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    kisara Rich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 4:13pm

    I saw it last night.

    All I know is. PLOT HOLES EVERYWHERE. Did I miss where hospitals are seemingly safe? Do doctors/nurses/etc get a pass? How could they be there at 7am when its over on time for work? Does no one start at 7? Do they start at 8? How does the bank keep the money safe? Do they move it a day in advance? How do they keep the people who know where the money is from taking it all? How do you keep people from stealing ownership of real estate? What would have happened if the hunted won and stayed completely in the "hunting grounds" after 7am? The second after 7am is it kidnapping and torture?

    I AM CONFUSED.

    I had more fun discussing a realistic version of the Purge after the first one.

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      Fatlawyerkisara
      7/18/14 4:28pm

      Heh. Can you imagine? The Hong Kong and foreign stock markets EXPLODE that night with insider trading. I thought about the real estate / theft thing last time, too... Ah, well.

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      Vauntiekisara
      7/18/14 4:35pm

      Medical professionals take oaths to not harm people, so I guess one could presume that they choose to adhere to their oaths while on the clock? And the ones who got the night off can just... do whatever.

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    AmmortalRich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 4:05pm

    Sometimes a movie is just a movie, not a treatise.

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      Jay GeeAmmortal
      7/18/14 4:12pm

      Sometimes a movie thinks it's smart, but it's just really stupid.

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      BabylegsAmmortal
      7/18/14 4:13pm

      Sometimes people with astute analytical skills are paid to write honest reviews.

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    LordBurleighRich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 4:08pm

    Oh Rich, of course 12 hours of overnight violence ensures continuing peace; haven't you ever looked at the Gawker commentariat between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM?

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      BabylegsLordBurleigh
      7/18/14 4:12pm

      You do quite a good job as the lone sheriff in that lawless frontier though, I must say.

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      LordBurleighBabylegs
      7/18/14 4:13pm
      GIF
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    Sean BrodyRich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 4:16pm

    The problem with The Purge films is that they are pretentious

    You really think so? The problem with the first one is that it was dull.
    This film (I've seen it) is as pretentious as Planet Of the Apes - are we really expected to believe that apes one day will rule the planet because of scientists and viruses? No, we're not. But we suspend disbelief because it's a movie.
    Do we really think that computers will run the world and send terminators back to kill us? Nope, but let's watch a robot shoot lots of people.


    The level of critical thinking you're bringing to this would be far better placed on something like Snowpiercer, which is trying to say something about How We Live Today.
    Purge Anarchy just thinks inequality is just as good a thing as any to hang a violent movie on. It is for popcorn eaters, not chinstrokers.

    ETA
    I don't necessarily think that this
    "It's dollar-store David Lynch"
    is a negative.

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      SamatchoSean Brody
      7/18/14 4:53pm

      Juzwiak's whole "thing" is squeezing blood from stones.

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      Sean BrodySamatcho
      7/18/14 5:04pm

      I love Rich's writing. Just disagree with him on this.

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    A House In VirginiaRich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 4:05pm

    I think you should go fight our wars if horror is a genre that appeals to you.

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      FatlawyerA House In Virginia
      7/18/14 4:13pm

      Buh-whuh? I don't follow your comment. If we like horror movies, we deserve to die in something similar?

      Are you advocating thought policing or something here, or censorship? Because, no. Just no.

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      Left HandshakeA House In Virginia
      7/18/14 4:16pm

      Silly goose!

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    DiceyRich Juzwiak
    7/18/14 10:51pm

    Just because somehow no one has said it yet: this has literally nothing to do with anarchy. The title of the movie makes basically as much sense as The Purge: Socialism. Chaos is not the same as anarchy, and this film's crazy and dumb dog-eat-dog arrangement is basically the opposite of anarchism, a political philosophy that seeks to disencourage competitive behavior and domination, and which in its modern forms has a distinctly anti-violence flavor.

    Anarchism is a useful political concept that influences our daily lives and that people should actually be encouraged to better understand! Sigh.

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      Rodney64Rich Juzwiak
      7/18/14 4:27pm

      the best part of the first movie is when Stepford wife gets her head slammed against the table and her nose broken while trying to grab a gun out of the hands of a woman who had just watched her security specialist husband die made a rule there was to be no more violence. It was ridiculous that people who were already rich wanted to kill the family that sold their security systems to them. As if they might not need future upgrades.

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        FatlawyerRich Juzwiak
        7/18/14 4:17pm

        I'm looking forward to this one, I admit, as I actually really enjoyed the first one. I felt like they made it clear in the first movie that the "condensed period where everyone lets off steam" really was just a sham in order to allow extermination of the poor/unemployed as you refer to in the article. Did it pack a rhetorical punch well or in a deeply meaningful matter? Not really. But for its faults, I still found myself thinking about its premise long after the final credits rolled, and for that, they'll get my ticket dollars in this iteration.

        Plus, Matt Sareson.

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          infohackFatlawyer
          7/19/14 1:31pm

          That was the exact take I had on it, that it had little to do with reducing violent crime, it was simply a pretense for an economic culling of the herd.

          And while not an intellectual powerhouse, the film did bring to mind issues like the wholesale abandonment of inner city neighborhoods to failing schools and gangs, and Tea Party libertarian's growing resentment toward the poor.

          If you think about what society would be like in, say, President Ted Cruz's America, the premise of the film seems much less far-fetched.

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          factorfictionFatlawyer
          7/19/14 11:07pm

          I didn't like the first one but the second is MUCH better, IMO. Was a fairly white knuckle experience.

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        You're_the_man_now_dogRich Juzwiak
        7/18/14 4:59pm

        Referring to Hostel as a "better movie" in any context pretty much eliminates credibility for one who hopes to make a legitimate effort in writing a film review worth reading. Unless you're reviewing Serbian Film.

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          SchenkersAxeRich Juzwiak
          7/18/14 4:51pm

          Is is just me, or did this film lift its aesthetic (such as it is) from the awesomely twisted videogame "Manhunt"?

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            American MeatgoatSchenkersAxe
            7/18/14 10:17pm

            I loved Manhunt. That first time I snuck up behind someone and just murdered them with a plastic shopping bag. I still have it in my Steam library, but when I tried to play it recently it is crashtastic on a modern PC.

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            SchenkersAxeAmerican Meatgoat
            7/18/14 10:20pm

            Did you ever do the red-kill with the crowbar? Holy cannoli, what a rush.

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