I went to see this movie as part of the Mystery Monday Movie at Regal. Since I knew it was a Rated R film, I thought I might be Night Swim,Beekeeper or even Civil War. It wasn't until I saw the director sharing the title Founder's Day when I instantly knew it's going to rub me the wrong way.
Unlike Thanksgiving where the introduction really pulled me in to the World with a solid heavy emotional hook of a Black Friday gone wrong, the introduction essentially tells me how to feel without showing me why should I feel. The protest in the beginning lacked any sense of urgency or intensity, the teenagers don't even act like teenagers let alone look like them, and the town doesn't feel like a real place upon my first impression. In-fact: I felt as if I had no reason to care about Founder's Day at all since I only know about this heated "election" but not know why it was a problem
The worst thing I have to say is that compared to Thankgiving, the killer design is the worst. Unlike John Carver from Thanksgiving( both the Grindhouse version and the film version) with the classic pilgrims look, this killer only wore a judge outfit with a latex mask and white wig. It felt as if it was bought out of Spirit's Halloween and the gavel hammer for the first kill didn't sell me. The way the crowd responded after the woman's girlfriend called for help as they were fighting over which "side" she belong to revealed to me how the "politics" of the situation was pushed toward the audience without even crafting out why the politics existed in the first place. Even the radio board cast similar to the introduction from the film Hotel Rwanda would have helped addressed this.
After all I seen I decided to just walk out of the theater cause I felt my time would be better spent elsewhere.
Unlike Thanksgiving where the introduction really pulled me in to the World with a solid heavy emotional hook of a Black Friday gone wrong, the introduction essentially tells me how to feel without showing me why should I feel. The protest in the beginning lacked any sense of urgency or intensity, the teenagers don't even act like teenagers let alone look like them, and the town doesn't feel like a real place upon my first impression. In-fact: I felt as if I had no reason to care about Founder's Day at all since I only know about this heated "election" but not know why it was a problem
The worst thing I have to say is that compared to Thankgiving, the killer design is the worst. Unlike John Carver from Thanksgiving( both the Grindhouse version and the film version) with the classic pilgrims look, this killer only wore a judge outfit with a latex mask and white wig. It felt as if it was bought out of Spirit's Halloween and the gavel hammer for the first kill didn't sell me. The way the crowd responded after the woman's girlfriend called for help as they were fighting over which "side" she belong to revealed to me how the "politics" of the situation was pushed toward the audience without even crafting out why the politics existed in the first place. Even the radio board cast similar to the introduction from the film Hotel Rwanda would have helped addressed this.
After all I seen I decided to just walk out of the theater cause I felt my time would be better spent elsewhere.