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How dare you compare Hunger Games to this junk?

posted 8 years ago by Mikunitk
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Watched both BR movies after seeing all the idiots in HG board cry about it, so I thought this was some famous big production or at least a good movie, but damn.. what a turd, cheap jp nonsense adolescent movies with the usual terrible acting, emo kids shouting nonsense and behaving in the most irrational manners, awful effects, absolutely no story or anything that could make any sense, .. why did I even bother?

As for plagiarism, there's barely any resemblance with HG, are you guys on crack when you say it's a rip off? just wow, how dare you even compare them. If anything copied from BR it's maybe this anime.. "BTOOOM!" http://myanimelist.net/anime/14345/Btooom (few kids kidnapped and dropped on an island, given weapons and some tracking devices, if one survives they win and get free) but then, BR is also a rip off of countless other movies/stories, having a few people kill each other for survival is hardly something you could call original that you might claim it's been plagiarized..

This was so bad I have no words. How do you keep shooting an uzi at people almost at point blank and keep missing? get shot 5 times and keep standing up? really, was it maybe a comedy and I didn't notice? :D

[–] jadecoloredglasses 8 years ago

lol k

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[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

I have to agree with you partially and mostly. I mean first of all, American films have much better acting than foreign films. (well that's what I believe) And this movie for the most part had bad acting. There were some parts that were ok but basically the movie was a "ZERO" LOL. The only reason I watched it was because I saw Quentin Tarantino on YouTube give this movie a high recommendation. I really don't know how Quentin makes all his great movies and get inspiration from watching movies like this.

I have a couple of biographies on Quentin and in the books they have lists of his all-time favorite movies and I might've seen like 15-20 of the movies out of the lists and probably liked about 5 or 6. Maybe I have to watch them over, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but I really don't think I'll ever watch another Japanese movie again except for probably the "A Better Tomorrow" trilogy because I bought it a long time ago and since I have it I might as well give it a chance (even under these circumstances) because, again, Quentin said he really liked these movies and I'm a huge fan of Quentin so I gotta give him at least SOME respect.

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[–] animerika 8 years ago

"American films have much better acting than foreign films"
wow, I don't even know what to say about this, just "wow".

"I really don't know how Quentin makes all his great movies and get inspiration from watching movies like this"

Well, I guess Quentin Tarantino is wrong and YOU are right.

[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

Well I didn't say ALL foreign movies sucked. I didn't see every foreign film ever made so there just might be a small chance (a very small one IMO from what I've seen) that some might be good.

And maybe I am right. Look at all the crap Quentin's been putting out. You can thank foreign films for that, I guess.

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[–] activista 8 years ago

@thetragicprincess

I mean first of all, American films have much better acting than foreign films. (well that's what I believe

You're so wrong there and that is so untrue---obviously you're never seen enough foreign films, or you wouldn't make such a silly statement like that. I've seen way too many foreign films that can hold their own next to any Hollywood flick any day of the week. Let's be real---there's been some truly awful American films made--you will find good and bad films from every country in the world. To claim that only one country(the USA) has a claim on good films only is ridiculous. I saw this flick a good couple of years before THE HUNGER GAMES came out, and yes the premise is similar, but it's handled in completely different ways. The oldest film I can think of with the man-hunting-man premise is THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932). So the premise of either film isn't original. (I've seen all of THE HUNGER GAMES films, and enjoyed them,btw.) But BATTLE ROYALE may have been over the top, it was still a pretty good and a truly,violent and disturbing film in some parts, made by a man who lived through World War II and death up close---do the research on that.

[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

Well you just pretty much admitted to being an a-hole saying things like @thetragicprincess (for no reason; I'm just being totally honest in my post) and then saying "made by a man who lived through World War II and death up close---do the research on that".

So I guess in your philosophy, a guy who has been in a war, when that person makes a movie it automatically should be a great movie?

I've seen enough foreign movies to know not to waste my time watching any more of them!

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[–] caissas_deathangel 8 years ago

Nothing wrong with personal preference - Bollywood isn't my thing, at all - but to suggest that almost every film from the 290 countries in the world that aren't the USA sucks, that is just ridiculous. It's stupid and idiotic because it's so discriminatory, and your own sample size (the foreign films you've watched) is almost certainy far too minute to make such blanket statements.

Frankly you almost come off as bigoted! "Those foreign types can't make good films, no, it's we Americans who understand good cinema!". Not saying that's what you're saying, but it's close enough to it to be a concern.

Incidentally I say that as a Brit - not sure if films from my own homeland count as foreign, to you.

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[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

Hey I've been playing video games since as long as I can remember and I love video games. Video games are foreign. I never complained about video games before, really. Yeah, there are some that aren't good but most are awesome.

But when it comes to movies? IMO American movies are just better. Even some of the American movies that don't get that great a review I like better than foreign films.

How about giving me a short list of like 3 or 4 foreign movies that are good and I'll try watching them and I'll give you my honest opinion about whether or not it was good? Maybe I could be wrong but I just get sick of hearing about a movie that's supposed to be good then you watch it and then I'm like WTH did I just waste my time watching.

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[–] Jamie170 8 years ago

What is it about the acting in foreign films that you do not like?
I think there are some brilliant foreign films that have great performances in them, like Downfall for example.

[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

Well the acting is just unprofessional or not real to me like in this movie.

I actually watched the "A Better Tomorrow" trilogy recently (after I watched this movie) and saw the same bad acting and in addition to that, music that really can't be taken seriously. (and A Better Tomorrow is supposed to be a really good movie, the first one at least)

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[–] Jamie170 8 years ago

I am a big Chow Yun-Fat fan so I like A Better Tomorrow very much as it was one of the first films of his I watched.
You say bad acting, but have you watched his American films like Anna and the King? If you watch that you will see that he is capable of great dramatic performances that American directors want from an Actor.
I think it is not so much unprofessional, but more to do with the different cultures and filmmaking techniques used elsewhere in the world.

However it is your opinion which you are entitled to. At least most foreign films of note get the Hollywood do over so you get to see American versions of these films anyway.

[–] TheTragicPrinceBatman 8 years ago

Yup. You're right about foreign films getting the Hollywood do over.

One of my favorite horror movies is "The Ring" and I actually have the "Ringu" anthology which is pretty good, too.

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[–] kieron-26779 8 years ago

Nah you mean compare Battle Royale to Hunger *beep* If they were going to rip it off they could have made it shorter and less boring

[–] eddyhops 8 years ago

Well, I came across the movie on accident tonight... an hour in I said to myself there's no way Hunger Games wasn't inspired from this. Yeah, someone added the American addiction to glam and sensationalism, and an angle of distopia... otherwise it's a similar concept.

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[–] godzillaprime 8 years ago

At least they didn't stretch it out to nonsense.

Besides, most people don't count BR2

[–] TheManInOil 8 years ago

lol - This is so much better than The Hunger Games. And, it has the extra virtue of not being plagiarized.

[–] zxcvbnmasdfghjqwertyu 8 years ago

They're both pretty *beep* movies so whatever.

[–] HorrorFanatic24 8 years ago

Okay troll. The hunger games which suck major balls is just a rip off.