The Hunger Games vs Battle Royale pt2
26. Someone gets shot with an arrow
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fillytickler (01/13/2015) [-]
He's right this time. The manga and novel went into details of each student, with better character development, and more and better fights. The movie was still great, but the written works were fantastic.
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kulamia (01/14/2015) [-] 
Expansive manga about students who went into a death-match.
Series of books sparked of a story(possibly inspired from or at least in part by BR) where the entire death-match takes place in less than 1 book/movie...
I understand why people **** on HG and love BR now. Personally I am a big HG series fan, but yeah I comprehend the exact reason why people feel that way. Thank you, I thought BR was one single book and a single movie(which only seeing it from when they got their bags and were sent out seemed to have less plot than half of the HG movie).
Series of books sparked of a story(possibly inspired from or at least in part by BR) where the entire death-match takes place in less than 1 book/movie...
I understand why people **** on HG and love BR now. Personally I am a big HG series fan, but yeah I comprehend the exact reason why people feel that way. Thank you, I thought BR was one single book and a single movie(which only seeing it from when they got their bags and were sent out seemed to have less plot than half of the HG movie).
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anon (01/14/2015) [-] Gotta say i disagree with the movie being terrible but i too did enjoy the manga and novel way more, maybe because i felt Kazuo was way more fleshed out.
In the manga he is this cool calm and collected borderline psychopath with no signs of sympathy for anyone.
In the movie he just sorta came off as a boring delinquent character.
In the manga he is this cool calm and collected borderline psychopath with no signs of sympathy for anyone.
In the movie he just sorta came off as a boring delinquent character.
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unclewalrus ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-]
What a lot of people don't realize is that the contents of a book would stretch into a 10 hour exceedingly dull movie.
It's the difference between your tool shed/garage and your multitool.
It's the difference between your tool shed/garage and your multitool.
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anon (01/14/2015) [-]
when they make movies based on books because no matter how much you like the movie there will always be faggots who say "the book was better" even if it was i have no intention of reading the book i was satisfied by the movie but now i wonder whats in the books that make them better. Every ******* time, i dont plan to read GoT, i dont wanna read the hunger games, i dont want to read every book the things i enjoys, books that they were based on. Just enjoy the movie? like **** is it that hard.
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ruped ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-]
Battle Royale's better as a book because in the film you only ever really see from main guy's perspective. In the books perspective moves from person to person, group to group. So when it comes time for main guy to fight/kill one of them, or if volunteer with a submachinegun kills them all you're more attached and their deaths mean more.
GoT is better as books because it doesn't feel the need to shoehorn sex into every other scene. And seeing as GoT is all about politics it really helps to be able to know what a character's planning, what their thought process is.
Hunger Games was a bad book with a worse film tbh. One thing I'll say for the book though is, when Peeta was injured and hiding he did it by wiping dirt on himself and covering himself in leaves, twigs etc.... Not by somehow perfectly painting his face, and the rest of his body to look like a rock.
GoT is better as books because it doesn't feel the need to shoehorn sex into every other scene. And seeing as GoT is all about politics it really helps to be able to know what a character's planning, what their thought process is.
Hunger Games was a bad book with a worse film tbh. One thing I'll say for the book though is, when Peeta was injured and hiding he did it by wiping dirt on himself and covering himself in leaves, twigs etc.... Not by somehow perfectly painting his face, and the rest of his body to look like a rock.
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anon (01/14/2015) [-]
The problem is the people who read the books, judge the movie so hard because they left out parts of the books they read, to make it more appealing. Then they call the movie **** because it didnt follow the book word for word. They cannot accept that a butchered version of their favorite book turned into a movie, might actually be decent. Because they have judging caps on the whole time.
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anon (01/14/2015) [-] what i do ive ive read something then go see a movie its based on is to think of it as a separate thing all together. That way you can still enjoy the movie and not feel like its a slap in the face of something you enjoy.
<i would have loved to have seen this dude in the movie but i get why he was cut
<i would have loved to have seen this dude in the movie but i get why he was cut
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hellomynameisbill ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] Katniss was literally the only volunteer in these films. the whole point of these was that children were being forced to kill eachother
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highhopes (01/14/2015) [-] Oh, and also, children from the poor districts see it as a death sentence to be in the games, because they get few sponsors, and the careers are very hard to kill. That's why it's rare for people to volunteer at the reapings, and that's also why it was such a big deal that Katniss did.
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highhopes (01/14/2015) [-] They're not "trained in intense combat schools", that's illegal, but the Capitol ignores it when kids train on their own in the rich districts (1, 2 and 4). It's not like they get volunteers every year, but it happens frequently. And when more than one person of the same gender volunteers, those districts have their own protocols to deal with it. Could be a new reaping, a voting, I don't know, I don't think that's ever really explained.
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trimageryan (01/14/2015) [-] Yup, those crazy ************* were bred for this. They were all just trying to out volunteer the others! Grade A book, so-so movies.
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grindoff (01/14/2015) [-]
I thought it was getting a little far fetched when this part started with someone being shot with an arrow being a major similarity. Some of the others were noteworthy however.
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dracolegacy (01/14/2015) [-] yes, lets point out that the hunger games is an american version of battle royale.
do we really need to state the obvious?
do we really need to state the obvious?
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hasinvadedyou ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] except it isnt when things get imported they change a few cultural things they think will help people immerse but the general idea is the same like juon and the grudge, the ring and ringu but the hunger games has 0 story links it just ripped off the ideas and used them in their own story. Incase you dont understand the difference imagine two lines which represent the English and foreign versions of a movie while the lines arent constantly touching the stories intersect pretty often. Now for the hungergames and battle royal. Same two lines except they are parallel and the hunger games pulls a mirror out and copies the other lines ideas a bunch of times. Never intersecting but still having the same things happen because it mimiced the other.
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hasinvadedyou ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] to add:
the reason it upset people is that imports generally buy rights to the movie they copy and the original profits. When you rip off another idea and pretend its your own original thing because you change it enough to seem different then you dont have to acknowledge anything and the original isnt given credit.
the reason it upset people is that imports generally buy rights to the movie they copy and the original profits. When you rip off another idea and pretend its your own original thing because you change it enough to seem different then you dont have to acknowledge anything and the original isnt given credit.
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iworkforlaughs (01/14/2015) [-]
Like when they ripped off the Infernal Affairs and made the departed. Scorsese got an oscar and LITERALLY just remade the movie scene for scene.
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hasinvadedyou ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/most-blatant-movie-rip-offs found a list of movie rip offs it isnt like him ripping off the hong kong movie and hoping people never seen them. Its a list of movies like this
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it seems so bad it has to be made up, but ive seen half of these listed on netflix
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it seems so bad it has to be made up, but ive seen half of these listed on netflix
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iworkforlaughs (01/14/2015) [-]
Thanks, I'm going to watch metal man in the morning now!!!!
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hasinvadedyou ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] dont forget about flying mammal man his cousins were shot at a roller disco
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kresskh (01/14/2015) [-]
Oh it's almost like in a movie about people killing each other, they want to be diversive about characters and their deaths
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paintedgorilla (01/14/2015) [-] I think OP tried to point out that The hunger games was a direct rip-off of Battle Royale.
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mrkvos (01/13/2015) [-]
the movie is clearly a battle royal rip off only less gore to fit to the audience...Im more pissed about good foreign movies that get hollywood remakes but its the same ******* movie but bad..Apparently for americans its easier to make a whole new movie than read subtitles...
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SlowpokeForever (01/14/2015) [-] Except you now, Hunger Games and Battle Royale are books too and apparently Harper Collins, the Author of the Hunger Games, had no ******* clue what Battle Royale was.
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romdomcom (01/14/2015) [-] I don't particularly like the hunger games, but I do have to point out the 'rule change' was because they were supposed to have exploited the capitol and revealed that they aren't the all powerful beings they made themselves out to be, which leads to the revolution in the next two books.
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capslockrage ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] She planned that, she knew they would change the rules because they needed a winner.
I actually haven't seen battle royale, but hunger games definitely isn't "utter **** "
Not a fanboy, I just enjoy the movies
I actually haven't seen battle royale, but hunger games definitely isn't "utter **** "
Not a fanboy, I just enjoy the movies
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highhopes (01/14/2015) [-] The first movie is very little romantic, if you didn't know that, you missed a lot about the movie. The only real romantic scenes are in Catching Fire, and they are few. It's not a brainless chickflick either, it's a very interesting and complicated concept.
Have you even seen the movie? OR read the book?
Have you even seen the movie? OR read the book?
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cypherxii (01/14/2015) [-]
Everyone does know that certain plots and certain tropes must be reused? Writers often have similar ideas. I don't know if that's the case here. I can't really read the hunger games's writer mind was working but whatever.
Also, Battle Royal had three survivor doesn't it?
Also, Battle Royal had three survivor doesn't it?
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anon (01/14/2015) [-]
To be fair, there are two more books following the hunger games. The Hunger Games may be similar to Battle Royal, but the series doesn't end there.
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buddahudda (01/16/2015) [-]
Dont watch it, the movie has horrible characters that you actually dont care for unlike the first film. It also has the teacher that watches over the game is comical in the bad way. Also, the story is just boring. Just dont watch it.
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anon (01/14/2015) [-]
I was just making this comparison to my friend the other day when she suggested I read the Hunger Games. I told her I already did years ago, in a better book. Funny seeing this now.
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anon (01/14/2015) [-]
apart from the movies looking boring as ****
i read an excerpt from the book before the movie was out and it seemed ok, then I saw an interview with the author acting as if she was totally original and she got the idea from watching footage of men in Iraq
lmao **** OFF! lying sack of **** !
so I will never see one of these ****** movies. After seeing this ******** author I just can't. Also the previews are boring as **** . Might as well watch Divergent.
i read an excerpt from the book before the movie was out and it seemed ok, then I saw an interview with the author acting as if she was totally original and she got the idea from watching footage of men in Iraq
lmao **** OFF! lying sack of **** !
so I will never see one of these ****** movies. After seeing this ******** author I just can't. Also the previews are boring as **** . Might as well watch Divergent.
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captainfuckitall ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-] I actually think Battle Royale (Manga) was okay at best.
It was original, with nice art, interesting characters, and great plots/twists, and incredibly endearing and memorable heroes and villains, but it falls within the same problem as every other good vs. evil contest; and that is that it allows its villains (and heroes, many times) to escape from seemingly impossible scenarios unscathed and intact when they obviously should have died. It allows them to miraculously get out of trouble and danger without so much as a cut against them, and when it's basically the same two ******* people escaping danger due to plot armour again and again and again and again and again, it gets SUPER ******* irritating; not to mention it magically concocts ways for good people to kill eachother while bad people are seen as the wholesome, innocent ones.
It also develops at a god damn snails pace, with multiple pages, settings, and dialogue made to illustrate the exact same issues again and again.
And of course, with such a long story, it gets utterly predictable and boring. You know exactly what's going to happen to X character dozens of pages before it does, you know exactly how X scenario and circumstance will end, you know exactly who's going to live and who's going to die just based on their first meeting, and that, combined with its snail paced development, makes READING it a chore.
In short, am I glad I read it? I guess. It had some new niches and mechanics that I found very satisfying. Would I suggest it to others? Barely. Only a VERY specific number of my friends would enjoy or go through something like that like I did. Would I read it again? Never in 100 years.
******* Berserk has been going on for 20 years and even IT has better pacing and development than Battle Royale, gods damn...
It was original, with nice art, interesting characters, and great plots/twists, and incredibly endearing and memorable heroes and villains, but it falls within the same problem as every other good vs. evil contest; and that is that it allows its villains (and heroes, many times) to escape from seemingly impossible scenarios unscathed and intact when they obviously should have died. It allows them to miraculously get out of trouble and danger without so much as a cut against them, and when it's basically the same two ******* people escaping danger due to plot armour again and again and again and again and again, it gets SUPER ******* irritating; not to mention it magically concocts ways for good people to kill eachother while bad people are seen as the wholesome, innocent ones.
It also develops at a god damn snails pace, with multiple pages, settings, and dialogue made to illustrate the exact same issues again and again.
And of course, with such a long story, it gets utterly predictable and boring. You know exactly what's going to happen to X character dozens of pages before it does, you know exactly how X scenario and circumstance will end, you know exactly who's going to live and who's going to die just based on their first meeting, and that, combined with its snail paced development, makes READING it a chore.
In short, am I glad I read it? I guess. It had some new niches and mechanics that I found very satisfying. Would I suggest it to others? Barely. Only a VERY specific number of my friends would enjoy or go through something like that like I did. Would I read it again? Never in 100 years.
******* Berserk has been going on for 20 years and even IT has better pacing and development than Battle Royale, gods damn...
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palindromia ONLINE (01/14/2015) [-]
I feel like it wouldn't be so bad if she didn't claim that she had never heard of Battle Royale.
