I literally was the first (I think) to post the Foreign Affairs article. Don't be dishonest here.
And there wasn't (and isn't) solid evidence for the claims people were making such as "the West forced Zelensky to fight". Which the FA article...
But when you put a hiphop track after what was supposed to be a brutal/cruel scene, it just kills the tension IMO. It takes away the seriousness and rawness of the moment. I don't know how to explain it differently.
My soundtrack criticism isn't limited to Civil War anyway, I seem to notice it quite a lot in modern movies. During a tense scene when a sad-ish soundtrack starts playing it just kills the scene. You know there won't happen anything anymore...
Honest questions then. What's so good about playing a hiphop song after a tense scene in which they clear the building and kill someone? Also, the setpiece in Washington initally started with a soundtrack played over the urban combat. What's the...
It didn't have to be about obvious heroes and villains. The fascist president is the villain. Just some background on how he rose to power, why he wanted (or got) a 3rd term etc. No need to make it about libs vs conservatives or shit like that...
I thought it was weak, aside from the good part in Washington.
Why not flesh out the civil war story a little bit more? How did it get to the point of a civil war?
Also, some bad insertion of soundtracks here and there. Why have a tense scene...