well except for the scenes kitano is on screen. i love that dude and almost everything he has done.
no but seriously did i miss something? why does everyone say it's a masterpiece? all the shit it inspired is miles better.
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>why does everyone say it's a masterpiece?
it's japanese
>TFW I watched the sequel
I still have the big limited edition DVD box thing for the sequel. Buying that was a mistake.
Bought this one a whim when I was 17 from a store in San Francisco.
You did it for the Japanese schoolgirls didn't you?
its like 20 years old at this point. the young audience run the idea into the ground with the hunger games and what not kids killing each other as part of a game just doesnt have the impact it once did.
The film having two psychos stalking the leads it what kept the pace interesting. Kitano is the only good part in terms of acting. The teens are all animé tier.
That's all Japanese acting. There's a reason Japanese cinema never took off. They cannot act at all, so all the writers make manga/anime instead.
Its before the idol boom. J-Cinema went downhill after the Japanese New Wave. They leaned heavilly on exploitation and animé
My first waifu
(and only one, because thankfully I grew out of my weeb phase... Kind of)
Yellow jacket girl right? She was pretty.
Going in this image is pretty much the only thing I knew about the film. I thought she would be the main antagonist, but that ended up being the taser girl and the uzi guy.
I was a little upset she went out like a b***h :(.
Mitsoku was cuter.
It came out around the same time where Japanese movies, like J-horror or suicide club, became hip for a certain niche of cinephiles. Same reason why you see korean shit praised to death nowadays, but on a smaller scale.
moronic comparison
It didn't age well, but it was really cool when it came out. I think that goes for a lot of things when I was a kid, there was just so much less media back then exploring certain ideas compared to now.
It's pretty good. Kinda feels like a live-action anime, especially with how the two older kids are so distinctly stylized compared to the uniformed regular teens. The violence is intense and shocking since it involves not only teens but teens in a country where violent crime is nearly nonexistent. I don't think anybody pretends it's some kind of masterpiece, but it's a good movie.
youd really hate the second one then
The teacher guy is one of the worst actors I've ever seen
sorry to hear that. other then either having a stroke or some weird tick hes a pretty commanding figure onscreen.
His facial nerves got messed up in a motorcycle accident.
And yes, he's a very good actor, but even better director, you need to see everything he's made.
Kitano is a bad actor. He just has really good screen presence.
It invented the battle royale genre
Nah, it's kino and you're a homosexual.
She's litty
bros, does anybody remember a scene in this film of the loose hot girl, and it explains her backstory with her as a child and some man strips a barbie doll, and then says something like 'now its your turn'
I first watched this film when I was like 6 because my dad watched it and I just stayed in the room, and that bit came on and my dad screwed his face up, tutted and skipped the scene. I've watched this film a few times since then but never seen that bit. It's like I imagined it or something
which version did you watch? i saw the theatrical cut and there was no such scene.
no idea, i bought an arrow blu ray a few years ago and it wasnt on that either. my dad always pirated films so I doubt he bought it
Its directors cut. I watched the movie for the first time yesterday.
Batteru Royaru iasn't hailed as a masterpiece, it's a cult classic that weeb Cinemaphile guys talked up back in the 2000s because it was campy, foreign, and fun. It was one of those movies we'd stream through some anon's IP or on an early shitty livestream site alongside other edgy classics from the pre-smartphone era, most of which are just regular pop culture now
>Fight Club
>American Psycho
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Men Behind the Sun
>A Clockwork Orange
>Requiem for a Dream
>Elephant
>Blue Velvet
>The Human Centipede
>American History X
>Hostel
>Hard Candy
>Natural Born Killers
>Faces of Death
>Private Teacher
No we didn't, zoomer.
We bought the bootleg DVD and watched in a room with our real, tangible friends.
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i downloaded mine in two parts on kazaa
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Babby's first edgy kill'em all.
I've watched it twice, alone and with friends and I enjoyed it a lot both times. People need to stop describing anything they like as a "masterpiece". People who use that word are the furthest from being an authority on what pieces are masterful.
tarantino called it a masterpiece iirc
The book was good.
It’s no masterpiece. The movie is the worst version of the story. Books and manga are better. We need a remake now.
>here's that high schooler i was telling you about