Escape to the Movies: The Purge
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That was my biggest concern about the movie honestly.Blunderboy said:
It seems to me the only reason they worse the masks is just to be scary and creepy, but it looks like it just fell flat. I miss good slasher movies.
If the purge was to really happen I would expect less murdering and far more heinous unspeakable boning.
I think it can go further than the binge day thing. People contemplating their morality, riots and revolutions going on, the change in sciencedue to the incusion of forbidden research. The purge is the type of change to society that can reveal so much about humanity and it's society but it was instead used as a cheap setup.Vault Citizen said:
what a disappointment. Moviegoers are dumber in the waste of such potential.
Romney is known to be extremely supportive for less regulation and more power to corporations. He was making the point that the only way to make a movie with the villains as embodiments of predatory capitalism less subtle is to have one of them be Mitt Romney who has been accused of predatory capitalism with Bain capital and was believed to have encouraged it.Reincarnatedwolfgod said:
The movie looks terrible, no doubt, and the concept is utter trash (Battle Royale re-imagined by, as you said, a "Freshman philosophy major"), but I actually think they underestimate how bad people are. Yes, the majority of people are not evil, but what about people who can make bombs? What about nuclear devices? What about drug cartels? (Imagine how bad they'd be.) And what about hackers who could just take all the rich people's money, with no consequence? What about international consequences of actions? I really don't think this would benefit anyone, rich or poor.Scribblesense said:
This must be one of the most poorly thought-out movie concepts I've ever heard...
Luckily I wasn't planning on seeing this one just on the fact that the premise seemed so utterly asinine as to strain credibility. Now that I've heard what you have to say it just seems more asinine. For one thing people hold grudges in real life. Why wouldn't there be a rash of revenge murders after the purge? Who came up with the notion that law enforcement was the only agent of consequence in human society? If you have a society where people will forgive you for hacking their sister to death the day after you did it why would you need the purge at all? They have obviously achieved sainthood already. If the purge disproportionally targets the poor that leads to another problem. Since the beginning of civilization there have always been more poor than rich. This would eventuate in a popular uprising if the poor become convinced that the rich are actually trying to kill them by... well... the rich trying to kill them. A thing like this would actually hasten a collapse rather than prevent it. It would seem that they got all caught up in their quirky premise that they forgot to think it all the way through.
It sounds like this movie would have been significantly better if it had been made in, say, 1987, with a tighter budget, no name actors, and a stake in genuinely shocking the audience for the sake of making an impact. It sounds like what came out was an interesting premise that got dumbed down into high-concept by-the-numbers audience-pleaser that hit exactly the narrative and visceral points required but couldn't be bothered to paint outside the lines for fear of alienating 10% of the audience with something challenging.
To add to this a number of Romney's "behind the scenes" activities and discussions tended to be at best "those people? Yeah I heard of them. I don't think they should exist." there you can replace the italicized portion of that with any demographic that isn't "Caucasian wealthy white male". Given what Romney had done during his time in post secondary and got away with the main villain could essentially be Romney if he was 40 years younger and could get away with anything.Izanagi009 said:
That's HEADY!!! (Blazing Saddles lol)Yojoo said:
OT: I just knew this movie would be stupid based on the premise alone, and I'm getting bored with the "RICH PEOPLE BAD GRRR ARGH" Anvil hitting me in the face all the time. Now applying my low opinion of human nature, I think if 12 hours had no laws at all, then society would completely collapse and never recover. Just when I though the Hunger Games had a nonsensical and retarded premise (and that's still true. Come on, Bob, I can taste your hatred for the upcoming Catching Fire flick from here, and I can't wait for you to trash it!).
But perhaps with the reviews for The Purge and The Internship today, he's getting the negativity out now for next week's Man of Steel.
Oh I have no doubt that it could go further than binge day.Izanagi009 said:
Now, how many bad sequels do you think they will try to make?
The premise held a lot of good storytelling ideas, but in and of itself I see it as absolute rubbish. Bullshit, bollocks and balderdash.
This will fix crime, squalor and unemployment just how, exactly? By letting people have a chance to "blow off some steam"? By having armed gangs running around pillaging, raping and murdering their way through the streets? That has always led to a surge of economic growth.
For the other part, leave the pondering over the alledged frailty of the order of civilization to the Lord of the Flies. It is better written.
This will fix crime, squalor and unemployment just how, exactly? By letting people have a chance to "blow off some steam"? By having armed gangs running around pillaging, raping and murdering their way through the streets? That has always led to a surge of economic growth.
For the other part, leave the pondering over the alledged frailty of the order of civilization to the Lord of the Flies. It is better written.
Fiz_The_Toaster said:That was my biggest concern about the movie honestly.Blunderboy said:
It seems to me the only reason they worse the masks is just to be scary and creepy, but it looks like it just fell flat. I miss good slasher movies.
Yeah. I'm not really a huge fan of slasher films. I'm something of a coward about them. But I do still watch them now and then.Yojoo said:
I want to say I totally called it, but the more I think about it, I really didn't. See, I just expect every movie to fail, so when I get it right, I'm not so much calling it, as being the broken clock that's right twice a day.
Except, I wish I was only right twice out of the many possible combinations in which a clock could be wrong. Then maybe I wouldn't hate movies so much.
Except, I wish I was only right twice out of the many possible combinations in which a clock could be wrong. Then maybe I wouldn't hate movies so much.
Imagine a TV series with the same premise, but just showing the bfore AND after of the purge. It's sort of a mystery why are people doing this, preparing so heavily to just other normal people that would go boinkers in a lawless society, and then the aftermath of all that with people going on with their days like it's nothing, with a creepy undertone of "just yesterday ya'll fuckers wanted to kill me".
And the final chapter is the day of the purge, when all goes down and crazy stuff happens. Stealing, rioting, hacking, financial fraud, maybe even a fucking foreign invasion!
Now that would be awesome.
And the final chapter is the day of the purge, when all goes down and crazy stuff happens. Stealing, rioting, hacking, financial fraud, maybe even a fucking foreign invasion!
Now that would be awesome.
Is that the one about the giant robots fighting monsters from under the sea? The one that looks like Evangelion, but with a burly, hard-boiled soldier for a protagonist instead of a wanker kid? Yeah, that's what I want to see, a live-action anime in which one set of cliche characters are replaced with a completely different set of cliche characters.Sean Kay said: