The film "Civil War" is such a complete waste of time that I felt compelled to post a warning here for comrades on a tight budget.

The film will not go down in the annals of cinematic history as anything because it's....

1. Absurdly Unlikely
2. Pointless/Aimless
3. Depressing/Tedious
4. Vacant/Vapid
5. Half-baked/Weak
6. Ambiguous/Incoherent
7. Bullshit melodrama
8. Full of nothing but flat, 2-dimensional characters

Synopsis:
A grim quartet of lifeless paparazzi/journalists drive a roundabout route to D.C. to photograph the imminent victory of the California+Texas secessionists over the Washington establishment. None of them like each other much and two of them are obsessed with getting perfect shots of atrocious things.

WARNING: YOU CANNOT EVER GET BACK THE TIME YOU WASTE TRYING TO GAG DOWN THIS CLUMP OF DEHYDRATED CINEMATIC ASPARAGUS!

You're welcome!

 

Heartfelt thanks!

Another way to avoid being had by Hollywood is to check if Rotten Tomatoes' critics' rating is way higher than the audience's rating. That's typically a sure sign of some woke nonsense.

There's enough "woke" nonsense going 'round these days regarding our actual Civil War.

Red Zeppelin wrote: ↑

4/11/2024, 1:56 pm

There's enough "woke" nonsense going 'round these days regarding our actual Civil War.

It isn't even woke.  It's more like a retarded homage to the kind of photojournalist who wins a now totally worthless Pulitzer for photographing the raped, dead body of a German woman in the back of a pick-up truck with her Hamas murderers.

If you want to see relentless wokeness, look to "Star Trek Discovery" season five. You'll find one of the most beloved franchises of all time stewing in an LGBT broth spiced with dashes of virtue signalling and a sappy sensitivity session rising to the top every 10-15 minutes.

Reminds me of the kind of gay fantasy porn novels displayed for sale at Port Authority bus stations in Manhattan in the 1970s, wherein gay men would perilously venture into sterotypically masculine venues—like the military, police, construction, dude ranches and Indian reservations (remember The Village People?)—hoping for sexual encounters with "he men." Same fantasy but now set in the Star Trek venue.
 

I figured it to be unbelievable caca with the premise of Texas being allied with California.

Thank you Comrade Colonel.

I like John Nolte and normally agree with most of what he writes. Here's his review of "Civil War" with spoilers:

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment ... nuff-film/

I disagree with Nolte drawing a parallel between the film's President and Trump—there's nothing about the film's President that's even remotely Trump-like.

Also, an "Antifa massacre" is mentioned in the film, but we get no clue as to who was massacred or who was doing the massacring (but an unrelated army sniper team oddly has antifa-like multicolored hair and gaudy fingernail polish).

Lastly, near the ending, the "photojournalists" don't clearly have authorization to embed with the army—they just insanely insert their bodies between soldiers in the midst of a ferocious firefight. Instead of butt-stroking them, the soldiers lovingly shepherd them all the way to the White House then belatedly order them to stay out of their way.

Gagh! I just wasted more time on this crappy movie.

We thank you for your service, Colonel. It’s like when Rush would watch the Sunday news talking head shows so we didn’t have to.

While I enjoy reading John Nolte's reviews and opinions, the Colonel's concise review of this movie is just what I needed during these hectic times. On the other hand, I don't mind taking a little bit extra time reading some of Mr. Nolte's long opinions, especially when he is working over Disney!

Anyway, thank you Colonel Obyezyana.

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

I do hope you will excuse my old fashioned euphemism. 

Why is it that the people who have never been to the circus seem to be the ones most interested in seeing the elephant?  I would appreciate any insight. 

I live in Harry Truman country.  Everywhere I turn are folks who identify as "D".  When they bring up the subject of potential internal conflict (and that seems to be a VERY popular topic of conversation) I ask them what their vision of their role in the conflict might be.  Are they going to pick up arms and roust the neighborhood conservatives?  Astonishingly all but a few are convinced that such a conflict would not touch them at all.  Others will do their fighting for them. 

By the way, did the movie explain why forces from Texas and California would be roaming free in the New England States between NY and DC?  Seems geographically implausible to me. 

Cheers,

Red Salmon

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

4/15/2024, 9:09 pm

1. I ask them [D] what their vision of their role in the conflict might be.  Are they going to pick up arms and roust the neighborhood conservatives?

2. By the way, did the movie explain why forces from Texas and California would be roaming free in the New England States between NY and DC?  Seems geographically implausible to me. 

1. Dems faint at the sight of firearms unless they're conducting a mass murder (the majority of massacres are perpetrated by Dems). Add other factors (germophobia, vegan emaciation, etc) and easily they're not capable of fighting in a civil war.

2. An alliance between Texas and California may be possible if enough Californians continue moving to Texas, but Austin isn't big enough to handle further influx and Texas may have to build a wall around it.

3. You gotta keep up with your geographical news: archaeologists have recently found evidence that there are no New England States between NY and DC—in fact, they have stubbornly remained east of NY since the 18th Century.

Most Equally Esteemed Comrade Colonel,

I denounce myself for my shoddy geography.  I will rephrase my query.

It still seems implausible that forces from Texas and California would be operating in such numbers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.  Maybe even Delaware also.  An air bridge seems unlikely as whatever was left of the Air Force or other Air Defense assets would be able to interdict and render such an effort ineffective.  To move supplies by sea would require a friendly port or an invasion rivaling D Day.  I don't suppose there was any mention of that.  Finally I guess the California/Texas forces could drive to the East Coast.  This would require flank security that would have made Guderian jealous.  Did the movie address the logistical questions that arise from this alleged plot? 

I suppose that if the creators of this cinematic squishy turd wanted to do anything other than push libtard buttons and tick all the easily offended boxes then they could have actually put some though into it. 

A slight deflection here:  Have you ever been in a discussion with someone and they use something that happened in a movie as evidence for their argument?  They are always really put out when you point out that their supporting facts are completely made up, thus invalid.  I have found that if you do that enough, the intellectual fleas that rely on Hollywood for reality eventually stop talking to you. 

I do hope this corrects the record for my previous geographical misstatement.

Red Salmon

Comrade Red Salmon,

long ago while working for the Veteran's Administration I had to work a claim for PTSD from an Army cook... claimant's account of his trauma in Vietnam sounded so much like the situation and events by John Wayne in "The Green Beret" I did some research, perfect match. I checked the Veteran's birthdate and dates of service, and sure enough, he was born six years AFTER the end of the Vietnam War. I denied his claim as I had no proof that he was in the Republic of Vietnam during wartime and forwarded it to my supervisor to investigate for a fraudulent claim against the Government. It happens.

I tell you, I was shocked that a Veteran of the Armed Forces and its Army thereof would be less than completely forthright in his account of service, and dealings with the Federal Government.

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

4/16/2024, 12:21 pm

1. It still seems implausible that forces from Texas and California would be operating in such numbers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

2. I suppose that if the creators of this cinematic squishy turd wanted to do anything other than push libtard buttons and tick all the easily offended boxes then they could have actually put some though into it. 

3. Have you ever been in a discussion with someone and they use something that happened in a movie as evidence for their argument?

1. It still seems implausible that forces from Texas and California would be operating in such numbers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

The maker of this film had no concern for plausibility. It was slapped together like a cheap ham sandwich made by a retarded junkie.

2. I suppose that if the creators of this cinematic squishy turd wanted to do anything other than push libtard buttons and tick all the easily offended boxes then they could have actually put some though into it.

Push buttons were substituted with ambiguity. No real thought was put in it.

3. Have you ever been in a discussion with someone and they use something that happened in a movie as evidence for their argument?

Yes, on the edge of a cliff, and I could have saved his life but the moment he uttered that nonsense I loosened my grip on his wrist and let gravity do what Darwin does best.
 

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

4/15/2024, 9:09 pm

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

I do hope you will excuse my old fashioned euphemism. 

Why is it that the people who have never been to the circus seem to be the ones most interested in seeing the elephant?  I would appreciate any insight. 

I live in Harry Truman country.  Everywhere I turn are folks who identify as "D".  When they bring up the subject of potential internal conflict (and that seems to be a VERY popular topic of conversation) I ask them what their vision of their role in the conflict might be.  Are they going to pick up arms and roust the neighborhood conservatives?  Astonishingly all but a few are convinced that such a conflict would not touch them at all.  Others will do their fighting for them. 

By the way, did the movie explain why forces from Texas and California would be roaming free in the New England States between NY and DC?  Seems geographically implausible to me. 

Cheers,

Red Salmon

With munition factories on fire, maybe War Bonds are new again. It's all in how the billions for Ukraine are spent. Build Back Better Munition Factories across the USSA.

Regarding Comrade Ivan: "I checked the Veteran's birthdate and dates of service, and sure enough, he was born six years AFTER the end of the Vietnam War....."

Not only is that sumbiyatch shameless, he's stupid.

And let's not even start on fake Agent Orange / Burn Pit claims.....by people who were not even in the military.

We don't let anyone join our Legion post (or wear any decorations) unless they can produce a DD-214. A local VFW had a guy fraudulently claiming a Medal of Honor, and a friend's VFW post in Maryland kicked out their Commander - he had served in Germany during the Vietnam War and claimed to be a "Vietnam Veteran".

I have read statistics that say two out of every five claiming to be Vietnam Veterans never even served, and one out of every five did serve in the Vietnam ERA, but were never in-country. Out of those that did go to Vietnam, the majority were never in direct combat.

Most of the stories we hear from these so-called Vietnam veterans are a rehash of all the stereotypical male bovine feces and Hollywood crap that some have come to accept as reality. Goebbels once said if you repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth; in this case we have a boatload of stolen valor idiots that want to parrot these lies and make them their own.

Regarding the stereotypical nonsense, and refuting many of the lies surrounding Vietnam, there's an excellent breakdown by a gentleman named Gary Roush on the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association website VHPA.org. The facts in most cases are the complete opposite of the myths and lies we've been told. I agree with Mr. Roush - this country owes real Vietnam veterans an apology. I've seen several similar breakdowns out there on the interwebs as well.

My (much older) brother went to Thailand with the 42nd TEWS (anybody out there remember the EB-66?), and later volunteered to go to Danang in the RVN with the 4th TFS / 366th TFW ("The Gunfighters" - F4Es with the big 20mm M61). He didn't come home as a drug-addled suicidal whacked out hippie - he went on to be quite successful in business and in our community, and still believes strongly in what we said we were trying to do over there.

Vietnam service (and military service in general) is considered "cool" these days. For entertainment, check out Don Shipley's channel on YouTube. He was a Navy SEAL, and has devoted a large portion of his retirement to tracking down fake SEALS. Some of these fools are hilarious.....if you can tolerate the sheer inanity.

It's getting like Woodstock: The song says they were "Half a million strong", but it was only a quarter of a million because they were all seeing double, and the amazing thing is that 55 years later 5 million of 'em are still alive......

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

Esteemed Jackalopelipsky:

"With munition factories on fire, maybe War Bonds are new again. It's all in how the billions for Ukraine are spent. Build Back Better Munition Factories across the USSA."

I drove past the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant last week.  Olin Winchester recently took over the contract to operate the plant.  After the valorous advance to the rear in Afghanistan the plant had laid off most of two shifts.  Suddenly there are large "We're Hiring" signs all around town.  If I weren't such a broken down mess I would go apply to stack bbs.  Like the t-shirt says:  Bullets Make Me Happy!

Esteemed Ivan and Zeppelin,

The Stolen Valor folks are hard to tolerate.  Ivan, your denial of that poser's claim lifts my fishy heart.  I know I won't talk about a lot of my experiences.  Mrs. Red Salmon tried to get me to talk about an episode very early on in my career.  I couldn't share because knowing would not make her any happier.  Like pretty much everyone else I flew with, I learned to internalize and grab a bag of placid faces before I went home.  Then she and my toddler son witnessed the LAPES Crash at Fort Bragg.  I was supposed to be flying in that demonstration.  Not on the LAPES Bird, but another aircraft.  She watched two of our friends die.  Months afterwards she told me she understood why I don't talk about things.  An understanding was forged and we have been a strong union ever since.  A friend who served in an elite Army unit and I had a code for those we believed to be of the Stolen Valor variety.  If someone was hooah, they were one of us.  If someone was not hooah, they were not.  Those who were there rarely speak of it to those who were not.  Thanks for addressing this subject. 

Esteemed Comrade Colonel,

Your kindness to the movie evidence spouting fool was moving.  May his vector be in pure pursuit of the big ball. 

Back to the subject of this thread:  There is an artsy theater on the Independence Square.  Yesterday I noticed that they are screening Civil War.  As there was no one in line, I asked the person in the ticket booth if sales were brisk for that particular show.  She said, "No."  It seems there was an initial rush, maybe two packed showings, and then no one has bought a ticket since.  Her words:  The Usual Suspect Useful Idiots saw it and no one else is interested.  Then she wondered out loud when John Wick 5 was coming out so she could sell some tickets. 

I denounce myself for hogging more than my share the People's Pixels™.  Off to the rail yard.

Red Salmon

AI may be convenient but it doesn't cut it among pros.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment ... ted-by-ai/

The scenes depicted in the AI-generated promo materials (and the movie poster) are not in the movie.

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

4/18/2024, 12:19 pm

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

Esteemed Jackalopelipsky:

"With munition factories on fire, maybe War Bonds are new again. It's all in how the billions for Ukraine are spent. Build Back Better Munition Factories across the USSA."

I drove past the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant last week.  Olin Winchester recently took over the contract to operate the plant.  After the valorous advance to the rear in Afghanistan the plant had laid off most of two shifts.  Suddenly there are large "We're Hiring" signs all around town.  If I weren't such a broken down mess I would go apply to stack bbs.  Like the t-shirt says:  Bullets Make Me Happy!

Esteemed Ivan and Zeppelin,

The Stolen Valor folks are hard to tolerate.  Ivan, your denial of that poser's claim lifts my fishy heart.  I know I won't talk about a lot of my experiences.  Mrs. Red Salmon tried to get me to talk about an episode very early on in my career.  I couldn't share because knowing would not make her any happier.  Like pretty much everyone else I flew with, I learned to internalize and grab a bag of placid faces before I went home.  Then she and my toddler son witnessed the LAPES Crash at Fort Bragg.  I was supposed to be flying in that demonstration.  Not on the LAPES Bird, but another aircraft.  She watched two of our friends die.  Months afterwards she told me she understood why I don't talk about things.  An understanding was forged and we have been a strong union ever since.  A friend who served in an elite Army unit and I had a code for those we believed to be of the Stolen Valor variety.  If someone was hooah, they were one of us.  If someone was not hooah, they were not.  Those who were there rarely speak of it to those who were not.  Thanks for addressing this subject. 

Esteemed Comrade Colonel,

Your kindness to the movie evidence spouting fool was moving.  May his vector be in pure pursuit of the big ball. 

Back to the subject of this thread:  There is an artsy theater on the Independence Square.  Yesterday I noticed that they are screening Civil War.  As there was no one in line, I asked the person in the ticket booth if sales were brisk for that particular show.  She said, "No."  It seems there was an initial rush, maybe two packed showings, and then no one has bought a ticket since.  Her words:  The Usual Suspect Useful Idiots saw it and no one else is interested.  Then she wondered out loud when John Wick 5 was coming out so she could sell some tickets. 

I denounce myself for hogging more than my share the People's Pixels™.  Off to the rail yard.

Red Salmon

Cured Red Salmon,

Make American Munition Factories Great, Again.


To all valorous Comrades,

Jackalopelipsky had no intention of stealing any comrades' valor, but 'pelipsky did experience a Jane Fonda in the face rant. Trapped in the back seat of a Bronco II with Jane Fonda wasn't anywhere near to Hanoi Hilton standards of torture. However, the 'final solution' torture that silenced 'pelipsky into 3rd personhood was no one, upon hearing the report, understood the action was a breach of civilized norms. 30 years later, and the US Military is a complete disaster. Sort of screams the truth about the benign nature of casually erasing the line of traditional rules of civilized behavior for peace.

'pelipsky now gets to laugh as their NGO's are asking illegals to vote for Biden, because their 'livelihood' is being threatened. tears...'pelipsky tells you, tears. hahahhahahahah

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... or-biden-/

Colonel Obyezyana wrote: ↑

4/10/2024, 8:33 pm

The film "Civil War" is such a complete waste of time that I felt compelled to post a warning here for comrades on a tight budget.

The film will not go down in the annals of cinematic history as anything because it's....

1. Absurdly Unlikely
2. Pointless/Aimless
3. Depressing/Tedious
4. Vacant/Vapid
5. Half-baked/Weak
6. Ambiguous/Incoherent
7. Bullshit melodrama
8. Full of nothing but flat, 2-dimensional characters

Synopsis:
A grim quartet of lifeless paparazzi/journalists drive a roundabout route to D.C. to photograph the imminent victory of the California+Texas secessionists over the Washington establishment. None of them like each other much and two of them are obsessed with getting perfect shots of atrocious things.

WARNING: YOU CANNOT EVER GET BACK THE TIME YOU WASTE TRYING TO GAG DOWN THIS CLUMP OF DEHYDRATED CINEMATIC ASPARAGUS!

You're welcome!

I haven't been to the cinema to see a Hollyweird movie in about 20 years. This review explains why. There are very few good script writers. Their politics always gets in the way of story telling and they make movies for themselves, rather than the audience.
 

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

4/15/2024, 9:09 pm

I live in Harry Truman country.  Everywhere I turn are folks who identify as "D".  When they bring up the subject of potential internal conflict (and that seems to be a VERY popular topic of conversation) I ask them what their vision of their role in the conflict might be.  Are they going to pick up arms and roust the neighborhood conservatives?  Astonishingly all but a few are convinced that such a conflict would not touch them at all.  Others will do their fighting for them. 

That's what the slave holders thought back in 1861.
 

Kapitan Kangaroo Kourt wrote: ↑

4/21/2024, 1:13 pm

Colonel Obyezyana wrote: ↑

4/10/2024, 8:33 pm

The film "Civil War" is such a complete waste of time that I felt compelled to post a warning here for comrades on a tight budget.

The film will not go down in the annals of cinematic history as anything because it's....

1. Absurdly Unlikely
2. Pointless/Aimless
3. Depressing/Tedious
4. Vacant/Vapid
5. Half-baked/Weak
6. Ambiguous/Incoherent
7. Bullshit melodrama
8. Full of nothing but flat, 2-dimensional characters

Synopsis:
A grim quartet of lifeless paparazzi/journalists drive a roundabout route to D.C. to photograph the imminent victory of the California+Texas secessionists over the Washington establishment. None of them like each other much and two of them are obsessed with getting perfect shots of atrocious things.

WARNING: YOU CANNOT EVER GET BACK THE TIME YOU WASTE TRYING TO GAG DOWN THIS CLUMP OF DEHYDRATED CINEMATIC ASPARAGUS!

You're welcome!

I haven't been to the cinema to see a Hollyweird movie in about 20 years. This review explains why. There are very few good script writers. Their politics always gets in the way of story telling and they make movies for themselves, rather than the audience.

Ha ha. Try "A Gentleman in Moscow." The entire black 0.02% of the Russian population from 1917 onward is overrepresented abundantly in every episode—including among party revolutionary functionaries.
 

Our friend Daniel Greenfield wrote a great review of the Civil War movie.

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/0 ... l-war.html

Red Square wrote: ↑

4/28/2024, 3:26 pm

Our friend Daniel Greenfield wrote a great review of the Civil War movie.

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/0 ... l-war.html

Thank you, Red Square. Dare ‘pelipsky also refer to Daniel as “our” friend as his analysis concures with the jackalope’s? 30 years of zero discussion of an Alinsky Family Thanksgiving in San Antonio has a future bloodbath on ‘pelipsky’s hare brain. After a harrowing experience at the neighborhood public school that set this jackalope pondering how long before the public school instructing mixed up children to have no remorse would destroy the community paying their salary.


Covid response revealed everything ‘pelipsky found disturbing 30 years before. Add the moral ambivalence of the Alinsky Family Thanksgiving chickens —and moral ambivalence is certainly chicken dropping character on parade —- roosting has maintained open borders for Jesus, as well as the destruction of our military into a world joke force incapable of defending our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness within the borders of the constitutional Home Land.

Texazistan is in serious trouble. In true circular karma, jackalopelipsky is set to be murdered by the same type of mixed up kid who started the unfolding of our culture via an Abraham/Isaac encounter with a pair of scissors. A kid who cried 30 plus years ago, because he needed jackalopelipsky to be his high school teacher because she was the only person who understood him has weighed heavily on this jackalope. Prison has been his home for the last 20 years and onward until death. Everything ‘pelipsky feared for him has come to fruition.

Jackalopelipsky, after deprivation of free speech since Alinsky Family values silencing, endures creepy autoimmune disease capable of making joy a hardship. This world is not the home of a jackalope.

All this begs the question, who feels any remorse, now? Slim Pickens is in Texazistan’s future. Yippee Kay Yay.