The Purge

Do You Support the Purge?

Since I was a child I was taken to the movie theater for fun. Because of all my experiences at the movie theater I have very high expectations for it and the movies that I go watch. The customers experience has a big impact on whether or not they will come back. Were the people nice? Was their popcorn good? Were their prices expensive? One of the biggest things customers complain about is if the movie does not live up to its previews. This is something you can hear instantly when the credits begin and the lights turn on. My recent experience to see The Purge lived up to these expectations, the service and food were excellent, the movie was engaging, and it lived up to its previews perfectly.

When I plan
a trip to the movie theater I want extra buttery popcorn, lots of sugary candy, and huge fountain drink. I’m not there to be healthy; I’m there to treat myself. The NCG Cinemas movie theater in Auburn, Indiana let me achieve this goal perfectly. As you enter the movie theater there is huge open area where the customers wait in line for their tickets, there is plenty of space so you do not have to be practically touching the people in front of you or behind you. There are multiple lines, so even if there are a great amount of people there the lines move quickly. One of the features of a normal movie theater is standing in one line for your ticket and another for your food; this becomes a hassle because it requires you to wait in two different lines to get what you want before you even get into the movie. This can sometimes be frustrating and create an unfavorable experience. The Auburn movie theater however is a very spacious area where the customers wait in line for their tickets, there is plenty of space so you dont feel like youre breathing down the other persons neck, there are also multiple lines, so even though their are many people there the lines move quickly. One of features of a normal movie theater is standing in one line for your tickets and another for your food; this becomes a hassle because it requires you to wait in two different lines to get what you want before you even get into the movie. This can sometimes be frustrating and create an unfavorable experience. The Auburn movie theater however is much more convenient because you get your ticket, popcorn, candy, and drink all in one line. This creates fewer lines and less hassle. To add to the less hassle method of buying tickets Auburns popcorn, candy selection, and drink selection is so much than other places I’ve been to. They allow you to get free refills on any popcorn and drink size. They allow you to put your own butter on your popcorn so you can put as much as you want and they also provide different seasonings for you to put on it as well. They have a wide variety from ranch to caramel. The ticket price for a movie here and at another movie theater are very comparable and with less hassle and better food and drink choices it is an obvious choice on which is more favorable to go to. Once you have bought all your goodies there are attendants to tell you where your theater is, so you don’t have to take time to search for it. After entering the theater this is where the best part of your experience will happen, the actual movie.

Once I entered the “The Purge theater” there were many eager people waiting to see movie all talking about how they could wait because the previews look so awesome. The movie started out with an explanation of what exactly the purge was. It explained that the movie was in the sent in the future where the U.S. government set aside a day were for twelve hours of that day everything including crime and murder were legal. The government believed that this made the world an all-around safer place the other 364 days a year. After the introduction it goes into the life of a wealthy family who is supposed to have a full proof security system to protect them from anyone trying to purge them. The family is a mother, father, teenage daughter, and a son about fourteen. As soon as they completely lock down the house you learn that the daughters boyfriend, who the father does not approve of, snuck in the house before they locked down. He wanted to talk to the dad and because they were in lockdown he couldn’t make him leave. The son who does not like the purge sees a man running and screaming for help down the road. The son feels bad and disables the security system and lets the man into their home. This gets the blood pumping while thinking what is this kid thinking letting someone he doesn’t know in their house. What if the guy is trying to purge them? As they re-engage the security system the boyfriend comes down the stairs and pulls a gun out and shoots at the father. This gets your adrenaline going as you then see the father pull a gun and shoot the boyfriend. This is where the true action began and you became completely does not like the purge sees a man running and screaming for help down the road. The son feels bad and disables the security system and lets the man into their home. This gets the blood pumping while thinking what is this kid thinking letting someone he doesn’t know in their house. What if the guy is trying to purge them? As they reengage the security system the boyfriend comes down the stairs and pulls a gun out and shoots at the father. This gets your adrenaline pumping even more as you then see the father pull a gun and shoot the boyfriend. This is where the true action began and you became completely engaged in the movie.

Soon after the notorious faced that you see in the previews show up.
They are trying to get the man that the boy let into the house and tell them they can go harm free if they give him to them if not they will break the security system and kill them all, too . This is the part where you start to question what the family will do. The people break the barrier down after not receiving what they want and this begins the complete action of the movie begins. People start jumping out everywhere and people are being masaccared left and right. When the credits roll around you don’t even really know the movie is really over because the plot has so many twists that you don’t really know if it is going to end or not. As the lights turned on you saw people getting up from their seats with smiles on their faces and talking to their friends about how amazing the movie was and who they would put on their purge
lists.

As you see people leave with smiles on their face and talking about how the movie was this is where you can see if the previews really lived up to the expectations of the movie and this one did that and more.
A good preview to me is one that can engage you into the movie just with in that few minutes of it and doesn’t show the whole movie in the process. The previews for The Purge did just that. The previews show the son letting the man in, the creepy faces of the people trying to get him and it shows parts of when they are in the house. It combines the elements of creepiness, action, and fear within a three minute preview. The preview alone makes your blood pump and gets you excited. The end of the preview plays the common know song Amazing Grace in creepy manner draws you in wanting to see the movie. It does all of this without giving away the whole movie and that is what a truly amazing preview does. Without a good preview a movie will not succeed near as good. If the movie is truly amazing it will go above and beyond the expectation set in a person’s mind by the preview and The Purge does this
perfectly.

Sometimes having a positive experience at a movie theater can be difficult, but at this Auburn movie theater it is almost impossible to have one. The service is absolutely impeccable and the people are great. The movie added to this great experience by adding so much excitement and thrill that it was hard not to be engaged in the movie. The preview does a wonderful job of drawing you to go watch the movie and going above and beyond what is expected out of the movie. This has to be one of the most positive experiences I’ve had at a movie theater. I have nothing, but good to say about the previews, theater, and movie.