Civil War Hits The Wall - Too Scared To Be Honest

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  • čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
  • Civil War's biggest problem is not that it’s boring. It’s that it’s too scared to be honest!
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    I had heard rumors that the Civil War movie's biggest sin was that it was boring. But no. Civil War has many sins. And its biggest sin is how weak it is. For a film that tries to portray itself as important, it plays it very safe. And yes, it is also very boring.
    It also doesn't understand photography! Let's discuss!
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  • @RobotHead
    @RobotHead  Před měsícem +43

    Have you seen Civil War & did you like it? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram. And do the “Like”, “Subscribe” and “Bell” thing so you don’t miss a video. Cheers!
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    • @Arthur_morgan300
      @Arthur_morgan300 Před měsícem +4

      I didn’t even know this movie existed till I watched this video💀

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem +2

      Captain America:-"No, I don't think I will".

    • @69jonhill
      @69jonhill Před měsícem +5

      I saw it, and really enjoyed it. I expected a US, gung-ho, hell-yeah type of film, and it wasn't that. No 'The Message' that I could discern, and as a piece about war photographers, it was excellent in many respects. Four stars out of five, to quote Alex Turner.

    • @kernowpictures2002
      @kernowpictures2002 Před měsícem

      Haven’t seen it yet

    • @brandenmanuel2037
      @brandenmanuel2037 Před měsícem +3

      It tries so hard to not be controversial that it ends up not saying much
      On the positive side, it had some entertaining moments
      5/10

  • @noway6633
    @noway6633 Před měsícem +547

    One of the dumbest parts of this movie is the idea the president would actually be in the white house and not in air force one well before a hostile force got that close

    • @combatwombat2134
      @combatwombat2134 Před měsícem +33

      Where he can definitely be shot down by the Raptors we saw WF had?
      The military who remained aligned with the President after the other parts of the US split surrendered late in the film, it's entirely reasonable to suggest that includes the people responsible for ferrying the President around on his aircraft.

    • @GeahkBurchill
      @GeahkBurchill Před měsícem +24

      One of the news blips mentions the President lost the faith of his Air Force which is why they weren’t there for him.

    • @lordcarnorjax8599
      @lordcarnorjax8599 Před měsícem +65

      Or in the secure bunker under the East Wing and that's the bunker that people know about, wouldn't surprise me if there's a more secure secret location for him.

    • @combatwombat2134
      @combatwombat2134 Před měsícem +5

      @@lordcarnorjax8599 he wasn't in the bunker I suspect because he was hoping to be taken to a neutral area for a surrender negotiation. One of his secret service agents is in the press room and is trying to negotiate him being allowed to go somewhere to discuss terms of surrender.
      That, obviously, goes poorly and there isn't time to take him to the bunker or they can't get to the bunker at that point.

    • @Reclusiarch_jakal
      @Reclusiarch_jakal Před měsícem +6

      I thought this was a post I made bc I said the same thing . He would be at site R . Let the strong female soldiers storm RavenRock

  • @ValiantKnight7983
    @ValiantKnight7983 Před měsícem +401

    this movie was an accidental hit piece on journalists

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +56

      True 😅

    • @tyrannozilla
      @tyrannozilla Před měsícem +9

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @GeahkBurchill
      @GeahkBurchill Před měsícem +22

      If you thought it was an accident you missed the point

    • @shawklan27
      @shawklan27 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@GeahkBurchill totally

    • @Dr.Strangmeme
      @Dr.Strangmeme Před měsícem

      ​@@GeahkBurchill
      They weren't smart enough to do it on purpose.
      Now, can you imagine how dumb that makes you?...
      I don't know why I explained that because you aren't going to understand it anyways.

  • @nappa0582
    @nappa0582 Před měsícem +223

    Every time the shot of the camera crew looks up at the jets flying over, take a shot.

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +49

      Don't die

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@RobotHead. Will you ever stream a playthrough of metal gear rising revengeance?

    • @sjc5411
      @sjc5411 Před měsícem

      ​@@erikbihari3625is that the 20 year old game?

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem

      @@sjc5411. Old stuff can still slap! And m.g.r.r. slaps harder than count spankula from k.n.d.!

  • @BDnevernind
    @BDnevernind Před měsícem +99

    If the vest is actually kevlar, it wouldn't stop a round from a battle rifle anyway. The vests journos wear in combat zones have ceramic plates for this reason.

    • @James_Bee
      @James_Bee Před měsícem +19

      It's irrelevant. The point is the character makes a big deal about wearing one and then gets show and instantly dies.
      Robot head is correct in saying there should have been a scene where she gives it to the other girl and then tries to save her but gets shot.

    • @BDnevernind
      @BDnevernind Před měsícem +5

      @@James_Bee I'm adding to the criticism of the movie. No journo would wear a pistol/stab vest. You maybe don't know what's relevant to my viewpoint.

    • @isaiahsmith7123
      @isaiahsmith7123 Před měsícem +5

      Also Secret service in this film was outfitted like they normally are with PDW's and pistols.
      I don't recall seeing them using rifles but in any case the vest should have stopped the 9mm rounds being sent downrange bt the secret service unless they were rechambered into 5.7×28 though that is a detail that should have been addressed in the movie were it the case.

    • @BDnevernind
      @BDnevernind Před měsícem +1

      @@isaiahsmith7123 Ah that's interesting. SS agents do have PDWs for backup during peacetime, but I imagine they'd have long rifles for this situation. You're right about the vest then, but my point was she wouldn't be gearing up submachinegun and pistol rounds during wartime.

    • @isaiahsmith7123
      @isaiahsmith7123 Před měsícem

      @@BDnevernind To be fair there may have been some armed with assault rifles( as they logically should be) but yes you are spot on.

  • @Hailfire08
    @Hailfire08 Před měsícem +61

    some random shitass town: "we're neutral 😊"
    both sides: "no the hell you aren't"

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 Před měsícem +4

      Yup, if you’re neutral, you end up whatever the side that takes your town over first is, basically.

    • @ogvegeta3286
      @ogvegeta3286 Před měsícem

      I might be dumb but wasn’t that what they were saying?? When she left the store there were armed gunman on the roof and then they ran into the Todd from breaking bad. Implying that they controlled the town

  • @GeoFry3
    @GeoFry3 Před měsícem +22

    I love that "abandoned" stretch of highway they always use in post apocalypse movies. This one too. I wonder where it is.

  • @Amphibax
    @Amphibax Před měsícem +40

    When making a movie you have people on set whose job it is to use cameras all day. You cant tell nobody realized that filmcamera makes no sense here.

    • @naamadossantossilva4736
      @naamadossantossilva4736 Před měsícem

      They were overruled by the director.

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 Před měsícem +4

      Dude, there’s a ton of things you’ll catch as someone who works with cameras. For one, they had a lens that had something on it, in the mid-left side of the frame, and it was driving me nuts. It’s there throughout the film.
      They take shots in the middle of a bright day and they’re blurry, which means the shutter speed is below 60fps, which would mean it would all be blown the hell up, lighting wise. The shutter would need to be higher, which wouldn’t cause blur.
      They have huge zoom lenses but choose to go way up close to get footage. Why? That bugged me immediately, like, why do you need to be in the face of people fighting? Get your 55-200mm lens, and shoot from a distance, not that hard.
      Sticking your eye in the viewfinder is incredibly idiotic when you need your peripheral vision to be on high alert, especially when you have an LCD in the middle of the camera.

  • @tyrannozilla
    @tyrannozilla Před měsícem +154

    Dunst Wars. Episode II: Attack of The Karens.

  • @PsychoRavager
    @PsychoRavager Před měsícem +410

    A film that presents itself as focusing on an apparent divide in the United States... while having journalists as the protagonists. Pathetic. You don't have to be American to know just how distinctly despised journalism has been in recent years.

    • @Red-zh7vq
      @Red-zh7vq Před měsícem +20

      They are conflict journalists, not really the same as your average woke pundit

    • @mtnman1984
      @mtnman1984 Před měsícem +19

      Most people wouldn't know a real journalist if they saw one. They even think they're allowed on cable news. 😂

    • @RoverIAC
      @RoverIAC Před měsícem

      @@B0tch0 Watergate was long before social media. . You get more accurate news from meme videos then mockingbird controlled media. Woodward and Bernstein would never be able to break a story like that now days unless they had permission.

    • @kernowpictures2002
      @kernowpictures2002 Před měsícem

      Exactly journalism in the West as a whole is a joke nowadays especially the UK 🇬🇧 don’t get me fucking started on the daily mail or as I and others like to call it daily fail

    • @PsychoRavager
      @PsychoRavager Před měsícem +11

      @@B0tch0 , oh, I'm not discounting individuals that actually know how to do proper journalism (even in today's day and age). I'm just pointing out how a lot of people, especially those in positions of power or gated-off sectors where they don't see the harsh reality of the world, still have no clue how a lot of today's mainstream journalists are merely masquerading as such. And, yes, there are people out here on CZcams who have done better attempts at proper journalism than those that have that label in their profession.
      Just compare and contrast journalism done by major news outlets versus someone like Upper Echelon who provides as much receipts as possible before committing to a conclusion (even admitting to faults and flaws at times whenever viable). You won't see nor hear that kind of humility from those journalists in seats of power where they'll do anything for the sake of clout and/or access to companies/corporations, politicians, etc.
      So, yes, journalism, on paper and on its own, is not a bad thing by default. It's just easily corruptible, especially during times when capitalizing on dividing people is at an all time high. I live in a country where it's basically all I hear from news outlets instead of actual meaningful developments in what's going on to help the regular folks.

  • @DestroyerMariko
    @DestroyerMariko Před měsícem +23

    I knew nothing about the movie before watching this, but as someone who used to work for Kodak Express, I am 100% here for the film camera nitpicking! :D

  • @grenademaster8981
    @grenademaster8981 Před měsícem +24

    I'm surprised no one has pointed out the pilot just doing a random barrel roll while in formation for a air strike in a civil war. lol

    • @KeldorDAntrell
      @KeldorDAntrell Před měsícem +1

      Well, in the American air force that kind of stupid shit is normal, isn't it? I remember seeing on the news in the UK how a US fighter pilot targeted an *allied* truck convoy and destroyed a truck with a Union Jack painted on the top (precisely to help American pilots *not* shoot their allies) and *then* contacted the reconnaissance plane high above him to ask what it was that he had destroyed (the correct protocol is to contact the reconnaissance plane to ask what it is the pilot is seeing *before* he fires at anything).

    • @grenademaster8981
      @grenademaster8981 Před měsícem +2

      @@KeldorDAntrell LOL. How is attacking the wrong convey related to doing arial stunts? One is a huge error, the other is just silly. Sorry about your convoy bro!

    • @Alex-ie1qu
      @Alex-ie1qu Před měsícem

      @@KeldorDAntrellthat’s not normal. What are you on about?

    • @KeldorDAntrell
      @KeldorDAntrell Před měsícem +1

      @@grenademaster8981 it's related because both demonstrate a lack of restraint, a careless attitude, a lack of concern for correct procedure.

    • @KeldorDAntrell
      @KeldorDAntrell Před měsícem +1

      @@Alex-ie1qu I thought I was quite clear. What don't you understand?

  • @NZLStealh
    @NZLStealh Před měsícem +73

    Journalists navigating a civil war they fed the flames of.

    • @DontFeedTheTrolls
      @DontFeedTheTrolls Před měsícem

      Telling the truth doesn't feed the flames; lying to people stupid enough to believe the propaganda is the problem. Read news, don't eat it.

    • @aleksander8497
      @aleksander8497 Před měsícem +2

      indeed

    • @giga_chad9
      @giga_chad9 Před měsícem

      Fr that was the only thing I got out of this movie

  • @fuferito
    @fuferito Před měsícem +18

    So, _Civil War_ isn't about the deep divide between _Star Trek_ fans and _Star Wars_ fans?

    • @Alex-ie1qu
      @Alex-ie1qu Před měsícem +1

      That’s the Sithil war. Futurama already covered this

    • @harrambou9468
      @harrambou9468 Před měsícem +1

      No no no
      It’s been _Star Wars_ fans and _Star Wars_ fans 😂

    • @CoercedJab
      @CoercedJab Před měsícem

      How is that a civil war?

    • @jamesb.russell2942
      @jamesb.russell2942 Před měsícem +1

      ^ yeah true, that would be a war war

    • @chickenlittle2206
      @chickenlittle2206 Před 6 dny

      People started calling me sir.
      It's rather offensive. I pull three minute miles on my roller skates (no I'm not gonna denigrate them by putting an orientation of the wheels in front of that for the tiny children who point disgracefully seeing something for the first time in their lives and looking towards their parents aghast) with a bunch of parrots while being chased around town by a murder of crows I have trained to be my b!+(H, a situation which frankly I have likely have gotten backwards according to the crows).
      Except I do remember when the trekies were the insane lunatics and the star wars folk were pretty normal sooo....
      Fair enough.

  • @St_Brelade
    @St_Brelade Před měsícem +130

    The press are the good guys 😂😂😂

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +23

      😅 I think you are right 👍

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem +10

      ​@@RobotHead. Only America is capable of such narcissism. Metal gear rising revengeance was right!

    • @hoorayimhelping3978
      @hoorayimhelping3978 Před měsícem +4

      @@erikbihari3625 Have you never spoken to a European before?

    • @duck_entertainment
      @duck_entertainment Před měsícem +2

      How can you tell they’re good? Sure they’re the protagonists but that doesn’t necessarily make em the good guys

    • @REELSHIFT
      @REELSHIFT Před měsícem

      No they aren't, I don't think you guys understood the movie

  • @injuredoutdoorsman9011
    @injuredoutdoorsman9011 Před měsícem +21

    Kirsten Dunst was wearing a kevlar level 2 or 3A vest, which are only made to stop handgun rounds and shrapnel. To stop rifle rounds she would need level 3 or 4 steel, ceramic or composite plates.

  • @AJ-HawksToxicFinger
    @AJ-HawksToxicFinger Před měsícem +83

    This film sounds like it was produced by The New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.....

    • @SMX815
      @SMX815 Před měsícem +7

      The score was a shit show & spoilt the already crap movie 100%

    • @Red_Devil_2011
      @Red_Devil_2011 Před měsícem

      This movie was just a totally self-indulgent libt@rd's fantasy. Muh racisms.

  • @CrazyPlatinum92
    @CrazyPlatinum92 Před měsícem +17

    Ron Swanson was the hero in parks and recreation and became the villain government.

  • @jbug1979
    @jbug1979 Před měsícem +135

    why does kirsten dunst look like she just turned 52 years old?

  • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
    @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +118

    Why can't they just make american warlord era instead of civil war if they wanted their movie to be less political?
    Also what about the nukes? what about American soldiers stationed outside the United States? What about the reaction of world leaders seeing America falling into civil war?

    • @solokom
      @solokom Před měsícem +5

      That would be a different film. You don't have to focus on every single aspect in a movie to tell a story. In fact, that will deter the viewer's focus from what you want to tell.

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +23

      @@solokom and what exactly they want to tell?
      War is bad? Civil war is bad?

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +21

      @@solokom at least give a reason why civil war is happening.
      Avarage people are not just going to fight their fellow countrymen just because they love fighting.
      Usually, somethings big,some very controversial events must be happening and caused civil unrest and ignite civil war.

    • @solokom
      @solokom Před měsícem +4

      ​@@muhammadashshiddiq8752 "at least give a reason why civil war is happening." - that's the point, it doesn't matter. Also, if they had given a detailed reason they would have made it political and people would only have discussed these reasons. People already freaked out because Texas and California are fighting together. Imagine what would have happened if they gave the reason like you want it.

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +19

      @@solokom but every civil war is in fact,political. War is politic with bloodshed and politics is war without bloodshed.
      And no war is more political than a civil war. Politics is what makes war interesting to study.

  • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
    @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +157

    Many people have long predicted that this movie will fail by just looking at it's map.

    • @solokom
      @solokom Před měsícem +7

      Fail? Civil War Fends Off Three New Movies this week to Remain No. 1 on North American charts. LOL

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +21

      @@solokom fail in term of lore and story. It doesn't even feel like a war movie,it feels more like a post-apocalyptic movie.
      Also the maps doesn't even make any sense.

    • @solokom
      @solokom Před měsícem +2

      @@muhammadashshiddiq8752 How does a war movie have to feel like to you?

    • @dongeraci8599
      @dongeraci8599 Před měsícem +2

      @@muhammadashshiddiq8752 All of that was intentional.

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 Před měsícem +10

      @@solokom realistic war crime like looting and stuff if they really wanted to show a war is hell. A shell shocked veteran, entire town bombed to dust, foreign intervention and interest, some short truce.

  • @mannen659
    @mannen659 Před měsícem +29

    This is like watching how Reddit bots imagine how civil war works, and not even read a newspaper about the two most covered wars that have been happening for years now in Europe and the Middle East.

  • @matthew-nq9sk
    @matthew-nq9sk Před měsícem +75

    6:01 Dudes crying his eyes out in a motivational scene. Soldier in background: Let me ruin it by wearing my helmet like a dork

    • @Lockieez
      @Lockieez Před měsícem +11

      😂 Gotta love clueless extras!

  • @BigMan.270
    @BigMan.270 Před měsícem +27

    @8:26, why is the sniper wearing pink & blue nail polish? 😂😂😂😂

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman Před měsícem +11

      Same reason you see soldiers with anime girls on their guns in the real world lol

    • @christopherkinsella3912
      @christopherkinsella3912 Před měsícem +24

      You know why and it’s polluting the armed forces in the real world, this day.

    • @Dread_Pirate_Homesteader
      @Dread_Pirate_Homesteader Před měsícem +11

      Antifa side

    • @duck_entertainment
      @duck_entertainment Před měsícem +1

      I assume it’s kinda like satire (prolly not the right word) almost like how movies set in the 80’s are obnoxiously 80’s, this time around they did it with modern culture

    • @Dread_Pirate_Homesteader
      @Dread_Pirate_Homesteader Před měsícem +6

      @@duck_entertainment they did a neutral movement. They featured Boogaloo boys in one fight and lbgtqplus antifa in the other

  • @brandenmanuel2037
    @brandenmanuel2037 Před měsícem +25

    This movie tries so hard to not be controversial that it ends up not saying much

    • @user-gw1xl8tf6j
      @user-gw1xl8tf6j Před měsícem +2

      It does say a lot though haha that war is bad for ALL sides.

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před měsícem

      @@user-gw1xl8tf6j 👆🏳‍🌈

    • @Jaco059
      @Jaco059 Před měsícem +1

      @@user-gw1xl8tf6jlike every war movie?

  • @milan99cz
    @milan99cz Před měsícem +33

    What side of the Civil War are you on?
    Iron Man or Cap?

  • @tonig.1546
    @tonig.1546 Před měsícem +45

    I remember reading a thriller “Divided States of America” that was kind of the same premise, maybe this movie was inspired by it or it is an adaptation. Regardless the thriller was trying its damndest to be a Tom Clancy, and it really didn’t hit for me.
    The constant swapping between characters and viewpoints became really confusing towards the middle and the ending confused me even more, because I think they all just signed an armistice and just make peace, while ignoring the atrocities of the conflict ?
    Anyway mid book, bad movie, good video.

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +12

      Cheers and thanks for the info 👍

    • @Emanon...
      @Emanon... Před měsícem

      When has the US, Israel, UK or France ever admitted to or been accountable for any atrocities?
      You're very naive if you believe that everyone is brought to justice after an armistice.

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@RobotHead. Wanna see something with balls to tackle these topics? Four words"Metal gear rising revengeance"!

  • @Elder74
    @Elder74 Před měsícem +77

    Jeez MJ looks ruff

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +18

      Only 41!

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem

      ​@@RobotHead. Thought i'm looking at pepper potts!

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Před měsícem +2

      Peter Parker's blood isn't his only body fluid that's radioactive. =~[.]^=

    • @Elder74
      @Elder74 Před měsícem +1

      F-ing hell 🤣

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Před měsícem +2

      @@Elder74 Seriously, there was a "What If?" storyline in which Peter Parker gave MJ *CANCER!* ='[.]'=

  • @roberts111007
    @roberts111007 Před měsícem +21

    Literally 50% of the screen time is a close up shot of Kirstin Dunst with a pissed off/taking a shit face.

    • @meal_team_six
      @meal_team_six Před měsícem +2

      That's her regular face! She just hit the wall hard!

    • @roberts111007
      @roberts111007 Před měsícem

      @@meal_team_six I went to the enhanced format and sat in the second row. Her makeup was fucking nasty too, looked like she had dried cake batter under her eyes. It was not good.

    • @matthewphelps5136
      @matthewphelps5136 Před měsícem +3

      That look has been going around lately. Like a certain actress in DUNE part II, she makes the same face. I call it, "California Face".

  • @monoruby1614
    @monoruby1614 Před měsícem +21

    The only message I felt they tried to portray was war brings death. You’re right though it really said a whole lot of nothing.

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem +1

      Someone should show them metal gear rising revengeance! Even if it lacks the mutch praised"subtlety".

    • @White_Recluse
      @White_Recluse Před měsícem +5

      “People die when they are killed.” -Shiro Emiya

    • @thunderspark1536
      @thunderspark1536 Před měsícem +1

      @@White_Recluse Also Shiro: "Lemme give up my invincibility to help king arthur-turned female fight gilgamesh"

  • @biotrekker
    @biotrekker Před měsícem +9

    I love the reference to "the wall".

  • @LamiNalchor
    @LamiNalchor Před měsícem +7

    That is how you handle a war apparently: You just stay out. Brilliant.

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 Před měsícem

      I mean… It can happen. Until one of the sides gets to you, then you’re fighting on that side whether you want to or not.

    • @LamiNalchor
      @LamiNalchor Před měsícem

      @@alexman378 If you think of countries that were hit by war, civil or otherwise, cities usually don't have the option. If you are in a warzone combat will get to you.

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 Před měsícem

      @@LamiNalchor That’s what I’m saying, you can choose to be out of it, but someone will get to you and take you into the war eventually.

  • @jamesmacdaid624
    @jamesmacdaid624 Před měsícem +41

    Didn't consider the bad use of antiquated photography equipment, so obvious when you think about it. Excellent observation of a film that just annoyed me. The characters were paper thin and ultimately I didn't care if they lived or died, felt nothing by the end of the film.

  • @HisNameWasCrazy
    @HisNameWasCrazy Před měsícem +3

    Shoving somebody out of the way just so you can stand directly in the path of whatever threat you're saving them from has become one of my least favourite tired movie tropes. Lookin' at you, Minus One!

  • @tyrannozilla
    @tyrannozilla Před měsícem +10

    If you want a better example of a war story where you learn more about both sides of the conflict, go watch Robotech. It's old, but it's gold.

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +5

      I like the name

    • @tyrannozilla
      @tyrannozilla Před měsícem +3

      @@RobotHead It's very good, from what I've seen so far. I've only seen over half of the first season, but it's well done for the time (1985). It basically consists of 3 different anime re-edited to be part of one consistent continuity. Give it a look when you can.

    • @sarasunshinemt4444
      @sarasunshinemt4444 Před měsícem +3

      I grew up watching that on Saturday mornings 😁
      God I'm old...

  • @AdmiralNesence
    @AdmiralNesence Před měsícem +8

    So the vest the main character is wearing is almost certainly rated at level 3a. Which is required to stop up to .44 magnum rounds reliably. The guys who shoot her are firing mp5ks. Mp5ks fire 9mm which is much less likely to penetrate a level 3a vest than .44 magnum. Unless we are dealing with some kind of armor piercing round, in which case why are they using short barreled smgs that will limit the capabilities of their ap rounds? film makers have no idea how the equipment they give their characters work.

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před měsícem

    • @Redneck2393
      @Redneck2393 Před měsícem +3

      Yeah whoever was in charge of the military aspects of the movie did zero actual research into uniforms, weapons, vehicles, or other equipment. The scene with the Apache attack helicopter is one of the worst examples of the piss-poor research that went into this movie. To start with, Apaches don't have miniguns, they have autocannons that only fire at around 600 RPM, not the 2,000+ RPM of a minigun. Also, the Apache is flying way to low to the ground and way too close to the enemy, way too easy to be taken down by small arms fire and it couldn't maneuver at all if it had to because of the surrounding buildings. Also, the Apache wouldn't need to be there anyway since the Abrams tank on the street right behind and below it could have done a much better job of suppressing the enemy positions.

  • @destroyer4385
    @destroyer4385 Před měsícem +18

    love the content! keep it up :D

    • @RobotHead
      @RobotHead  Před měsícem +6

      Cheers and Thanks. Nice to hear 👍

    • @erikbihari3625
      @erikbihari3625 Před měsícem

      ​@@RobotHead. Hope you're not an a.i. generated"generic"response.😅

  • @nephicus339
    @nephicus339 Před měsícem +3

    Those helmets worn by the main cast are so small, I can only imagine there was a rush to grab props and they raided a Walmart toy section.

  • @afroahmed3989
    @afroahmed3989 Před měsícem +19

    So a NY times journalist, a WP journalist, a WSJ journalist and a Kotaku journalist walk into a civil war , the joke just writes itself

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 Před měsícem

      Which ironically they probably created.

  • @dcashio
    @dcashio Před měsícem +3

    OMG the Camera thing would have been a show-stopper for me too. Great Work Thank you

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 Před měsícem +5

    Showdown between the Western Forces, the Florida Alliance, and the New People’s Army versus FBI, CIA, and NSA would been an interesting gunfight eye candy

  • @Flitalidapouet
    @Flitalidapouet Před měsícem +53

    Tanks DEI and ESG staff and writers hires. Where competency, decades of experience, and quality is avoided like the plague, or a muffin forgotten in your sofa for a month .

    • @aedryk
      @aedryk Před měsícem +10

      but there is a TrAnS sNiPeR though

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman Před měsícem

      Legitimately mind boggling how these points were not brought up at all on his well spoken criticism and her incels somehow bring it up.
      Just come out the closet already and tell us you can't get LGBT off your mind

    • @lordartahnis
      @lordartahnis Před měsícem

      How does one get a whole muffin lost in a sofa? 😂

    • @Flitalidapouet
      @Flitalidapouet Před měsícem +1

      @@lordartahnis Did you look in your sofa recently, you could be surprised lol 🧐🥞

    • @b4ds33d
      @b4ds33d Před měsícem +3

      I met a 24yo who’s “a writer for a high profile show” and was clearly a sheltered kid who spent his whole show inexperienced life playing video games and in the echo chamber university system. I simply asked him, what could you possibly write about anyone would be interested in? Good writers like JRR Tolkien, Hemingway, and Dostoyevsky had gritty life experience that made their work compelling, relatable, and realistic. That’s why movies like Civil War and current shows are terrible. Anymore, the bar is “well, at least it’s not terrible.”

  • @jay7949
    @jay7949 Před měsícem +2

    Once I heard it was Texas and California was teaming up in this film, I knew not to take it serious

  • @Matt-vh2ci
    @Matt-vh2ci Před měsícem +18

    "There is nothing worse than a pretentious movie, I mean a movie that aspires to be great and doesn't pull it off, it's shit it's scum and everyone will walk on it as such" Francis Ford Coppola on the set of Apocalypse now

    • @James_Bee
      @James_Bee Před měsícem

      I just watched his cut of Apocalypse Now (Redux) and afterwards (my first time seeing the film at all, mind you( my first thought was "well, that was pretentious".
      They build up Kurtz and then... he's just a sociopath that mumbles a bunch of nonsense. Maybe that was the point? What a dumb film. Duvall was awesome, though.

    • @tjq4378
      @tjq4378 Před měsícem +2

      But Dont Look Up was such an amazing and clever film /s

    • @Matt-vh2ci
      @Matt-vh2ci Před měsícem +1

      @@James_Bee he doesn't talk non sense, the movie says something about war (how it should be fought: either make yourself at home like Kilgore tries to do with the surf stuff or you make war yours), Kurtz praises the Vietcong ability to wage war (the cut the arm of every vaccinated children), that's the point of his mologue and Brando is insanely good in it.

  • @DontFeedTheTrolls
    @DontFeedTheTrolls Před měsícem +4

    Conflict of Nations 3 will ruin your life because it doesn't pause when you go to sleep or go to work, or school... It's easy to win if you play 24/7 for weeks at a time (sometimes months)

  • @Ranger7Studios
    @Ranger7Studios Před měsícem +27

    I saw it tonight. Maybe not put a line in the middle of the movie that gives your entire ending away. Also, it needed to be a blunt hammer when it came to it's message. Instead, it was a wet noodle. It had no guts or point of view to inspire.

  • @Rand00mThing
    @Rand00mThing Před měsícem +4

    I hope Kirsten got paid way more than Toby in this one. 😁

    • @Redneck2393
      @Redneck2393 Před měsícem +1

      I see what you did there.😉

  • @vinced7618
    @vinced7618 Před měsícem +4

    I just saw it this weekend, I actually really liked it. I wish there were more movies that packed a story in under 2 hours without some heavy handed lesson to be learned. I appreciated it being from the point of view of someone who's a useless bystander and isn't somehow better or smarter than everyone around her. Just telling a story and letting me enjoy it.

  • @dangerdolls
    @dangerdolls Před měsícem +5

    Thank you for pointing out the stupidity of the camera technology used. I recently retired from a publications unit and, like you, could not get past the idea that these people were still using film when the photographers I know went digital years ago, particularly outside of a studio setting. I mean really?

    • @TheCrusaderRabbits
      @TheCrusaderRabbits Před měsícem +3

      They use digital as well in the film.

    • @scottmiller2222
      @scottmiller2222 Před měsícem

      If you're watching this movie and nit picking the cameras, you're watching the movie wrong

    • @dangerdolls
      @dangerdolls Před měsícem +2

      @@scottmiller2222 The camera nitpicking is just an example of the greater issues. I would suggest if you are making a movie about the horror of war without any grounding or context for the conflict or the how the protagonists feel about it then you are doing your movie making wrong because there is no reason to be invested in anything or anyone. Like the romanticism of the cameras I nitpicked the characters themselves are thinly draw romanticizations of classic journo stereotypes with little else going for them. And world building is likewise devoid of context which I realize was intentional, but makes it difficult to invest in. For all the audience knows invading armies execute the last person, however flawed, standing for the freedoms of the constitution. Yay?

    • @TheCrusaderRabbits
      @TheCrusaderRabbits Před měsícem +2

      @@dangerdolls The analog choice of camera reveals something about the mindset of the character. It is a perfectly fine choice.

  • @yodawgzgaming4416
    @yodawgzgaming4416 Před měsícem +1

    The best critique I heard of this movie was "Civil War is just about a bunch of photojournalists, not about an actual civil war."

  • @mercinary110
    @mercinary110 Před měsícem +2

    Knew this was going to be a dumpster fire from the first trailer lol. Was wondering if you were going to do a vid on this movie. Made my morning thank you sir

  • @holyfreak8
    @holyfreak8 Před měsícem +3

    Haven't seen the movie, but a review I saw said that many people would not like it because it does not have the typical heroe's journey that most war movies have. That maybe the theme of what a violent modern civil conflict on US soil would be, how that violence would manifest when that conflict is not on another continent.

  • @Hairlok
    @Hairlok Před měsícem +7

    Feel your Camera gear hate xD

  • @KeldorDAntrell
    @KeldorDAntrell Před měsícem

    As usual, a superb critique.

  • @REXLARA
    @REXLARA Před měsícem +1

    Kevlar doesn’t stop 5.56 but that opens the door to the utter lack of knowledge about kit that the writers have

  • @Jabberstax
    @Jabberstax Před měsícem +3

    Two Robothead videos in two days! 'Straya is spoiling us!

  • @ronstarbuck3478
    @ronstarbuck3478 Před měsícem +1

    One of the things that bothered me about the trailer is that there's a dude presumably taking a shot with a sniper rifle. Ghillie suit, cool, but he's not wearing any sort of headgear, has lime colored hair instead and brightly colored painted nails. It's whatever, but are you trying to blend in or not?

  • @butataRS
    @butataRS Před měsícem +8

    When I saw the thumbnail photo, I thought it was Jack Black from Tropic Thunder.

  • @robvegas9354
    @robvegas9354 Před měsícem

    i remember dropping off the little round film from the camera at coles and it would take about 3-4 days to get the pictures back, plus the little black plastic film storage tubs in the packaging always came in handy for many sorts of mischief in the 90's ;)
    on a side note, from personal experience i can confirm that the slow motion kicks in on the way out of a bar and on the way to the kebab shop, not when you first enter the pub

  • @meal_team_six
    @meal_team_six Před měsícem +6

    That scene when Claire Danes chased down The Winter Soldier only to realize it was her old friend Bucky Barnes from her time at Columbia's School of Journalism was quite riveting.

  • @MelbourneArchviz
    @MelbourneArchviz Před měsícem +3

    never stop about the bloddy cameras. a few years ago every youtube hack photographer was tellign people how amazing film is and people were shitting on others like me who didn't accept that finding an old camera and some expired film is the best thing ever. F these old cameras freaks.

    • @John-fk2ky
      @John-fk2ky Před měsícem +1

      I like old cameras, in that I think they look cool, and I like learning how they work. I don’t, however, have any interest in using one when digital versions work so much better.

  • @ominouskelp1522
    @ominouskelp1522 Před měsícem +6

    Who would have thought

  • @dewulfe9913
    @dewulfe9913 Před měsícem +1

    Shame about this one - Garland is increasingly looking very hit or miss, despite great work in 28 Days Later, Dredd and Ex Machina.

  • @fr2331
    @fr2331 Před měsícem +2

    The hitting the wall animation! 🤣

  • @cyrollan
    @cyrollan Před 14 dny

    In this video, and Rebel Moon, anytime you say "sidekick" I hear "psychic" and have to remind myself that I heard the wrong word.

  • @grahamjay4155
    @grahamjay4155 Před měsícem +8

    One of the main problems is that the trailer sold us a different film.

    • @duck_entertainment
      @duck_entertainment Před měsícem

      100% factual, still recommend it though was one of the better big budget movies to come out

    • @user-gw1xl8tf6j
      @user-gw1xl8tf6j Před měsícem +1

      Expecxcting an all out action movie from A24 as a studio is not right though.

  • @TheTexican05
    @TheTexican05 Před měsícem

    I repaired a fence yesterday that was heavily damaged by termites. And it was less hollow than the plot/script of this movie…
    The main 4 actors did a great job, but JFC there was absolutely zero character development on either side of the country; no backstory or deeper insight into Nick Offerman‘s president.
    The final scenes that have the journalist not wearing helmets and proper protective gear, while walking on foot into a siege of the capital, is the cherry on the cake of ridiculousness.

  • @dlbutters7164
    @dlbutters7164 Před měsícem +1

    @2:24 i swer to God i've seen that same shot/road in season 2 of The Walking Dead.

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Před 16 dny

      LOL it’s like they didn’t even bother cleaning up the set

  • @samoz6865
    @samoz6865 Před měsícem +7

    I don't have any money or time, that I feel like wasting on this trash. Great roast/review though.

  • @eibbor171
    @eibbor171 Před měsícem

    just noticed the 1 part with the camera guy filming the jets flying over the camp going towards the city is jimmy from yellowstone

  • @Archontasil
    @Archontasil Před měsícem +1

    Back in 98 during indonesian riot times, photographer put kevlar vest on their camera so hmtheir film doesn't get shot/exposed to the sun.
    Oh the wonder of digital photography

  • @MARStheFORSAKEN
    @MARStheFORSAKEN Před měsícem +5

    it was such a nothing burger like literally nothing happens,its like those shitty horror film that are not scary at all so your just bored.

    • @solokom
      @solokom Před měsícem

      What horror movie are you thinking of?

    • @MARStheFORSAKEN
      @MARStheFORSAKEN Před měsícem

      @@solokom basically anything from steven king XD

  • @orfeusdissenting685
    @orfeusdissenting685 Před měsícem +1

    Haven't gotten around to, but: Cozy Catastrophe, then? & as for my dear, sweet, dimpled Kirsten...I don't care the what the others say about your 5 o Clock Shadow: you'll always be the only Flight Attendant for me.

  • @desertweasel6965
    @desertweasel6965 Před měsícem +1

    What a strange movie to make and release and hype up in such turbulent times we are in. It's like they are working with Hollywood directors to make movies that inspire Armageddon.

  • @newdefsys
    @newdefsys Před měsícem +2

    This movie is by the English, for the English, who are still pissed that we broke away from them.

  • @Trifelivin
    @Trifelivin Před měsícem +1

    Can't wait for the Costner and Vigo westerns coming up

  • @charleshetrick3152
    @charleshetrick3152 Před měsícem +1

    Isn’t the real problem that apache helicopters have chain guns yet the Apache we see has a Gatling gun?

    • @saynomore192
      @saynomore192 Před měsícem

      Agreed. Also, they had tanks - why bring a chopper...?

    • @charleshetrick3152
      @charleshetrick3152 Před měsícem

      @@saynomore192 an if’n you’re gunna they fly higher than that for a reason. Apaches are surprisingly under armored.

  • @Pablo668
    @Pablo668 Před měsícem +3

    I was wondering if she was using a film camera. Then I though she might have one of those retro looking digital cameras, but maybe that's giving the film too much credit. Also I guess not if she was winding between shots.

  • @lovesickforone
    @lovesickforone Před měsícem

    "Oh No!" One of the few characters I liked who saved everyone's tails from the only other character I liked..."just got shot after saving all our entitled obnoxious lives!!...Ah!... he'll be fine!"

  • @handsolo1076
    @handsolo1076 Před měsícem

    The director expects robot head to be distracted by the spectacle. Robot Head has the best head of all.

  • @thunderfeet
    @thunderfeet Před měsícem

    I like your voice Robot Head. Who programmed you?

  • @lucifernebulae
    @lucifernebulae Před měsícem +1

    With the quality of the movie, I am surprised this is not straight to the DVD release

  • @Flying_fisher
    @Flying_fisher Před měsícem

    As a recreational film photographer seeing the shots she was getting in that light with an EM was just pure fantasy. Maybe a fast film pushed three stops, but nowadays the only B+W that is readily available would be ASA400 so that would come out to 3200 pushed three stops, you’d maybe get some shots but the contrast would be insane. You’d lose most of your shadows. Developing on the road and scanning with a phone isn’t so bad though. Some people like myself still prefer the look of film but for action shooting especially in low light there’s just absolutely nothing like being able to change ISO on the fly, know if you got a good shot, being able to burst shoot. Just so much better for someone like her.

  • @jeffw8218
    @jeffw8218 Před měsícem +2

    This movie depicts a “Civil War”, and there aren’t any scenes of black gangs or BLM riots/looting.

  • @mrcat3493
    @mrcat3493 Před měsícem

    The still of the goober in a press helmet will live forever as a meme.

  • @destinycaptain247
    @destinycaptain247 Před měsícem

    You are a soothing voice in a turd storm. You nailed it.

  • @ThinWhiteDude
    @ThinWhiteDude Před měsícem +2

    Hells Bells - Kirsten Dunst has aged badly...

  • @user-is6pz7nk3u
    @user-is6pz7nk3u Před měsícem +1

    Good point on using film instead of digital. Maybe she had a courier pigeon in her pocket to fly the film out.

  • @imscary2
    @imscary2 Před měsícem

    you kept going back to man with ill fitted press helmet i felt sick every time

  • @endovault8003
    @endovault8003 Před měsícem +1

    I new what the quality of this movie was going to be well in advance, knowing that Kirsten Dunst was going to be the main character.

  • @NathanWilkinsonTed
    @NathanWilkinsonTed Před měsícem +1

    Would have been interesting if they had to use film cameras because of possible EMP attacks

  • @keepinmindthat
    @keepinmindthat Před měsícem

    For a second there it looked like the movie was about players being able to take control of the army of an entire country to play a realtime wargame, Wow.... That.. Is.. Awesome! That idea fits right into this crazy world of today. Awwh its just the ad.

  • @xirocronic9774
    @xirocronic9774 Před měsícem

    Tbh tho in a civil war it would be total chaos no one would know which side is who

  • @sayseriously
    @sayseriously Před 19 dny +1

    It's amazing how divisive this film has become, simply for not trying to be divisive. Like, WTF do you people want?

    • @LongFatJohnston
      @LongFatJohnston Před 19 dny

      >HoW COme NOboDy LiKEs FenCe SiTteRs! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

  • @zenwolf6073
    @zenwolf6073 Před měsícem

    They must have been going for what a civil war would be like, regardless of what caused it. Hence the tour in the middle of it instead of showing it from the beginning. "Yeah but why though?" to decide how you should feel about it totally misses the point.

  • @CoercedJab
    @CoercedJab Před měsícem

    Was it really self appointed police force if there was no one else left standing post WW2? Instead of conquering the Americans decided to police/protect. In exchange for bases etc
    I get the spirit of that line but it stood out to me

  • @leilaniz5909
    @leilaniz5909 Před měsícem +2

    The fallout show is actually pretty good. Has a female lead who is actually not super annoying, just looks in between pretty and gollem. In some crazy way.

    • @BouncingZeus
      @BouncingZeus Před měsícem

      That is the best way to describe her face and makes so much sense.

    • @worldofdoom995
      @worldofdoom995 Před měsícem

      Ella Purnell is very pretty. Just needs to not drown herself in makeup

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Před 16 dny

      Show sucked and ruined lore but did diversity casting right, only problem is that there shouldn’t be a fat guy in a vault

  • @kdkseven
    @kdkseven Před měsícem +3

    I loved it. It's Alex Garland's best film. I had a small issue with a couple of things, but the things it got right more than made up for it.

  • @kernowpictures2002
    @kernowpictures2002 Před měsícem

    Hey robot head what are your opinions on the Jurassic World trilogy?

  • @roundrock63
    @roundrock63 Před měsícem

    Totally agree with your points.
    I saw this “movie” and it is a series of vignettes that are only there to invoke certain emotions.