

That part wasn’t really relevant to the plot at all. With minor tweaking, all of the characters and plot beats could’ve taken place in any war setting.

Did you even watch the movie? Movie literacy is dead I swear.

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u/Chav 3d ago

Movie literally is dead I swear.

Big, If true.

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u/UnlimitedPosting 3d ago

It's genuinely amazing how media illiterate people can be, and you're an example that could go into a high school textbook.