"Civil War" 2024 movie

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I have yet to see it.

The scenarios of both The Day After[i]and [i]Threads leading up to nuclear war were plausible at the time. My first reaction to the illogical premise of The Civil War was like yours. Then I remembered that I rewatched The Day After and Threads and other cold war era nuclear apocalypse films in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sure, the run ups to nuclear war are dated but that did not effect the power of those films I had seen at the time and those I was seeing for the first time.

But I am a baby boomer who does remember the cold war era deep fear that either I would go to sleep never to wake up or wake up to such an altered world that I wished I had not woken up. Those old films did bring those feelings right back. Younger generations have no internal memory of those times but do have plenty of current reasons for dread.

Those old films were message films. As nerve racking as the run up and nuke scenes were their true power was the aftermath of total nuclear war scenes. From what I'm have read Civil War centers on the reporters.

Agreed! I saw it last night. Gripping, graphic, journalistic behaviour exposed in all it’s disturbing glory.

Can anyone comment who would fight who?

In my experience the US is very diverse, to have a war you need contiguous... something like ethnicity or ideology.
The US is like a hydra with many billionaires, private militias, govt agencies...

I don't think a civil war is feasible.

Personally I think a modern Civil War in the US won't be anything like the first one which was divided between the north and south. It'll be much more chaotic with neighbor killing neighbor and a lot of domestic terror attacks happening all across the country. Because we all know it would mostly be a war between those who support Trumpism and those who don't.

I've read from other sources that say our modern civil war will resemble what happened during "The Troubles" of Ireland.

I have seen bits of that movie on Youtube and it does seem to be of high quality production.