The Purge: Election Year

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IDK how the fuck they keep making sequels to these but the second one was a lot of fun and they got Grillo back for the third so I'm with it

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I'm in. The second one was actually pretty good.

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Listened to you guys and watched the second one even though I never bothered with the first one.
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Tommy Bunz wrote:Listened to you guys and watched the second one even though I never bothered with the first one.
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Really??? You mean that old time "can you dig it" Warriors? Wow, perspectives.....

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never saw the first one either, wasting that premise on a movie set entirely within one house seemed really dumb. the second one worked because it was out in the skreets
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yeah, first one kind of sucked cause it was limited in it's setting. this one looks to be in the same lane as the second one and pretty cool they even brought dude back.

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ga rill tho
will watch the shit out of this
first one wasn't a slog or anything, second one was lots of fun
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First one was a good home invasion movie.

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So I was reading a thread about this movie on another board, and somebody asked how these movies keep getting made. A pretty legit question, turns out there a pretty great answer for it that covers a whole bunch of other 'how does this sequel exist' movies too. Look at the budget vs gross for various series entries by this production company

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I'm actually surprised you weren't already familiar with Blum's company.

For every movie he releases though, there's another 1 or 2 movies that he shelves permanently cause they suck.
His whole business model is to do low-budget movies with up and coming talent and give them creative freedom.
And he gets star acting talent to do these movies for scale salary or close to it, but then gives them way larger than normal points on the back end if the movie makes money.
In a way, he's kindof a modern day Roger Corman.

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TBH I don't know about him for the same reason I rarely watch behind the scenes stuff or bonus features. I only care so much about how the sausage is made, never really look into details of production and shit like that unless there's a specific story I'm interested in (like here). I mostly just care about what's on screen.
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hey i read that thread this morning too. made me curious about paranormal activity 4, to some degree. will likely watch soon
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New trailer:



Seems to reveal a little too much about the film.

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I enjoyed the first one, but I never saw the second one. I like the election angle

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Reviews are already out.

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This had some good parts and I didn't hate it or anything but the 2nd was better. The 2nd mostly used the concept as a way to make a more colorful action adventure movie, keeping the social commentary secondary. This one is much more self aware and tries to be about serious things but the writing is nowhere near smart enough to make the allegory work past the obvious cliches. And because the focus on the politics and trying for some sort of message rules the movie, the plot is linear and predictable and looses a lot of the archaic spontaneity that was so clutch to making Anarchy good.

It's a pretty good lesson in how pulp movies work best as social commentary when that commentary is implicit, and not forced into the forefront in big capital letters.
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