‘Civil War’ left me asking why I didn’t like the film
Something about Alex Garland’s new film didn’t sit well with me. PLUS: ‘Monarch’ gets a second season, ‘Dawn of the Jedi’ adds an ‘Andor’ writer, and Conan O’Brien is everywhere.
It’s Friday. It’s Popculturology day. Let’s tackle the end of the week like Conan O’Brien tackled Hot Ones.
I didn’t like Civil War.
But I’m not sure why.
I spent the drive back from the theater on Thursday night going over the film in my head, and I did my best to dissect my thoughts for Caitlin when I got home.
I’d consider myself a fan of writer/director Alex Garland’s work. Ex Machina was a brilliant directorial debut. Annihilation, despite being an unfaithful adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s fantastic sci-fi novel, was unsettling in the best way. And Devs, his limited series on FX, had some very engaging ideas. (Garland’s most recent film, Men, didn’t spark my attention, and I skipped that one.)
Civil War is not the film that the trailers want you to think it is. This will probably turn off some moviegoers. (When I saw the film on Thursday, a couple left the theater a third of the way of the way through the movie.)
