Hunger Games can suck it.

[Kitsa]

FuH6HXBML6w

[Tadao]

Hunger games is way better than that Japanophile piece of shit.

[Kitsa]

:rolleyes

[Fathom Zero]

I see only a few people that mentioned Lord of the Flies.

This concept is as old as there were books and teenagers.

[Kitsa]

Eh, Lord of the Flies is a LITTLE different.

[Fathom Zero]

Kids killing each other. Same thing.

At least it wasn't all BOOO ADULTS BOOO

[kahljorn]

that was pretty stupid

[darkvare]

that katniss chick can suck it whenever she wants to :yum

[Zomboid]

I actually agree with Kitsa. It's not an old concept, really, but BR shares enough similarities with Hunger Games that that's what I immediately thought of, too.

[Fathom Zero]

It was the best, reading it when I had to have been in the ninth grade. The descriptions of the gore were some of the best I've ever seen in a book - especially where one kid died and it looked like a garbage can behind a sausage factory tipped over.

As far as I understand, The Hunger Games probably couldn't touch that.

[Esuohlim]

I couldn't be less interested in the Hunger Games. I can't believe I only found out about it two months ago considering how much everyone is talking about it.

[kahljorn]

i dunno what it is but it reminds me of reindeer games but makes me more hungry

thats my official review of this movie

[Pentegarn]

Meh, I saw it and there are worse movies out there.

Not like rip off concepts haven't happened before either. Star Wars: A New Hope was a rip off of some Japanese movie I don't know the name of

[kahljorn]

:lol yea right like people watched japanese movies when star wars came out

[Tadao]

I'm going to probably go see it next week. Hopefully the Jr high will be out on Easter break. :eek :yum :orgasm

[Kitsa]

I think a big dividing line is this:

You might see a few idiots wearing this sort of stuff around:
blahblah otaku wtfever (http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=WIRELESS+FLASHING+BATTLE+ROYALE+META L+COLLAR+COSPLAY+BR)

But you see one hell of a lot more of this sort of
nonsense (http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/20/4352792/pretend-youre-capitol-elite-with.html).

[Tadao]

I haven't seen the movie yet BUT! I'm assuming children (on their own or with their parents help) are dressing up like the character that send the poor, young, uneducated and helpless youth to their death games.

YAY AMERICA!
http://funny-emoticons.com/emoticons/gay_symbol.gif

[AChimp]

Shit's just a rip-off of The Running Man

AMIRITE?

[Dimnos]

I downloaded a bootleg copy of this last week. I still haven't watched it but that one guy in the first 5 min has way better facial hair than any Japanese kid could grow.

[Womti]

as soon as I even heard about the hunger games BOOKS, I fucking hated them.
the hunger games can suck it.

[Zomboid]

I watched the movie to see what all the excitement was about. I'd say more, but having serious discussions in the same thread that Womti's posted in feels wrong, so fuck it.

[Dimnos]

Fucking Womti. :rolleyes

[Zomboid]

Oh, he's banned again. Ok, then.

I kinda liked it. I don't get why it's so hugely popular, really, but it was definitely at least enjoyable. "Katniss" has to be one of the dumbest names I've ever heard, though. I watched Battle Royale immediately after because I love government-mandated events where teens are forced to kill each other, but I like a bit more maturity to it.

[Kitsa]

I saw it in the theater just to be fair to it. It was pretty, and it was entertaining, but it's still just a variation on a theme.

[kahljorn]

well i guess almost all movies are that

:lol

i dont see how it can be as good as running man. steven king writes some good prison movies lol

[Kitsa]

idk. The theater I went to was one of those really ultra-posh ones with the leather recliner seats and I was just kind of enjoying that. I had the choice of seeing the movie or doing an extra ten loops around Marcon and I'd seen about everything there was to see there, so what the hell.

I had a discussion with the concession stand guy about the movie and he upgraded my soda for free, so I thank Suzanne Collins for the gigantic coke zero.

However, I still maintain that she, a Hollywood screenwriter, who claims to have absolutely no prior knowledge of Battle Royale, Running Man, Most Dangerous Game, The Lottery, or even the story of the fucking Minotaur, or any of the other many stories with a nearly identical theme, she is either really poorly educated or lying, and that pisses me off.

Hunger Games went so far as to have nearly identical characters as Battle Royale, only the genders of the protagonists are reversed. Woody Harrelson is a slightly more amiable version of Beat Takeshi's character. They even have the "ringers" in the competition, the trained professional killers, who volunteer. In Hunger Games they're the "Careers" and in Battle Royale it was Kiriyama. Same same.

[kahljorn]

or gladiators

[darkvare]

i saw it yesterday and for some reason i thought about warhammer 40k all the time also it will never be as good as the running man cause there are no chansaws to the dick

[Supafly345]

Battle Royal is overrated. OOPS DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD

[Kitsa]

When you think about it, it all is.

[Supafly345]

I thought it was boring, and more than a little retarded. Its the real kind of overrated.

[Kitsa]

If you don't have the buy-in, you don't have the buy-in.

[Tadao]

I think most of us have played way too many video games with these kind of scenarios. It's one thing to watch it happen, but when you play a character and survive, well movies just aren't good enough.

[Zomboid]

I liked it enough to read the manga. That was the first one I'd ever read, because fuck that shit, and it was pretty good once I got past all of the hilariously Caucasian features of the Japanese teenagers.

I guess I've played video games with similar scenarios, but it was really something the first time I saw a movie about kids killing each other to win a game. I've always thought it was pretty well done, for the most part.

[Kitsa]

First and last time Zomboid and I will ever agree probably

[Babs]

I guess I've played video games with similar scenarios, but it was really something the first time I saw a movie about kids killing each other to win a game. I've always thought it was pretty well done, for the most part.

Battle royale is fucking awesome, hunger games is god damn lame.

[BigChris]

If Jennifer Lawrence could act at all, that movie would have been tolerable. She's got the acting range of a brick. (Spare me the "but she won an oscar" bullcrap, so did Julia Roberts for essentially playing herself.)

[Kitsa]

I don't dislike her. She's personable. Although I have noticed that if you can do a good angry outburst/psychotic break, you're automatically oscar material. Lots of the clips they played during the "best actress" send-up were of tearful shouting.

I take exception to a professional Hollywood screenwriter feigning being unaware of roughly a zillion identical plotlines, mainly.

I'm also pissed that archery got appropriated into pop culture through this movie. Don't ask me to explain that.

[Kitsa]

Part of me wants to see Catching Fire to see how much like BRII it is.

Although, I think the Mockingjay one would be more like BRII, now that I've read the books.

[Tadao]

are the books any good?

[Kitsa]

I wouldn't call them super-duper-sophisticated, but they're standard Young Adult Fiction and not quite as vapid as Twilight. I mean, this is a writer for Little Bear. It's entertaining enough.