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‘Hunger Games’ Review: Compelling But Implausible, Like 'American Idol' with a Body Count

20 March 2012 10:03 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Like so much of contemporary pop culture, “The Hunger Games” ravenously consumes ideas from other books and movies and repurposes them for its own needs. Not much digging is required to find plot elements from “The 10th Victim,” “Battle Royale,” “The Truman Show,” “Lord of the Flies,” “The Running Man,” and “Series 7: The Contenders,” alongside design ideas from “A Clockwork Orange” and even the infamously ridiculous “The Apple.” It’s easy to forgive this kind of thievery, however, when the perp actually does something with the stolen goods, and for whatever »

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