24 Reasons Why "Friendship Games" and "Golden Fruits Cup" Are Almost The Same Movie

In honor of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games (and almost not on time).

24 Reasons

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(Truth be told, I didn’t know if I should try to make these movies seem alike or different. In the end, I ended up just going with both, so here we go.)

1. Both movies contain a team sporting event featured in the title that contestants seem just a tad too eager to win at all costs.


2. Thing is, here, it’s one of the main focuses of the movie…

…but over here, it’s barely a factor at play outside of star guest cameos.


By the end, however, sports itself no longer really matters anymore here…

…but over here, the idea makes a sudden return.

3. Both of the opponent teams in the titular sporting events have a song about how confident they are that they’ll win.


4. Over here, they only have half the song, and the other half lets the good guy team lead in with rah-rah of their own…

…but while over here they get the whole song, it isn’t actually used in the movie, only in the series.

5. In both stories, there’s a theme of wanting everyone to just get along, but we need a conflict, and so everyone gets nasty and starts fighting anyway.


6. Here, they were just always like that…

…but here, it’s the bad guy’s corruption sneaking in.

But these two were also always just like that.

7. They both feature a character who you expect to be a good guy, but they turn out to be the villains.


8. Over here, the good guy character just got caught up in a bad situation and became the villain at the last second…

…but over here, it was the bad guy in disguise the whole time.

9. Throughout the movies, several characters transform due to emotional reasons.


10. Here, it’s the reason why friendship is magic…

…but here, it’s the reason why humans are the real villains.

11. Almost immediately after transforming, something of theirs gets sucked away into a small pendant object that can flip open.


12. Here, it’s just their magic and energy that gets zapped away into the same pendant…

…but over here, their entire selves go bye-bye because of a different one each time.

13. There are random portals in both stories that can open up views into a scary forest of death and blood where the plants are even more dangerous than the animals.


14. Here, the plants are dangerous because they can go all Little Shop of Horrors on you and eat you alive…

…but here, it’s quite literally the Forbidden Fruit just sitting there and waiting for you to wreck yourself…

…and like the earlier song point, this story’s portals and plants aren’t really in the movie either, but there’s a reason for that.

15. After a sufficient amount of stolen energy gets funneled into the flip-open pendant…


…both of the unexpected villains use them to transform.


16. Here, it was the bad guy’s plan all along…

…but here, it was totally unexpected what happened and even caught the character in question off guard.

17. Both franchises feature a giant energy-based winged horse monster with a horn.
18. Over here, it’s a tool of the bad guy that the hero has to cut down to advance to the final boss…

…and while over here it’s fighting for the good guys, it was only in the previous movie.

19. Don’t forget about that one scene where this one character gets the chance to see that they’ve been steered down the wrong path and choose to set themselves right when someone reaches out to them in an otherwise empty realm.


20. Here, they listen because it’s the sudden villain’s sudden redemption…

…but here, they don’t because it’s the main hero recovering from a brief spell of reversed personality.

21. We have a climax featuring the villain fighting using the power they stole throughout the movie, while the hero summons the powers of many into one and fights with a shining final form.




22. The difference is that here, the hero uses all of the power for themself…

…while over here, it’s an all-call for everyone to use their own powers.

Except for those two guys from earlier who were just always like that.

23. Both also feature a character who is doubting their own abilities get convinced that fighting for the right cause is worth it…


…and they have their moment to shine when they defeat the bad guy.


24. Thing is, here, it was the main hero getting the chance to teach to another a lesson that they themself learned…

…but here, it was a side character who we don’t see actually do much except here and there until the climax.

Bonus 25. Back at the start of the movies, both showed us that darkness existed and told us that there was a movie we had to prepare for.


Bonus 26. And at the end, this one starts towards a more hopeful tomorrow with everyone of consequence being the better for it…

…but this one returns to the bleak post-apocalyptic reality where the struggle is never-ending.

That’s 24—make that 26 reasons both how these movies are similar and how they’re different. Do you agree with these reasons? Yes, no, maybe so? Let me know in the comments below. And remember to go to Couch Tomato on YouTube for more “24 Reasons” videos.

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