In 2019, backlash about “The Hunt” from President Trump and many others, got the movie aborted before distribution. In March, it will finally hit theaters, this time promoted as unbiased political satire, rather than a film about liberal elites slaughtering “deplorables”. The screenwriters just don’t understand why Trump supporters would be offended, and wish the president has seen it before he slammed it on Twitter.
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5 replies on “Deplorable Hunt: Aborted Horror Movie Now Released as Unbiased Political Satire”
It sounds a little like Scott Adams “Two screens” theory, that they’re watching a movie of life one one screen and we’re watching the real movie of actual life on another. They “think” they made a movie with one message, but that’s just because they’re looking at the wrong screen.
If it is any good, I will watch it as I watch most movies nowadays: at home, streaming, with a nice glass of wine or amber liquid while holding my wife’s hand.
If, as I suspect, it is not good; I won’t miss not seeing it.
Friday night we scrolled through the “new offerings” on Prime. With all the movies we hadn’t seen in the theater, surely something must grab our attention, no?
We settled on a very funny movie which I heartily recommend.
Kindergarten Cop. Held up well.
Rita Mae Brown is quoted as saying ‘Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.’ (For the record, I disagree somewhat because I have seen TV series which have great moral passion.) As others, I have not seen this movie and certainly will not bother, but it sounds as if those who made it did half their job. They made their moral passion concrete but entirely forgot about entertaining. In that sense, I think their work is both totally unimportant (other than being a studio tax write off) and undoubtedly excruciatingly boring, and so will properly be consigned to the dust bin of history.
Breaking Bad is Shakespearean in its moral passion wed to entertainment. Without a proper arc, amoral passion ends up in immoral entertainment.
They can’t even make honest satire. Hardly worth even this comment.