This Movie Made Billions In America Yet Is Banned Around Half Of The World

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The Hunger Games

We know what you’re thinking: a children’s film about young teenagers being forced to hunt and kill each other should be absolutely fine. Well, not everyone agrees. According to Vietnam, the movie about an authoritarian and totalitarian world is not appropriate.

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The country felt that the franchise was too aggressive and violent for young kids and so it was banned. In the rest of the world, The Hunger Games went on to gross almost $3 billion at the global box office.