{"id":12032,"date":"2016-07-02T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:24:17","slug":"this-weeks-sequel-review-the-purge-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=12032","title":{"rendered":"‘s Sequel Review: THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Purge 3 <\/em>is fine.<\/p>\n

Does its job.<\/p>\n

Entertains a little. Escapism.
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\nIt is merely this week\u2019s sequel. And I\u2019m tired of it. All we get are retreads, reboots, sequels and \u201cuniverse expansions\u201d .\u00a0 Every week is writing piece explaining if the regurgitated mush is as good as the original or where it sits in the series in regards to order of importance.<\/p>\n

Every week? Independence Day 2. Finding Dory. The Conjuring 2. Now You See Me 2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. X-Men 8. Alice in Wonderland 2. Neighbors 2. Captain America 3. The Jungle Book [Now with a real boy!!], a sequel to Snow White without Snow White, Ice Age 5, Jason Bourne, the third Star Trek in the rebooted series, Ghostbusters\u2026 It doesn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

I thought the volume was exceptional so I went and counted some numbers. I realize that sequels are not a new problem but it is GETTING WORSE.<\/p>\n

Of the major releases [2500 screens or more] here are the percentages that are sequels, reboots or universe expansion films.<\/p>\n

2013- 21%<\/p>\n

2014- 27%<\/p>\n

2015- 30%<\/p>\n

2016- 38%<\/p>\n

No!! I\u2019ll call 38% \u201cabout half\u201d. Round up. Let\u2019s call this an example of \u201cThe Dumbening\u201d of our society. Further proof that Idiocracy<\/em> is turning out to be a documentary. We are only eating the familiar. And while, thankfully, many of these movies have been flopping lately they [we] are still lining up for lazy fare like \u201cFinding Dory\u201d which essentially is just an episode and not a film. Please stop supporting these films. Unless they are good.
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What you spend your money on….<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Whoops. This is my The Purge 3 <\/em>review. Got sidetracked.<\/p>\n

If you like the other Purge films, you will not be disappointed. It\u2019s better than the other 2. It plays like an 80s action film. Something that Arnold would have done.<\/p>\n

Go see it if you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Purge 3 is fine. Does its job. Entertains a little. Escapism. It is merely this week\u2019s sequel. And I\u2019m tired of it. All we get are retreads, reboots, sequels and \u201cuniverse expansions\u201d .\u00a0 Every week is writing piece explaining if the regurgitated mush is as good as the original or where it sits in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[3209,9319,18038,21960],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-articles","category-movie-reviews","tag-blumhouse","tag-horror","tag-sequels","tag-the-purge-election-year"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}