All I'm saying is that, by and large, Battle Royale is not exactly a tour de force in the first place. It's a very interesting concept, and I think, an entertaining movie. But even the son of the director couldn't cobble together a decent sequel, so why deride "Hollywood" for trying to repackage it and sell it to American audiences... true they are bereft of new ideas, but that's why you go see Good Night & Good Luck perhaps, instead of American Pie XXIVI.
A movie like Battle Royale wont reach American audiences in its original form anyways, its sort of a niche market for the non-Japanese who do manage to see it--- You cant exactly go to Blockbuster video and get it... (Though, a side note--- I was pleased that when renting Zatouichi, they throw in Sonatine as a bonus--- nice)... It's hard to imagine someone walking down to Blockbuster and actually requesting Sonatine---
It's probably difficult to make the film very much like its Japanese original, see if you can name enough child-actors who don't annoy you to fill all of the roles. Hayley Joel Osment... hmm... and I'm stuck now.
When I mention, 'ruining your asia', I'm refering first to the fact that Japan itself has a problem with what is called, pakuri, or blatant copying without reference to the original--- so it's naieve to slight Hollywood for basically getting rights to remake an original, rather than copy it, basically what the second Battle Royale did with Saving Private Ryan, including an exact duplicate (for no real reason) of the scene of Tom Hanks & Matt Damon improvising by throwing mortor-shells---
Historically speaking, a good deal of writing & film borrows heavily from each other, so this is expected... It just so happens that in this case, it's a remake of an existing film, which would of course be credited...
It might not be good, but then who cares? You just don't go see the movie. I sometimes get the feeling that people fear that others will get a bad idea of what the original was like... I just think that those same people would never suffer through a Japanese movie with subtitles... this movie serves a different market than those people reading thist thead.
Last, if Japan thought it could make money with The Ring 4: Ring Camp! I don't think it would hesitate to keep making sequels... So, again, I think we should drop the presumption that Japan somehow has cornered the market on artistic creativity.
I think Korean film is probably at a higher point right now, but that's a whole different topic alltogether.
What happened to all the good movies Hollywood used to bring us 
