Which one is better?
Battle Royale crawled so Hunger Games could sprint
>>214841268Well seeing us Hunger Games gave the world jlaw butthole pics, i'd say BR kek
>>214841278No one cares about the Hunger Games anymore. At least BR has survived as a video game genre.
>>214841268They're both good in their way, Hunger Games is just oriented towards becoming a franchise and lacks any of the social commentary/edgy fantasies of BR.I guess BR is the better movie but both are good.
Battle royale is one if the most well directed movies ever
Japs can't act
>>214841268HG is pussy tranny shit censored to shit. BR actually has balls to show the kills and the gore and brutality of the situation
Battle Royale. Never watched Hunger Games but it's American so it's automatically worse.
>>214841268BR is one of the greatest movies of this century, top 5 i'd say.
>>214841268I've never seen either but I can tell hunger games sucks because of the people who like it
>>214841268Why do people keep comparing these two when Hunger Games should be compared Gladiator instead? Like the point of Br is that it's a bunch of kids getting duped into killing each other with no experience whatsoever save for a couple psychopaths who just want to gore and splatter. The people from the wealthier districts in HG train from birth to win the Hunger Games and see it a point of honor and pride to participate, they make a reality show about it for idols to woo over live audiences, it's a modern Gladiator story.
>>214841555>a bunch of kids getting duped into killing each other with no experience whatsoever save for a couple psychopaths who just want to gore and splatterThat's also a thing in BR, that's why they're compared. The audiences also love following the results of the BR and would turn that little girl from the beginning into an idol, although it seems it's only evil boomers who enjoy it.Checked.
>>214841593>That's also a thing in BRNo it isn't, the audience is BR doesn't know what's going on and only gets results later, the audience in Japan is passive and doesn't do shit. It's not a reality show or a fight in front of an adoring Arena like in HG or Gladiator. Live audiences mean the protagonist gets help when she needs it, like it happens multiple times in HG, live audience is why both the dude and the girl get out alive cause the government was staring down a riot if it killed them one or them both, live audience is why riots start and the government starts taking interest in the whole spectacle. That's not a thing in BR at all, you can cut out the initial sequence with the reporter and nothing changes at all for BR.
>>214841268BR is way edgier and more brutal but hunger games actually grew on me quite a bit after the gf made me watch them. julianne moore staging a false flag at the very end of the war was a nice touch, but JLaw plugging her with an arrow for all the world to see was straight up great
Me and my friends already have tickets for pic related.You'd have to be a real faggot to enjoy the hunger games
>>214841593>That's also a thing in BRAh yes, we all saw how the battle royale was being broadcasted live to the world and that kid got people outside so involved that they started attacking the government officials and destroying shit and... oh wait no lol
>>214841801I like stories about violent revolution and toppling governments.
>>214841278>Battle Royale crawled so Hunger Games could sprint, then trip, break its ankle and limp off into the distance.
>>214841676It is not broadcasted live but people care about the results.>>214841805>they started attacking the government officialsThat's the Wild Seven, yeah, although the sequel sucks. Not what I was quoting anyway, faggot.
is it true the directors cut of BR is awful?
>>214841436>BR actually has balls to show the kills and the gore and brutality of the situationfunny you should say that cause they censored/left out a bunch of the graphic shit from the source material in BR
>>214841907Besides some scene order changes, I couldn't tell you the difference.
>>214841278But which one is better?
>>214841916The hyper detailed violence described and shown in the manga and novel just wouldn't work on film.Squibs and blood splatter are much more cinematic.
Never got around to watching BR, maybe I should
>>214841902>people care about the resultsBullshit my dude. They care about the gossip like bored housewives care about Melania's hats. Nobody cares like the audience in Hunger Games rioting and getting almost to a government downfall like USSR 1991 because of what's going on. >sequels shitI ain't watching those, never have never will, not enough of a plot beyond the gorefest in the first one for me to care.
>>214841900>so that the Long Walk could walk at a consistent 3.1 miles an hour for 5 days before ending in a (just about) acceptable manner
>>214841902>people care in BRThen why aren't they bombing the government, assassinating the president, sniping government mouthpieces, starting a civil war etc. etc.? This all happens in the Hunger Games movies.
>>214841268Hunger Games got a 10/10 reviews.
>>214841278Book BR is fucking phenomenal. The characters, the setup, the ending. It all works. The movie goes full japan with the ending and not in a good way. In order of enjoyment for me it goesBR Book > Hunger Games Book > Hunger Games Movie > BR Movie
>>214841268>BR has child genocide>HG is just the Last Of Us battle royaleNeither
>>214841268Hunger Games spawned a billion dollar franchiseBattle Royale spawned a trillion dollar industry
>>214841268HG is better for worldbuilding, political aspects, dystopian fiction, everything that's not the blood and splatter itself. If you want a story about revolutions and rebel factions toppling a government via civil war then HG is IMMENSELY better.If you just want blood and splatter and don't care about anything else, BR has that I guess.
>>214842279show tits
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>>214841268Battle Royale: written by a jap and thus shitHungry Games: written by an american and thus good.
>>214841805>>214841902Didn't the sequel feature some sort of revolutionary or resistance group who wanted to stop the games?
>>214841268The hunger games movies are kino and I'm tired of pretending they aren't. ALL of the movies.
>>214842524anon the br sequels are so shit even br fans pretend they don't exist.
>>214842059People care to follow the results of the BR games but they are not against the games, which is the whole point of Battle Royale: That boomers give exactly 0 fucks about the youth and have betrayed them.This is all inspired by Japan's Bubble Economy bursting and the Lost Generation, and the reaction of the older generations blaming teenagers for it, leaving the young kids of that time to feel orphaned and betrayed and justifiable angsty.
>>214842524Yeah, that's the Wild Seven. The movie is pretty bad though.
I only read the BR book as a kid I don't think the movie was out yet and I never saw it
>>214842563Damn that's the most retarded nonsense I've ever read. I'm glad Hunger Games went the opposite route and had the people start a civil war instead. Makes for a better story.
>>214842563... at least HG justified people being OK with the games by turning them into a razzle dazzle big Hollywood spectacle with fan favorites and audience rankings, and winners becoming idols for the masses, like the Gladiators of old. Mom and dad just being OK with their kid being literally blown to pieces someplace nowhere is just wtf.
>>214842612The book is terrible, the film is much better
>>214842658It's basically the same story - boomers that hate teenagers and have them kill each other. HG does it in a more grandiose way and has a big theme of rebellion and is oriented towards franchising, which it did successfully, while BR is a lot doomer in its ways because it was written by one of the many guys screwed by the bubble burst even if it ends with a somewhat hopeful note of fighting against the injustice done upon them. And when they made a sequel, it turned out to be shit.In the end, HG is inspired by BR, and BR is inspired by real events based on Japs being nuts and their boomers being even nuttier than ours.>>214842730But that's how it felt for a lot of kids of the Lost Generation. Japanese society being still built around ancestor and elder veneration meant that boomers could NOT be blamed for the economy collapsing. And someone else had to take the blame for it.If kids entering the workforce could not find work at all, if their real estate properties lost 99% of their value (I'm not exaggerating here) and the yen sank to oblivion it had to be the fault of the kids straight out of college and the teenagers. And if they couldn't find a job, tough luck - their families still turned against the kids and kicked them out.This may make 0 sense from outside, but that's what their boomers believed.
>>214842859It's really not the same story. Hunger Games is a story of rebellion and revolution against an oppressive government, taking action by exploiting the system to achieve that. It's got a lot more in common with Star Wars than Battle Royale, where no revolution is achieved, no action is taken to change the system. Sure, the protagonists survive but the story ends there with them. They don't start a rebellion movement against the Empire.>but the sequelsAnon the sequels are an afterthought and it shows, there is no coherent story and they are bad also for that. The HG movies are all one coherent Star Wars meets the Gladiator story.I'm not surprised this kind of approach did not come from Japan.
>>214841739>muh gfstopped reading there
>>214842945They develop in different ways, I'm not denying that. Like I said, HG was always aimed at becoming a franchise and is more rebellious while BR is a story about Jap boomer hatred of their teenagers during that era and the angst it caused on the Lost Generation, turned into a death game inspired by battle royal wrestling.But the base of the story is the same: Boomers take kids to a random place where they kill each other. If the writer of HG was not inspired by BR then it's a ridiculous coincidence and hard to believe. But HG developed into its own thing, so it's fine.They're compared to each other because the base is the same, that's all. Both are good at what they try to do.
>>214842945Going out on a massive limb here but I personally feel like it has a lot to do with eastern vs western philosophy and how it translates into narratives. I find in my experience in eastern philosophy and narratives a running theme seems to be shit like the inevitability of fate, the need to just accept that the way things are is the way they'll always be, etc etc, kind of a "existence sucks and that's just how the cookie crumbles" attitude. In other words, their stories are a lot, in my eyes, bleaker. Whereas western philosophy and narratives seems to care a lot more about fulfilling the archetypal hero's journey in some form, and cares about something being "achieved" at the end. Not necessarily even positively (although it often is), but yeah. Does that make any sense? hungover rn so not being as cogent as I'd like to be
>>214843136sorry - where this applies to HG vs BR is that HG exemplifies that story arc of something changing, something being achieved, history being 'moved forwards', whilst BR reflects that bleakness and acceptance of a shit status quo that I associate with eastern philosophy and narratives.
>>214841268Battle Royale is vastly superior (not the sequel).Hunger Games is boring and too far up its own arse.
>Japan has so many young high school students, it can have 42 of them fight to the death just because.It was a different time.
>>214841268BR is an actual film. BR2 is also better than the remaining however many Hunger Games movies
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>>214845742>AAAAAAAH IM ACTINGGGGGwtf i didnt knew this was a zombie flick that chick took so many rounds to kill
>>214845831He intentionally missed the vital spot, but just barely
Hunger games is about everything surrounding the games. The games part is less than half the movie. Battle royale is all about the game. Pretty different movies and not comparable.
>>214841268The Running Man
