And all I have seen are the trailers. Haven't read and write ups or reviews, etc. I don't pay attention to critics in choosing to see movies or not as none of them know what they are talking about!
But if we had a 12hr period where all 'crime' was legal, I'd be headed to DC... On May 25, 2013 9:14 PM, "Alexis duprey" <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't even think about anything I've read when I saw the trailer but I > agree the twisted morality of it reminds me of The Lottery. I remember when > I first read The Lottery....freaked me out because one of my teachers > recommended it but didn't tell me the big reveal. I never really got that > vibe from the Dasati probably because the Dasati were so alien in the way > they thought it's almost as if they lacked any moral compass. I feel like > the whole apeal to things like The Purge and The Lottery are that the > characters seem like nice people. > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Raymond Feist/New ATT < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Not even close, IMHO. >> >> If anything it's got more in common with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery >> than anything else that springs to mind. >> >> Keep in mind, for all their apparent mayhem, the Dasati had a very >> strictly organized social system with hard and fast rules. >> >> Best, R.E.F. >> >> On May 25, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Spoiler space........ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Has anyone seen the previews for the movie The Purge coming out soon? >> Is it just me or, besides being a great plot concept, is it a fairly >> blatant ripoff of the Dasati worlds and the purges or what? >> > >> > -- >> > Nick A >> > >> > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a >> single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 >> > >> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical >> Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 >> > >> > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names >> the streets after them." Bill Vaughan >> > >> > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil >> men." Plato >> >> >> >> >
