Oh dear. Has bobcat Goldthwaite gone too far with his movie God Bless America?

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29. I wildly disagree that trailers communicate the film with intention...they exist to sell

the film and they are often quite misleading intentionally. Here's the thing. You are insistent that you can judge a book from glancing at the jacket. I think it is really not at all reasoned to judge art works you did not see. To assume, to conjecture and to do that holding in your mind the worst of the worst, as if the filmmaker is a famous fascist and not a comic of the dark kind.
I simply do not take the critiques of those who have not seen a work as holding merit. How can they?
. And to take the extreme tack without knowledge of the facts is what it is.

What specifically is the difference in terms of Dexter, who is the hero and is heroic for his murders and this character as seen in 2 minutes of the whole cut to sell? Can you tell me? Saying 'well, it's different' is not really saying anything. In what way? Dexter kills, he is the character you are to relate to, the show is filled with humor and satire and jokes. Dexter is cast with a good looking actor, this film's cast with a pasty character actor. I think you know that lots of good films do or attempt to do this sort of comedy, and that the success and failure of such things lies in the execution, pun apologies, not in the 'idea of a kid with a gun' which is not new, and is not new to comedy, none of this is. If this film stinks, it will stink. To know that, one has to see the film. Dexter is a comedy whose hero is a handsome serial killer we are meant to relate to. It just is. To claim that is so different requires extreme detail. From the trailer alone, I could argue that Dexter is far more 'glamorizing' of killing. Easily. Of course, when I see the film I might find that I no longer agree. Got to see it to know.