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Bad film with amazing premise and mediocre execution that you can't stop thinking about? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it wasn't even that the first one was bad, it's just that all the things they mentioned in passing, like the New Founding Fathers and the exemptions for Level 10 Government Officials, were building a world that sounded super interesting. Then we got saddle with some boring rich family for 90 minutes. I only got around to seeing the first sequel, but it delivered on all the stuff I wanted to see after I heard that first announcement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

NostalgiaCritic did a pretty decent analysis on the Purge series a few years ago, and it touches on a lot of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qiiVNiWqwA