Decided to go to the movies after 12 last night to go see the Hunger Games, and I wasn’t disappointed. After a few attempts to register on the Cinescape site I finally got my ticket and was surprised, upon my arrival, to find the cinema half-full. Which is strange considering its a weekday.
The producers of this movie set out on making a good movie, and they did succeeded. There were no flailing boobs and the protagonist is a vigilant and talented woman, who happens to be a bad ass. Actually the love interest in this movie, the guy, is the epitome of lame. The gender reversal is refreshing and welcomed. Not to spoil the movie but while he bitches about quitting and being a little bitch, she basically tells him to shut up. The movie was long, but the pacing was good.
With that said, the movie was a poor mans Battle Royal. If you are on the look out for an exceptional movie, of the same genre, actually this movie and the novels, to my understanding, are a rip off of the original Japanese movie, I could be sorely mistaken here. But even if I was, doesn’t change the fact this movie only glimpses the epicness that is Battle Royal. And don’t bother watching Battle Royal 2, that shit is just a mess.
But what the hell, this is a free country. Go watch both movies! and make up your own mind. I personally like the direction of new Hollywood movies. But my heart lies with Chiaki Kuriyama, pictured below, and her amazing role in Battle Royale.
You can’t compare these two movies because they don’t contain the same background nor the point they are getting at. I don’t want to put spoilers, but if an aspect of movie has the same as another movie, it is ok-acceptable. I could name many titles that are the same as Battle Royale( it doesn’t mean Battle Royale is not original) , just lets say The Lord of the flies has some concepts it doesn’t mean its the Freaking the same. Please, don’t just copy bunch of stupid redditors and call it a day.
From my understanding you didn’t read Hungers games. ( It doesnt matter ,a little bit only)
It’s not like the movie ripped off Die Hard by including a car chase scene. Battle Royal came first and it had a VERY special setting, that no one did before. And yes it is a fair assessment that the two movies are alike and I can compare them .. THERE ARE 1000′s of articles on the internet that do just that = http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=battle+royale+vs+hunger+games&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Heck, you know who agrees with that? The fucking producer of the movie himself: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/03/26/producer-roy-lee-comments-on-battle-royale-vs-hunger-games
and as for the stupid redditors and calling it a day. I never once saw the issue come up on any reddit. and it seems (http://www.reddit.com/search?q=hunger+games+battle+royale&restrict_sr=off&sort=relevance) the issue was not popular and no one really cared.
Finally, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading the hunger games books, I would rather get eye cancer.
More over, I don’t know if you actually read my post? But I liked the movie. I thought it was great, hell I even wrote a whole post about how great it is.
I know that there are a lot of articles and people I’ve heard talking about this topic. I could care less about the others. I like your blog but it doesn’t mean I want to influence your opinion I am only here to state facts and how I freaking love this trilogy.
As for the producer he was calling out if “audience”( meaning stupid people) might see the similarities only ( Lee says, “The studios were very scared of comparisons to the Columbine shootings — if it got linked to something in which a kid killed another kid, and the perpetrator said they were influenced by the movie, that would of course be a disaster.” ) in which kid killing another kid and nothing more. As I said did you see or read the Lord of the Flies it has the same issue. Meaning Battle royale didn’t came up with it.
For the reddit, I was antcipating this movie so I used to find these post and read them.
“Finally, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading the hunger games books, I would rather get eye cancer” What? Why? are you against books or The Hunger Games books?
Of course I’ve read the whole damn article.The last bit you said”hell I even wrote a whole post about how great it is” False you have merely written a paragraph about it then going to accusing the Hunger Games as copycat( how shameful of you).
Well then boys ill just leave this right here… http://tinyurl.com/ckxkjg3