A Whitetail Deer Hunter’s Legacy: MINI-REVIEW

I’m not a big fan of hunting and I never will be. I guess I’m qualified to not like this movie, then. Really though, the reason I can’t say I totally liked the movie is not because it’s about hunting, good stories can be told through horrible things… I wasn’t a fan because it’s based on nothing more than Josh Brolin to tell a story. I appreciated some of its quirks and the fact that the tone was deliberately a big mess, but I don’t see it as meeting viewer expectations. Apart from the fact that Brolin is the protagonist, nothing else binds you to the character, there is no emotional bond, and the only bond that exists is very predictable. The dynamic between Brolin’s character and his annoying son is so utterly obvious that I can’t even call this “lazy writing.” This was “sleeping writing.” Recently, I found myself reviewing movies that often seemed like missed opportunities, add this one to the list. The artists and setting could have worked towards a completely different goal, the final product could have been an independent sensation. In the end, we’re looking at a very light comedy that only gives you a small amount of excitement and/or fun. Without Brolin and McBride, it would have been a half star movie. I don’t know, I’m thinking about it, and I don’t think it’s a movie that deserves to be torn to pieces, but it didn’t really make me feel much watching it, so… It all had the potential to work, but it was half-assed. Or maybe not, maybe that was the movie Jody Hill wanted to make, a goofy part of life that doesn’t actually go home after handing over all the goods. Comedic elements are present, but were never fully accepted, because it seems that Hill was more interested in this unusual character study than a dramatic/comedic development of the story. Perhaps a stronger hand in dosing the comedy bits might have helped. Even when the dramatic parts are dosed, actually. Hell, imagine if the kid died during the hunt, it would have been a huge gut punch for the public who were in for the light ride, it might have elevated a mostly anonymous image to something people wouldn’t do. They have forgotten, as always.

They obviously had different intentions, Netflix production just wants to get you to the place of pressing the thumbnail and sticking with it, so these movies need to stay on a much more mainstream route sadly even though everything “does weird stuff” . “stuff” seems to have worked the same way in the past. I hope that Netflix, a place of ideas and creativity, doesn’t take too many steps to become a normal movie studio, where instead of shaping the tastes of the audiences, they fall into the pattern of predicting the tastes of the audiences and giving them the right things. simple that (supposedly) they want. I found some narrative similarities to I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore in how the story unfolded in an unconventional character-focused way, placing absolutely bizarre (sometimes unrealistic) dynamics between the characters (McBride showing photos of his girlfriend being gang-fucked by guys to Brolin’s son, who is only twelve). While IDFAHITWA (I thought using the acronym would have made my life easier, but it didn’t) found the perfect balance between weird, sad, and funny, delivering a great climax; The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter (Dude, what’s up with these titles, by the way) really didn’t. It’s too sketchy to become anything concrete, even the ending (where things get a bit more intense) feels too light and not rewarding enough. I wasn’t bored, again, 100% because of Brolin, but I never got excited either, and that’s definitely not a good thing. Visually, they worked just enough to make a classic setting feel a little livelier, putting the characters in some situations worthy of a light Bear Grylls episode, even environmentally, and that was great. He also doesn’t take a stand on the “training his son to hunt” situation, at least it would have been nice to see a little moral dilemma. There is a very small part, but it remains unresolved and unexplored, like most of the movie.