The Reel Rejects - THE FIRST PURGE (2018) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:31 It's completely asleep. Both of them are good. Yeah, that's good. Perch! Perch! That's the first one, because this is the first purge. Citizens of the Reject Nation, it's time to purge. The first time ever, because it's a prequel.

Starting point is 00:01:51 Yeah, and I didn't know that. I just thought it was going to be like a fourth purge. It's purge for the first purge, which isn't confusing at all. And I am very excited for this, but I am curious how the purge came to be. Because I thought we already knew about the purge during the first film, like how it came to be. But now we'll see, really. How did Tara come to be? Now we're going deep.

Starting point is 00:02:12 I don't think anybody wants to know the answer to that question. We shouldn't do the Birds and the Bee talk for the Purge movie? No, I'm like that person, like the Terminator. Like I landed in asphalt, like in a parking lot, and I came out of a, you know, a cocoon. And then I was here, but not powerful. like a Terminator, and then people are just like, oh, weird, you know. So I don't know. I really don't know.

Starting point is 00:02:37 It's okay. Yes, and Betty and Veronica, Romy and Michelle, Tara and Roxy, in the house. Yeah. Thelma and Louise. You just said Louise. I know. I just said, they'll get it. My brain, y'all.

Starting point is 00:02:51 You perched Thelma. Oh, that was good. That was good, Rox. I perched Thelma. If you liked it, like this video, comment, Subscribe. Ring the bell! Ring the bell!

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Starting point is 00:03:46 Maybe Lola too. They make it. Oh, yeah. That's my audition right there. Still Lola. Still Lola. Forever Lola. All right.

Starting point is 00:03:55 See you guys on the other side. Big Dog, the Park Hill is coming through. I love her. We do. Like, she's the lady you need in your community. What do we do now? We fight. Did she just say, what do we do now?

Starting point is 00:04:14 And he said, now we fight? Yes. We're those words. The purge is over, though. No, I think he means, like, just fight against the man, the machine. I get it. Everybody he loved died except for them.

Starting point is 00:04:28 Yeah, and I'm wondering, like, why? Flag is a half mass. Why wasn't that, like, why didn't she ask him? I love this song. We don't be all right. Oh, she knows it. James DeMonico. Okay, who, Michael Bay.

Starting point is 00:04:46 He did the other ones too, right? Yeah. Well, the turnout was bigger than we ever expected. Staten Island have proven that this experiment was necessary. I've received word from President Bracken that we're considering a nationwide purge as early as next year. He's the worst.

Starting point is 00:05:02 One where every U.S. citizen can participate. He's got such a white guy face, too. The biggest thing, like, at the end there, I thought there would be a conference, some words spoken about what he did before, purge daddy, and where he's going to focus his stuff now. Because she's holding him up, like, she did not support. She didn't text him back because she was like, you're a drug dealer and you're putting more bad stuff in the community than you are doing good.

Starting point is 00:05:36 And we still didn't really address that. It was just that his whole crew died. Except for another one guy. Yeah. And he did help them, right, and killing the KKK, great. And helping the community in that way. But we didn't really address, like, where does his moral code stand now? because he says we fight but I'm like does that mean that you have left and realize like oh

Starting point is 00:06:00 I did bring work I did make this community worse by what I was doing and I should have found another way so you can't always do that you don't always have that resolution right after you know like it takes you a little bit to think about it but I hear you in movie land in movie land like a little bit yeah something like are you going to change a little bit like because they're so close now because he came to save her, right? I get it, but also your entire crew is dead and you're saying, we're going to fight and I'm like, yeah, okay.

Starting point is 00:06:32 I just, there wasn't any of that. There wasn't any of it in this that anyone was like, oh, we're going to, now I've changed my ways a little bit to now go, go ahead. It was just sort of we moved through the story, but nobody was really changed by the perch like in totality

Starting point is 00:06:52 met it like they emotionally no one was changed is my point like that guy he could have said like I'm not going to do that my whole cruise dead the brother is right the brother was a little bit yeah but not like a lot you know I don't know I just

Starting point is 00:07:10 I think I'm just looking for ways in which maybe someone would have been changed in this process in a larger way because during the movie I didn't well the brother was pushed and now he's not and then the sisters like he's like what do you want me to say all these things she's like yeah and he's like well I just did

Starting point is 00:07:26 and then I think he's going to be off the streets but I'm with you like all the other for sure for sure even though I did enjoy parts of this for sure for sure this is the weakest of the of the Purge movie so far because we don't have those character arcs we're not like we are

Starting point is 00:07:42 not in people's corners the same kind of way that we were a lot of the characters didn't have that motivation that was clear or like that center thing at their core and the way that purged daddy, Frank Grillo, we're like, okay, he wants to avenge his son's death or whatever.

Starting point is 00:07:57 Like, with purged daddy and this one, I'm like, okay, so at your core, you like this girl. But what's your deal? Like, what is your sitch? But you're still, like, down with getting prostitutes, like, and you're still, you know, like, it's a little... Yeah, it looked good. The actors are good.

Starting point is 00:08:17 It sounded cool. There were some cool shots to it. The premise is cool. It's interesting to go back and see the first one. I liked knowing that Marissa Tomey's plan didn't work because it's like you don't eat your own, you know. And so that all kind of made sense. But even that, I wish we kind of, that's me connecting the dots. I kind of wish that they did go more into, like, I thought with this socioeconomic class that they would all wipe each other out.

Starting point is 00:08:43 They didn't. Why are my calculations wrong? And the reasons the calculations are wrong is because it's, it's. the rich that hate the poor, not the poor that hate each other. Exactly. And like, then next year, even at the end, next year, we need to implement new systems where this is cross-country so that they can be going after each other or whatever. Like, they're just, you're having to fill in a lot of the blanks, and I don't even know if that was the intention of this movie or if that's just me really trying to force it, you know?

Starting point is 00:09:15 Right. I mean, that would have, yeah, I mean, and I guess we wouldn't have necessarily need to hear like, oh, for the next one, we definitely need to send in like white rich instigators to start because in this, they're saying lower class is not going to kill lower class, which I assume that would continue. Except for Skeletor.

Starting point is 00:09:34 Except for Skeletor. When you're in a real, throwing it off. Yeah. When you're in a real bad way and you're hopped up on drugs, you're ready to kill some people. Totally. But he was ready before the perch, right? He already had cut our guy, the brother. There was a lot of

Starting point is 00:09:50 things that were going on in this while almost nothing was going on. Yeah. You know, like in previous ones, we've had people trying to protect their store, people trying to protect their family, people trying to protect their home. Yeah. This is like, what was actually... Yeah, but again,

Starting point is 00:10:06 it is the first one, so nobody even knew what they were doing fully. Yeah, but I'm like, still with story, if you're going to tell the story, who are we supposed to, like, really cling to in this? And it, you know, essentially, it would be the girl right her moral code was like good all along she helped her brother and then she's probably going to help the i forget

Starting point is 00:10:26 his name but the druggy guy like turn his ways and fight for a bigger like the bigger good no no no the dmitri yeah the dmitri the leader or whatever um that she is going to help him fight for the bigger good but i still wasn't like oh yes you know and i want to feel that like i just want to feel it more I wanted to be connected to it more and I wasn't I still totally agree with you my favorite shot is the one shot the one or in a stairwell that's awesome a lot of the stunts in this were were great the fight scenes once they got to it especially him like crack in a neck yeah I'm on board for that you don't see it enough in movies and I'm like heck yes yeah that was really cool that was awesome I um and the music was really cool like you yeah the music drops were really cool closing out with Kendrick Lamar very good choice I think that they did a really strong job with that the other but going to something I also didn't don't think that they did enough of you are telling me you are in Staten Island and as somebody who grew up in Boston I have a lot of friends from the city and from Staten Island from I have friends from all over New York but I have friends that

Starting point is 00:11:40 really like even if it's not a big accent they embody Staten Island yeah or like I guess that they were showing us around places, but it didn't feel like this was taking place on Staten Island, except for the fact that they just kept telling us, we're in Staten Island, we're in Staten Island, we're in Staten Island. Like the town, that movie, about Boston, shows a great representation of, like, no one has to say, like, this is a town, we're in Boston,

Starting point is 00:12:05 you just get it, versus they didn't, they didn't do that at all. If they hadn't kept saying we're in Staten Island, I don't even think I would have picked up on the fact that they're in Staten Island. And it's like, all the reason I think they did that is because it's an island, the fairy obviously, like, to get it. get people off of it, it's more isolated, so it makes sense why that would be where the first purge was. But then you need the people to embody Staten Island. I agree. And also, I think that one of the things that a lot of East Coasters take pride in, especially people from Staten Island,

Starting point is 00:12:33 is like protecting your own, right? So kind of lean into that a little bit more, maybe. Yeah. But then we see the Skeletor stuff, and it does get a little confusing. Yeah. Like, if they leaned into, like, Staten, like, we're here, we're in New York. This is how we are a community and protect each other. Like they do in a lot of movies. Like I said, Town is a good, like, representation of that. They did a nice job with that. There's always good actors in these movies, though.

Starting point is 00:13:01 Yeah, I agree. None of the acting bugged me at all. They're all solid. It's really just the story and why I didn't feel like I was, like, you know, stoked on it. I don't. I missed Frank Grillo. I miss Perge Daddy. I miss, like, that connective tissue housing.

Starting point is 00:13:18 it all going to connect this we knew pretty quickly how it was all going to connect yeah and i missed kind of having this be a fresh lens like oh the first one we do it in the house then we go out into the world and then we can kill the politicians this one was like okay the gimmick is it's the first but then we could have played around with the first a little bit more too like we didn't lean into the marissa tomey stuff enough and also we didn't lean into the moral dilemma within ourselves like even the questions i asked you would you do this it's a moral dilemma that every person would have to ask yourself and I want to see them grapple with that you know we saw the mom and daughter kind of grapple with but we need the money but what about hearing from them like you know

Starting point is 00:13:59 I don't murder still wrong this will still affect who I am or like this is the only day I can do the you know just any kind of actual connection to the audience of making us question ourselves would we do this because that's what the movies have done so far so I think they just could have done a little bit better. I wonder how other people felt about this movie where you have it pulled up on Amazon and it looks like it has a four and a half stars, which is, that's interesting. Maybe that maybe people loved this one. It didn't work as well for me, although it was still engaging because I like the concept of the purge movies. Yeah, me too. And I loved all the actors. And as I said, I had some favorite shots in there, which is great. And I like the way that it was shot. The only thing

Starting point is 00:14:41 that really that bugs me is just the story. And it's not the story. And it's not the story. as a total it's just there's parts in it where I was sitting here wondering why at this point in time all the other movies I was like what's gonna oh my god and this one I didn't really feel that at all because I kind of was like wait there has to be a switch in here as we both assumed something that surprised us and there wasn't it just sort of continued where we thought it was going to go which is okay still great stunts and stuff like that but the the story for me didn't really hit it but maybe for other people they don't really need that and I always do there's more purges after this right we know that there was the purge tv show yeah and then there's

Starting point is 00:15:28 and then I think there's more movies right I don't know I wonder where they could kind of go from here like yeah I think they probably will break away from this story because this story was told and fully unless they want to stay with purge daddy on this one and show us kind of what you wanted at the end of this which is like did this change your life did this affect you where do you Where does he go? Where'd you go? My love. So any more

Starting point is 00:15:53 first purge thoughts? No. No, you guys got it all. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. I wish the story was better, mainly. I just wanted to feel that pull a little bit more. But it was a great acting, so that's good. You know.

Starting point is 00:16:10 I'm going to say that I have no more thoughts on this either, but mostly because I need to get feeling back in my feet. Yep. And that's what we're going to do from here. So thank you guys so much for being here to purge with us. If there are more purges and you want to see us cover them, then write so in the comments, let us know, like the video, tell your friends,

Starting point is 00:16:28 share it, all that good stuff. And then we'll see you next time for the purge five. For the purge something. If it exists. Yeah. Bye.

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The Reel Rejects - THE FIRST PURGE (2018) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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