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The Purge (lemmy.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That's, like, a two-minute YouTube sketch at best

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You're not wrong, but what was posted here was a "joke," and it would have been weakened by making it unnecessarily realistic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

No fewer than 23 people were like "Yeah, no, Gary. There's no way you could stretch that out into 100 minutes."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I want to listen to your 10-minute TedTalk about how explaining jokes or taking them too seriously makes them not funny anymore

[–] restingboredface 3 points 7 months ago

I could see it working well as a I think you should leave bit

[–] ZOSTED 1 points 7 months ago

I still think there's more there, but it would ruin the "straight" purge movies