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I had no idea this was even coming out. Ethan Hawke is in it, and I see he's figured out where his checks will be coming from (i.e., relatively small and indie genre films). But, I dig the trailer and oh, there's a negro in it and I *DON'T* think he's killed early!


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Trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/thepurge/

The Synopsis: If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? Over the course of a single night, a family will be tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their home.

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I'm not quite sure I could live in a world like that, one night where nothing crime is legal sounds scary as shit.

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Because it's a movie.

Yes, that was a snarky response

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“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

ol' snarky mofo.

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will probably give it a shot, but Ryan I feel some kind of way about them hunting a brotha..just sayin...lol

hopefully they will flip his character as the movie progress and he starts killing everybody on some super assassin ish...lol
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>will probably give it a shot, but Ryan I feel some kind of
>way about them hunting a brotha..just sayin...lol
>
>hopefully they will flip his character as the movie progress
>and he starts killing everybody on some super assassin
>ish...lol
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i kinda did too...but hopefully he'll make it through most of the movie? I don't know...

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than meets the eye.

If I remember correctly, the people hunting the black man are wearing masks. Everything is legal, so wearing the masks might be something more than a generic scary gimmick. Perhaps they're hiding from something themselves?

-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

The basic premise looks dope, but from the trailer I saw that initial premise looks like little more than a setup for a basic home invasion movie. Personally I would rather see this premise done on a broader scale, where we're seeing how this scenario effects multiple people, families, and communities across the country or even the world.

Even taking place within one city would be enough of a scale, but with everything happening in one home, I can't help but feel they missed an opportunity to really show some balls. Seeing how this effects the poor, the middle class, and the elite in different ways, husbands killing wives, kids killing parents, etc would make this thing an absolute beast IMO.

Obviously it's just a preview and there's no telling what secrets they're keeping, but those are my impressions from the trailer. My guess is I'll enjoy it because everything in the trailer looked great. With any luck, it has a small budget and will perform exceptionally well at the box office and become a franchise so we can see a grander scale at some point. Perhaps that was the plan to begin with.

-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

It seems to have a great build up with awesome potential, then turns into The Strangers, but not as spooky or susepensful.

Go Wings.

because that definitely sounds like a better premise, hopefully they do something like that with this flick - who knows *shrugs
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>The basic premise looks dope, but from the trailer I saw that
>initial premise looks like little more than a setup for a
>basic home invasion movie. Personally I would rather see this
>premise done on a broader scale, where we're seeing how this
>scenario effects multiple people, families, and communities
>across the country or even the world.
>
>Even taking place within one city would be enough of a scale,
>but with everything happening in one home, I can't help but
>feel they missed an opportunity to really show some balls.
>Seeing how this effects the poor, the middle class, and the
>elite in different ways, husbands killing wives, kids killing
>parents, etc would make this thing an absolute beast IMO.
>
>Obviously it's just a preview and there's no telling what
>secrets they're keeping, but those are my impressions from the
>trailer. My guess is I'll enjoy it because everything in the
>trailer looked great. With any luck, it has a small budget and
>will perform exceptionally well at the box office and become a
>franchise so we can see a grander scale at some point. Perhaps
>that was the plan to begin with.


but how do you know they won't go there? all we got is a trailer...we won't really know what this movie will be until it comes out.

though what you explained above would be infinitely better as a movie..

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>>Obviously it's just a preview and there's no telling what
>>secrets they're keeping, but those are my impressions from
>the trailer.

^^^^

>but how do you know they won't go there? all we got is a
>trailer...we won't really know what this movie will be until
>it comes out.
>
>though what you explained above would be infinitely better as
>a movie..

Of course. I was just giving my impressions based on what I saw. I saw the preview and started thinking about all possibilities.

All the abused children, spouses, etc that would/could take out their abusers without fear of legal trouble.

Ditto bullied school kids.

Then you have those who kill for sport.

Also, what happens to homeless people? Where can they go to escape this hellish night?

While there are no legal consequences, is there a social stigma attached to those who partake in murder on this day

How many presidents would get offed by secret service agents on the other side of the political coin? Are they exempt from this?

So while this was just a preview, the basic premise is so unbelievably compelling I can't help but want to see more than a home invasion movie. The preview is what it is, just a preview, but in a way that premise is so amazing it's almost a setup for disappointment on some level.

Who knows though, I'm in regardless.

-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

even though this seems more, dystopian future.

yup

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This could be the kinda film that blows it's wad in the trailer.

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I ain't mad at him.

He's pretty good in everything. And there's probably not a lot of roles for a dude like him in major Hollywood films.

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-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

Characters kept conveniently disappearing which made no sense since they should've stayed together to survive in the first fucking place. Add to the fact that outside of Ethan Hawke, I didn't give a flying fuck about any of the characters, all who made the poorest fucking decisions in the world. Add to that you can see the plot twists coming a mile away, starting with the boyfriend of the daughter (which in retrospect made no fucking sense and had nothing to do with nothing) on.

Fuck this movie.

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There were a couple of impossible white man moments but on the whole it was fun.

There were a LOT of stupid decisions being mad in this house, like a lot but honestly who gives a shit. Bammas got purged out and it was fun to watch them get offed.

The themes they're playing with were a bit heavy handed at times and a little ham fisted, but still quite enjoyable.

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>There were a couple of impossible white man moments but on
>the whole it was fun.
>
>There were a LOT of stupid decisions being mad in this house,
>like a lot but honestly who gives a shit. Bammas got purged
>out and it was fun to watch them get offed.
>
>The themes they're playing with were a bit heavy handed at
>times and a little ham fisted, but still quite enjoyable.


I agree.

I enjoyed the hell out of it but no way is this getting a high rating from me...

the stupid decisions to the plot points that made no sense (i'm saving ALL MY SHIT for tomorrow night when we record the podcast)

and the characters had NO development and they MISSED OUT on some really good opportunities TO GO IN (i.e. Lena Heady/Mary Sandin...they dropped the BALL with her...cause they could have GONE THERE)...

The Purge will make it's money back (and it did during the midnight showings AND it turn an outstandingly heft profit) and the concept itself can EASILY be done in different cities (THE PURGE in NYC? with all the racial and gentrification issues RAMPANT there?! SHIT...DO IT), etc.

but this movie? shit just fell apart. But, it was fun watching it fall apart spectacularly...

and the screenplay itself? save for a few changes here and there (one they should have kept just to quickly make sense of why a character was acting in a certain way...), was pretty much what they shot...

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I'm still seeing it though

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formulaic as all hell.

Can't wait to redbox though.

-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

and i'm dead serious .
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-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

There was some "stinging social commentary" in it, mainly aimed at extreme right wingers, but it wasn't biting enough and got overshadowed by the need for the movie to be a mindless, violent home invasion "thriller" that wasn't very thrilling, sorry

This movie was better when it was directed by David Fincher and starred Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto in cornrows and a young Kristen Stewart as a diabetic

And the thing is, we didn't even need the pitched idea of seeing how the family tries to make it through the streets to get back home. Save that shit for the sequel(s). This could have worked just fine as-is, but the big problem is that Ethan Hawke is set up to be quite the dick; are we supposed to be sad when he gets the fatal shank near the end? Because his too on-the-nose lines about being #1 and achieving for his family, etc., made it all too easy for me to hope he got killed off... either he's a delusional douchebag who fails to adequately prepare to defend his family - which to me results in his family getting killed off - or he's a good guy who wants to protect his family and discovers too late that the product he's selling is faulty and is forced to resort to extreme measures to protect his loved ones... to me, the latter character is more interesting, especially if he's bought into this shit that the New Founding Fathers has been selling the people... or what if he finds out that the stats lie, and that crime and unemployment is actually the same as it was before The Purge was brought into law and tries to get the truth out... yeah, I know, that might be a different movie, but it's still infinitely more interesting to me to see THAT particular character... it was just hard to care about this character as he was drawn up...

Nevertheless, this is a great idea, and I can certainly see sequels where we do go to different cities and watch families try to survive the night... if that's the direction they want to go in...

And btw, since we have so many bean counters here, you guys might want to start paying attention to the resume of producer Jason Blum... like almost all of the films he's produced (like the Paranormal Activity series, Insidious, Sinister, etc), this one had a small budget ($3 million) and is going to make a hell of a profit, thus ensuring more installments... point is, almost everything this dude puts his name on is either a hit or seems to at least turn a hefty profit...

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>a young Kristen Stewart as a diabetic

I never made the connection, but I can totally see it, even with the short cut.

3 million just seems so small. not saying i don't believe you, just curious.

Google "Purge Budget 3 million" and stories from Variety, Deadline, LA Times all pop up. Here's one from Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2013/06/09/the-scary-truth-of-the-purge-hollywood-should-make-more-horror-films/

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and are getting paid off the backend...

that's everywhere.

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Admittedly I read about that the other day, but still, I mean, that's a big twist.

>This movie was better when it was directed by David Fincher
>and starred Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto in
>cornrows and a young Kristen Stewart as a diabetic
>

i wanna believe that hollywood's not officially out of ideas (*cough* re-boots), but this film didn't help.

--spoilers--

i don't why, but i was rooting against the son before he even disarmed the doors for "bloody stranger" (c) imdb

and if you're gonna change strategy and fight, wouldn't it be in hawke's best interest to cut loose bloody stranger and give him a gun to, you know, fight the people who really wanna kill him?

the premise of sanctioned anarchy was intriguing going in, but this ended up being a 90-minute fart.

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Good conversation If I do say so myself.

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they should listen to it...

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I started out thinking this is soo dumb, nothing like this would ever be allowed in this country.

Then it dawned on me that 10,000+ people die a year from gun deaths in this country and most of the country is fine with it because of some quasi religious like belief we have in the second amendment. Also it's a problem that if you make enough money and don't live in certain areas, you really don't have to worry about it.

Sci-fi works best when it addresses current issues from a different vantage and I think this movie was a clever way to come at Social Inequality, Tea Party Zealotry, Gun Culture and the NRA.

The weak home invasion story line was secondary and of course predictable but was necessary to tackle the big issues the film addressed.

Very cool.


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>I started out thinking this is soo dumb, nothing like this
>would ever be allowed in this country.
>
>Then it dawned on me that 10,000+ people die a year from gun
>deaths in this country and most of the country is fine with it
>because of some quasi religious like belief we have in the
>second amendment. Also it's a problem that if you make enough
>money and don't live in certain areas, you really don't have
>to worry about it.
>
>Sci-fi works best when it addresses current issues from a
>different vantage and I think this movie was a clever way to
>come at Social Inequality, Tea Party Zealotry, Gun Culture and
>the NRA.
>
>The weak home invasion story line was secondary and of course
>predictable but was necessary to tackle the big issues the
>film addressed.
>
>Very cool.
>


I think you'll dig the sequel that just came out earlier this summer then...it may still be in theaters (I know it was still playing out here still though that may change this week)...if not, get thee to Netflix whenever this comes out (which I'm betting will be December)....

solid acting across the board and they really delve into class issues i.e. how The Purge affects the poor, middle class, rich folks etc.

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but whatever

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surprise me that you missed all that. If you want to see how normal people made that connection you should just google the purge and any of those themes.



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it makes it true when you say them, that's how saying things works.

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>surprise me that you missed all that. If you want to see how
>normal people made that connection you should just google the
>purge and any of those themes.
>
>
>

BUDDY YOU AIN'T HAVE TO DO ALL THAT!!! SMH LMAO

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>but whatever
>

we'll agree to disagree then.

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on an affluent family in the suburbs in a completely ridiculous situation, it did a lot to address violence in real-life communities that are nothing like that.

you can't pick and choose from the concept, to decide what the movie itself actually portrayed.

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RE: yeah, by focusing exclusively on an affluent family in the suburbs in a completely
>ridiculous situation, it did a lot to address violence in
>real-life communities that are nothing like that.


Here I was thinking that the movie probably could have been more subtle about addressing certain themes and not be so heavy handed.

The story was literally about Rich People hunting down poor black people for sport and you don't think income equality was a theme? The main character was a business man who profited by playing on the fears of suburban folks regarding the security of their homes and family and you don't think that is at all commentary on the Gun Lobby? You don't think the filmmakers at all thought about the Tea Party when they decided that the purge was brought about by the New Founding Fathers?

You really don't see those connections?

Don't take my word for it. Like I said before, just google "The Purge" and "Tea Party" or "NRA".

I don't know how else to make it more plain so I am wipe my hands of this one.


BTW, you know that episode of star trek where the aliens with the half white and half black face were fighting? You might have missed it but that episode was about racism.



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>you can't pick and choose from the concept, to decide what the
>movie itself actually portrayed.
>
>http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png
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>www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at


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why don't you google jay-z and illuminati and aliens

you'll find lots of shit, so clearly, it's all exactly true and not just morons posting bullshit.

the movie isn't all about anything -- that black guy has like six lines, no backstory to speak of and is just a caricature.

I'm not mad that you like this shitty movie, it's your choice.


that you're completely making up what it's about is kinda weird, especially since it's a year after other people IN THIS THREAD have dissected how much wasn't actually addressed in the movie.

peace & blessings

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the NRA, etc. you still think the movie isn't about those themes?

Again, don't trust me, just READ what others have wrote about the movie including director interviews. Let me even help you. http://bit.ly/1CtmGMm

And I am talking about major news outlets (not fringe websites where you would find illuminati and alien theories). The funny thing it is the right wing news outlets like Fox News who took the most offensive by the social commentary which apparently you can't see.

I mean it's strange that you point to this very post to support your point because while a couple of seemed to miss the point like you did for the most part most people saw the social commentary.

Listen it's one thing to say the movie wasn't good or they didn't nail the social commentary, but to say there was no social commentary in the face off a bunch of people laying out the social commentary, including the FUCKING WRITER/DIRECTOR, is just plain dumb.

I get it, you are a Contrarian but at some point you should just admit "yeah I may have totally missed that" to avoid making yourself look even more dumb.






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not what you want to be in the movie. not what the director wants you to think is in the movie.

you don't want to discuss what actually happened in the movie

edit -- also, quit lying. I didn't say there was no social commentary, I said the examples you listed weren't in the movie.

A completely half-assed attempt at depth doesn't suddenly imbue this movie with whatever stupid political angle someone like you wants it to have.

Supporting your point by saying delusional ass Fox News believes the same thing you do is beyond bizarre.

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...it's over the top and there are problems, but i don't expect much from "horror" movies...

i think it hit on some of the themes people are complaining they missed

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Im fixing to do my Avengers review next.


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...i did see it and Avengers for de free though.....

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