The Hunger Games Vs. Battle Royale

[IronicGilgamesh]

With the movie coming out this weekend I thought I would bring this up. I don't know if any of you have read Battle Royale but I read that book first, and since the movie was coming out I decided to read The Hunger Games. While I was reading The Hunger Games I did think, it sounded a lot like Battle Royale. I prefer Battle Royale just because of the plot and gore....but anyway I was wondering what all the nerds thought?

[Rotabush]

I'm a big fan of both, but I'm a push-over-critic.

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[IronicGilgamesh]

Well it seems I going to lose this unfortunatly. Battle Royale wasn't afriad to be what it was, a gore fest. I think my only problem is even though I did not care for Battle Royale the movie that much, it did not try to make itself a teen friendly movie. Don't you guys think the hunger games being PG-13 will be a little.....weird..think about all the deaths in action that will be hard to show.

[IronicGilgamesh]

So I just came back from seeing the movie The Hunger Games and the movie was pretty good I must say. Going with someone who had never seen the books they say that it was pretty good. As for me someone who read the books just 5 days ago I would have to say...for a movie based on a book it tried to stay true. But directing choices in this movie can already be predicted for the next in my book.

[Rotabush]

I also saw this on Friday night. I like it also. Very entertaining, not the best movie of the year, but a great Friday night. I wasn't a fan of Peta's artistic abilities, it seemed forced and out of place. They could have just made him jump into the mud to hide. Loved how dark it was though. That opening shot when the games first got started and 6 of them died was pretty intense.

[CommissarJB]

(03-25-2012 10:42 PM)Rotabush Wrote:  I wasn't a fan of Peta's artistic abilities, it seemed forced and out of place. They could have just made him jump into the mud to hide.

But that's how it was in the book. I've never seen a movie based on a book leave as much in as this one did. I was only confused about why Peeta was practicing his camouflage with a paintbrush. Come on, Peeta! There's not going to be a paintbrush in the cornucopia.

[The Mecca of Manhood]

Saw a bootlegged copy of Battle Royale and absolutely loved it in high school. I get that they have some similarities, but I have not read or seen Hunger Games yet. It does not seem to me that The Hunger Games is really a rip off or anything right?

[MrTappak]

*Spoilers*
The story is not an original one: sampling from various other works. "The Most Dangerous Game" was first published like a hundred years ago, and Shriley jackson's "The Lottery" was written in the late 40's.
What sets it apart, is the children killing children aspect of both Battle Royale and Hunger Games.
Battke Royale had a ridiculous story, with short, needlessly romantic plot lines quickly being sniped off by gratifying and sometimes down right amusing death scenes taht Eli Roth would be jealous of. Hunger Games focused alot more on detail, and was trying to make what was happening on screen make a little bit more sense of some kind, and of course being a hollywood blockbuster made over a decade later helps amp the production value a bit, making a well casted, "prettier" movie.
Which movie is better?
I have to admit Battle Royale was a more entertaining movie, and by entertaining I mean; Gory, weird, and very Japanese. Like the happy lucky promo tutorial, or when the evil teacher villain gets shot and killed at the end, and then just pops up to eat another love cookie, I damn near died laughing. There were a lot of those moments in the movie. Another favorite would be when a kid accidentally axes himself in the head, while his friend asks "are you alright" - he's got a fuckin axe in his head, he's had better days.
Hunger Games was the better movie in the sense that it had better acting, was in a creative and lush universe of caracters, was more visually appealing, and had Woody Harrelson in it.
Its drawback (besides the shaky PG-13 cam) was that not having read the book, I really felt I was lacking crucial plot information, and that there were alot of scenes that probably would have made more sense had I read it beforehand. But now I really want to read it.
I would reccomend Hunger games to anyone, but Battle Royale, as awesome as it is, requires a a specific audience.

[Sprig]

One is the senior trip to the island of deception.
The other is the youth olympics for best wild animal.

One focuses on cynicism and allegiance.
The other focuses on savagery and the people who support it.

Cool characters and deaths but bad acting
Good Acting, better established world, but less cool deaths.

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