TETSUUOOOOO-Oh wait, wrong movie. I heard that part two was pretty crappy and over the top, even by the first one's standards.
Hey, remember that movie Battle Royale that you've been hearing about for years? The tale of high-school students killing each other in a totalitarian future Japan was considered unreleasable stateside in the post-Columbine environment of 2000. Twelve years on, The Hunger Games got a PG-13 rating.
Screened very rarely in the U.S., it's now available to theaters via Tugg, the service that allows viewers to vote for screenings at participating theaters. And in celebration of this, Mondo Collectibles has gotten Scott Pilgrim artist Bryan Lee O'Malley to design a poster in his distinctive - and in this case, deliciously incongruous - style. Director Kinji Fukasaku will be grinning from his grave.
Also, spoiler alert. Like, every single spoiler is on this poster if you know what you're looking at.
Tags: Battle Royale, Scott Pilgrim
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*Sniffle* It's beautiful! If only we could get the guy behind "Kings of Power 4 Billion Percent" to make an animated version of it. It would be absolutely criminal if he and O'Malley never co-op'ed on anything. Just think of the possibilities!
@Kaobel Guy's name is Paul Robertson that did Kings of Power. He also did the art for the Scott Pilgrim video game.
@AlgusUnderdunk @Kaobel Oh right, I completely forgot about that. There is good in this world after all, it would seem.
Battle Royal has been streaming on Netflix for at least a year, all should watch it and Battle 2 - they are "fun" movies
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I have this movie on Blu Ray sitting on my shelf...guess i'll have to watch it now.
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@Canadian.Scott WAIT! If you do that then what is going to hold down the shelf? THINK MAN THINK!
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@LYT I think the Tugg link is broken.
The Japanese do prove that reading violent manga; playing violent games; and watching violent T.V. does not translate to violent acts in real life.
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@Someguy It was when I found out that the same accusations were being made about "Heroic Poetry" a couple thousand years ago it began to dawn on me that the real problem may be that stupid people can only manage to produce stupid answers and stupid answers cannot fix real world problems
@Gallen_Dugall @Someguy For your consideration: an ancient culture (Greece I think) moved to ban music played in certain (minor) keys because they prompted negative emotions.
