How is "Hunger Games" different from "Battle Royale"

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Chakravartin wrote:
Hunger Games rips off dozens of books and movies. Not just the one.

If you're a movie aficionado, you probably won't enjoy it as much because you'll see it as a ripoff... which it is.

Big time.

And lots of reviewers have pointed out the many movies they've seen scraped for it.

But it's well done as ripoffs go. You might even enjoy it for how cleanly, unambiguously and unconsciensciously it's a ripoff. As the original book was. A total wholesale whorish ripoff.

But people like it. And they pay.

I can't wrap my brain around the phenomenon of moviegoers flocking to see this one in droves despite nobody I've heard from finding it particularly memorable.

I think the above commentary describes every mainstream American science fiction film. If you read at least a sampling of Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, even just the short stories, in your youth, all of it seems like dumbed-down rehash.