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You know what they call Battle Royale in France? Hunger Games with Cheese. I saw Battle Royale as a subbed bootleg around 20 years ago. Fantastic B-movie, an
by MrFoof 2y ago
You know what they call Battle Royale in France?
Hunger Games with Cheese.
I saw Battle Royale as a subbed bootleg around 20 years ago. Fantastic B-movie, and I understand some of the young actors got some notable roles as they got older (Takeshi Kitano was there because he was Takeshi Kitano), but it’s still a B-movie. Good time though, even today.
As an aside on Takeshi, for those who want to go down a rabbit hole, dig into “Takeshi’s Challenge” on the Nintendo Famicom. That game is a trip.
- KPGv2 2y ago> battle royale was a B movie Yeah, if it's not an American movie, it's some cheap shit! /s My brother, it was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards, it was helmed by one of Japan's top directors, is an adaptation of a best-selling novel, is regarded by critics as one of the best films of the era, has high production values, stars arguably the most famous actor in Japan, was scored by a famous and prolific composer (you might have heard his music in another movie called Django Unchained), etc. That's not even getting into the economics of film in Japan. A successful film in Japan nowadays earns around $10M on a budget of half a million. BR, produced nearly twenty years ago, had a budget nearly ten times that much and grossed triple. Suffice it to say, Battle Royale is a high production cost movie, which forecloses the possibility of it being a B movie. and because I'm just some guy, https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-ethics-of-making-cheap-films-1202825001/ https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-ethics-of-making-ch...
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoI’ll stick my neck out and assert that “cheap” films are better, anyway: movie budgets’ sizes are inversely proportional to the producers’ risk tolerance; therefore, big money films are devoid of originality and any message they carry is nought but masturbatory self-aggrandisement. The best films I’ve ever watched, that which had the biggest effect on me, were TV-plays and self-funded documentary-films.
- sandworm101 2y ago>> big money films are devoid of originality That may be true for some but at the really high end, writers have the resources to so some fun things. Even many high-end marvel-style movies have hidden jokes and themes that 99% of viewer don't ever pick up on.
- emmelaich 2y agoExample - Dune 2. Good looking junk.
- MrFoof 2y agoI got that wrong. “You know what they call the Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese.” Too many things going on, typed it in backwards!
- OnlineGladiator 2y agoWhy not just edit your original comment?
- MrFoof 2y agoI was past edit window.
- OnlineGladiator 2y agoYou can edit up to 2 hours after you write your comment.
- notatoad 2y agothat changes if people have voted on it or replied to it.
- deanputney 2y agoThis is a better joke too.
- notnaut 2y agodisagree. putting it on its head makes it funnier imo
- gregschlom 2y agoBut then if they have cheese, why would they be hungry?
- tracerbulletx 2y agoFirst version was funnier.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoFirst introduced to Takeshi Kitano in the 2000 remake of "Zatoichi" (highly recommend).
- VectorLock 2y agoIf you like Beat Takeshi I can't recommend his "Outrage" trilogy enough.
- juliusgeo 2y agoThe outrage trilogy is amazing, I would also recommend Sonatine and Hana-bi.
- JoblessWonder 2y agoIn 2003 I was first unknowingly introduced to Takeshi Kitano on MXC on Spike. That fall in a Japanese film class I saw him in Sonatine which remains one of my favorite movies. Then in the spring of 2004 Zatoichi was released and I saw it in theaters. I had a year in my life where Takeshi Kitano was *everywhere*.
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoBtw he's back ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663063
- ekianjo 2y agoZatoichi is so so. Watch Sonatine.
- christkv 2y agoI wonder if anyone will pick up Red Rising at some point. Might be too expensive to do properly
- chrisweekly 2y agohope so
- bodantogat 2y agoAn animated show might work! Will Wight's Cradle series raised over $1M on Kickstarter for an adaptation https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/animating-cradle-bestselling-fantasy-novels-come-to-life/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/anima...
- peterarmstrong 2y agoAlso, Asakusa Kid (biopic of him) is a really good movie, and Hana-bi is a great movie as well.
- achileas 2y agoBattle Royale was a novel before it was a movie, and it's a much better novel than movie.
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoTakeshi Kitano , AKA Vic Romano of Takeshi's Castle ("MxC" in US cable networks). For anyone that misses that jewel of japanese game show, they have rebooted the franchise and the new series are available in Amazon prime.
- coldtea 2y ago>but it’s still a B-movie It was "the third highest-grossing Japanese film of 2001". "At the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Battle Royale was nominated for nine awards, including Picture of the Year, and won three of them". Hardly a b-movie, except in the sense "not a Hollywood blockbuster crapfest"
- ekianjo 2y agoFujiwara did not have to wait to become a famous actor after BR. The same for Shibasaki Ko (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Shibasaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Shibasaki) People focus on Kitano too much he was just a secondary character in that movie.