Anticipated Films for 2017 • Page 2

Dark Night. It made the festival circuit last year and is getting released this year. Seems to be polarizing among reviewers, but I'm curious to check it out.

 

so happy to get a new Haneke film this year

 

Split
Gold

These 2 off the top of my head look like they can be really good.

 

I know movies like Patriots Day put off a lot of people for being too soon and capitalizing on a recent tragedy, but this one seems to take the cake. I don't want people to empathize with this person at all, let alone have a movie made about him.

 

I haven't seen the movie and am not defending it, but films about horrific and despicable people can be incredibly powerful. Especially when they empathize with them in an attempt to understand or examine their premises. Of course, films like that can fail that aim, so it's entirely possible Dark Night is tone deaf and gross and irresponsible. But without seeing it, it's hard to talk about.

 

I want to assume that the movie is more nuanced than just a sympathetic portrait of this specific person. I haven't really read too much about the movie itself, though.

 

True. Based off the trailer though it looks like it follows the shooter and showed him playing shooter video games. I dunno, I just don't want one ounce of sympathy or having him being misunderstood displayed for him.