Battle Royale sounds like Running Man, to a degree.
Was there a movie about an everyone-for-themselves fight set in a prison, also called Battle Royale?
You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.
Fred ,'Life of the Party'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 2:52:12 pm PST #16866 of 28333
brillig
DavidS - Nov 16, 2011 2:57:55 pm PST #16867 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Was there a movie about an everyone-for-themselves fight set in a prison, also called Battle Royale?
Andersonville! (/joke for Civil War historians)
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 2:59:06 pm PST #16868 of 28333
brillig
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2011 2:59:52 pm PST #16869 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
Maybe one nurse with a gatling gun? Okay, probably not.
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 3:02:46 pm PST #16870 of 28333
brillig
Well, alternative history is a valid genre . . .
Jessica - Nov 16, 2011 3:37:38 pm PST #16871 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't have usually have a problem with a story that is all male, if it would be untrue to the period or written in an era when it wouldn't occur to the writer to include a woman in, for example, a combat scene. What I dislike is women whose only roles are screaming, fainting, helplessness and being rescued.
Ditto. I also prefer books with no women to books with terribly-written women. (Neither of which applies to Tolkien, but Kindle keeps telling me I'd like Ready Player One and I have to keep telling it OH FUCK NO so the topic's been on my mind.)
Aims - Nov 16, 2011 4:01:19 pm PST #16872 of 28333
Shit's all sorts of different now.
OMG HUNGER GAMES!!
That is all.
Fred Pete - Nov 17, 2011 4:32:55 am PST #16873 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
There were nurses in Andersonville?
Okay. To be fair.
There were Confederate nurses in Andersonville?
I'm not a fan of war books/military history as a genre, but when I fall in love with one, I fall hard. And few, if any, war books deserve love more than McElroy's memoirs of Andersonville.
Hayden - Nov 17, 2011 8:44:52 am PST #16874 of 28333
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
In the deadly games arena, there's also that movie called Series 7: The Contenders, in which the protagonist is a pregnant woman.
Polgara - Nov 17, 2011 10:10:13 am PST #16875 of 28333
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Jessica, why no to Ready Player One? It's on my maybe list, but I don't remember hearing anything bad about it.