The Trailer for The Hunger Games is here
The Hunger Games 2012 opens in just a couple of weeks. I've never read the books, but I feel like I've already seen this movie before... Everything in Hollywood is derived from something that came before it. It would be stupid for me to sit here and complain about the lack of new ideas (which I have before). As long as you improve on or make your version of an old theme better or different enough then it doesn't matter that if it has been done before. For every remake that I complain about --there is a Tron sequel that I'm first in line for. At one point I thought that the proper name for myself as a critic would have been The Hypocritical Critic since I would rush out to see a remake of Conan the Barbarian a week after asking why Hollywood was remaking Footloose for a lack of originality. So ---even though The Hunger Games seems like a movie that has been made over and over again....I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the Hunger of so many fans to see this film. I'll probably wait until it hits Netflix myself---but I should stop being surprised by cover articles about this film I feel like I've seen before. The Hunger Games seems like a mix of The Running Man/ Battle Royale, and several other people hunting people stories that probably started as far back as the 1932 movie The Most Dangerous Game 8 out of 10 (which itself has been done over and over again in a series of movies -that I will save for another blog)
This bizarre Japanese film that takes a bunch of high school kids –places them on an Island and makes them kill each other until only one person is left.. A Battle
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The Trailer for Battle Royale
Speaking of the WWE....The Condemned from 2007 stars Stone Cold Steve Austin 5 out of 10 . This was basically the American version of Battle Royale without the interesting character moments. All brawn and no brain...(well it was produced by the WWE--so what do you expect). This film was clearly influenced by The Running Man 1987, which also has criminals competing to the death as part of a televised event. A theme that is also a big part of The Hunger Games.
The Trailer for the Condemned
Speaking of The Running Man 1987 9 out of 10
Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in this Sci-Fi action movie based on a short story by Steven King that places Arnold on a TV show where criminals are forced to compete as "Hunters" track them down to kill them as entertainment for a TV audience. This is so far my favorite of the people hunted for sport as part of a TV show genre. See I'm not complaining about The Running Man (because I loved it) since it was an interesting twist of the genre. With elements of Death Race 2000 as probably one of its influences.
Trailer for The Running Man
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