The Purge

So I just saw a trailer on Facebook for some movie coming out in May called "The Purge" and I think it has potential. 

The premise is that in the near future, U.S. crime rates and unemployment rates drop to all-time lows due to the annual 12-hour period (the Purge) in which all crime, including murder, is legal. We're introduced to a family: a father, a mother, a boy, and a girl. The children have arguments over the morality of the Purge but are told by their parents that it's for the best as they turn on their high-tech security system to prepare for the Purge. Soon after, the boy hears a man screaming outside for help, and deactivates the security system to let him in the house. Psychopaths in masks who had been searching for the man show up to the house and demand that he's released, otherwise the whole family dies.

Some people think it sounds ridiculous, but I think it's a fresh, unique concept that looks like it could include both psychological terror and brutal violence.

What do you think?

I think it sounds ridiculous.

Looks interesting. It might garner a checking out once it hits home release. I also wound up on a trailer for a movie called The Colony that looked pretty cool too. 

Why in would crime rates drop thanks to a annual murderfest? Seems to imply that criminals do their crimes purely for the sake of doing a crime.

looks stupid and unintentionally funny

Meh. Could be worth a looksy.

Looks interesting. It might garner a checking out once it hits home release. I also wound up on a trailer for a movie called The Colony that looked pretty cool too. 

Retro_Future

Is that the snowy one?

It just seems like a decent concept that's going to be wasted.  All crime is legal for 12 hours--silly, but okay.  Why have the setting in just one location?  I think the idea of a person or group of people trying to survive in a lawless city would be kick-ass.  This however, looks like squandered potential.  With Ethan Hawke, this looks somewhat similar to the remake of Escape from Precinct 13 he did a few years ago--just swap out a the police station setting for a house in surburbia.

I got a feeling this will be released, then quickly forgotten.

It just seems like a decent concept that's going to be wasted.  All crime is legal for 12 hours--silly, but okay.  Why have the setting in just one location?  I think the idea of a person or group of people trying to survive in a lawless city would be kick-ass.  This however, looks like squandered potential.  With Ethan Hawke, this looks somewhat similar to the remake of Escape from Precinct 13 he did a few years ago--just swap out a the police station setting for a house in surburbia.

I got a feeling this will be released, then quickly forgotten.

Hallenbeck77

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

It just seems like a decent concept that's going to be wasted.  All crime is legal for 12 hours--silly, but okay.  Why have the setting in just one location?  I think the idea of a person or group of people trying to survive in a lawless city would be kick-ass.  This however, looks like squandered potential.  With Ethan Hawke, this looks somewhat similar to the remake of Escape from Precinct 13* he did a few years ago--just swap out a the police station setting for a house in surburbia.

I got a feeling this will be released, then quickly forgotten.

metroidprime55

Exactly.  They could have the family get trapped outside of safety before this purge takes effect, and focus on them doing whatever it takes to survive.

* Looked up the screenwriter out of curiosity, and the writer of the precinct 13 remake did this as well.  

Cool concept, but the stupidity of it would ruin the movie for me. I mean really, all crime legal?

It just seems like a decent concept that's going to be wasted.  All crime is legal for 12 hours--silly, but okay.  Why have the setting in just one location?  I think the idea of a person or group of people trying to survive in a lawless city would be kick-ass.  This however, looks like squandered potential.  With Ethan Hawke, this looks somewhat similar to the remake of Escape from Precinct 13 he did a few years ago--just swap out a the police station setting for a house in surburbia.

I got a feeling this will be released, then quickly forgotten.

Hallenbeck77

Agreed. Particular agreements are bolded. 

So, erm, does everyone just drop their machetes and guns when the 12 hours are up? It'd be pretty awkward to be in mid-murder when the timer goes out.

doesn't look bad at all

I think it sounds ridiculous.

worlock77

I don't see how making crime legal for one day would actually prevent crime happening at any other time of the year. I mean, people do it when it's illegal year-round now, why would it change just because it's legal one day out of the year? -Tish-

[QUOTE="-Tish-"]I don't see how making crime legal for one day would actually prevent crime happening at any other time of the year. I mean, people do it when it's illegal year-round now, why would it change just because it's legal one day out of the year? lamprey263

[QUOTE="lamprey263"][QUOTE="-Tish-"]I don't see how making crime legal for one day would actually prevent crime happening at any other time of the year. I mean, people do it when it's illegal year-round now, why would it change just because it's legal one day out of the year? Hallenbeck77

Looks alright.Not my type of moive tho.

I havent heard of it until they started advertising it on every YouTube video known to man.

However it is a horror movie and an interesting one at that which I am a fan of.  I'll see how it turns out in the first week then I'll catch it. 

Looks interesting. Thanks TC, I' ll keep an eye out for this.

its sh!t and will be sh!t its running man 2013 or if you prefer another terrible connection its death race 1 without cars.

simply put this is the stupidest idea for a movie since evil dead 2013 (see my review)

[QUOTE="lamprey263"][QUOTE="-Tish-"]I don't see how making crime legal for one day would actually prevent crime happening at any other time of the year. I mean, people do it when it's illegal year-round now, why would it change just because it's legal one day out of the year? Hallenbeck77

Never really heard of it

eh i I think its gonna be dumb the premise is just too absurd.