trying to copy battle royale 2 much? - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) Discussion

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[–] AckbartheHutt 9 years ago

This series honestly is the worst junk i have ever read/watched. Don't waste your time on it

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 9 years ago

Fukasaku has certain power over the scripts he want to direct, but he did not come up with the story and the script. However, the important thing is - Production company Toei DID buy the right to make the novel from Takami Kousen (the person who came up with the story). Now the story rights belong to Production company Toei.

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[–] Bubbathegut (18054) 8 years ago

The talking moments really didn't advance the story or add tension. They were just sort of there for some reason.

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[–] IMDBRefugee1SD (139) 8 years ago

The talking moments were mostly about the Katniss-Peeta relationship. Very important.

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[–] turdbadge 9 years ago

Is it really different that a Japanese author set his story in a Japanese wasteland while and American author set hers in an American wasteland? I might be inclined to think the difference would be if one of them had set the story in a "foreign" setting rather than envisioning a horrific wasteland in their homeland scenario.

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[–] dussojanladde 10 years ago

Suzanne Collins hadn't heard of Battle Royale when she wrote the Hunger Games books. Therefore it's not a remake or ripoff.

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 9 years ago

I noticed the parallels with Battle Royale as well, but I'm fairly sure that Suzanne Collins only mentioned being inspired by mythology like that of Theseus and the Minotaur and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, which also has a similar anime-inspired story story.

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[–] qianzhengyi 9 years ago

see the thing is that even if Suzanne didn't rip off Battle Royale and Battle Royale 2 (which I still believe she did) she took the whole violent aspect and made a more dumbed-down story about it. She developed it into a story where she not only cuts out the violence, but the politics and dangers of a government that is bound to go into ruins. The culture of this futuristic world was in ways is similar to the one we live in today, but in Collin's view it becomes a Twilightesque world of tweenie romance.

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[–] IMDBRefugee1SD (139) 8 years ago

The Hunger Games films tone down the violence of the books to get a PG-13 rating so the target audience(13-18) could
see them. I think that the main reason some people like the BR films is the exploitative violence. The politics is more
prominent in the HG series(especially MJ1) than in the BR series. The only similarity to Twilight is the teen love triangle,
but that is common in YA fiction/films.

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[–] summerinertia 9 years ago

I love watching American movies when I've seen originals. Sometimes it works sometimes not. I'm not sure I'd agree that the THG movies worked. I love the Japanese films so I enjoyed most of them but many don't really stand on their own from the original classics. Avengers: Age of Ultron seems to have been very successful in their target audience so I don't know that I would call those movies disasters.

Some Asian to USA adaptation I've thought very good are Gone Girl, Game of Thrones, Kick-Ass, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Breaking Bad, John Wick.

Then there are some movies were I thought the adaptation improved up on the source material like The Human Centipede and American Psycho.

Then there are of course many terrible ones like The Hunger Games but overall it seems to depend on which one you've seen first.

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[–] AckbartheHutt 9 years ago

Forgive the late reply, as I spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on an elaborate plastic model clipper-ship I have been building inside a large bottle for the last 12 years.

One thing I was not doing, checking my twitterfeed for new updates on the latest 'Mockingjay - Part 2' promos...

Lets face it, 'Mockingjay - Part 2' was filmed at the same time as 'Part 2' and is already in the can. The only reason they hold off on the release is to milk the public for more Hungertard money.

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 9 years ago

Lets face it, 'Mockingjay - Part 2' was filmed at the same time as 'Part 2' and is already in the can. The only reason they hold off on the release is to milk the public for more Hungertard money.

I knew that Hungertards were deperately in need of a hobby, after being fleeced by lionsgate and all that, but maybe a four year investment in a franchise whose chief goal is to rip off the public, as well as BR2, isn't the best way to go. Just sayin'...

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[–] Moesislak 9 years ago

Get over it people, nobody cares 4 movies later and haters think still the whole series is copying one Japanese snuff movie from a decade ago.

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 9 years ago

Get over it people, nobody cares 4 movies later and haters think still the whole series is copying one Japanese snuff movie from a decade ago.

I guess you missed the part in the topic header about how Mockingjay is a ripoff of BR2, not BR? .............

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 9 years ago

To make their date, they were just racing forward, The whole company is much more interested in delivering product than maintaining quality control. That's why there are so many bad movies being made there — because, unlike anywhere else , the whole thing is just, 'Move it forward, move it forward, move it forward.'

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[–] Mahmood-Buttrumps 8 years ago

This is the Mockingjay board. Get back to me when you've seen Battle Royale 2: Requiem. Those wishing to discuss the plagiarism of the original Battle Royale should do so on the Hunger Games board.

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