Same plot as Hunger Games
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Starcraft_90 — 13 years ago(October 10, 2012 02:40 PM)
The way the OP was worded made it seem like the Original Poster was wondering if this movie had similarities to 'The Hunger Games' how it should have been worded was "Are there similarities from The Hunger Games to The Running Man
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x_offender_79 — 13 years ago(September 28, 2012 03:48 PM)
I bought The Hunger Games book because my mate said it was a bit like Battle Royale, which is one of my favourite books (awful film though). But when I read it, it reminded a lot more of The Running Man book.
I'm watching TRM film for the first time right now, I'm about half way through and it's a lot different from the book! But yeah, still very similar with the whole 'celebrating death as a game show' theme, (which is obviously the main theme of both films). I can imagine the crowds in the Capitol in THG reacting much the same as in TRM.
But I don't think that THG has ripped off TRM, I mean it's not like TRM was the first to use this idea, and when films share a basic premise, there are always going to be similarities. Other genres seem to get away with it, like the basic rom-com plot that is used to death, or the slasher film premise- a madman stalks and kills a bunch of kids, how often have we seen that? Yet no-one accused Friday 13th of ripping off Halloween!
The problem with the 'death game show' genre is that it's so specific; the similarities, by the constraints of the premise, are quite obvious. Also, there aren't that many of them, so I guess it's easier to be reminded of a specific film to compare it to rather than the genre as a whole.
For example, as I'm watching this, it's reminding me a lot of Death Race 2000, but I don't think it ripped it off. -
joe_538 — 12 years ago(December 15, 2013 05:47 PM)
People accused Friday the 13th and an endless list of other slasher movies of ripping off Halloween.
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MegaMaverick — 13 years ago(October 03, 2012 02:43 PM)
I came here to post a similar thing. It's amazing how much The Hunger Games ripped this of. Altough, personally I thought The Hunger Games done it alot better. This movie was pretty bad.
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BertramWilberforceWooster — 13 years ago(March 13, 2013 01:41 AM)
Even further than that: try Rome. Even the characters' names in the book give that away: Plutarch, Seneca, Flavius, and many others.
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