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« Last post by seankenny on Today at 02:41:10 pm »
I’ve met plenty of people who have actually done all that stuff, they probably have some issues as a result of their work but they just aren’t as you describe them, or as the film portrays them. It’s not as if we have no examples of journalists reporting on their own civil wars, people are doing that every day, stretching right back to the American Civil War which saw recognisably modern journalism. A lot of people manage to remain relatively clear eyed throughout that process.
I don’t think a lot of journalists who cover foreign conflict type stories believe countries break because of “the product of some imagined third world/racial depravity” because if they did, they’d be rubbish at their jobs.
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« Last post by Oldmanmatt on Today at 12:37:30 pm »
Civil War
A near-future America is - for reasons left very vague - undergoing a civil war, pitting an alliance of Texas and California, plus a rebellious Florida, against what's left of the federal government. The film follows a group of reporters as they travel from New York to Washington, in an attempt to interview the president before the expected fall of the government. The first two thirds of the story is a brutal road trip through a fragmented, militia-run landscape, the final third is a war movie of high intensity urban combat. It's really well done, very tense in places, looks great and some good performances.
But... as a film about journalists, it's really off. The reporters are just all wrong - too reckless and crazy. I've worked with plenty of reporters covering conflict and most of them are pretty sober and quite geeky. The print reporter in Civil War doesn't do one interview the entire time, what are Reuters paying this guy for?! Alex Garland clearly spent too much time watching Apocalypse Now and playing first person shooters, but it's still a decent movie despite my gripes.
I rather took that second paragraph as the point. They were broken, lost, who were they reporting to anyway, anymore. A lifetime reporting on brutal conflicts abroad to their home audience, only to watch that audience descend into that same chaos. That psychotic militia man casually killing anything “other”, no longer the product of some imagined third world/racial depravity or poverty that happens “somewhere else”. So, they went looking for answers for their own fragile sanity. I don’t think we were meant to think they found those answers.
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Bit niche, but Ghost Stories is currently on iPlayer.
It's co-written and stars Derren Brown collaborator Andy Nyman, and is a trilogy of three ghost stories which all come together at the end (can't say much more without spolier-ing). I'd seen it before so re-watched it last night, had forgotten how unsettling / genuinely scary in places it is.
There's also a scene in what looks like gritstone moorland with some boulders in the background - spent ages trying to place it!
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« Last post by seankenny on Today at 11:57:56 am »
Civil War
A near-future America is - for reasons left very vague - undergoing a civil war, pitting an alliance of Texas and California, plus a rebellious Florida, against what's left of the federal government. The film follows a group of reporters as they travel from New York to Washington, in an attempt to interview the president before the expected fall of the government. The first two thirds of the story is a brutal road trip through a fragmented, militia-run landscape, the final third is a war movie of high intensity urban combat. It's really well done, very tense in places, looks great and some good performances.
But... as a film about journalists, it's really off. The reporters are just all wrong - too reckless and crazy. I've worked with plenty of reporters covering conflict and most of them are pretty sober and quite geeky. The print reporter in Civil War doesn't do one interview the entire time, what are Reuters paying this guy for?! Alex Garland clearly spent too much time watching Apocalypse Now and playing first person shooters, but it's still a decent movie despite my gripes.
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« Last post by andy moles on Today at 11:44:08 am »
We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering 
But it is just and righteous sneering
dab
In the dance move sense or the hitting pad with leg sense?
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« Last post by remus on Today at 11:19:25 am »
We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering
But it is just and righteous sneering
dab
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« Last post by andy moles on Today at 11:06:22 am »
We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering
But it is just and righteous sneering
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« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 10:46:35 am »
And as if by magic:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2024/04/aidan_roberts_climbs_two_top-end_projects-73655
Second comment: Shadowplay. Boom. 
This should form the basis of some sort of drinking game, along with 'what have they done on grit', 'is it as hard as Indian Face?', 'benchmark E0', etc
When Seb Berthè flashed Le Voyage the first comment was literally "what has he done on grit" Smh
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« Last post by Fultonius on Today at 10:24:35 am »
We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering
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« Last post by andy popp on Today at 10:18:32 am »
Three Pebble Slab.
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