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Bloedlink

I just realised the Hunger Games is a complete rip-off after seeing Battle Royale. How did Suzanne Collins get away with that..

9 years ago

mlena

More like the Hunger Games resemble Battle Royale.

12 years 9 months ago

Move over Hunger Games and Avengers Arena, we watched Battle Royale this week. 42 9th graders are dropped on an island, and the only way to survive is to kill everyone else. It's a pretty amazing film, and you can see why it would be imitated so often, but I don't know that it's been equaled in its category. For one thing, it finds a way to make you know each one of these kids - in broad strokes, rather intimately, or through vignettes - so that each kill has punch (and these kids know each other, have a history, pre-existing relationships). It's also got visual inventiveness going for it, mostly through editing and superimposed cards, that hint at a more profound message behind the carnage. You could see it as a metaphor for growing to adulthood, or going through the school system or work market. Maybe it's about where our culture of anti-discipline and/or reality shows is going. It could be a meditation on the generation gap and an admission that adults are as lost as the teenagers they used to be. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, as this is still a crazy-ass action thriller, but it does have a certain ambiguity (in large part thanks to the teacher running the game, brilliantly underplayed by Takeshi Kitano) that invites such ruminations.

8 years 10 months ago

Alias

So wrong, so fucked up, so awesome

12 years ago

E. T. Blunt

A brilliant satire on the struggles of adolescents .

3 years 6 months ago

TheMajor

It's very bad, silly, the acting is bad, the sounds are bad, it's very predictable and it gets repetitive and boring very quickly. But I liked it anyways :)
7/10

13 years 2 months ago

Arthemax

Bloodsport baby - yeah!

14 years 2 months ago

Agrimorfee

There is a book?! Hm, this movie did not do a good job of exploring the characters' depths or their interactions before the BR. Gotta admit, the film has balls to do what it does.

11 years 5 months ago

Litso

Wow, was this all? I expected a lot better, the story was interesting but the execution was rather poor.

12 years 9 months ago

hippo

Love it.

13 years 4 months ago

Sviggolo

Mildly entertaining, but not much more.

13 years 5 months ago

whutev

Love this movie! blood, drama

14 years ago

si_reid

I loved it!

10 years 9 months ago

KuroSawWhat

Wow, this was, um, not very good.

The book is haunting and memorable, and a must read. This movie was not much of anything.

Much like the novel of "1984" and the film adaptation which was made in the year 1984, all of the substance is stripped out, and all you're left with is a series of disconnected and confusing events that make very little sense unless you've read the book ahead of time.

This is difficult to recommend for even established fans. Skip it.

11 years 5 months ago

Tezelian

8.7/10, Brilliant entertainment.

11 years 9 months ago