Before all the other Purges, there was this, the ur-Purge!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2018/07/10/qt3-movie-podcast-the-first-purge/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2018/07/10/qt3-movie-podcast-the-first-purge/
Gary is the hardest working dude in Hollywood. We salute him.
Well said.
“It’s basically a Western”
Specifically, it’s Rio Bravo, of which Assault on Precinct 13 was a deliberate remake/homage.
Kudos to Stitches, the breakout podcast character of 2018
I remember Casino Royale having awesome fight choreography, and it predates all the movies you mentioned as having set the bar higher.
The original with David Niven? I haven’t seen it, but if that’s what you mean, I’m curious to see what they’re doing.
If you’re talking about this latest Casino Royale, it most certainly doesn’t predate The Matrix, which is one of two movies I mentioned that set the bar higher. Atomic Blonde is the other, but I’m willing to give directors a bit of time to catch up. In case, you know, they haven’t seen it yet.
-Tom
I wonder if David Leitch’s stunt work on Mayrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions influenced him?
Ah, right, I didn’t even think about that being the connecting factor! Doh!
-Tom
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Obviously I meant the latest one, and while I love the first 2 Matrix movies, for me, comparing movies with slow-mo fights with movies like Casino Royale and Atomic Blonde are like comparing apples to oranges.
I distinctly remember the fight Bond has with the african warlord on the stairwell where the bad guy has a machete and every swing feels like it’s aimed to kill and could chop poor James dead. No flynning there.
Ask and ye shall receive. Here’s a Purge movie that starts the day after the Purge. Apparently, some Purge fans don’t want the shenanigans to ever end.
I am pretty sure Jason and Tom were playing this coop two weeks ago.
Nice!
The Purgers have already asked themselves a question that, in its way, is perfectly logical: Why limit the kick of Purging to one night? It makes a hideous kind of sense that the NFFA, in inventing the Purge, has now created a monster. They’ve degraded and maybe destroyed the very idea of the rule of law. Where “The Forever Purge” exerts a genuine timely bite is in the way the Purgers feel fully justified in creating the “Ever After” Purge, as if it’s their right as Americans to do anything within their power to preserve their country for the “real” Americans. “The Forever Purge” presents an extreme scenario (it goes from action movie to zombie movie to “Mad Max” movie), but it plays as a horrific satire of the current mood of “nationalist” intolerance, and of the lawlessness (#StopTheSteal) that’s being invoked in its name. The movie is also shrewd enough to give Will Patton a terrific speech about how, sure, he knows that a wealthy man like himself has exploited the underclass, but the true fraud is that of the NFFA members, who encourage their followers to play at righteous anarchy while the money all goes to them. Sound familiar?
Not bad; 78% audience score