Me, watching ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK for the first time: “Unsure if I buy the reality of Manhattan becoming a prison without knowing the exact socioeconomic circumstances that led to the crime rate raising 400% in America. Gonna need a 40-page background pamphlet to guide me.”
Lots of people telling on themselves in the responses by referencing something Garland said or the ads said in promoting the film (“but did Carpenter say ESCAPE was a serious film?!?”) that played into how they judge it. That’s not part of the actual movie, y’all!
@JacobQKnight @ScottMendelson Hope @TheHorrorMaster sees it. He loved 28 Days Later
@JacobQKnight This is the same crowd as "the journalist are just reporting the truth"
@JacobQKnight This is my Civil War “Michael Bay” Pitch Film. It most definitely discusses politics and religion. youtube.com/watch?v=VQmLVA…
@JacobQKnight @PaulTassi I miss the days when people would just watch movies and enjoy them instead of trying to draw all sorts of parallels, dissect them, and need a Wikipedia entry just to be able to enjoy it. They also seem to forget the historical context of when the movie was actually released…
@JacobQKnight This Civil War talk is absolutely a case of “I want my movie to be exactly the kind of leftist I am”
@JacobQKnight Alex Garland thought he was directing Come and See and ended up somewhere closer to Ryan Murphy directing a Call of Duty adaptation. Move is utterly hollow, obsessed with its “clever” hipster needle drops & not much else
@JacobQKnight Escape from New York actually gives quite a bit of background and has very distinct good guy v bad guy plot.
@JacobQKnight Not every movie needs backstory, it can simply be a snapshot. Those needing everything to be explained are generally the ones that need their existing beliefs to be reinforced by certain types of media or even worse, need to be told how think by it.