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What is good is not original, what is original is not good


So after I watched The Hunger Games, it immediately reminded me how similar it was to Battle Royale (Japanese). It is not just a simple movies that have a theme etc. It's like the plot was completely copied.

Anyways, THG was interesting and it was a fun plot in a backdrop of some political thing. So I watched THG:Catching Fire and the author came back to the Battle Royale copying again because what she added was not working so she went back to the original Japanese plot. The final scenes were good there with the dome exploding etc.

The Mockingjay 1 and 2 were absolutely terrible imo. They have crazy tech with oil like slick moving up and down an area somehow, pods (which numbered in 1000s around the Capitol) but magically were forgotten when the rebels somehow stormed the Capitol disguised as the civilians which strangely Snow wanted them to come to the palace. Completely arbitrary and out of character. All while they kept the hunger games theme with the boom sound and TV transmission continuing. It was almost childish in the writing and plot.
Not to mention the "mutt" like creatures which take out the side riff raff and the mains are conveniently not only ok but are like the only ones who survived.
Why not unleash the mutts on the rest of the area?
How come the pods were all inert? Where were the civilians when the pods were going off?

The cat like lady with a glass door. lol. The cliche Snow is dying coughing blood drivel. The bombs in parachutes which is framed to Pres Coin being now ultra evil etc.

They have such insane tech but do absolutely nothing to solve their issue. The TV guy Cesar Flickerman disappeared in the end. The Peeta brainwashing is conveniently forgotten. Gale is gone in like a second. Lol.wut? The sister is killed cliche.

Just was all ridiculous and beyond idiotic at the end.

It was very clear the author made money by copying something really good and had to keep coming back to that theme of the "games with violent acts in an area" in movie 1, 2 and parts of movie 3 because the rest of what she added was junk. So much that even she had to keep going back.

What is good is not original. What is original is not good.

My ratings: 8/10, 7/10, 5/10, 4/10. Overall : 5/10.

Skip this and just watch Battle Royale.

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