Posted on 03/19/2020 5:26:42 AM PDT by marktwain
The Hunt is 1 hour and 29 minutes of satire. I was in a theater, so I contained the laughing out loud to smirking, chuckles and the occasional knowing side glance at my companion.
This is a fun movie. If you wish to see a training film, this is not it. There are quite a few guns in the movie. If you wish to criticize their use, you will find plenty to criticize. I do not expect satire to be realistic.
If you want political commentary that eviscerates the Woke left and political insanity… there is plenty in this movie.
It takes stereotypes of the left and conservatives and slings them about with enough subtlety to evade the King's censors, as Jonathan Swift did with Gulliver's Travels.
The Hunt seems to be a very unlucky movie. First, numbers of people on both ends of the political spectrum call for it to be withdrawn from circulation before anyone saw it.
Then, It is shown in theaters in the midst of the Coronavirus, Wu Flu, panic/crises, take your pick. When I saw the film in Harkins Theaters in Yuma, Arizona on 16 March, I asked the young man at the counter how business was.
It was terrible. Admittedly, this was a matinee. It was on a Monday. There were four people in the theater that could have seated a couple hundred.
We did not need to worry about breathing someone else's air.
There is considerable truth in satire. It does not work if there isn't a kernel of truth in the story.
There is considerable truth in this movie, and it hits you over the head with it like a hammer. A fluffy pillow hammer with feathers that touches
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—agree-—(I saw it in a nearly empty thearer in Vegas Sunday)
I’ll wait for it to come on Amazon. Last movie I saw in a theater was 30 Days of Night.
Last movie I saw in a theatre was 30 years ago (28, actually).
Lots of emphasis on “satire”. This is because the movie was poorly received when presented as a “how-to”.
What was the movie?
Beats the snot out of me. Probably something I didn’t want to see to begin with.
It is a terrible "how-to". Part of the satire is a satire on slasher/horror films.
Most of the actions by most of the people in the movie are rather stupid.
Ah. Got it.
Heh! Ever seen Range 15?
I have not seen Range 15.
It’s a straight to video go fund me movie by vets, for vets done by Mat Best. Comedy about young veterans dealing with a zombie apocalypse. VERY adult humor.
One of those movies that is just so ridiculous, it’s worth mentioning.
Keith David, Danny Trejo, Ron Jeremy, and William FREAKIN’ Shatner.
Range 15 is streaming on Amazon Prime.
I just added to watchlist
Check out The One That Got Away on YouTube. True story of German POW fighter pilot and his efforts to escape. 1957 black and white and free is a great price.
Range 15,,,
The Hunt,
To Do List.
Thanks for the review, Dean.
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“Last movie I saw in a theater was 30 Days of Night.”
That movie has a very interesting premise.
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Marcus Latrell has a cameo in that movie.
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Yep. He sure didn’t last long, though.
I watched it last night. It actually satirizes everyone. The elites are over the top and the deplorables are tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists. It turns out to be a lot different than the title suggests. Hunger Games it ain’t. If you can find it somewhere for free it’s worth a watch.
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