New Featurette For Alex Garland's WARFARE Released As First-Reactions Praise Its Intensity

@ModHaterSLADE - I really liked Sunshine (for 80% if it) and I felt Ex Machina had an interesting premise, but it doesn't do much with it and was praised for being such a "smart" film that I thought ended up being rather dumb and shallow.
Dude seems hit and miss imo. Decent ideas, but his execution is lacking.

@Feralwookiee - To each their own, I thought Ex Machina was great, especially because of Oscar Issac.

@ModHaterSLADE -

He's so in demand because liberals want liberals to spread The Message.

@MakeAmericaGrea - ?si=-0m0xisaSoSggSmv

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@MakeAmericaGrea -

Let me start by apologising. My use of the term ‘retard’ contradicted the principles I hold myself to: respect for others, integrity in speech, and compassion even in disagreement. Words like that dehumanise, and failing to uphold the dignity I believe every person deserves was my mistake. I take full responsibility.

Your response implied that only ‘liberals’ police language like ‘retard’, excusing its use by others. But basic decency isn’t a partisan privilege. If we excuse cruelty based on political teams, we’re not debating ideas. We’re abandoning humanity. Ask yourself: Would you accept your own logic if roles were reversed? If someone hurled slurs at you for your beliefs, would you call it ‘free speech’ or demand respect?

Let’s also address your assumption: I’m not a liberal. My values aren’t tied to partisan politics. If you dismiss criticism as ‘liberal’, you’re avoiding the substance of the debate. This isn’t about left or right. It’s about basic human decency.

Your boycott of Warfare centres on the director’s prior film, Civil War, which I presume you’ve misread as ‘anti-conservative’. But Civil War critiques authoritarianism itself, not conservatism. The president’s party is never named. The focus is a government shredding its own constitution. If defending that fictional regime feels personal, ask yourself: Are you conflating loyalty to ideology with loyalty to truth?

Now, Warfare is even more telling. Co-directed by a former Navy SEAL, it recreates a 2006 firefight from soldiers’ memories, aiming for ‘authenticity’. But authenticity here is selective. The Iraqi family forced to host these soldiers? Their terror is reduced to a plot device. The war’s origins in lies about WMDs? Ignored. The 200,000+ Iraqi civilians killed, the torture at Abu Ghraib, the rise of ISIS? Erased.

Frankie Boyle put it bluntly: ‘America will invade your country, kill your people, then make a movie about how sad their soldiers felt afterward.’ That’s Warfare: another ‘boots-on-the-ground’ spectacle that frames occupation as a technical challenge, not a moral catastrophe. It asks us to pity soldiers for the horrors they endured, without asking why those horrors happened, who orchestrated them, or who paid the ultimate price.

If you want to boycott Warfare, boycott it for centring American pain while silencing Iraqis. Boycott it for sanitising an illegal war into a ‘visceral’ thrill ride. Boycott it because Hollywood still won’t ask: Who lied? Who profited? Why are Iraqi stories never told?

But your boycott isn’t about accountability. It’s about punishing a director for a film you’ve politicised, a distraction from the real issue. You claim to value ‘decency,’ yet stay silent on the systemic evils Warfare whitewashes: displacement, torture, generations of Iraqis living in rubble.

True decency isn’t partisan. It demands we confront hard truths: loyalty to nation cannot excuse cruelty, ‘our side’ can commit atrocities, and justice requires amplifying the voiceless, not just valorising the powerful.

If we excuse suffering inflicted in our name or reduce it to culture-war fodder, we betray the principles of fairness and humanity we claim to uphold. Let’s stop shouting past each other and start demanding better. Not for ‘liberals’ or ‘conservatives,’ but for the shared dignity we all deserve.

@McMurdo - Id consider them all up and comers. Only die hard movie fans will recognize most of them (Poulter being the most recognizable). This has the feel of one of those movies that people will look back on 10 years from now and point out all the people that are stars by then that they didnt even realize were in this.

@MakeAmericaGrea - I didn't realize that. I'm not sure I even realize that now.

@ObserverIO - There are heroic moments in any war despite the senselessness of the war itself. Also depends on what side you are looking at it from.