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100 Things I Learned From The Purge


1. Whenever you have your house under lockdown during an annual massacre event, it is okay to disarm your alarm system and let a complete stranger in your house.

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2. Even though you sell/ own a state of the art home security system, a dodge ram can be used to easily pull the door off.

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3. DO NOT check your home for people, company, visitors, etc. before locking it down.

4. Make sure the youngest child in your home has the password to turn off your security system.

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4a. Make certain to understand that this is life or death and you MUST kill without hesitation or mercy.

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HAHAHA yeah no kidding!

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5. Once you escape from and kill your attacker, leave their loaded weapon on the floor just incase another invader might want to use it.

6. When you're hiding in the basement make sure to wave around your flash light.

7. Instead of trying to reason with your girlfriends father who already doesn't like you, just try and kill him. It'll never come up again In conversation.

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When you have a big firefight in one room of the house, and know the noise will draw the other invading killers to you, blithely walk around a corner onto their knife instead of holing up and letting them come to you for a face of buckshot.







Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you.

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9. When you have a chance to knock boots with the hot daughter (Adelaide Kane)skip that and try reasoning with her father and attempt to kill him in the process.

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10. When left with a choice between letting a complete stranger die or sacrificing the life of your family, the life of the stranger wins.

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That REALLY got me angry at their stupidity.

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Make sure you give plenty of time right before you shoot someone so that their wife/daughter has enough time to shoot you first.

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Yes, why is it only in movies or on tv that someone points a gun at someone and makes a speech about it for a long time, allowing someone else to kill the person pointing a gun? Anybody can make a mistake once, but one foolish mistake after another got to be annoying in the film.

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11. It is completely acceptable and encouraged to give piggy back rides, skip through the halls and over all act not at all concerned by the family who is probably armed and prepared to kill you to defend their lives.

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25. I can't count.

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12. Try to be separated as much as possible as a family, especially in a huge, dark house with lurking armed psychos outside.

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That was hilarious, thanks.

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That was the dumbest thing i found in that movie. that and the idiotic son, and the boyfriend who wanted to kill the father thinking that the next day things would be dandy. and.....

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Thats what i like about the show revolution they dont make speeches
REalOad~ Its NOX Real Talk.

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11) Maybe you scale back a bit...do you really need to have a 15,000+ sq ft home when you know defensing it during an annual Purge will be extremely difficult.

12) The Black guy never lives....I'm black and I was shocked.

13) Bulletproof vest may be a wise investment for you and your family.

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Oh no, this isn't the first scary film where a black person lived all the way through. The NAACP got tired of black people being disposed of like trash, so they put pressure to have some films where black people lived till the end. Unless it's a true story where a black person got killed and they have to be killed in the film to be accurate.

SPOILERS

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 - an older black guy lived till the end. He was going to a gun show and had plenty of guns in the car to defend himself with. And in A Nightmare On Elm Street 5, a black girl lived till the end. She was in a bathing suit on a diving board, the diving board went up thousands of feet and started to crack. I thought that was the end of her, but somehow she lived all the way through. I'm sure there are others.

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you forgot the black women lived to...but since she was married to the white guy I guess that makes sense.

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Finally! I kept thinking "Why aren't any of these morons wearing Kevlar?"!!

*NEVERMIND*

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171). If you are a sadistic killer, just stab the man of the household one time and then give a speech about how protecting the homeless man wasn't worth it. Don't worry about stabbing the victim more than once to make sure he is dead. Just walk away after one stab to the ribs. Give the victim a fighting chance.

172). If you a little boy who lets a stranger inside the house, thereby causing trouble that results in your father's death, don't bother apologizing to your sister and mother, or trying to take the blame for your carelessness. Your father's life doesn't demand such penance.

173). If you are a homeless man, you will have enough knowledge to operate a little boy's remote control toy within a few minutes. You will also have the timing to run that toy pass the neighbors right before they kill the family.

174). If you are a parent whose son stupidly opened the security systems on the night of the Purge, don't try to discipline the boy, such as angrily shouting at him or spanking him. In fact, moments later you should leave him inside of the security control room alone.

175). If you really want to kill a homeless man who killed one of your own, tell the family to find such homeless man and bring him to you. Don't offer to come inside and find the homeless guy yourself. Just sit outside for hours doing absolutely nothing but waste time while they search for the man. And make sure you turn off all the lights to make it difficult for the family to find the man.

176). If you are a killer standing at the door, look up at the camera and start talking. You'll know for certain that the camera has audio, and that the family is at the security room listening to you at that exact moment.

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177) be nice to your neighbours

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11) Maybe you scale back a bit...do you really need to have a 15,000+ sq ft home when you know defensing it during an annual Purge will be extremely difficult.

12) The Black guy never lives....I'm black and I was shocked.

13) Bulletproof vest maybe a wise investment for you and your family.

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let me tell you why..

because it's the only time they will listen to you,

and they will..they will definetly listen coz you are pointing a gun,

and if there's something to say you will say it then, not later,
you know why? coz dead people cant hear bro :D

so..most of the times, getting some words out of your heart before you kill somebody, helps more then the kill it self..


btw
i am somekind of movie expert, not a killer :D

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Like Tuco said: "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

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14. That Hollywood continues to show how out of touch with reality they are, by continuing to think Trayvon Martin is still news, while ignoring the 4 Obama scandals.

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13. Your boyfriend just tried to kill your dad, there is a strange man in your house, and a bunch of armed masked psychos outside... refuse to come to join your family, choosing to lurk around in the dark even though you could be shot coming around any corner.

14. When you finally decide that you're NOT going to sacrifice the stranger to save your family, and decide to fight... leave the man tied to the chair instead of utilizing his military background and asking for his help defending the house.

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15. When you have nearly been killed by crazy woman with a machete (the wife), it is a good idea to leave both pistols on the ground and walk around unarmed

16. When your boyfriend shoots at your dad and your dad shoots back at him, run away with the boyfriend instead of going to your dad.

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17. When two people are holding you down while one has a machete in their hand, don't worry, they're just gonna tickle you. What a relief.

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funniest part of the movie....

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18. Instead of just burning the house down, wait for you pick-up trucks.

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19. If you can't find your target... Wasting your energy smashing every photo you see of him/ her is good enough.

"ROADS?! Where we're going we don't need... Roads..."

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20. You should have a huge arsenal of firearms in your house, but you should never train your other family members how to use them. Not even if they are all old enough to handle guns responsibly.

When a hoard of bandits invades your home, you want to make sure you are the only one even remotely competent to fight them off. Backup is for wimps.

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21. Giving a kid a loaded gun and tell him to sit in a dark room alone by himself (with a sadistic, machete wielding hoarde roaming about) is totally something a concerned parent would do. >AHEM!<

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22. When you are leading a hoard of bandits in a home invasion, be sure to tell them to split up and wander around the house aimlessly the whole time.

Under no circumstances are they ever to react to the sound of gunfire or loud physical struggles taking place in other sections of the house. You absolutely do not want them all rushing to the sound of battle in order to overwhelm the occupants with superior numbers.

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23. When you decide to let a stranger stay in your house instead of throwing him out, you should not make this decision when he's in good condition to help you defend it. You should wait until he's tied up with duct tape, badly wounded, and extremely pissed off at you.

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24. when you pull the front door off with a jeep all the windows automatically come off too....


braces bread nuff sed!!!

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thats what i was thinking
REalOad~ Its NOX Real Talk.

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23. Nothing ruins a relaxing evening of treadmill and catalog browsing "me" time than a sweaty stranger hiding in your home, the bloody death of your daughter's boyfriend, and the neighborhood cookie queen wielding a gun.

24. National TV celebrations and newscaster commentary are as boring in the future as they are today.

25. Hiding under the bed is surprisingly more effective than it may seem.

26. Do you really "need" a boat?

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27. If you are hunting a homeless person who is now in a safe place.. You should waste an entire "Purge" pursuing the same exact homeless person, whom you have no emotional reason or any other reason for killing other than cleansing yourself(PALM TO FACE).. Instead of simply going on the hunt for another victim..

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Actually, the black man apparently killed one of their group so they wanted revenge. Movie is still silly though.

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They wanted revenge for him killing one of their group, yet have no reaction when leader of said group kills another for no reason at all.

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20. You should have a huge arsenal of firearms in your house, but you should never train your other family members how to use them. Not even if they are all old enough to handle guns responsibly.


LOL! I had this same thought!

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"18. Instead of just burning the house down, wait for you pick-up trucks."


I actually think this one makes sense. They didn't burn the house down because they wanted the experience of personally killing people with their own weapons. Simply starting a fire and watching it wouldn't give them the rush they were looking for

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I'm a [formerly sadistic] tickle-fetishist [at least on DeviantArt], and I found that to be disturbingly confusing; I mean, she reacted like she was being sexually assaulted.

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I saw that on YouTube, and I've gotta wonder: did whoever came up with that have some sort of lesbian dominatrix fetish or something?

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yess! I kept thinking that! since he obviously didn't want to hurt nobody, ask him if he could help defend and that after the fact he would be compensated.
You could just tell those guys outside were NOT going to play nice and you could tell the minute they arrived they had a thirst to just massacre all of them anyways.

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*beep* racist

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REAL 25... When defending your home against an unknown number of armed assailants, definitely abandon the room with all the monitors and spread out as much as possible into indefensible positions...

26. Make sure to give the housewife 2 guns and the military veteran none...

27. When choosing weapons for your home arsenal, always pick the shotgun with the OVERHAND grip, because everyone else who ever made, bought or fired a gun is doing it wrong...

28. ALWAYS double tap... Ya never know when this awful movie will go from crappy home-invasion thriller to a ZOMBIE flick...

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Good point about the shotgun. I never had seen that configuration before.

29. When a homeless man your group targets for murder kills one of your members in self-defense, that's a good reason to hunt him down and spend tons of energy and lives invading the well-fortified heavily armed house he's hiding in. But when your own leader kills a member of your group for no reason whatsoever, that is nothing be concerned/angry about.

30. When you install a backup generator in your house, make sure it only supplies power to the external cameras. You don't want it supplying power to the entire house even though it could easily do so.

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Did I miss when they mentioned that he was a military veteran?

As Long as You're Mine

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The dogtags he had hanging out of his shirt for most of the movie...

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31. Don't flaunt your wealth in front of your neighbors, especially if you made your fortune off of them.

32. Everyone's moral compass automatically switches off between 7:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. on Purge night.

33. No one considers the awkwardness that might result from a failed attempt to purge your neighbors, colleagues or employers in the ensuing year.



Where would rock 'n' roll be without feedback?

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34. When someone is hiding in a house and you want the occupants to find him and send him out to you, the best thing to do is cut the power to their house so they will have a much more difficult time finding him.

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35. Make sure to wear a stupid mask during the purge even though:

A. It completely limits your vision (particularly your peripheral vision)
B. It makes it really hard to breath
C. You don't really need a mask anyway because anything you do during "The Purge" is 100% legal

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I think the mask makes sense. Just because it's legal doesn't mean you want everyone knowing what you did. People are still going to hate you if you kill their relatives. If they hate you enough they might try to kill you even when it's not legal.

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That's why I listed that reason third. Even so, it would stand to reason that in a country of nearly 300 million people you wouldn't "purge" yourself in a community where people were familiar with your face, so I'm guessing purge revenge happens, but is only inflicted on the incredibily stupid.

My main point of ridicule was the ridiculously high level of intrusiveness of that particular kind of mask inflicts upon the wearer.

Why not an old-fashioned robber-style ski mask? A luche libre mask? At least something with little more visibility?

Seriously- find a mask like that with tiny little eye slits and try chasing someone around in the dark in an unusual house. It puts you at a huge disadvantage.

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Good point. Obviously they just used those masks for the movie because they looked way more creepy and disturbing than a traditional ski mask.

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Bingo. Kind of like when bank robbers (in movies only of course) wear those silly full-face rubber masks. Point Break- I'm looking right at you!

They got no visibility I tell you!

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They actually say something along the lines of "we are dressed in our most terrifying garb" and I took that as a reason for the specific masks

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#33. Good one, how do you face them the next day knowing the previous night you tried to kill them and expect everything to be normal.

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A glaring example of what an idiotically absurd premise this ridiculous movie is based on.

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Have heavy security but leave your lights on to advertise your house is there.

~~VO~~Lap Up All Of My Sugary Badness.

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