A House of Dynamite

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Anonymous wrote:Awful and made the country look inept especially the military al the stuff looked fake. I doubt they will be allowed to use the military agajn

Haven't seen it yet. Does it make the actual military characters look bad or just the political appointees?

I thought it made everyone look competent, including all the military characters. Even the DoD guy who calls his daughter was trying. I am not sure his real life counter part would have any clue what to do.

The hubris (this is what we do) and denial were demonstrated by uniformed military.

Nah, you're taking that the wrong way. It's being said by superiors to help keep others calm and maintain order. They DO practice for this. It's not the same as doing it live; the reminder that you have training can help you maintain focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked it too. I’m hoping that some dcumers with more knowledge about this stuff can speak to it. Also Idris for President.

He has my vote!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was very well edited. The young staff gave me pause, lol. And the lollygagging when there were literally minutes to do anything. Like launch more kill vehicles!

The end was unsatisfying.

The best moments were the dad on the phone with DD...that smile.

Jared Harris's face is incredible. So much emotion in microexpressions!

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Anonymous wrote:The multiple viewpoints of the same event were well done.

It was satisfyingly technical, which I love.

But there was no end! And I get that this is a dissection of people's reactions before the actual outcome, so the outcome is in itself not the goal of the story, but still! Very frustrating!

I felt a bit of that too, but how would you end it? As a pp pointed out upthread, if the woman who traveled from Gettysburg got to Raven Rock, they didn't call it off/it wasn't a dud. I don't think I'd have felt any better with a cgi detonation destroying Chicago, and there'd still be that "what next?" because they still don't know who did it, why, if/when/where they'll attack next.

It was good, and I probably would've watched it for another two hours, but that's just not what it was supposed to be. The end increases the tension/unease of the whole film. It starts with those eerie low tones and ends with the unknown. Psychologically destabilizing, but it doesn't feel like a gimmick.

I didn't like feeling that way, but I like the film's use of these techniques (vs. big booms and jump scares and the like)

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Anonymous wrote:It was very well edited. The young staff gave me pause, lol. And the lollygagging when there were literally minutes to do anything. Like launch more kill vehicles!

The end was unsatisfying.

The best moments were the dad on the phone with DD...that smile.

Agree with all of these points.

The young staff is such the reality. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Awful and made the country look inept especially the military al the stuff looked fake. I doubt they will be allowed to use the military agajn

Haven't seen it yet. Does it make the actual military characters look bad or just the political appointees?

I thought it made everyone look competent, including all the military characters. Even the DoD guy who calls his daughter was trying. I am not sure his real life counter part would have any clue what to do.

+1. I thought it was a very realistic portrayal of how everyone would react to a situation where they know what to do but they very much hoped that they'd never be doing it. I thought all the young soldiers up in Alaska were great actors.

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I read that the 60% success rate is fact. It literally is a coin toss.

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Anonymous wrote:Awful and made the country look inept especially the military al the stuff looked fake. I doubt they will be allowed to use the military agajn

As someone who served, I disagree. It made the incredible complexity of that kind of situation disarmingly straightforward for people who've been forcefed America's military superiority their whole lives. Yes, we're good. We're DAMN good. And in a situation like the one in this plot, it may/may not be enough. People seem to have this idea that we have infinite resources and absolute protection. That's just not true. Nobody in the film was scripted as inept, just human. Human feelings, human emotions, human variables. There were no obvious mistakes or human glitches, and it still didn't work. That's scary.

Then you contrast with who we've got for current leadership as PP pointed out, and it's horrifying.

They said it's like hitting a bullet with a bullet.

I think it's terrifying because if Elon Musk wanted to, he could afford to do something like this, or any other billionaire. They didn't know who sent the bomb, so maybe it was just a rich person.

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Anonymous wrote:I liked it too. I’m hoping that some dcumers with more knowledge about this stuff can speak to it. Also Idris for President.

He has my vote!

I know you don't mean this, but he's not American.

[Anonymous]

We watched it this weekend. Super frustrated with the ending. The rest of it seems totally plausible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was very well edited. The young staff gave me pause, lol. And the lollygagging when there were literally minutes to do anything. Like launch more kill vehicles!

The end was unsatisfying.

The best moments were the dad on the phone with DD...that smile.

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IMO the ending suggests Chicago was indeed hit. Anna Clarke is seen with her son going to Raven Rock, which is an hour from Gettysburg. She wouldn't have made it there in time from Gettysburg before it detonated.

Yes, I noticed this as well. Was this perhaps after the detonation?

They showed the FEMA woman getting to Raven Rock as well but she wouldn't have been able to get there from DC in 18 minutes, right? I assumed all the people they showed were getting there after the detonation (assuming there was a detonation).

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Anonymous wrote:We watched it this weekend. Super frustrated with the ending. The rest of it seems totally plausible.

I think the ending is intentionally ambiguous and leaves it up to the viewer to decide. It would be too easy to show a bomb going off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I liked it too. I’m hoping that some dcumers with more knowledge about this stuff can speak to it. Also Idris for President.

He has my vote!

I know you don't mean this, but he's not American.

Yeah - everyone knows this. I am in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing him to be President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I liked it too. I’m hoping that some dcumers with more knowledge about this stuff can speak to it. Also Idris for President.

He has my vote!

I know you don't mean this, but he's not American.

Yeah - everyone knows this. I am in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing him to be President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The multiple viewpoints of the same event were well done.

It was satisfyingly technical, which I love.

But there was no end! And I get that this is a dissection of people's reactions before the actual outcome, so the outcome is in itself not the goal of the story, but still! Very frustrating!

The emphasis was on the decision PROCESS. The human element. How messy it is, with so much incomplete information.

They wanted us to see and consider that.

So we can change what makes us uncomfortable, while there is still time.