Whether you're a kid or an adult, your family certainly watches adaptations of YA fantasy novels like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games on a regular basis.
The Hunger Games, the first novel in a popular series, was published in September 2008 & was read by many people throughout President Obama's term in office. Whilst society certainly had its flaws, we were still living in a time & place when the dystopian world of the books, Panem, seemed like something out of a novel.
Those who read the trilogy & saw the films based on them probably didn't think that a dystopian society like that depicted in the books & films would one day become a reality, replete with a worldwide epidemic.
Now that life has settled down a bit, you might feel like viewing movies like “The Hunger Games” again. Here are the Top 10 Movies Like Hunger Games.
10. Logan's Run
The dystopian science fiction novel Logan's Run by Clayton Jacobson & William Nolan served as inspiration for Michael Anderson's film adaptation. Although it doesn't hold up well to the test of time, the picture is nonetheless enjoyable & significant within its genre.
In the year 2274, humanity evolved into a highly technological society that has adapted to life under a giant dome. Residents of this metropolis don't see any use in life beyond its pleasures & typically perish before reaching their 30th birthday.
Individuals who choose not to contribute to maintaining the delicate ecological balance of that civilization are known as Runners. The runners are being pursued by the Sandmen, a special unit of soldiers. Both Logan's Run & The Hunger Games include dangerous situations for young adults.
9. Battle Royale
This action-thriller, adapted from a Japanese novel by Koushun Takami, established many of the rules that would be used in subsequent battle royale video games. The plot follows a group of 9 students as they find themselves on a mysterious island, armed only with maps & bionic limbs.
They are given 3 days to fight each other until there is only one pupil remaining. If you want to keep track of them, they have to wear a metal collar equipped with radar all the time. When it was first released, Battle Royale was heralded as one of the best movies of the 2000s.
Its success made it one of the highest-grossing Japanese-language films ever. It has become something of a cultural phenomenon over the years, with devoted followers everywhere. A wide variety of works, including new movies, books, comics & even video games, were sparked by the first film.
8. Ender's Game
Ender's Game was in development for a long time & it was another literary adaptation where all of the adults can't wait to put the kids in danger. The novel, written by Orson Scott Card in 1985, didn't find print until maybe after the success of things like Harry Potter & The Hunger Games.
The film was met with mixed reviews & became one of the year's biggest bombs at the box office. With a cast that includes Viola Davis, Harrison Ford & Asa Butterfield as the prodigy child selected to save Earth from a future alien invasion, Ender's Game is arguably a little overlong & often stiffly acted.
Ender's Game is about 2 hours long & in that time it manages to incorporate interesting character dynamics & stunning visual effects a novel takes on the theme of children being made to arbitrate disputes between their elders.
7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies was a huge success & it served as the inspiration for Peter Brook's film adaptation. Stories about survival in a dystopian society, such as those written by Koushun Takami in Battle Royale & Suzanne Collins in the Hunger Games series, owe a great deal to Lord of the Flies.
The protagonists are a bunch of English public school boys who crash-land on an uncharted tropical island. The crash was fatal & no adults were able to escape. So, the boys must work together to stay alive until they are rescued.
Electing a leader & establishing regulations to keep things in order are natural outcomes. Conflicts quickly emerge in the developing society. The Hunger Games makes a better job at world-building & impressively develops upon Golding's ideas than Lord of the Flies does in its expressionistic nightmare tracing down a group's psychological breakdown.
6. After The Dark
A philosophy course takes a grim turn when the lecturer informs his students they must choose only 10 members from their group to survive the nuclear holocaust. A thought-provoking psychological thriller, After The Dark, will give you Quarter Quell feelings.
5. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a fanciful world-building & spooky film. Lily Collins plays Clary Fray, a teenager from New York City who learns she is a Shadowhunter, a warrior half-angel tasked with protecting humanity from evil.
In City of Bones, Clary must explore New York City's magical underground to battle vampires, demons & other supernatural monsters, while in The Hunger Games, the residents of Panem are turned against each other.
4. Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter Ascending is an epic space opera written & directed by the Wachowskis, who are most known for making The Matrix. It follows Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), a seemingly average woman, who discovers that she is a galactic royal destined to disrupt the equilibrium of the cosmos.
Channing Tatum makes a rare appearance in a science fiction film as Caine Wise, a military hunter who has been genetically modified & sent to Earth in search of Jupiter. An epic adventure in a galaxy far, far away, with the likes of Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean & Gugu Mbatha-Raw & the spectacular graphics for which the Wachowskis are known. In addition, Jupiter's exquisite celestial attire makes us think of Effie Trinket.
3. Divergent
Want another dystopian protagonist that happens to be a strong woman? Those who answered yes should check out the film adaptation of Divergent by Veronica Roth. Like the houses at Hogwarts, Tris (Shailene Woodley) gets sorted into one of five factions for life in this science fiction film.
Tris selects the Dauntless faction since they are the most courageous, but things get complicated when she learns that she doesn't belong to any one group. Also, it's interesting to note that Zo Kravitz's father, Lenny Kravitz, plays Cinna in The Hunger Games and that Zo herself plays Christina, one of Tris's supporters in this film.
2. Hanna
Ronan impresses in the role of Hanna Heller, a 15-year-old trained assassin sent on a mission by her father, a former CIA agent. She is on the run from a formidable adversary who has declared war on her life. As she nears the end of her mission, though, she begins to doubt her own humanity.
1. Riddick
In the third installment in the popular Riddick book series, we once again get acquainted with the story of a trained mercenary, notorious for killing anyone that comes after him. After being betrayed by his leader, he finds himself alone on a scorching planet with deadly alien predators. Emergency beacon activation is the only means of egress.
Nevertheless, doing so would tip off a team of killers to his whereabouts. They won't leave the planet until they have Riddick's head as a trophy, and they're being led by a strange figure from Riddick's past. Will Riddick find a way to escape the impending doom before time runs out?
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