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'The Purge: Election Year' : Not your daddy's purge . . .

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Billy Wonka

Normally, 'The Purge' series is about new and imaginative ways of killing people. Always a gas to see who and how someone is going to get it. We know the New Founding Fathers set it up to cleanse the streets of violent people, etc.

This film has gone political, full-on political correctness. This purge is about "angry, old, white, rich people" eliminating the welfare system through the wholesale killing of blacks, browns, and anybody poor. That is the main theme that is carried throughout film. We have a presidential candidate who (Elizabeth Mitchell) runs on a platform of NO purge while the NFF's have their own candidate who wants to double-down.

This Purge is the same quality as before but lacking the same hectic pace as its predecessors. Grillo is the Mitchell's head of security and has to battle off "inside job" guys, white power paramilitary assassins, and angry young black girls who want their candy bar.

To my taste, this was completely ruined by the steroidal injection of political correctness and anti-establishment overtone. Stop with the social engineering already!

Bring back the old Purges with non-stop crazy.

I just heard this film had a budget of just $10M and made $3M on Friday. I guess it is a good return on investment. I wonder what these actors are being paid?

Skip it.

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RE: 'The Purge: Election Year' : Not your daddy's purge . . . - Mike B. 14:13:30 07/02/16 (4)
Sounds like a film you could really enjoy by the topic, but not by the PC aspect. Did you fantasize about joining the killers?
- RE: 'The Purge: Election Year' : Not your daddy's purge . . . - Billy Wonka 15:08:34 07/03/16 (3)
  Are you seriously obtuse to social engineering? Let's stoke that class warfare thing and push it to the streets. My fantasy is purging the writers and producers of this political sewer.
  
  Want more social engineering? Go see Tarzan. What does a black American have to do with any of Burroughs writings? Or the subject of slavery--a predominate theme of the film? American film is not for entertainment any longer, it's for baiting social discontent.
  
  Along those lines: Ben Hur. What does a black man (Freeman) have to do wit the story of Ben Hur? Freeman seems to have a pretty heavy part of this latest retelling of the story. I will be missing that one.
  - RE: 'The Purge: Election Year' : Not your daddy's purge . . . - fantja 14:19:47 07/06/16 (0)
    Skip Tarzan.
  - Every film today... - mkuller 17:21:51 07/03/16 (1)
    ...has to have Samuel L. Jackson in it.
    
    So they write in parts for him :-)
    - RE: Every film today... - Billy Wonka 12:23:52 07/04/16 (0)
      Where are the Latino/Hispanics? They aren't written into retelling novels or history? They just are around in our film system. Maybe Del Toro should be in every other film like Jackson?
RE: 'The Purge: Election Year' : Not your daddy's purge . . . - fantja 13:50:27 07/02/16 (0)
I love this series and hope we will watch more films in the future!
The writers and producers are on to a good theme, a bloody good time for all!

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