048 | Movies | Hunger Games & Battle Royale

Many people claim that Suzanne Collins stole the idea for The Hunger Games from a Japanese Book/Movie titled Battle Royale by author Toushun Takami. In this third installment of Girl Talk the girls get together and and compare the two stories. Plus, we answer reader mail about Doctor Who and Regenerations. Past Hunger Games episodes include Episode 08: Girl Talk and Episode 26: Girl Talk Rises

Be sure to check out our comic, Hurry The Rabbitoid Knight: Prelude to Epilogue!

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00:34 - Intro01:14 - Listener mail: Doctor Who Regenerations?05:34 - Girl Talk Returns!06:30 - Battle Royale Overview (Film Adaptation by Kinji Fukasaku)07:47 - Similarities between Battle Royale and The Hunger Games as we see them09:14 - Differences, noting we haven't read the Battle Royale novel11:47 - Comparing the Situations13:24 - Brutality and Violence in Battle Royale - Melodrama in Japanese Drama15:27 - Battle Royale is some kind of commentary on Teenagers18:52 - Battle Royale's Japanese Johnny Rotten and Victors21:03 - There is NO Katniss Everdeen in Battle Royale22:05 - So is Hunger Games a Rip Off?24:56 - One of these movies is clearly Superior to the other27:24 - We agree that Girls can have machine gun fights27:40 - Suzanne Collins on Battle Royale28:27 - Hasn't EVERYONE seen The Running Man?!?29:16 - Girl Talk OUT

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