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The BATTLE ROYALE 2: REQUIEM Paradox

posted 8 years ago by Mahmood-Buttrumps
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This is a great example of a Hollywood budget that was utterly wasted. The reason you go to a movie like this is not to have the pivotal action scenes left up to the imagination. The acting is atrocious. It seems to be making fun of itself at times, which is just sad. Is it SNL or is it a 15 dollar per ticket Hollywood feature? It's odd because this movie cost 125 million dollars and yet it has all the special effects of a made for TV movie...

I just finished watching "Maze Runner" which was surprisingly good for what it was, and I was shocked to find out that it only had a $34 million budget. Honestly, there was 2-3 times the action and excitement in Maze Runner vs Mockingjay.

I like Hunger Games for a lot of reasons but this movie just dropped the ball big time, it is boring, it adds nothing of real note to the story, and it makes the actors in it look bad.

[–] riekondoh-116-326404 8 years ago

What the *beep* is wrong with this world and especially LION$GATE. they are remaking every great movie!! I know Hollywood has already lost all of the ideas and are making remake of it. But the trailer was a total rip-off!every single scene in the trailer was stolen from the original!!!

PLEASE TELL ME THAT THIS IS A FAKE!!

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[–] ikissedaguru 8 years ago

Seriously though, do you think a person who has led a succesful career on her books and movies will admit that she took inspiration, to say it more properly, I don't think so. It clearly is a ripoff, and again another stolen piece from Japanese modern culture.

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[–] ikissedaguru 8 years ago

Though the basic plot of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Battle Royale II: Requiem appear to be the same in a one line pitch (i.e. kids are forced by the totalitarian yet fascist government to kill each other in a televised setting only this time two survive, a male and a female, and they go on to galvanize a revolution that has been brewing in a fictional alternate reality of our own future.), this description doesn't begin to cover the layers and characterizations unique to each of these stories. For example the Japanese people are now portrayed by pretty Caucasian people. They are very different in tone and theme and there is nothing wrong with one plagiarizing the other, regardless of which came first.