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Mean Guns came out a couple of years before the script for Battle Royale was written and it seems to me the movies are TOO similar to be coincidence. I'm really surprized no one seems to have connected them! And then Battle Royale went on to inspire Kill Bill and more closely, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games almost seems like a loose remake of Battle Royale. Anyway, without Mean Guns you might not have had the movie Battle Royale and without Battle Royale we wouldn't have the Hunger Games. Yea, I know the writer of the Hunger Games says she never heard of Battle Royal but few of us really believe that.

8 Murders a Day jumped out at me as an important documentary about an important subject, the drug war and the problem with the cartels and corruption in Mexico. It falls short though, adds very little in the way of facts and information, contains mostly very blurry footage and a repetitive soundtrack, and soundtrack is stretching it, the same sound loop is played over and over throughout the documentary even through the final credits. This causes the movie to be especially boring and although one isn't supposed to enjoy this movie about atrocities, it is very distracting. Yes, legalizing drugs in the U.S. would put the cartels out of business and probably stop most of the violence on both sides of the borders, but because leaders get so much money and power from it on both sides of the border, it isn't likely to ever happen. People in positions of power like the status quo and will fight any efforts to change it.