You might have watched the trailer for Civil War and made a handful or two of assumptions regarding issues such as: what the movie is about; what the overall plot might be; how many bullets are fired by the camouflaged character portrayed by Jesse Plemons; why are unarmed journalists going on a road trip through the Mid-Atlantic where they are assuredly going to encounter a veritable myriad of angry or desperate gun-toting people; and could this be just a montage of leftover footage from The Last of Us?
No spoilers, because you can't spoil what is already rotten.
What is the dime-store version of Pedro Pascal even doing in this movie (not the actor himself, but the character he is playing)? I was told he was a journalist, along with Steven McKinley Henderson's character, but neither of them do any journalisming that I could tell. I did doze off quite a bit throughout this disaster pastiche, so perhaps I missed a critical detail here or there. The characters who take pictures seem to value being in the moment more than being alive in the ever, but that's the price of greatness, I suppose. Being a journalist comes with great responsibilities, such as deleting pictures which do not slap, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and always telling the truth if asked whence you came.
My disdain for Civil War makes sense, even if the movie itself does not. Annihilation and Ex Machina join Civil War to win the trifecta garland of overrated, overwrought, and overblown cinema.
No spoilers, because you can't spoil what is already rotten.
What is the dime-store version of Pedro Pascal even doing in this movie (not the actor himself, but the character he is playing)? I was told he was a journalist, along with Steven McKinley Henderson's character, but neither of them do any journalisming that I could tell. I did doze off quite a bit throughout this disaster pastiche, so perhaps I missed a critical detail here or there. The characters who take pictures seem to value being in the moment more than being alive in the ever, but that's the price of greatness, I suppose. Being a journalist comes with great responsibilities, such as deleting pictures which do not slap, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and always telling the truth if asked whence you came.
My disdain for Civil War makes sense, even if the movie itself does not. Annihilation and Ex Machina join Civil War to win the trifecta garland of overrated, overwrought, and overblown cinema.