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The trailer showed leftist elite as villains. 10 days later the movie release is cancelled.


July 30. Trailer is released. The villains are some nasty leftist Diversitarian elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IifEu67yU

August 10. The movie release is cancelled. The excuse is mass shootings, no matter the movie has zero mass shootings.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-hunt-canceled-universal-betty-gilpin-hilary-swank-emma-roberts-1203298774/

That's what happens when you REALLY subvert expectations. They shut you down.

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Your daddy, Trump, denounced this movie himself. Besides, you really think they would have made a right-winger the hero of this movie?

Just like Get Out, I'm sure it was going to be told from a left-wing POV criticizing privileged liberals and their hypocrisy.

The movie will either be released in a few months, or else it will leak. And I guarantee you I'll be right. The movie won't defend "deplorables", it'll just condemn wealthy white liberals

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The movie will either be released in a few months, or else it will leak. And I guarantee you I'll be right. The movie won't defend "deplorables", it'll just condemn wealthy white liberals

Before the trailer it looked like that. But then you watch the trailer, and the main characters look like normal blue-collars and middle class white people AKA 'deplorables'.

And then the movie is quickly cancelled... ha!

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That is not who "deplorables" are, and you know it. Deplorables are people like you. There is nothing "normal" about your belief system. People like the El Paso shooter

Normal blue-collar and middle class white people don't bitch every single day about minorities getting more acting roles

Like I said, the movie will definitely be liberals satirizing other liberals, just like Get Out. Working-class white people can be liberal too

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White blue-collars and productive middle class are the main voting sources for anti-immigration and nacionalist parties. In a nutshell: what you call 'deplorables'.

Actually, the main characters in the trailer look quite 'deplorable'. XDDD

I guess the producers had the same idea than you: to make some kind of 'normal liberals' vs 'elite liberals' movie. And I'd bet the problem is that once done, they realized that trying to make 'white liberals' look normal... that made them look like 'deplorables'! So it had to be cancelled!! XDDDDD

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Yes, and most mass shooters are young white males. That doesn't mean that most young white males are mass shooters. I hope you can grasp this concept

The majority of blue-collar workers and/or middle-class whites are not anti-immigration and pro-nationalist, certainly not to the extent that you seem to be. I'm not actually calling anyone "deplorables", which is why I keep using quotation marks around it. But when people use that term, they mean a specific FRINGE group that engages in behavior like, sayyy, posting constantly about how Hollywood hates white people. Or going into a Wal-Mart to massacre immigrants. That is fringe behavior not representative of the larger group of white people

I'm not even gonna address that last paragraph, you are way too out of touch with reality

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The majority of blue-collar workers and/or middle-class whites are not anti-immigration and pro-nationalist

The majority of white blue-collars and productive middle class ARE anti-immigration and pro-nationalist. Who do you think are the ones voting for Trump if not them? Blacks? Who do you think are the ones voting for Marie Le Pen in France if not them? Muslims?

You're a perfect example of why the producers didn't realize what the movie looked until it was too late and they had to cancel it. You think that pro-nationalists are some kind of evil hidden nazis, millions of hidden deplorable evil nazis around! They made this movie without realizing that the main characters were white, non-urban and blue-collars or productive white-collars... which is the textbook 'deplorable' evil nazi profile!!! XDDDD

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People vote for candidates for a variety of reasons, doesn't mean they are all as fervent about certain issues as people like you. There are people who are loyal to the Republican party, who are in favor of government deregulation, who think a "tough talking" candidate will provide strong leadership

It's not the same as being paranoid about the future of "Western civilization" or about whites being under attack. Almost all of your posts are about race, it's clear that you feel persecuted in some way. That is not how the majority of Americans feel

Even the way you look at movies, it's clear you don't understand anything about the movie business. You think it's all some weird, scheming "diversitarians" only interested in manipulating the country's cultural values

Nope, it's a business first and foremost. The only reason it was canceled was because of timing. A politicially-themed movie that features people killing each other with assault rifles right after a pair of mass shootings (one by a "deplorable", mind you) is a bad, bad time to release a movie

Same reason they delayed releasing Gangster Squad after the Colorado Dark Knight Rises massacre. It had nothing to do with producers underestimating the gangster population of America, it had to do with not wanting to receive a shit ton of bad publicity

Whether it was liberals hunting "deplorables" or "deplorables" hunting liberals, the movie would have been canceled either way. And like I said, I can bet you the film will still be released in some form once enough time has passed

You just don't know shit about the movie industry, buddy. You misinterpret calculated business decisions as the industry giving a shit about little people in the fringes

It's symptomatic of the paranoid mindset to make the world smaller than it really is. Major decisions and world events are believed to be directly caused or influenced by something close to the person undergoing delusions. This is very common in schizophrenics and others suffering from delusions such as people in a manic state. Something like it is also seen in hardcore conspiracy theorists and people in fringe groups and cults. Don't take my word for it, read up on psychology

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being paranoid about whites being under attack [...] you don't understand anything about the movie business [...] You don't know shit about the movie industry, buddy [...] t's symptomatic of the paranoid mindset [...] something close to the person undergoing delusions [...] schizophrenics [...] suffering from delusions such as people in a manic state [...] hardcore conspiracy theorists [...] fringe groups and cults [...]

Holy shit. LOL

As a standard SJW, I guessed you'd turn to name telling, personal attacks and insults sooner or later. But, damn, I see you went full throttle. XD

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This is stuff I've been telling you, or trying to tell you, for weeks now

I'm not saying you're schizo, I'm saying that the thought patterns of paranoid delusions are common among a wide variety of people in different situations. Your situation is clearly that you've been indoctrinated in a far-right, crypto-fascist mindset. Whether you do or don't have any mental disorders I have no idea and I'm not speculating

And saying that you're paranoid about whites being under attack is not name calling. It's legitimately what you believe, clearly, based on your dozens of posts on here. I've never called you a Nazi or racist or anything

And yeah, you really don't know about the movie industry, sorry. Hollywood is among the most cowardly of industries. They tend to go wherever the wind is blowing. Even their most seemingly politically-motivated moves are influenced by a perceived opportunity to benefit financially

Hollywood has a close symbiotic relationship with the media. The media is typically pretty liberal. Movies are risky business, you spend millions to make a film with no guarantee that people will go watch it. So you shore your bets. You use the media to provide free publicity and positive word-of-mouth. Cast minorities or write strong female characters and you receive glowing praise. Now your movie isn't just entertainment, but an opportunity for moviegoers to have a "positive change on the world". Just like how dropping a few pennies in a charity bucket makes people feel like saints, so does going to see these movies

And celebrities go along with it because they want to continue being adored, and want to ensure their lifestyles of mansions and champagne go on forever. You do that by playing along. None of it is about cultural marxism or a deep-state, it's the same thing it's always been. People trying to get and keep their piece of the pie

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I've never called you a Nazi or racist or anything [...] you've been indoctrinated in a far-right, crypto-fascist mindset [...] patterns of paranoid delusion

Aha, I see.

Well, you're right about one thing: you're not the type that goes on a rant shouting nazi or racist.

Among SJWs, as it happens with any other religion or dogmatic system of beliefs, most of believers perceive people who don't belong to their faith as 'evil'. In the case of Christians, that 'evil' was often labelled as 'sin' or 'heresy'. In the case SJWs, that perceived 'evil' is often labelled as 'fascism', 'racism' or 'misogyny'. Both cases, what they really mean is 'unbeliever'.

However, there's a small percentage of religious people that don't see unbelievers as inherently evil... but as a form of mental illness, as people who need to be 'cured'. This is an example of it:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigerian-man-detained-in-mental-institute-in-kano-because-he-renounced-islam-9561511.html

Same thing happened with homosexuals: while the majority of very religious people see them as degenerate and inverted, a small percentage think they're suffering some kind of disorder, or that they've been brainwashed into homosexuality, and that they should be cured.

You seem to be part of that small percentage (inside the SJW belief system). Interesting.

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This is really fucked up, dude. Like really, really fucked up

I don't necessarily think you're mentally ill. I know enough about mental illness to know that professionals don't diagnose based on message board posts

I just think you spend WAYYY too much time thinking about this crap. An unhealthy amount

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I don't necessarily think you're mentally ill. I know enough about mental illness to know that professionals don't diagnose based on message board posts. I just think you spend WAYYY too much time thinking about this crap. An unhealthy amount

Well, in case you missed the whole point in this thread, I'll repeat it: I was looking for some series that was NOT proselytizing with the usual SJW stuff.

I was trying to AVOID f*cking politics/wokeness religion.

And since it seemed that the main characters didn't follow the Racially Correct Archetypes In Modern Hollywood, it seemed that could be case. Guess what? they were the villains, which means the series were Racially Correct after all!! False alarm, keep searching.

There's no f*cking way to find anything that's not f*cking woke-SJW-religious in modern Hollywood. And when you think you've found something that's not woke, guess what? it's woke!

Every f*cking series and movie in Hollywood has become woke. But hey, if you don't like to have that proselytizing SJW wokeness pushed down your throat, that's "unhealthy", and "symptomatic of the paranoid mindset", "something close to the person undergoing delusions", "schizophrenics", "suffering from delusions such as people in a manic state". Because.... how you dare not to like having our religion pushed down your throat!!! how you dare to dislike it!!!!

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I applaud your attempts at reasoned discourse. You have a LOT of patience. . .

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I do it because I genuinely feel bad for the guy

Lots of people here are butt-hurt over Hollywood's liberalism, but this guy, if you go into his post history, takes it to an unhealthy level

He says a lot of "LOL"s and "XD" because I think he thinks I'm bickering with him. I can flame posters and be very insulting when I want to, but I'm not trying to do that with him. He reminds me of that kid in American History X. Brainwashed by a bunch of nutjobs

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"Yes, and most mass shooters are young white males."

Oops, I dropped these...
https://twitter.com/PeteKidder/status/1158423917540839427
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274538/51-mass-shooters-2019-were-black-only-29-were-daniel-greenfield

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Literally the top of the page has this quote "INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" lol

But I read the article anyway, and it points out clearly that those statistics don't differentiate between gang-related shootings and what we talk about when we talk about "mass shootings"

That is, shooting on innocent people in public places for either motive-less or politically-motivated reasons. Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Parkland, Sandy Hook, Vegas, El Paso. We're not talking about a drive-by outside of a Taco Bell

Even so, my point was not actually to blame white people for mass shootings, it was just to say that "Just because most X are Y, does not mean that most Y are X". It's called "Affirming the Consequent"

My point was that just because most nationalists and anti-immigration supporters are white and working-class, does not mean that most white and working class people are nationalists or anti-immigration

If you don't like my mass shooter example, I'll just give you another. Just because most of the greatest chess players are from Russia does not mean that most Russians are great chess players. Don't even know if that statement is true, I'm just making a point






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The point is wrong.

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Remember you're trying to reason with a SWJ. That's like trying to reason with a Yahweh Witness. It can be interesting, or fun, but at the end of the day, he's driven by faith and no logic will change that.

https://www.seabreeze.com.au/Img/Photos/Other/4927890.jpg

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They're called Jehovah's Witnesses lol

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'Yahweh' and 'Jehovah' are the same word, different spelling, like 'Peking' and 'Beijing', or 'Mexico' and 'Mejico'.

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Yes, it's become painfully obvious.

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Damn, you stumped me. How could I possibly beat that? Oh, I got it...NO, UR WRONG

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When someone says there were 250+ mass shooting this year, they use this definition:

GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we don’t exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot.

GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/251-mass-shootings-in-us/

Pretty sure this movie qualifies, along with most cop/crime shows on TV.

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Trump using videogames and Hollywood as a distraction from republicans and NRA being responsible for mass shootings

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Wow, they actually did the right thing and wanted to live? That's new.

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It's silly because the purge series and 21 are the same idea. Actually, put the collector, joy ride 2, last house on the left, and wolf creek into that category.

In the end, this move makes the film taboo which will increase interest... like human centipede.

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Yeah, there's a ton of movies out there about hunting people. None of the ideas in this film are new. The controversy is rather farcical. What was that one where they hunting homeless vettes? Was that a Van Damme movie? It was one of them guys.

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At first I thought you were talking about surviving the game with Gary Busey and Ice-T. But that was rich people hunting homeless.

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What a crazy thing to complain about...

LOL

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If the release is cancelled, it does mean that we will never see this movie or?

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If it is not released theatrically in the USA it will available thru cable and/or streaming. Probably will be released theatrically to rest of world.

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It's not cancelled. If you read the press release they say this is not the time to release the movie, and that the release is not going to happen for now.

So it will be released at some point.

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Maybe or maybe not. If I had to make a bet, I'd bet that it will be released through streaming services.

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No, it will be released. And releasing via streaming services is now very common...hence The Irishman.

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Mother fucker, this was cancelled at the behest of RIGHT-WING pundits and a right-wing president.

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First news I have that he could do that LOL

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You said, "They shut you down." The only people that wanted the movie shut down were right-wingers.

Why did right-wing pundits and the potus lash out at it even AFTER the trailer is released? Partly because they're reactionary idiots but mostly because they're authoritarian nutjobs.

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