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Subject: Just got back from Hunger Games (maybe spoilers!)
I can tell that there is a WHOLE LOT of nuance that I'm missing. Just so many references and one liners that refer to things you're like "ummm what?"

It's definitely a tween flick for a good portion of the show. Lots of 'oh my family I love them so much', and 'I look pretty!', and 'He's so handsome, kiss me' stuff going on. The bad guys have a feel of the bully and his henchmen that roam the schoolyard after class is out to pick on the weaker kids. Lots of stuff to make you go "Why am I watching this again?"

And then there is the crazyness. Kids massacring other kids. All the 'death blows' are off screen...as they're portraying kids of 12,13,14years old...and there are some brutal deaths...blood sprays from slit throats and neck breaking...

All in all...NOT a chick flick. A REALLY twisted tween flick.


End of the day, it made me want to read the book to figure out all the stuff I know is going on but they don't explain in the movie...

Worth the price to see it in my mind. It was entertaining.

 

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If you thought that was twisted, go watch Battle Royale.

Its virtually the Hunger Games but way more f***ed up....and Japanese.

edit: And the books are really quite good. Enjoyed them myself, even if they were a bit melodramatic.

 

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I saw it saturday, was good but not great. Sorta bland.

 

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Subject: Just got back from Hunger Games (maybe spoilers!)
Gildash posted:
If you thought that was twisted, go watch Battle Royale.

Its virtually the Hunger Games but way more f***ed up....and Japanese.

edit: And the books are really quite good. Enjoyed them myself, even if they were a bit melodramatic.



You mean Hunger Games is basically Battle Royale, but better in every way because it doesn't try to make sense of it.

 

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Just finished the book. I'll go see it this week.

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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:

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From what I understand if they kept it the way they originally wanted to it would have been an R rated film.

They toned it down to make it Tween friendly but all of the reviewers I've heard on local radio say to let anyone under the age of 15 see it.


Edit: Engrish sucks with out coffee.

 

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I can't figure out what, from the book, you'd need to cut to keep it from being rated R.

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Rhodoman posted:
I can't figure out what, from the book, you'd need to cut to keep it from being rated R.

Rho


graphic death scenes most likely. That being said, just the content alone (kids being forced to kill each other for sport, essentially) could push it over that edge...but since the book's audience is teens/pre-teens I'm sure they did their best to make the movie one that parents would let them see.

I'll be seeing it this weekend and will decide at that point if my 10 year old can watch it just yet. She can handle most stuff pretty well but I always like to pre-screen just in case.

 

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Gildash posted:
If you thought that was twisted, go watch Battle Royale.

Its virtually the Hunger Games but way more f***ed up....and Japanese.

edit: And the books are really quite good. Enjoyed them myself, even if they were a bit melodramatic.


Isn't f'ed up and Japanese the same thing? tongue

 

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Gaevren posted:
Rhodoman posted:
I can't figure out what, from the book, you'd need to cut to keep it from being rated R.

Rho


graphic death scenes most likely. That being said, just the content alone (kids being forced to kill each other for sport, essentially) could push it over that edge...but since the book's audience is teens/pre-teens I'm sure they did their best to make the movie one that parents would let them see.

I'll be seeing it this weekend and will decide at that point if my 10 year old can watch it just yet. She can handle most stuff pretty well but I always like to pre-screen just in case.


Have you read the book? And has she? That seems to make the difference between watching and not watching for someone that age. I'd certainly want to pre-screen before letting a child that age watch it, but that's only based on what's in the book at this point. I haven't decided yet whether to see the movie in theaters or not. I'll probably end up watching it, but there is nothing I hate worse than a theater full of pre-teen/teen girls.

 

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Natoli posted:
Have you read the book? And has she? That seems to make the difference between watching and not watching for someone that age. I'd certainly want to pre-screen before letting a child that age watch it, but that's only based on what's in the book at this point. I haven't decided yet whether to see the movie in theaters or not. I'll probably end up watching it, but there is nothing I hate worse than a theater full of pre-teen/teen girls.


Yep all of us have read the book in our house except my six year old- for obvious reasons tongue We all enjoyed it too. But there's a difference at times between how your mind interprets what's happening in a book and how a director will choose to portray it on screen. I know for myself, personally, whenever I'm reading anything particularly disturbing and/or gory, my mind tones it down LOTS. Otherwise I get nightmares tongue Sometimes I can't stand movie adaptions because those scenes are WAY too much for me. I have a pretty good idea of where her limit point is, in terms of movie stuff, and based on what I have heard I don't think it'll be a problem for her, but I still like to make that judgment myself.

You wouldn't mind watching a movie with my girls- the 10 and 14 year old anyway. They're so atypical. Hell the 10 year old was running a spy ring in the third grade and charging money for her "spy services". She made over $10 before we found out and shut down her recess operations. doh! We told her she could do the spy gig as much as she wanted but she couldn't charge for it!!

 

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Well for the MOST part it was kid friendly...

The scene where they first get into the battle zone though...little kids are getting their throats slit, there is blood spray, they're hiding and they get caught and brutally killed. MIGHT be a bit traumatic for a little kid as it's the older, bigger kids who seem to be doing most of the killing. There is also a hallucinagetic scene that's a bit trippy but maybe kids might find it scary.

 

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Gaevren posted:

Yep all of us have read the book in our house except my six year old- for obvious reasons tongue We all enjoyed it too. But there's a difference at times between how your mind interprets what's happening in a book and how a director will choose to portray it on screen. I know for myself, personally, whenever I'm reading anything particularly disturbing and/or gory, my mind tones it down LOTS. Otherwise I get nightmares tongue Sometimes I can't stand movie adaptions because those scenes are WAY too much for me. I have a pretty good idea of where her limit point is, in terms of movie stuff, and based on what I have heard I don't think it'll be a problem for her, but I still like to make that judgment myself.

You wouldn't mind watching a movie with my girls- the 10 and 14 year old anyway. They're so atypical. Hell the 10 year old was running a spy ring in the third grade and charging money for her "spy services". She made over $10 before we found out and shut down her recess operations. doh! We told her she could do the spy gig as much as she wanted but she couldn't charge for it!!


See, I'm the opposite. My mind portrays it in all it's gory glory. wink

 

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