So apparently there are people in the world whose idea of a good time is to go out and kill something. Guns, knives, crossbows, spears, hooks, traps—it’s all good, as long as an animal ends up dead.
I don’t get it.
Mind you…I come closer to getting it when the animal they’re hunting is selfish, greedy, violent, destructive and just plain ANNOYING.
So join us as we examine some films that put Homo sapiens in the cross-hairs…
It’s THE MOST DANGEROUS ROUNDTABLE…all through May at the B-Masters’ Blog!
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#1 by The Rev. on May 2, 2018 - 11:29 am
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I already know I’m going to love your review for this, given our dim view of Homo sapiens. Are you going to try and get that Final Girl thing done to coincide with this? Or possibly start to port over the Friday the 13th reviews?
#2 by The Rev. on May 2, 2018 - 11:30 am
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D’oh! Wish I could edit. It occurs to me you’re more likely to go with a “nature strikes back” type of movie. The animals getting some payback, as it were, for the movies where they’re the ones on the receiving end (even though they never get to do it for real).
#3 by lyzard on May 2, 2018 - 5:39 pm
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No, this is all about humans being hunted for sport (or profit, or punishment) by other humans—as in any of the Most Dangerous Game riffs but encompassing something like The Hunger Games too.
#4 by The Rev. on May 3, 2018 - 11:29 pm
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Ah, yes, reading that again I see that it has a more narrow scope.
I suddenly find myself wanting to reread your reviews for Friday the 13th Pt. V and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer for your reactions to the murders of your least favorite characters. I recall wondering if you needed a cigarette after Tyrell got hooked. 😀
#5 by lyzard on May 4, 2018 - 7:18 pm
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I’m more of a glass-of-champagne type… 🙂
At the top of the list of Amityville Playhouse‘s infinite failures is that the Resident Asshole gets killed offscreen.
#6 by The Rev. on May 7, 2018 - 1:52 pm
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*makes a note re: champagne*
Just reread that review, and yeah, you were none too pleased that you didn’t get to see him get whacked.
#7 by Alaric on May 2, 2018 - 8:42 pm
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It’s funny- last week, I was just thinking about all the “Most Dangerous Game”- derived works out there (maybe that’s not such a big coincidence- I was thinking about that because I had come across yet another (not a movie), and they’re so common that the odds of falling over one when reading/watching/listening to any kind of fiction are pretty high).
#8 by lyzard on May 2, 2018 - 8:47 pm
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That’s what we thought too. 🙂
#9 by RogerBW on May 3, 2018 - 4:18 am
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And every action-type TV series rips it off eventually, usually around season 3-4 when the writers are desperately looking for ideas they haven’t already used. (I was soured early on Dollhouse for doing this in its second episode.)
#10 by lyzard on May 4, 2018 - 7:16 pm
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Okay—recognising that the announcement was clear enough in my head but perhaps a bit misleading in practice, I’ve tweaked it to better reflect the intent of the Roundtable.