Entertainment Tonight Goes Behind The Scenes Of THE HUNGER GAMES

Oh grif how i love your comments lol

Read the books. The movie looks interesting enough.
Sure, what the heck, I'll watch it

Stop the "Battle Royale Ripoff" stuff please. Just cause it is somewhat similar doesn't mean its a ripoff. I can do the same for comics, but no one goes up the ring yang about it except Hunger Games. For some reason you guys want this film to fail cause its a ripoff of something hardly anyone in the general public has heard of.

Tell me did Battle Royale have its own People Magazine edition, US Weekly edition, 2 Entertainment Weekly covers, and other merchandise? NO

And for the record, where I am going to see the film at, all 18 screens at midnight are SOLD OUT. So tell me that this will fail.

For the last time, I am sick of all of y'all dissing this movie when its not out yet saying it is a rip off. Crediting with what someone wrote on another post, here you go....


Similarities- Both involve the idea of kids having to kill each other to win the 'game'... That's really all I can think of...

Let's look at differences- (Maybe Spoilers…)

1. BR is set in present day Japan in an alternate time-line; HG is based in North America in the future.

2. BR involves 42 kids; an entire class of 16? (I think, it's been a while) year olds, who all already know each other. In HG, there is half this amount of kids, they range from 12 to 18 and do not know each other (except their counterpart from their own district).

3. In BR, there is very little background in terms of society or the circumstances of the people. The story pretty much begins at the start of the 'battle'. In HG, a good part of the book is spent on the history that led to the situation, how the people live and the set-up of the games. The games don't even start until a good third into the book.

4. The kids in BR are selected in secret, tricked into thinking they were on a field trip, drugged and then forced by violence to take part- the man in charge killed their teacher, claimed to have raped a mother who did not want her child to take part and killed two students before it had even started. Although the threat of violence if non-compliant if implied in HG, it is not put into practise. The selection process is not in secret, it is televised. There is a chance for others to volunteer in a selected persons' place.

5. BR is set on a residential island. The kids are given basic supplies and a weapon and shoved out the door. In HG, they kids have time to train; they are provided with food and go into a man-made arena with nothing. They can risk being killed to grab what they can, or run.

6. The story in BR switches between different groups of people, away from the main characters. Characters are developed, and we get to 'see' them die when the main characters are not present. In HG, the whole story is told through the main character. We do not know anything about the other contestants other than what the main character knows. We are not told any details of deaths that she does not see.

7. There are no sci-fi elements to BR. In HG, there are several references to mutant animals and experiments. At the end, the dead contestants are turned into wolves that attack the survivors. This aspect is not in BR.

8. BR is not televised live. There are no cameras on the island, only the winner at the end appears on TV. They are basically on their own. In HG, the whole process is not only on TV, but the entire nation is expected to watch it. The contestants on HG spend time before the games being prepped, combat training and styling to achieve a good ‘look’- it treats the whole thing as much more of a popularity contest . They have the opportunity to get 'sponsors', who will provide them with needed gifts throughout the games... providing the contestants give the audience what they want.

This is probably the biggest difference between the two... While BR is basically gory horror entertainment, HG is a cynical look at how reality TV can become. It focuses a lot on pleasing the audience (and the sponsors) playing to the cameras and providing entertainment. This is really the biggest theme of HG, more so than the actual premise of kids killing each other (which is the biggest theme of BR).