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Post by Kneetroll on Apr 9, 2006 15:44:06 GMT
Has anyone here ever watched those films?
For those that don't know, they're Japanese cult movies based on schools that send their kids on a "field trip" that forces them to kill each other.
It sounds like a typical violent Japanese blood-fest, but I assure there are some very dark political themes underlying both movies.
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Post by Death on Apr 9, 2006 16:39:38 GMT
Yeah i've got them both and the first is way better than the second.
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Post by Kneetroll on Apr 9, 2006 18:05:29 GMT
Weird, my fave is the second one! Though admittedly the first one had more of an original edge to it. The second was "War With Kids".
The guy who played Shuya Nanahara was so much cooler in the second one!
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Post by matt on Apr 9, 2006 18:44:58 GMT
Geez - you didn't notice Mitsuko was in my avatar and sig for a few months a while ago?
Lol. Love the first. Don't want to even touch the second.
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Post by Kneetroll on Apr 9, 2006 19:13:15 GMT
Have you watched the second one? It's honestly worth at least one watch, even if you don't love it.
I didn't notice no *duh* lol
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Post by DreamDangerously on Apr 17, 2006 19:05:30 GMT
oooh! Love the first one, haven't gotten around to the second one yet.
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Post by Kneetroll on Apr 17, 2006 19:47:08 GMT
The second one carries on the story, 3 years later. Whilst not a prejudice film, it isn't exactly a "hey let's welcome american viewers with open arms movie" cos they slag America off (with damn good reason in my opinion) for alot of it!
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Post by kittygobonkers on Apr 18, 2006 10:40:59 GMT
i've never even heard of these films but now i really want to see them, they sound great!!!
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Post by Kneetroll on Apr 18, 2006 18:10:00 GMT
Well as long as you don't mind politically incorrect films that are subtitled with OTT campish blood on, go ahead! They're awesome!
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Post by fenris on Jun 8, 2006 18:42:52 GMT
It's just been confirmed that New Line Cinema are producing an American remake of the first Battle Royale. New Line have handed the project to Neal Moritz and Roy Lee, the duo responsible for the forthcoming The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and The Grudge 2.
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Post by DreamDangerously on Jun 8, 2006 18:53:44 GMT
Why!!!!
Why the hell is the American film industry obsessed with remaking perfectly good films? We need a remake of Battle Royale like we needed a remake of The Omen. The originals are...well...just that...original.
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Post by Kneetroll on Jun 9, 2006 9:24:56 GMT
Blimey. That's actually annoyed me! The Battle Royale movies were a labour of love from the director! He literally said "I'll finish BRII if it kills me" - he did die half way through it actually, but his son finished it! It doesn't need to be ruined by cheap-arse yank movie productions!
LOL *ahem* sorry, but I love both films not for their violence, but for their originality and eagerness to be honest - the second film was even classed as "anti american" so what are they gonna do? Switch it to an "anti Japanese" movie!?
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2006 9:43:39 GMT
I demand Tarantino take over as director and then make it or cancel it.
Tarantino is a HUGE BR fan (he actually wanted the girl who played Mitsuko in both Kill Bill films but she couldn't fit it in her schedule) and the BR SE DVD I have has a featurette on Tarantino's love for the film.
If there's anyone I'd trust to make a remake of BR - it'd be Tarantino. But then again he'd be smart enough to not touch it...
Oh god I'm picturing Hilarily bloody Duff and Lindsey Lohan as Noriko and Mitsuko now....
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Post by Kneetroll on Jun 9, 2006 9:47:53 GMT
I know yeah, Tarantino would make a good director for that - but it's like "Kung Fu" if they ever remade that, Tarantino is a huuuuge fan, but again I agree - he's smart enough not to touch it.
I just hope they don't... "americanise" it, and dumb it down too much. You watch, it'll be crappy action-movie film fluff.
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Post by fenris on Jun 10, 2006 10:59:30 GMT
Blockbuster films have become so expensive to make and advertise that the U.S. movie industry can't afford to have them fail. A series of several major box office failures in a row could probably bankrupt a studio. For example, look at Orion and Carolco, both of which came to grief in the Nineties. Carolco had two massive hits in the first half of that decade, with Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Total Recall, but following a string of flops (most notably Cutthroat Island) it went bust.
Therefore, studio executives are terrified of taking any risks, and a movie based on an original idea or premise - and therefore an unknown and unproven quantity - is seen as being too big a gamble.
Hence the numerous remakes (of foreign films and movies from the Seventies and Eighties) and sequels, plus all the new films based on TV shows, comic books, computer games, even Disneyland rides. They're all things that have already proven to be successful (even if in other media) and/or are seen to have familiar 'name value'.
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