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Like you’d wait until after dinner.


We are supposed to believe that on the one murderous night of carnage in the year, where anything goes; they eat dinner and then:

“oh wait it’s later than I thought (checks watch) we’d better get ready”

Then just minutes later the “Purge Alarm” countdown thingy goes off? Really?

Like you wouldn’t have the place locked down the minute you got home. You wouldn’t sit there eating dinner with the house unlocked, when it was dark outside, whilst members of society all got ready to come to your house and kill you and your entire family.

And why wouldn’t you take the day off work to make sure that all of your security was working?

This is the one night of the year when people can, and will try to legally murder you. And you don’t get ahead of proceedings by taking the day off work?

Those shutters were mechanical. They could cease up or fail or whatever. There is no way you would leave it that late to lock everything down. No way.

People put more prep into a day out fishing than Ethan’s family put into staying alive. And that makes them all unorganised assholes who deserve to die.

TheCaretaker

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Big fan of The Purge franchise (second film is my favorite), but there's always been a major plot hole in all the films--For families that have the means and are morally against the Purge, why stay in the country at all? Why not lock down your homes and possessions and go to Canada or Mexico for a day or two? Seriously, that's always been my biggest question.

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What if the system had a malfunction? I’d put house on lockdown with the freezer stocked 7 days before.

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