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Propaganda at its most blatant?


I just saw this and while there were a few sequences that were beautifully shot, almost everything else about this movie was just plain ugly. Especially it's obviously forced pro-Hillary Clinton message and anti-Donald Trump message. But what baffles me most is how this movie is getting positive reviews from critics. Do they actually think this movie is good in terms of quality? Or because they are all secretly Hillary Clinton supporters?

What do you guys think?

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This movie is definitely not promoting Clinton, but Sanders.

The lead actress is an independent candidate.

Roan is a Senator running against someone who is not currently in the government (Trump)

She doesn't want to kill her opponents bc she wants to win fairly (like Sanders has asked his supporters to be peaceful and how he's asked multiple times for a debate between himself, Trump and Hillary)

Her name is Charlene but she goes by Charlie (Bernard Sanders goes by Bernie)

Charlie isn't being followed by video cameras.

Charlie makes it very clear that she's fighting for the lower and working classes.

People keep talking about how Roan can't win, but if she did, they'd be happy (everyone wants to doubt Bernie, despite the fact that he's the best candidate we've got)

I see absolutely no evidence of Hillary propaganda in this movie at all.

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The whites were all the government and rich people that are seeking to kill off poor people and middle class which are a lot of minorities. That's why in this situation the white people are the bad guys, cause they are the government trying to kill off the blacks and Hispanics etc.

it's actually quite REAL. Open a History book


"Live Fast, Die Young"

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You saying that reminded me of that scene in maybe the first one (?) where the son of a seemingly wealthy family let in the homeless man that was at the door and he just so happen to be a black man. Anyway, when the rich kids, who were mostly or all white from what I could tell, came looking for him the prick leader was going on about how they wanted to kill him because he was homeless "scum" and how they needed to be erased from the earth, or something to that effect. There's no telling how many poor people or minorities they picked off, though the movie didn't explicitly say that of course. It was more something that the audience were to recognize and think about.

Thankfully the homeless dude not only helped protect the family but survived, while the rest of the rich purgers were killed.
I have EXORCISED the demon

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The gangs were out there Purging each other as well, along with a bunch of tourists specially coming over to kill Americans, and that psycho (black) Candy Girl who killed her parents and was going to burn down Joe's deli. The good black guys were going to kill an evil white guy so their candidate could win the election. Everybody was killing everybody. Humans are a-holes. It was like in Sin City, where everyone gets corrupted eventually.

If the establishment was old white guys, then making no one exempt from the Purge was a huge step toward equality, hahaha.

Eh, I'm just being an ass. Don't take me too seriously.

But really, I'd say the movie was more about the rich vs. the poor than whatever color people were. A black college professor isn't in the same position as a black teenage gang member on Purge night. It's just not PC to show rich black people killing poor white people, regardless of the demographics. And I didn't see an Asian the whole movie, except for maybe 1 or 2 of the tourists. Not complaining, just saying that the Purge movies aren't totally true to reality and even current politics because it was a huge mass of stereotypes.

I just wanted to see the creepy masks and decapitations and stuff because I like exploitation films. I had fun.

There is no objective reality... and that's Sucker Punch

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This thread is funny. Thanks all.

Bearing in mind the subject of the movie, not exactly hidden in the trailer, and the subject of the first 2 in the series, it was obvious what the movie would pick at.

How is this about Clinton when the senator is anti-establishment, completely the opposite of Clinton? She is a rebel...and Clinton definitely is not that.

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I second the opinion that the thread is funny.

There is no objective reality... and that's Sucker Punch

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So you're equating Trump to the NFFA who kills off poor minorities in govt sponsored purges and hires Nazis to capture opposition? I see it now.

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I was LITERALLY coming here to see if anyone thought this and also to post it myself! And what is crazy is I saw the film a week ago and didn't put two and two together. It was only until 10 mins ago when I saw the trailer for it, it clicked because I had been reading about the election an hour earlier.

YES. I highly think this movie is to promote Hillary. The makers of this film are obviously either Hillary supporters---or just really hate Trump. Or all of the above they want to show send a clear message about Trump and what's going on with the election. Now that I have seen this I think it's brilliant actually haha. Because I hate Trump. The film was bad (the first two much better) but unfortuantely most Americans are dumb and wont get it. But their most obvious thing was in the preview it said "lets keep america great"

So obvious!

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This movie is about a young, single, female independant (which Hillary is not) vs. a young, religious zealot (which Trump is not).


You guys are reaching.

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What does age have to do with it? Films are still fictitious with fictitious characters. Hollywood always goes for younger in these types of films. It's so obvious it's relating to our country. Just because they aren't EXACTLY like Hillary and Trump I feel like anyone who doesn't notice it's obvious satire are the ones reaching for it to be nothing like our election year. Or representation of it. Yeah it makes Hillary look better than she is but they are obviously NOT Trump supporters and I see Trump like I see the effing Purge. He's the end of our country.

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Hillary wanting to stop opression? yuh ok..drinkng the koolaid much people? Bernie is anti establishment and anti-opression.This movie may want us to THINK Hillary is the hero of the real election but pulease...Bernie is the only hero and millions know it.Having said that, Trump would probably start a purge day in the US if he were President.

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Bernie is my man don't get me wrong. Hillary is complex. She isn't GOP bad. But she is nowhere near Bernie in my eyes, and not really going for anything different like our country is crying out for. But that is not being corrupt or evil. She's a politician. Of course she sucks in a lot of ways. Politicians and government always will suck. But to call her corrupt or crooked just because she also is rich. That doesn't make her even CLOSE to how bad the GOP side is or how bad Trump is.

Like so many people have said, she's truly the lesser of *two* evils even though I don't see her as evil I just see her as another string of puppets not helping America enough. Trump is a whole other effing thing.

So yeah in this movie is she as cool as someone like Sen. Roen ? No. Doesn't mean thi movie is "reaching" to be some sort of satire about America right now.

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by greenfairyXO ยป 1 day ago (Tue Jul 12 2016 23:42:05)
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Bernie is my man don't get me wrong. Hillary is complex. She isn't GOP bad. But she is nowhere near Bernie in my eyes, and not really going for anything different like our country is crying out for. But that is not being corrupt or evil. She's a politician. Of course she sucks in a lot of ways. Politicians and government always will suck. But to call her corrupt or crooked just because she also is rich. That doesn't make her even CLOSE to how bad the GOP side is or how bad Trump is.

Like so many people have said, she's truly the lesser of *two* evils even though I don't see her as evil I just see her as another string of puppets not helping America enough. Trump is a whole other effing thing.

So yeah in this movie is she as cool as someone like Sen. Roen ? No. Doesn't mean thi movie is "reaching" to be some sort of satire about America right now.



Are you kidding? There is nothing complex about Hillary and she is certainly not the lesser of two evils. You should start with her saving and loans scandal in Little Rock and work your way from there. Both Clintons couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it. Hillary needs to screw her boots on she is so crooked. She has broken the law on numerous occasions and electing her to the White House would be like putting the fox in charge of guarding the hen house.

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So you would prefer a joke like Donald Trump running our country? I don't care about Hillary's emails, whatever TF she may or may not have done. All politicians lie. She is nowhere near as stupid as Trump. he is a freaking joke and anyone who takes him seriously is a joke too. I don't take Trump supporters seriously.

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After reading these forums with so many anti-vaxxers, I say bring on the Purge or hope that Pokemon GO can bring back Darwinism.

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Anti-White, garbage movie.


Everyone involved with this film is responsible for contributing to the spread of divisiveness we are seeing today.

I blame the media-blamers

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