Happy New Year!
We finally reached the same timeline as when The Purge: Anarchy (2014) was set; AKA, the best film in the entire franchise. Granted, I never even bothered with the last two films or that television series rotting on Prime's servers. In my defence, hardly anybody else did either. Taking obvious inspiration from both The Warriors (1979) and Escape from New York (1981) is enough to put it on a higher pedestal than the rest of the franchise alone, but also because Frank Grillo embodied the cool factor of a B-movie action star (excluding that time he rocked a Gareth Bale man bun in Copshop (2021), obviously); even while cruising in his whip. Now compare Reddit messiah, Keanu Reeves having to go through such an extreme effort in the same Dodge Charger as John Wick to even equal that level of appeal.
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| Being Frank. |
With the ringing in of the new year, I was going to go post a list of nuisances I wouldn't mind being purged in 2023 (like Richard Madeley), but I've effectively done that already by cancelling a bunch of streaming subscriptions from this month. Gives me a fighting chance to tackle the daunting unwatched pile of films I've got; which grew exponentially like The Blob last year.