x404.co.uk - View topic - The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

View unanswered posts | View active topics It is currently Mon Aug 11, 2025 6:16 pm

The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

Moderators: saspro, HeatherKay, timark_uk, Blue_Nowhere, l3v1ck

Page 1 of 1

[ 5 posts ]

Print view

Previous topic | Next topic

The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

Author

Message

paulzolo

What's a life?

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
Posts: 12251

The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification


	Quote: The Hunger Games has been cut by its distributor in order to achieve a teen-friendly rating of 12A in the UK. The film, set in a post-apocalyptic America where adolescents fight to the death on live TV, had been facing a 15 certificate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17285325

This film sounds like a watered down Battle Royale to me.

_________________
All the best,
Paul


	brataccas wrote: your posts are just combo chains of funny win

I’m on Twitter, tweeting away... My Photos Random Avatar Explanation

Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:10 am

timark_uk

Moderator

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
Posts: 12144
Location: Belfast

Re: The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification


	paulzolo wrote: fsounds like a watered down Battle Royale to me.

Yep. Me too.
I have no desire to see this at all. Ever since I first heard about it I thought the same.

Mark

_________________


	okenobi wrote: All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.


	ShockWaffle wrote: Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.

Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:51 pm

cloaked_wolf

What's a life?

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022

Re: The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

A quick wiki shows the Hunger Games novel was strikingly similar to Battle Royale (with some accusaions of plagiarism).

I've heard (seen/read) of neither and am content to keep it that way.

_________________

He fights for the users.

Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:24 pm

l3v1ck

What's a life?

Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)

Re: The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

Films that have been cut down to get a lower rating are usually pants. Just look what the Yanks did to The Kings Speech when they cut out the swearing. The took half of the story with it.

_________________


	pcernie wrote: 'I'm going to snort this off your arse - for the benefit of government statistics, of course.'

Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:56 pm

ProfessorF

What's a life?

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
Posts: 12030

Re: The Hunger Games cut to get 12A classification

Trying hard to think of a story I could care less about than this one, right now.

_________________
www.alexsmall.co.uk


	Charlie Brooker wrote: Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever.

Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:00 pm

Page 1 of 1

[ 5 posts ]

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 12 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum