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watched Battle Royale recently, it is so much better than The Hunger Games which is basicely the same story

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Battle Royale features middle school students whose bus is high jacked on the way home and the students are taken to an island to fight to the death (still in their school uniforms).

Most of the film is about the students trying to survive and has several confrontations that add interest and fun to the proceedings. The students already know each other so that adds something as well. Overall, compared to The Hunger Games this is lighter fare and campy with much more to recommend it. Just the opening hour of The Hunger Games was overblown and made me want to leave the theater and the fights were much too short imo and it never took on the sense of scale BR has.

Just think, school girls with machine guns...

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It has a wicked sense of humor . . . - Daryl Zero 21:32:56 12/24/13 (1)
which really sets it apart from the dreadly serious Hunger Games.
- I love the Japanese sense of humor and the general slant their stuff has - PhilJ 02:01:17 12/28/13 (0)
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Public School boys with Machine guns - Des 15:08:37 12/22/13 (3)
Des
- wow thanks for that! Malcolm McDowell in it as well, I bet he can play a punk! - PhilJ 18:03:31 12/22/13 (2)
  lemme see what else was he in?
  
  ;^)
  - Predating his Kubrick adventure . . . . - Billy Wonka 19:58:37 12/22/13 (1)
    "Alex" gets to go to public school for canings and witness child abuse. You can't help but think: "That's WHY they act so peculiar!"
    - could very well be why Kubrick hired him for A Clockwork Orange - PhilJ 20:28:14 12/22/13 (0)
      I guess it is obvious but I presume so

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