Never heard of suicide club, but i can second the recommendation for Battle Royale

True, but it was wooden enough and awkward enough, even after the game, that I figured it was just an act, and I've never read the books.

You realise that it's supposed to be a film for teens?

It wouldn't have made the movie any better. That shit was terrible. Not Twilight terrible but pretty bad.

Your thread title threw me off. I thought you were saying the movie as is should be R rated and I was thinking you were nuts, it's like a PG...PG13 at most as is.

But yeah if I could have made three changes it would be:
- Less of the boring stuff leading up to the actual Hunger Games (all the build up prior to the games, training, talking etc.), but more of the story and how the world ended up like it is in the movie. My sister has read the books and said that there is a lot more explanation in the books than in the movie.
- More violence.

Read the books, loved them. Hated the movie. It doesn't do it justice. The only reason why it's getting good reviews is cuz the teenagers are loving it for no apparent reason. The whole story in the movie lacks depth. They ruined the bread scene completely. And Katniss is a total bitch towards Peeta at the end of the first book. Yeah, that didn't happen in the movie. I'm disappointed and will not watch it again.

movie was okay,but making it an R movie just doesn't make sense. I mean it's geared more toward the teen audience,so I understand why they made it pg-13.

that's kind of the point though, it's a B movie like escape from new york, assault on precinct 13. Doesn't mean you have to like it but it's in the vein of those movies.

The hunger games seemed like a B movie, with a weird mish-mash, of high production values, but a somewhat campy story.

What are you talking about the main actors are older in hunger games... jennifer lawrence is 21 Josh Hutcherson was 19. Tatsuya Fujiwara (the main character) was 18 when battle royale was made, and Noriko Nakagawa was 15 (the female lead).

OT: The hunger games was made PG-13 for monetary reasons, and it was the correct decision(financially) because as an R movie it would not have been as near as successful. . It wasn't an amazing movie, but it was really entertaining, and if a movie is that, it's successful in my book. A directors cut with gore would probably mean that they filmed scenes without shaky cam, and with more gore, and I don't think they did this. I hope I'm wrong.

 I've read the book, and there's nothing exactly groundbreaking here, nothing that, the running man, lord of the flies or battle royale and probably a lot of others didn't do before it. However it's books sequals are more interesting imo.