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Wouldn't a Purge actually be worse for the country?

posted 8 years ago by gentelg
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The problem with this movie is that it assumes that the only thing people would want to do in a 12 hour window where everything is legal is murder. If anything if it were real most people would loot big box stores, used car lots, and shopping malls dry or break into ATMs which would be awful for the economy. Most people would rather grab a free 60 inch tv or a bunch of designer clothes or that shinny new corvette that they could never afford then just kill someone. Or they would just get super high and run around naked.

Thoughts?

[–] animalmother60 8 years ago

There are many holes in the plot.

What bothered me was like, if you really were gonna murder a lot and could afford it, why not get body armor? why not get assault rifles?

The hunters would move and act like SWAT teams. Like soldiers. They would be covered in military grade gear from head to toe.

Also, people wouldn't just get some flimsy sheets of metal on their windows and call it a day. There would be bunkers, perimeters set up, militias formed.

Also if you killed someone, odds are his family would try to get even with you, and I don't mean at the next years purge. I mean good old fashioned illegal murder.

But, it was a pretty good premise for a movie.

What really bothered me about was that they let the blonde *beep* next door live. I would have taped her to an office chair, rolled her into the street, poured gasoline on her and set her on fire.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] TheManInOil 8 years ago

Seriously? Yes, the premise is obviously stupid and not a viable political plan. No *beep*

[–] Jackie68 8 years ago

The vast majority of people would just shut themselves in. Only the odd psychopath would want to go on a killing spree. It's the thieves in society that would have a field day. It would probably cost billions of pound to sort out the day after, lol.