Chimpzy said:
Is that that movie were a bunch of MAGA types get hunted one by one by the elites, but one eventually ends up turning the tables on the liberals by killing them in turn?
If so, why the fuck does he dislike that?
Balance of probability is that he stopped reading the summary part way through, or got his information on it from someone who did. For illustrative purposes, here's the summation from wikipedia:
The film follows 12 strangers, referred to as "deplorables" in the trailer, who mysteriously wake up in a clearing. They do not know where they are or how they got there. They discover that they have been chosen to be hunted in a game devised by a group of rich elites. The hunters gather in a remote facility called the Manor House, but their sport gets derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal (Gilpin), fights back and starts killing them one by one.
Now imagine if the reader stops reading before that last sentence. Assuming that to be true, the summary they'd be basing their opinion off of would read as follows:
The film follows 12 strangers, referred to as "deplorables" in the trailer, who mysteriously wake up in a clearing. They do not know where they are or how they got there. They discover that they have been chosen to be hunted in a game devised by a group of rich elites.
If you assume the incomplete summary is what they're working from, the umbrage starts to make sense. Still dumb, mind you, as even in that summation the natural tendency of stories would entail the hunted being the protagonists, and turning the hunt around is downright predictable, but considering Trump's comments it's hard to imagine that they're based on anything but an incomplete summary of the film.
It makes even more sense if we assume that the people in question are...let's say "uncultured" in that they're unfamiliar with prior works such as The Most Dangerous Game (the book, the maybe a dozen film adaptations, the radio plays from the 1940s, or the numerous television shows which had an episode based on a similar premise, or the other works loosely inspired by it (like, say, Battle Royale, the Hunger Games, Predator, and the Running Man). That would help explain the lack of pattern recognition, and would further lend itself to the apparent inciting idea that this is intended as some kind of revenge flick reveling in the deaths of the hunted rather than a typical 'hunter becomes the hunted' tale.
