People before me had already done it. Moreover, many people compare the two films. The problem with Battle Royale is I literally didn't give a frick about any of the students. And what the hell was the motivation of the teacher, who is all the sudden a cold-hearted prick? Was just a stupid fricking movie designed to attract an audience that likes violence. The only interesting scene in the movie was when (SPOILER I GUESS)

The girls in the lighthouse all killed each other. That was a pretty good look at human nature.

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Posted by Rex

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Member since Sep 2004

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Posted on 3/18/13 at 10:25 am to LoveThatMoney

Nobody has answered my question... were holograms actually eating people? Seems that a society advanced enough to make such things would figure out how to produce food? Or that limiting population would be a better idea to combat hunger than to randomly kill some kids? Or was hunger, itself, an intentional device to keep the population in line? If so, I can't think of a stupider way to do such a thing... hungry people aren't too happy.

Guess after watching the movie I can't figure out what all the Hunger Games fuss was about.

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Posted by Baloo

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Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 3/18/13 at 11:49 am to LoveThatMoney

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Battle Royale

Jesus, the worst thing about the Hunger Games is people trying to prop up this piece of shite. Battle Royale is Hunger Games without any of the subtext. It's a pretty terrible movie without one believable character and its simply an excuse for action sequences, which aren't all that terribly well done anyway. Battle Royale has become the worst kind of "cool kids" movie, used as a stick to bludgeon a popular film despite the fact A) you probably didn't see until after the hunger Games and B) it's not very good. At all.

Hunger Games is at least about how governments control people through popular entertainments. OK, the "it's killing the children" metaphor is a bit on the nose, but at least there is a metaphor. Also, it does a good job of spelling out resentments between the oppressed classes preventing unity (the remote districts hate the "privileged" districts far more than the Capitol. Which makes sense, as its another form of control.

And pretty much the best way to have blowback on this board is to have a strong, feminist heroine. I'm shocked that's not popular among this constituency.

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