[Yamer]

Originally Posted by photon

Civil War was pretty good. Definitely hooks you and keeps you hooked. No idea how realistic how the journalists moved/interacted with the soldiers was but it sure looked legit and impressive.

Probably my only complaint is that it was pretty standard fare, I wasn't surprised by anything, didn't really feel it was trying to say anything different. Or maybe what it was trying to say didn't come across well enough.

Still really well done and worth seeing.

Standard fare? I dunno, the whole idea of this happening on American soil amidst a hypothetical modern day civil ideological divide was profound. There were moments of violence that punched me harder picturing it happening the way it did in the US that I never appreciated happening in coups, modern or otherwise, in eastern countries.

Spoiler!

The militia groups massacring and mass graving an American town. The assaults on the DC mall. The assault on the White House and intercepting "The Beast". Essentially executions and murder of White House staffers and representatives. Shoot-outs and elimination of "enemy" operatives (the Secret Service) in the White House corridors. Executing the President like a despot and posing over the corpse.

A lot of these scenes at the Capitol made me sick. This just isn't supposed to happen in the civilized West, so I could never picture it.

For me, the separation I would have with a coup or civil war in a second or third world country collapsed. Even as a fiction, like Sliver mentioned, this movie ####ed me up.