The Hunger Games
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- inteliboy0
I loved it. Really solid.
Great direction and some interesting themes. The cast nailed it. Agreed that the weather, thirst and hunger should have played more of a part - guess they had to lighten it up which is a shame.
Hadn't read the book or knew much about it -- if it was some kind of "teen" genre than that I'm supposed to hate on, than that flew over my head.
- since the books are written from the point-of-view of a teenage girl, it has that stigma and stylemonospaced
- but the books are definitely a little more brutal and definitely better than the PG-13 movie versionmonospaced
- prophetone0
- fight with energy!prophetone
- "fight correctly" whatever that meansi_monk
- Battle Royale is great.instrmntl
- Amicus0
It was ok, but I'm hungering for the Ridley Scott remake in 2 or 3 years.
- loool0
film was a pleasant surprise, but I didn't like the world: clothings, interiors and all that was a bit too much kitchy for my taste...
- scarabin0
i enjoyed it. this shit's not fellini though, i don't understand why a movie has to be either a totally flawless masterpiece or it's total shit. not sure what you guys expected going into it beyond basically a teen movie based on a bunch of books for young adults
- all these movies are for is to make you forget your shitty life for a couple hoursscarabin
- they should make movies a little longercbass99
- What sca' saysbenfal99
- +1000monospaced
- sea_sea0
whatever, i liked it. and like scarabing said, these movies help you forget your shitty life for a few hours, aka for entertainment purposes only. and no, i'm not 12.
- indian_pole0
good but nowhere near as good as battle royale. but somewhat more disturbing, because it was a PG-12 with the same subject of kids killing kids. battle royale was an 18.
- instrmntl0
Just watched the second. I really liked it. It's 2.5 hours, but it went by really quickly. Good sign.
- inteliboy0
Sequel is amazing!! Solid. Already hanging out for the next.
- pango0
The only similarity i see with BR is the aspect of kids killing each other and it being broadcast live.
- pango0
Just watch it with a date. chicks dig it. so that's a good thing.
- pango0
am i the only one who thought BR was shit?
- inteliboy0
constant BR comparisons is kind of annoying... for some reason if you lean into the lord-of-the-flies genre you are labeled a copy cat. Meanwhile the masses line up for superhero after superhero movie which all follow the exact same story arc.
I just loved watching a hollywood film that for once, wasn't about the end of the world with lazers shooting up into the sky or meteors falling from the sky.
- the constant urge to chase red lasers is awesome tho...pango
- fadein110
I am not part of the demographic for this film so will not be watching, i.e. not a teenage Twilight missing girl.
- ukit20
My 6 year old niece loved it. Glad to hear you guys liked it too.
- orrinward20
I really enjoyed it and prefer it to,what I remember of, Battle Royale.
I found BR very entertaining and the world they created in it was great, but the motives were less clear. The way Hunger Games brings you into the world of the oppressors was very interesting.
I think a lot of the negative comparisons with BR are down to glorification of Japanese cinema and the assumption that a US-made film with similar themes to a Japanese movie is simply a ripoff. Hunger Games is very much a "Hollywood Blockbuster" product but I think it was done very well.
I'm looking forward to the second movie.
- OSFA0
I must admit that I never paid to much attention to it as I also thought it would be another teen saga but my wife read the books and told me it was actually a solid plot and that I would enjoy them.
Have not read the books but I watched the movie today and I must say I liked it. The cast was good (Woody!!!) and I found it to be a direct stab at the Government/System and the way we are "ruled".
You're out of luck and lost your job? Well guess what, now you're gonna loose your house! Oh, and your insurance is gonna triple next month... and you know what? There is fucking nothing you can do but keep playing the game and try to stay afloat.
And the moment something or someone is about to step up and challenge or unmask the system, something will always happen. Change of plans, new rules/game, a national threat, a new war or a new "pro-gay" law to keep everyone in their place and walking along (looking like heroes or showing us how much they care of course...)
Just saying...
- BusterBoy0
My 11 year old daughter is obsessed with it...
- fourth0
I'm going to be the lame-o that comes in and says the book is way better than the movie. Obviously it always is.
Everyone I know that's read it agrees that it is a page turner. I wish I didn't see the movie (watched it the day I finished the book) until I finished reading the whole series. The characters I made up in my head are clashing with the actors in the movie.
Aside from the detail that's lost when compressing it into the movie I feel the characters were too clean, polished, and teeny bopper for my tastes. I think a lot more could have been done in this aspect to show more desperation. They felt a lot more sterile than the twilight movie characters.
- oh and I'm going to restart part II in a couple of daysfourth
- i_monk0
Hunger Games was inspired by the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. In it, Athenian youth (equal numbers of boys and girls) are regularly sent to Crete as tributes to the Cretan conquerors, and put to death in games to entertain the aristocracy by dying in an arena-like maze with a hybrid monster at the end. Theseus – who volunteered as tribute and is aided by someone on the outside who fell in love with him – wins.
The only thing it has in common with Battle Royale, and the only part where it departs from the Theseus framework, is in having the kids (mostly) kill each other.
- Jesus Christ, who let in the intellect?detritus
- no shit, i thought we were discussing swords and uzis?prophetone
- intellect? please, this is just Humanities 101 rearing its ugly head.monospaced