I know I’m a little bit behind the times in this, but I finally got the chance to sit down and watch The Hunger Games. And in doing so came the inevitable comparisons to one of my favorite movies and (arguably) the precursor to Hunger Games, a movie called Battle Royale. It has been said that Suzanne Collins did not know that Battle Royale existed before she wrote her series of novels, and after seeing both of them within a few days of each other, I would tend to believe her.
