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I like to see a courtroom thriller that happens after the events of a horror movie where the sole surviving victim is the main suspect, like how the hell would you explain all these dead people while you are covered in blood and hold a machete in your hand. While the body of the demon has evaporated into thin air. The movie doesn’t explain in the beginning that the horror has happened, even the audience shouldn’t know since the movie would be marketed as a legal thriller. That will unfold when the lawyer and a private investigator are doing research. And of course the movie would do a full circle at the end and the lawyer ends up covered in blood holding a knife with the investigator dead and the demon gone,
I’ve always said that! There’s a good chance you’ll go to court and could be imprisoned
The reason I have never given the Purge films a chance is because the premise is so ridiculous. Am I the only one? Usually I can look past stuff like that, but an entire premise based on a misunderstanding of humanity? It just doesn’t work for me.
Why is murder the crime they commit? How about financial crimes or permittless construction and demolition?
Killing people isn’t profitable compared to other crimes.
I could go blast fishing and have frozen crappie for the next year.
Construction company that every year goes and blows up a bunch of buildings so they can get payed to rebuild them
Yeah companies doing shady stuff for profit including harming people would be much more scary. Good thing that’s not reality. Oh wait…
Simon pegg would be the guy. Filmed shawn of the dead style
I don’t know, it’s probably just me being the least fun at parties, but I was pretty shocked that people thought The Purge concept seemed fun/exciting. it would get unfathomably dark when you think about what kind of monsters are out there. Is someone going to go make sure someone doesn’t kill every kitten in the animal shelter? Not to mention crimes against children. Most of those cases are people in the same household. Are you going to go out with a gun to make sure Father Bad-Touch doesn’t go crazy in the orphanage once a year?
I haven’t watched the movies, so I don’t know if they address that or not. I’m guessing not, because who would want to watch that?
Most people arent really familiar with the ways people actually suck. They’re alienated from actual danger and too tribalistic to see actual threats around them when they exist. They just exercise theatrical fear as a kind of play. It’s a big part of why our politics is so fucking stupid.
They don’t address any of that. It’s essentially an “every person for themselves” situation, where those that can afford it hole up in highly secured homes, while people living on the streets are hunted for sport.
The do mention crime within households when this one guy sneaks into his girlfriends home and tries to shoot her father though. However, nothing like what you’re mentioning.
They kind of go over it in the first one when the neighbors attack each other. They tried to like ‘shake on it’ after and the targeted wife was all fuck you guys. It wasn’t much but did show people held grudges.
It will get there eventually. They can only make so many sequels and spinoffs until they have nothing left to use but those ideas.
How many are there now? I didn’t know there was more than like two (maybe three?) movies, is there more?
There’s at least 5.
Aha! I can tell I am totally unqualified to speak on what they do and do not address. Thanks for informing me :)
Yep it’s just horrible. Parents would murder children. Disabled people, black people, LGBT etc would be executed. It’s awful
Interesting thought though: in a world where it is normal to own weapons, to protect yourself during purge, and where it is normal for people to talk about plans for getting together in heavily armed groups to protect themselves during purge…it suddenly becomes a lot easier to coordinate in order to overthrow oppressive and evil governments.
Why do you have an arsenal of weapons? Purge. Why are you talking to people about getting together with weapons and supplies? Purge. Why are you discussing meeting places for your group? Purge.
I haven’t seen much of those movies myself, but I got the impression it’s even considered reasonable to discuss plans about who you’re gonna kill during purge.
Welcome to the party. People have been doing exactly that for at least 20 years; preparing for the “zombie apocalypse.”
I agree but have to downvote the ridiculous tiktok self-censoring. This isn’t corporate social media, stop with the newspeak
I agree with your opinion, but I don’t see any of that in the comment above. What specifically are you talking about? I’m guessing “father bad-touch”, but that seems like a perfect euphemism for a father who does bad things to their child but hasn’t been held accountable yet.
Why not say “sexual abuse”, “paedophilia”, “abuse”, “assault”? “Father bad touch” is almost ironic, like “pew pew” for gun and a grape emoji for rape
Thats a fun name for pedo priest. Doesnt read as self censor to me.
Because those don’t make good nicknames. He’s not calling the act “father bad touch.” He’s saying his name is “father bad touch.”
i just really hate the purge franchise
I feel weird saying this, but maybe it’s not a good message for any largely uneducated society with deep political divides. Some things should be kept in book form. lol
Oof too real
It’s pretty messed up that the walled garden is books
It’s an amazing premise. We’re talking about a world where 364 days out of the year, the few normal people who are naturally kind sit and watch weird assholes try to justify their shitty actions.
Even crazier: a world where non-purgers become vigilantes during non-purge days, taking vengeance on people who brag about their crimes. Nobody suspects them because they play it cool every purge day.
They become popular, get caught, and the movie ends in a peaceful revolution to stop the purge and end the series.
Wow, you spoiled the whole thing wth. Now I have no reason to watch this hypothetical movie you weren’t gonna create anyway
the few normal people who are naturally kind sit and watch weird assholes try to justify their shitty actions
What a far-fetched and unrealistic scenario
My mind is surreal and dark beyond all reason
They kind of did that with the third movie.
It restarted with the fifth movie (four was a sequel). Mostly because the political party whose platform is “we like purges” was reelected. Shockingly things got out of hand. Now there’s a sixth movie in production.
YESSS I fucking nailed it. I belong in a writers room
Be kinder to yourself, no one deserves that fate 😔
Oh, it’s horrible? I bet I do deserve it then
Office space with a better ending
“Kevin? Maybe he decided to move upstate on purge night. I guess we’ll never know.”
I hear he’s at a nice farm where he can run around all day and play with other office employees.
I would just steal stuff. Like steal the CEO’s car and drive it to work the next day.
Edit: So by arguments against this logic. You could go to jail for a video of you capping someone the next day. After all it was legal that day but the next day at the very least you open yourself up to civil action for anything done. I’m sure they would come up with something and many folks would be armed to defend their shit instead of rampaging through the streets.
I’d steal his company and show up as CEO the next day
Sorry the business closes before sunset so you can’t steal it!
I wonder how this works in the Purgiverse.
You can’t register a title during the purge (I assume), so the next day you’d be driving a car someone else owns and be forced to return it legally?
Oh shoot you are right, guess I have no choice but offing the CEO then.
Yeah, you’d still be driving a car you don’t own without the permission of the owner regardless of whether or not the way you obtained it isn’t prosecutable.
If killing someone isn’t a crime the next day then stealing isn’t either.
Kidnapping and locking someone up wouldn’t be a crime on purge day either, but that wouldn’t automatically make it ok to still have them locked up the next day.
I would incur an entire year’s worth of taxes in one day. Capital gains? Purge day. Paychecks? Nah the company can invest that until purge day. Buying a new car? I’ll pay for it on purge day and you can deliver it in a week.
They might as well just do the purge on Cyber Monday.
Isn’t the whole deal that crime is legal for 24 hrs? So stealing the car is “legal” but “possession of a stolen car” the next day is not.
Organized crime would have dedicated bureaucracy offices dedicated to illegally filing titles, deeds, tax returns, etc. Basically launder all their money in a single night.
Theres a funny YouTube skit like that where the rednecks who tortured a guy and killed his family take him out to brunch.
A YouTube person “Stanzi Potenza” does some shorts on that topic, they’re pretty funny.
I follow her! She’s funny
Ah, nice. She is haha.
There’s the not so good Purge show, the second season kind of deals with that.
you don’t HAVE too
These childish regarded takes is why collectivists fail everyone and never achieve anything that is either positive or worthwhile. Lots of fantastic narratives where “power” is seized, too weak to actually take it.
I thank my lucky stars such is the case, we truly live in the best of possible worlds
