Battle Royale

[CrossTheBreeze]

normally I can't stand watching films with subtitles but I managed to tolerate them while watching this. This is such an awesome and some what original film that I thoroughly enjoyed. Sure there have been other films with the whole fight-to-survive type scenario but this movie adds a bit of a "twist"

anyway like discuss the movie and stuff

[-Listy-]

I have been telling my friend for weeks to watch it and he finally did last night and loved it.

One of my favourite films, even if it is a tad depressing.

the cool computer expert guy is about to destroy the school with the bomb, but noooo crazy killer dude has to come ruin it :(


i have to say though, battle royale 2 was nowhere near as good.

[CrossTheBreeze]

that part where that one girl stabs that other kid in the crouch like three times made me cringe.


seriously though weiner stabing is not cool

[-Listy-]

yeah I think every guy thats ever seen it flinched uncomfortably at that part.

[Mr. Ron]

The Manga is better.

[Esp Griffyn]

The first is an incredible film, the second topped it, an astonishing feat!

[thedeadwalk!]

The second was horrible. They fight the military instead of each other, and just took away what the first one was about. Didn't need a sequel at all.

The first was great. The premise totally carried everything and it was executed nicely. But, the story is better told in the book (I'm not talking about the manga). As for the nut stabbing, in the book, they're stomped on, and from how it was described, that had me on the floor taking deep breaths to recover. Brutal.

[-Listy-]

There was a website that showed the first 2 chapters of the book, it was pretty good, i'm gonna get it sometime.

[Der Übermensch]

Th second was so horrible... I couldn't finish it (of course, having a really poorly done subtitle file didnt help...)

[Iscariot]

i've never heard of this

trailer?

[-Listy-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-T7yPJVvXw

btw..both films are on youtube..

so you might as well just watch it :p.

[Iscariot]

that actually looks pretty sweet

i'll sit down and watch it later

[The Jungler]

The book (not the manga) was suprisingly good, and really entertaining. The movie, while not as good as the book by any means, was also pretty good.

I still need to see the second one. Maybe I'll watch it on youtube tommorow.

[stevensonmat2]

lol wow that looks kinda f'd up

kids:smash:

[RetiredAt21]

Awesome movie.

[Iskandar]

It's entertaining, but I didn't get much out of it.

[Cocaine]

Movie sucks ***, read the book. It's much better. The real book though, not that manga garbage.

[Wigga Stole My Bike]

I loved the film...but as Cocaine said, the book is 10x better, the actual book, I never knew a manga existed and was happy in my ignorance for that part.

[spitfirejunky]

This movie was as much a joke as Snakes on a Plane.

[Iscariot]

:rolleyes:

[SoundDevastation]

it was a bit tounge in cheek but good anyway... it got me interested in world cinema.

[Pop music sucks]

The book is all kinds of awesome.

Mitsuko is an evil, manipulative bitch!

[trustxdialect]

Movie sucks ***, read the book. It's much better. The real book though, not that manga garbage.

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The sequel was also a load of garbage used to cash in on the success of the first movie. I read the book a few years back and was blown away, and a friend lent me the film. I didn't even finish it, it was so bad. Not to mention (because of the book's length) it picked the lamest deaths to tape. Usually because they were the ones that moved the plot forward, but the movie wasn't even two hours, I believe, so I don't get why they didn't just push a couple more lively deaths in. That's really where all the emotion came from the book, seeing these kids thrown into this massacre and defending for their young lives.

[Who's the Boss?]

normally I can't stand watching films with subtitles

you're missing out on some really good movies. :(

battle royale is brilliant on many different levels, great movie.


Also I love how in every single thread about a book adapted movie, people have to say the movie sucks and the book is so much better. If books were a drug they'd take forever to get in your system and have little possible effect.

[-Listy-]

agreed with the subtitles thing and the book thing :p.

[trustxdialect]

Also I love how in every single thread about a book adapted movie, people have to say the movie sucks and the book is so much better. If books were a drug they'd take forever to get in your system and have little possible effect.

If I had to choose, I'd pick reading over watching a film. It's so much more satisfying, and there's a lot of stuff in the book that a film can miss out. I mean, one of my favorite movies of all time is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (everything about it was perfect. The other movies sorta sucked), but that doesn't change the fact that the movie left out things that I held dear to my heart from the book. Now, Fight Club trumped the book version (Palahniuk showed weakness in his writing, and however good it was, it didn't hold the panache of the film), but most books I find so much more satisfying. I've been moved by more books than I have films, so I don't really see how you can say something like that unless you just don't like reading.

[Iscariot]

if i had to choose i would pretty much always pick watching a film over reading the book because i simply don't have time to sit down and read a book from cover to cover but a movie is only a couple of hours long in most cases

i don't really care if i'm missing out on something the book has to offer if a movie is good it's good if it's not it's not idc how it compares to the literature

[exodus]

Interesting that this movie was where Quentin Tarantino got the idea of the character Go Go Yubari for Kill Bill (btw that actress was in Battle Royale).

[Cocaine]

The movie completely took the whole driving force behind the plot out, though. It was written with a major component of social commentary, but the movie just has some crazy teacher send his kids to the trip thing.

[Pastorius]

It's not so much a crazy teacher, just a random selection by the government of underperforming classes.

[Cocaine]

In the movie he was their old teacher. In the book, their teacher is killed, and then there was the sadistic teacher who takes over and gets impaled with a pencil, and then Tahara, the military dude.

[Who's the Boss?]

the movie just has some crazy teacher send his kids to the trip thing.

that's what you got from it? interesting.

So you saw this movie, and the thing that sticks out to you is the teacher?

[Cocaine]

To be honest, I tried to block the movie out of my mind because it was literally that bad.

[Who's the Boss?]

I don't think you saw more than the first ten minutes to begin with.

[Cocaine]

No, I saw pretty much the whole movie. I worded that in such a way for the sake of the argument. The book is infinitely better, the movie is almost entirely devoid of context, where as the book paints a picture of a societal dystopia and puts the Battle Royale in context of that.

[CrossTheBreeze]

Has there ever been a movie based on a book that satisfied the people who actually read the book? (sorry I couldn't think of a better way to word the sentence)

I can totally agree with those who say that the books are almost always better than the films though, because some times in the movies they change way too many things. I think angelas ashes is another good example of this, it was still a decent film though

[Pastorius]

What I understood from the movie was that they were an underperforming class, who were selected by the government for Battle Royale. Their current teacher opposes their selection and is killed because of it. Their old teacher hated them and got stabbed by one of them so was happy to do the whole thing for revenge.

[GreyHam]

awesome film, i do love watching it. and i LOVE films with subtitles (even if you cant understand the language, theres something almost musical about listening to it)

ive never got round to reading the book but im sure id agree that the books better, as they so often are

people would have more time to read books if they WATCHED LESS TV!!!

[Pastorius]

But there's a TV adpatation of this book that's meant to be awesome on

[thomas is fast]

I recently bought it. It's one of my favorites, naturally.

[Pastorius]

Actually, this thread made me remember, some mates and I went to the cinema, and we missed a special screening of Battle Royale by like a half hour, I was so pissed.

But we saw Hot Fuzz instead which was the funnies.

[trustxdialect]

Has there ever been a movie based on a book that satisfied the people who actually read the book?
There was Fight Club.

[Cocaine]

Palahniuk books seem to lend themselves to films because you can easily adapt his style into a movie full of really fast cuts. But, I'll have to make a better judgement whenever Survivor comes out, assuming it actually gets made.

[trustxdialect]

Survivor is my favorite Palahniuk book, so I'd probably be harsher on the film, but I could see it being just as good or better than Fight Club because of how it's written. I agree that Fight Club seemed ready made for the screen, but I can't see Invisible Monsters being that way, or even good adapted to the screen unless they got David Lynch to make it. He'd do wonders with Invisible Monsters.

[Cocaine]

Survivor is my favorite Palahniuk book, so I'd probably be harsher on the film, but I could see it being just as good or better than Fight Club because of how it's written. I agree that Fight Club seemed ready made for the screen, but I can't see Invisible Monsters being that way, or even good adapted to the screen unless they got David Lynch to make it. He'd do wonders with Invisible Monsters.

It's my favourite of his too, but it's been on a petition to get made into a film for a while now, since the original idea was put on hold because of 9/11 controversy. I haven't read Invisible Monsters, though.

[Chrysostom]

Ha ha ha. Battle Royale is so hilariously bad it's good. BR2 is just plain bad though.