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I am sooo excited...      the film is out today!

 

 

I am off to see it tomorrow with daughter & husband (belated Mothers Day pressie)... 

 

Loved the books...     the film looks like it has potential!   My only concern is over what they had to cut out to get it a 12 certificate.     Whilst I am a complete pussy when it comes to blood & guts, the violence in this story is vital to the storyline...    hope they haven't fluffied it up too much! 

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Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

We've booked our cinema seats for 1pm tomorrow..    so we're off out to eat Dim Sum beforehand....

 

Tomorrow is gonna be sooooo good.      Wave the boy off on his school trip to Belgium at 5.45am  (wooohoooo)...    do the chickens...   come home chill for a bit... then Dim Sum, then The Hunger Games!!!!

 

*excited*

NICE ONE !!! I love the cinema - sadly my friends don't

Pure escapism - love it!!!

Saint

Ooooh look - controversial !!!

The Hunger Games has been criticized for its similarities to the 1999 novel Battle Royale. Although Collins maintains that she "had never heard of that book until [her] book was turned in," The New York Times reports that "the parallels are striking enough that Collins’s work has been savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff," but that "there are enough possible sources for the plot line that the two authors might well have hit on the same basic setup independently."[36] King noted that the reality TV "badlands" were similar to Battle Royale, as well as The Running Man and The Long Walk.[1] Green also pointed out that the premise of the novel was "nearly identical" to Battle Royale.[31]

The novel has also been controversial;[37] it ranked in fifth place on the American Library Association's list of most banned books for 2010, the reasons being it was "sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence."

Saint
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

 

That's just made me want to read Battle Royale now

 

 

When I've read it I will decide how similar they are.

 

However, even now I really don't think she copied it...   I reckon its just a coincidence...  

 

DITTY!!

 

Battle Royale, the film, is AMAZING!!!! So good. Its in Japanese, so you need to be open minded and prepared to read subtitles.

 

I know Hunger Games is getting criticised for being similar, and it is, but going by the book it is very different.

 

Having said that Battle Royale is up there as one of my favourite films of all time. It really makes you think about what you would do.

 

Rawky-Roo
Originally Posted by Rawky-Roo:
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

 

That's just made me want to read Battle Royale now

 

 

When I've read it I will decide how similar they are.

 

However, even now I really don't think she copied it...   I reckon its just a coincidence...  

 

DITTY!!

 

Battle Royale, the film, is AMAZING!!!! So good. Its in Japanese, so you need to be open minded and prepared to read subtitles.

 

I know Hunger Games is getting criticised for being similar, and it is, but going by the book it is very different.

 

Having said that Battle Royale is up there as one of my favourite films of all time. It really makes you think about what you would do.

 

ooooooooh!!!!

 

Now I really want to watch it!

 

Subtitles don't put me off..     Ickle has made me watch enough weird Korean monster movies...

 


 

Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Renton:

And coincidences DO HAPPEN!!

True story: I was thinking years ago "wouldn't it be great to write about a boy wizard and alll the adventures he gets up to at school"

The next day i walked past WHSmiths and saw "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

BUGGER !!!

 

Ursula le Guin was writing about teenage wizards way before J.K Rowling!

kimota
Originally Posted by kimota (Corin's Crib #1) FAKER # 1:
Originally Posted by Renton:

And coincidences DO HAPPEN!!

True story: I was thinking years ago "wouldn't it be great to write about a boy wizard and alll the adventures he gets up to at school"

The next day i walked past WHSmiths and saw "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

BUGGER !!!

 

Ursula le Guin was writing about teenage wizards way before J.K Rowling!

I don't bloody care !!!

Sorry about that  

Saint

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