Picture it. The year is 2023 and COVID-19 has mutated a couple of times, apparently to such a serious degree that this country has gone into a true lockdown for the past few years.
Michael Bay has turned that scenario into a horror/thriller/whatever and now I’m about to tell you all the things I hate about it, because that’s what I do, hate things.
(Wow, I’m such a wonderful and positive person how do I have any friends…)
First of all…do we need this movie? I mean a lot of things come out that nobody needed or asked for ::cough::CATS::cough:: but seriously….do we neeeeeeeed this movie? Right now? While countries like Germany and France are going back into lockdown? While we’re on the cusp of a winter spike and facing a lockdown as well? I don’t actually want to watch a scary movie about a thing I’m currently living through. Give me a couple of hundreds of years of remove from it. You know, like all those slavery movies.
Maybe the film will be different from the trailer, but I don’t necessarily want to watch a film where the main conflict seems to be about someone endangering others by refusing to comply with the orders given by the government to prevent the spread of disease. Yes, the measures in the movie look extreme and are probably beyond the pale in the context of this cinematic environment. But in real life, the government says “wear a mask” and all of these people who think they know better are refusing to do so and outright attacking people who are enforcing those mandates. A security guard just got stabbed 27 times the other day because he told two sisters to wear a mask and use hand sanitizer. I don’t want a movie that empowers people to say “the government is overexaggerating! If we bow down, we’ll end up like these fictional people!”
Why is the Very Important And Special Savior always the most mediocre white man? Of course the guy with immunity who decides to break the law and save his girlfriend is a basic white man. It always is. Some white guy decides he knows better and wants to save his girlfriend…from a threat he can’t see and that she most likely has contracted because her infected Grandma was breathing all in her face. Yes, let’s save her because she showed you her Good China over Zoom these past few months.
Also. This don’t even look good and I don’t like when bad movies come out with Demi Moore in them. That’s not sitting right with my spirit.
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