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Bad film with amazing premise and mediocre execution that you can't stop thinking about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The original Purge. I thought all the background stuff and setting were super interesting, but the film itself was a generic home invasion movie. The sequel expanded on all the stuff I was interested in, though.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The sequels really explored the idea with impressive worldbuilding. I admit the first one was more a horror flick, but the others were definitely digging deep into social commentary

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it wasn't even that the first one was bad, it's just that all the things they mentioned in passing, like the New Founding Fathers and the exemptions for Level 10 Government Officials, were building a world that sounded super interesting. Then we got saddle with some boring rich family for 90 minutes. I only got around to seeing the first sequel, but it delivered on all the stuff I wanted to see after I heard that first announcement.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

NostalgiaCritic did a pretty decent analysis on the Purge series a few years ago, and it touches on a lot of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qiiVNiWqwA