The actress is 5’7". You are looking at a single screen cap. Do these look like Ivanka to you?
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If you didn’t see it, Assassination Nation was brilliant, one of my favorite films of 2018. Describing it as “the woke versus the unwoke” is vastly oversimplifying the storyline, which is more about mob mentality, and the real villain is a 4Chan denizen who sets things in motion for the “lulz.” I think it will eventually be discovered as one of the great films of our era, once we are safely past all of the current stupidity.
Does anyone honestly think this film is going to end with the killers successfully killing all their potential victims, never getting caught and going on to live happy fulfilling lives? This is not being directed by Michael Hanke.
My opinion, CelticKnot, is that many Trump supporters would howl with glee at such a movie.
I think The Hunt has a premise that is in very poor taste, but as H.L. Mencken said, no one ever lost money by underestimating the taste of the American people.
<shrug> She’s not a perfect ringer for Ivanka. My initial impression is the marketing wants people to associate the character with her.
A movie about deplorables will probably include some of the leaders. That’s daddy big bucks, sons, and his tall daughter.
Normally I’d completely agree this is yet another stupid exploitation film. They’re a dime a dozen in Hollywood. I’ve certainly seen my share since high school. Remember Born Losers with Billy Jack kicking the shit out of the Biker gang? It ran frequently on Showtime and Cinemax in the mid to late 1970’s.
We aren’t living in normal times. Charlottesville, Virginia taught us that on August 12, 2017. Some elements of the far right is just looking for a fight. Meanwhile there’s Antifa on the far left that feels the same way. I haven’t seen anything like this since the late 60’s after RFK and MLK were assassinated. The next Kent State may not be that far away. Then you have the possibility of new radical groups similar to the Weatherman and Symbionese Liberation Army appearing. Robbing banks to finance the “war”. The internet offers a wealth of knowledge that the 60’s groups didn’t have.
I lived through that period in my childhood. I don’t want to see it happen again. Democracy is too fragile and easily lost.
Let’s not needlessly poke the sleeping bear with a pointy stick.
Btw I’m being pragmatic. I’m not in any way ranting. It hurts me deeply seeing my country and its government failing.
I lived through a very dangerous period in American History. I saw Dan Rather roughed up on on the Democratic National Convention floor. The riots and attacks by the police outside on the streets. The bodies on the ground after National Guard troops fired on students at Kent State. The explosion in Greenwich Village on March 6, 1970.
Those images and memories will be with me until the day I die. That’s equally true of contemporary events today, Sandy Hook Elementary School December 14, 2012, Stoneman Douglas High School February 14, 2018, Walmart El Paso Aug 3, 2019. The list just goes on and on.
We must tread lightly for the next few years. Especially with an election looming in 2020.
Coincidentally I recently watched *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood * and enjoyed it. Great film. Not Tarantino’s best work, but it’s in the top three.
I usually have no problem with that genre. Movie Violence is different from the real thing.
*The Hunt *was written to inflame political tensions and I do feel it’s a bad idea.
Seen the trailer and don’t get how “Deplorables” are the ones being targeted, especially since one of the hunted rescues a Muslim woman.
That said this movie goes way too far. Instead, after Trump is removed from office, lets round up his supporters to Universities, let them get an education in American History, which they have to take over and over again until they pass.
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BTW, why should Hollywood “tread lightly” when we have a Trump supporter base of which many of whom have threatened civil war if he is removed from office? Do you really think they will back down if he is voted out of office in 2020? You think they will take it laying down? If voted back in you don’t think they will be more emboldened?
Wake up America. We need to be militarily prepared for the coming Right Wing redneck white supremacist backlash that has already been brewing in America for decades. If not careful, it will burst in the next 6 years.
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What was the Oklahoma City bombing back in 1995 other than a right-wing attack on America?
I just watched the trailer, and there was nothing political about the one I watched. It looked like rich versus poor, and was more akin to a movie like Hostel than anything else.
The “deplorables” are going to turn out to have such excellent skills from their rural lifestyles and hunting that they will slaughter all those pussy city slicker liberals who are hunting them. This is obvious from the trailer. Even though the liberals have tracking collars on their prey and fancy gadgets and vast financial resources and all that.
Basically the movies genre is fantasy fiction.
Again, based solely on the trailer, I cannot see anything about liberals versus conservatives. I see rich versus poor, and most of the rich people I know are conservative Republicans, but I also know a bunch of poor right wingers. I get the impression that the female lead hunted had military training.
Anyone knows who funded this thing? I wouldn’t be surprised if the NRA wasn’t involved - we need our guns when the libruls come to get us.
Sounds like this is a left wing movie in the same way Red Dawn is a Communist movie.
Sounds like everybody needs to see Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which flips the whole trope on its head. Preppy college students think rednecks are hunting them, and their panicky reactions make the innocent rednecks think they’re the ones being hunted. Splattery and hilarious.
I watched the trailer. I couldn’t see a satirical angle, or an overtly political one. It seemed to be a splatter-type movie, one that could be alternatively titled Various Ways to Watch People Die. It was also one of those trailers that appeared to reveal the entire plot of the movie, including the denouement/showdown at the end.
What I don’t understand about the “most Dangerous Game” type of movies, is that people would be the easiest prey to hunt. People are slow, bad at blending in, and unless they have a weapon are no threat to the hunter at all. Deer, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, et al would be harder to hunt. Bears, tigers, lions, elephants, boars, etc. could be dangerous to hunt. People not hard or dangerous.
People are significantly more intelligent than any hunted animal, and are also motivated to hurt/kill the hunter in a way that a hunted animal might not necessarily be (the hunted animal just wants you to leave it alone.)
Presumably, Universal Pictures Studios is funding it itself, it’s not like this is a high-budget movie or that the studio lacks for money…
If they really want to make a movie guaranteed to piss off the Trump crowd they should have the liberal elites hunt down the deplorables and forcefully educate them.
Nothing pisses off the deplorables like facts!