It was a one-trick pony that didn't work. The one trick was getting people to think they'd see a realistic Civil War, but word go out that it wasn't that. People would have gone to see a political statement, though I don't know that it would've made it to theaters.
In a way, it reminds me of the jingoism of movies like Independence Day. The milquetoast cultural constant used to be "America, fuck yeah." Now it's "America, we're all screwed." Talking about our problems is a bridge too far, but you can try to bank on the general idea that we've got lots of them. That transition is something.
How as Independence Day jingoistic? It was people vs. aliens, and the USA gets its shit ruined just like the rest of the world.
The closest you could get to an "America, fuck yeah!" message is that the U.S. figures out how to destroy the motherships first. Somehow the rest of the world also successfully destroys them without advanced military hardware.
The closest you could get to an "America, fuck yeah!" message is that the U.S. figures out how to destroy the motherships first.
The movie was fun, but God I hated how it acted like we'd won all of a sudden. They didn't figure out shit. All the aliens had to do was what? Not let the humans fly stuff into their particle cannon weapon? Do a better job of vetting the ships returning to the hangers, and patch their software to fix that zero day exploit?
The stuff they did worked on that one ship. There is zero reason it should have worked on any of the others, unless the aliens were stupid as fuck.
It was a one-trick pony that didn't work. The one trick was getting people to think they'd see a realistic Civil War, but word go out that it wasn't that. People would have gone to see a political statement, though I don't know that it would've made it to theaters.
In a way, it reminds me of the jingoism of movies like Independence Day. The milquetoast cultural constant used to be "America, fuck yeah." Now it's "America, we're all screwed." Talking about our problems is a bridge too far, but you can try to bank on the general idea that we've got lots of them. That transition is something.
How as Independence Day jingoistic? It was people vs. aliens, and the USA gets its shit ruined just like the rest of the world.
The closest you could get to an "America, fuck yeah!" message is that the U.S. figures out how to destroy the motherships first. Somehow the rest of the world also successfully destroys them without advanced military hardware.
The movie was fun, but God I hated how it acted like we'd won all of a sudden. They didn't figure out shit. All the aliens had to do was what? Not let the humans fly stuff into their particle cannon weapon? Do a better job of vetting the ships returning to the hangers, and patch their software to fix that zero day exploit?
The stuff they did worked on that one ship. There is zero reason it should have worked on any of the others, unless the aliens were stupid as fuck.