For movie buffs, Just watched a new trailer that will give you chills-

[snooper2]

The Purge-

[cynatnite]

1. It was creepy. I may watch it. n/t

[Ohio Joe]

2. The Return of the Archons

It's a remake

[kentauros]

22. It's also been done in both the Babylon 5 spinoff, Crusade,

and the Quatermass movie "Five Million Years to Earth" (originally seen as a British TV production "Quatermass and the Pit".) Although, to be fair, in both instances those doing the killing weren't in conscious possession of their actions.

(put in the wrong episode before)

I found "The Memory of War" to be far creepier than this movie, mostly due to the idea of having one's mind taken over in order to go on killing sprees. If I recovered from such a thing, I'd probably want to kill myself from the guilt.

Of course, we could take this idea of us all having that inner desire to kill/harm everyone else back to Forbidden Planet, as that unconscious desire (the Id) was what destroyed the Krell's civilization (with the help of the Big Machine.)

[madokie]

3. I'll reply so I can find this later this evening when I settle in for the day.

[kentauros]

4. Looks pretty idiotic.

I'm glad I don't bother with horror/thriller movies any more.

[kestrel91316]

32. I love horror and scifi, even when it's BAD horror/scifi. LOL

[kentauros]

37. I love sci-fi, just not horror.

And all too often, Hollywood turns a good science fiction story into horror when it's not necessary.

The only "horror" I'll watch are the movies "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness"

[Warpy]

5. Star Trek did this one in their first series

and disposed of the whole thing within an hour. Dragging it out over 2 hours of gratuitous violence seems a bit much.

The problem with the premise is that most of us don't want to go out and kill our neighbors and set the business district ablaze, with or without laws against such things. The people who do want to do such things aren't confining it to one night a year.

It's a silly premise and likely an overlong movie that will appeal mostly to angry young people who blame anyone older than they are in general for the sick state of our economy.

Now if the purge targeted the rich side of town and the banks instead of each other in their own neighborhoods, they might have something.

[snooper2]

8. Apparently a place like this already exists

Living Without Laws: Slab City, USA

[Poll_Blind]

18. God bless our funky country. So did they meet back up with the girls at the hot springs...

...do meth and get laid?



You know the world is a big place and I don't always agree with or even understand what I see. But in that video I don't see anyone getting slapped around, knifed, shot or cryin' and so I can't say I can find much to condemn...and maybe saw a few things to praise or at least learn from.

PB

[snooper2]

21. I just subscribed to that guys YouTube channel..

He does some documentaries you won't see elsewhere--

Like this crazy story I never heard about-

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[Poll_Blind]

25. Whoa!...Especially the twist about 15 minutes in...(!) nt

PB

[Warpy]

34. They don't do things like this one night a year

and they do have a certain amount of law which they enforce themselves, complete assholes are invited to leave.

Try this doc, it's great: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v196795517mKMjmT3?h1=Plagues.and.Pleasures.on.the.Salton.Sea.2004

Slab City is in the same area.

[cynatnite]

17. The government is sanctioning a crime spree so that they can keep their "perfect society"....

That's why I want to see it. This is compelling to me.

Of course, if it only focuses on one family and policy isn't affected, I don't understand what the point might if all we see is the violence.

I enjoy moral dilemmas and this one has a lot of promise, but if it goes in the direction you believe it might, I might not like it.

[Puzzledtraveller]

35. That's a good Star Trek episode

Just watched it recently.

[bigwillq]

6. Saw the commerical on TV the other day

It does look creepy.
I may check it out!

[HughBeaumont]

7. More "OG SMASH!" Angry White Guy red meat.

Is this movie out to teach something or provoke discussion? America's addiction to war, bullying, abuse, violence and anger needs to be quelled.

Despite Quentin Tarantino declaring that gratuitous violence makes "great cinema", I can use a little less of this in my life, thanks.

[Marblehead]

9. i think I'll skip this one..

[RebelOne]

20. Ditto. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

10. Meh. Nowhere near as chilling as Bob Roberts, Three Days of the Condor or Network, IMO. nt

PB

[randome]

11. Pacific Rim is the movie I'm looking forward to.

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[Dash87]

12. Looks really stupid. I already know how the movie will end.

Those "home invasion" movies are all the same. If you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Hollywood tends to take good ideas and waste them.

[cynatnite]

16. This is not just a home invasion movie...

It's a government sanctioned crime spree where anything goes so that the rest of the time they can keep their "perfect society" intact. This society was engineered by a morally repugnant act.

I find it compelling which is why I want to see it.

[cali]

29. that's just such an idiotic premise that I can't possibly suspend disbelief

how on earth would a government sanctioned one night a year crime spree lead to a a perfect society the other 364 days? Ridiculous.

And yeah, it's just a tarted up home invasion movie.

You are reading waaay too much into this piece of shit.

[Pragdem]

13. Atlas Shrugged Part III? nt

[randome]

14. Let me hazard a guess, here.

At the end, the guy they save turns out to be the real villain of the show. What other twist in the plot could there be?

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[Brickbat]

15. Chilling only if you believe that people are raving monsters on the inside who are held back from

destruction only through a combination of religion, social pressure, and oppression. I guess what's chilling is that people *do* believe that about each other, but never themselves.

[Katashi_itto]

24. The true nature of man isn't that way? Look at Republicans/Teabaggers and try to believe that.

[randome]

27. Look at Joplin and Oklahoma and Newtown and Occupy.

How people came together for good reasons.

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[Katashi_itto]

33. Excellent examples, however I tend to view mankind in a darker light. I think he has an innate

flair for self-destruction.

[CJCRANE]

19. Looks like a shallow exploitation movie IMO.

Plus it's just another "siege" movie, that's already been done with zombies/vampires/gangsters etc.

Maybe the twist at the end is that the victims make use of the "purge" law to become the aggressors...but there are other more subtle ways to play out the moral dilemma scenario.

[cali]

31. ding ding ding

[Brigid]

23. I think I'll be skipping this one.

But I gotta see WWZ! Bring on Brad Pitt and the Zombies!

[cali]

26. boy does this look moronic

stupid.

I think I'll stick to watching Ethan Hawke win Before Midnight

[southernyankeebelle]

30. Why would someone make a terrible movie like this. It will give the right crazy ideas.

Maybe like open season on liberals once a year. What a horrible movie. Maybe I am overreacting but I dunno.

[Ilsa]

36. Another very creepy theme emerging in new movies

is the treatment of children as adults. Ive seen previews where children are expected to fight to the death, become almost superheroes, and take on far more responsibility than children should.

I don't like the idea of reframing children as adults.

[pnwest]

38. meh

[kentauros]

39. There's a far better movie lurking in the premise of

"all crime is legal for the next twelve hours."

That is, while all that violent crime is taking place, the hackers get busy tapping into the financial networks to empty and redistribute all of that wealth, leaving some nasty AI-like viruses behind, and heading on to the federal government itself.

The "annual crime spree" would stop not long after that