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The Hunger Games (Dir. Gary Ross) |OT| May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

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I actually watched Battle Royale for the first time last night, just because I wanted to get my fix. I liked how balls out insane the movie was and how it dealt with the characters past with one another more, but it was still a lot weaker than I was hoping for.

I'm actually really curious if you'd find the BR sequel better or worse than The Hunger Games. Because it is godawful.
 
This was a really really boring movie. It seemed to go on forever.

Audience kids kept announcing when characters were about to die and stuff.
Katniss: "If you wear this you'll be ok." Kids: "She's wrong. She's the first one picked!"

Katniss: "Don't worry, you'll be ok." "Actually she's about to get killed by a spear!"

Here comes the spear! Spear to the tummy... wait, where's the spear? Oh there it is! YEAH! SPEAR TO THE TUMMY! What? That's it..? guess it was too graphic.

"She's gonna shoot the apples!"
 
Just came back. I think it's okay. Being too kid-friendly (age rating) is my main problem with it. And yes, the dogs and CG in general was that of normal quality ala 1999, not that it matters much as the focus is on running around the woods. I was surprised that this was only about half the film though.
 
I'm actually really curious if you'd find the BR sequel better or worse than The Hunger Games. Because it is godawful.
How bad is it? I got it in my complete collection which I bought because I'm a stickler for theatrical cuts (+I hear the directors cut of the first is ass anyways and the TC doesn't come with the standalone first movie release) and I got it for $20 when Amazon put it up first. Pricing error I guess.

Is it worth a spin or should I just forget it?
 
The CG was awful. But the CG was pretty bad in all the Harry Potter films (and, from what I've seen of the trailers, Twilight too), and most blockbusters anyways so it's hardly without precedent. I'm just surprised so much of it was CG - it looked awful and could easily have looked better + been a bit cheaper with a more clever blend of practical effects, miniatures, and CG. Even something like Rise of Planet of the Apes was made on the cheap (for a massive blockbuster film) and, I thought, looked really really good, to say nothing of the likes of cloverfield and district 9.
 
How bad is it? I got it in my complete collection which I bought because I'm a stickler for theatrical cuts (+I hear the directors cut of the first is ass anyways and the TC doesn't come with the standalone first movie release) and I got it for $20 when Amazon put it up first. Pricing error I guess.

Is it worth a spin or should I just forget it?

never watch the BR sequel. its complete ass.
 
Saw this with my GF earlier today in a theater that was maybe half-full. Thought it was utterly forgettable. Aside from a couple of solid performances, the acting was weak, the action was poorly done, and the shaky-cam was annoying. At one point I realized that I actually didn't care if any of the characters lived or died, but it was so predictable that it didn't matter anyway. I had zero sense of fear for anything but the ending I expected.

Totally don't get the hype for this film. I know I'm not the target demo, but I wasn't for Harry Potter either and I still enjoyed those films.
 
How bad is it? I got it in my complete collection which I bought because I'm a stickler for theatrical cuts (+I hear the directors cut of the first is ass anyways and the TC doesn't come with the standalone first movie release) and I got it for $20 when Amazon put it up first. Pricing error I guess.

Is it worth a spin or should I just forget it?

It's really, really bad. It has a couple of moments that are laughable in their badness, so it can be kind of funny, but you should not watch it if you want an actual good movie. They manage to borrow more than a couple of concepts from the first film, then execute them in a way that makes no sense, and somehow make the ramped-up carnage boring and silly. Also, it's all based on the idea that
Shuya decided to go be a terrorist in revenge for the events of the first movie
which would need a lot more effort than they're willing to put in to it to be believable.

It has a few parts that are so dumb they're funny, but it's a huge disappointment if you're expecting anything near as good as the first.
 
Yup. BOOK 2 SPOILERS
The forest Arena is pretty straightforward, but they're gonna have to work hard on the Quarter Quell arena to make all the "obstacles" look good.

Awwwww.
I was hoping that she would start removing the regime. I liked the movie but i don´t want to watch a recycled version 2 years from now, or whenever the second movie comes out.
 
I feel like I'm Mr. Easily Pleased because I am fucking blown away by all the criticism towards shaky cam. People keep mentioning it makes it difficult to follow the action. My only reaction is.. So? I see it as a chance to make the action look chaotic and I don't feel like I have to catch everything 100% durin those scenes....
 
I usually don't mind a little shaky cam but fuck, totally shit all over the last fight.

Also, pretty surprised at how early it ended. When Cato says it's just him left I thought, wait what, what happened to everyone else?

And I just want to say that the entire premise of the fiction is fucking retarded. I don't care how jaded and cynical a civilization gets, nobody's going to see a 12 year girl old take a spear to the gut and shout "Cheerio! What jolly good sport!"

Really stupid, all around, but not a bad flick for Saturday afternoon.

Edit: And can someone explain a little more what the fuck is going on with the Districts? Okay yeah wealth inequality is obviously a problem but it's pretty much slave labor. How does the capitol not have daily protests and riots of "Hey let's not be such utter dicks to poor people." Maybe it's all the wine I shared with my neighbors but now I'm all mad at the premise for the movie. It's straight up bullshit.
 
It would have made sense in that having somebody following him and his new crush in a game of last man standing puts their goddamn lives at risk. In the context of a game which started with kids slashing each ohter's throats, it makes perfect sense as a necessary action of survival.

The story is so fucking cowardly, especially given the premise.

It would've made sense for a character who said he wasn't ready to kill and who had no survival skills (outside of hiding) to setup a trap in the woods involving poison berries he knew nothing about and baiting?
 
I usually don't mind a little shaky cam but fuck, totally shit all over the last fight.

Also, pretty surprised at how early it ended. When Cato says it's just him left I thought, wait what, what happened to everyone else?

And I just want to say that the entire premise of the fiction is fucking retarded. I don't care how jaded and cynical a civilization gets, nobody's going to see a 12 year girl old take a spear to the gut and shout "Cheerio! What jolly good sport!"

Really stupid, all around, but not a bad flick for Saturday afternoon.

Yeah, the conclusion that they should offer up a sacrificial kid into death games as a way of keeping the peace and no explanation beyond that made me laugh. This had to be one of the dumbest societies ever depicted.
 
It would've made sense for a character who said he wasn't ready to kill and who had no survival skills (outside of hiding) to setup a trap in the woods involving poison berries he knew nothing about and baiting?

No.
When I first saw the cherry-juice on his hands and he explained that they were being followed closely, I thought it was blood. I thought he was forced to take a life for the sake of saving himself and Katniss. That would have been confronting the interesting themes at play.

Then Katniss explained about the berry juice and that it was an accident and I groaned inside. I never assumed he planted poison food for her. He didn't seem that smart or conniving.
 
Yeah, the conclusion that they should offer up a sacrificial kid into death games as a way of keeping the peace and no explanation beyond that made me laugh. This had to be one of the dumbest societies ever depicted.

It really breaks the world for me. Sure, if it were set in ancient Greece or something (yes I know that's what the fiction borrows from already) it would make sense, but for a modern society it's a truly absurd premise.
 
Oh yea my impressions:

As a person who read the books, I did enjoy it to a certain degree but I think it tried too hard to stay faithful to the source material to the point where it was kind of boring. It was the book without all the fluff which is fine but the whole thing seemed very safe. Like they didn't want to piss of the fans or something. Had no voice of it's own so everything just fell flat to me. All the emotional points ended up being rather comical.

Though the casting did seem strange to me. I cant imagine them pulling off what they have to in the next two books emotionally with the tone and actors used in this one. Shit gets rather serious. I can see it being very cheesy.
 
This movie was fucking stupid. I wouldn't have thought that a book about a fight to the death would have played it so safe. To boot, it's not even internally consistent at all.

First off, why the fuck isn't the main character offing her competition whenever she has the chance? I get it, she's supposed to be the "good guy," pure and innocent or whatever. But when you're in a competition in which 23 other people want to KILL YOU, your morals and ethics take a backseat to your survival instinct. So when Katniss comes across an enemy in a forest clearing, why the fuck doesn't she kill him/her with an arrow? Makes no sense. And to make matters even worse, every time she does hurt someone it's through indirect means (bees, dogs, poison berries). It's obvious this is a series written for children based on how it's totally defanged.

Also, the movie makes no effort to remain internally consistent. We (the audience) are led to believe that the cannons fire whenever a contestant is killed. And indeed, at multiple times in the movie the cannons boom the second a character dies. Then why the fuck don't the cannons fire when the little black girl and her killer die? Oh right, because it would ruin the mood. And later, Katniss hears the cannons and fears that Peeta has been killed, so she scrambles around calling for him. But not five minutes later, a cannon booms and notifies everyone that the black guy was killed. Why didn't Katniss just look up into the sky and see if Peeta was killed if the notifications are always displayed in the sky? Fucking dumb.

I find it hard to believe that the Districts aren't crying foul at how often (and to which extent) the producers intervene in the games. I thought these contestants were supposed to fend for themselves? Why are you trying to kill them with fireballs and giant dogs. Unfair.

And I knew the author of the books had no backbone the second she allowed two winners to the Games. What a fucking joke.

In summary, the movie (and by extension, the book) sucked and made no sense.
 
anyone else feel like there was like

half a good movie here, buried under a pile of YA crap

i mean the books obviously arent for me, seeing as im a grown ass man and all but you know

it was like watching baby's first battle royale

and the male lead was pathetic and shitty as all fuck

goddamn he didnt do a thing

and was i meant to care about
how much they cared about one another in the end or some shit, i dont even know. did they even? he obv wanted her but was she just putting on a show? thats what i thought, but then she ends up being hysterical near the end when she hears the canon and shit

plus,
how was i meant to give a shit about the little girl dying when she had like 2 minutes of screen time

so many problems that just weigh down the movie for no reason

they really need like a reality tsar dave jacoby type guy to fix their shitty tv show

like goddamn the amount of unfair garbage.
why start them with no gear, why have no weight classes, no age classes. fucking 12 to 18? 12 year olds are gonna get rocked yo. forest fires and genetically engineered dogs when the producers get bored? fuck off
 
I find it hard to believe that the Districts aren't crying foul at how often (and to which extent) the producers intervene in the games. I thought these contestants were supposed to fend for themselves? Why are you trying to kill them with fireballs and giant dogs. Unfair.

This right here seriously bothered me. Not just because it would be a great way to throw the districts into riots but because it was a terrible plot device. Don't throw vicious mutant dogs into a movie about humans on the raggedy edge of morality.

In short: I'm too old for this shit.
 
I didn't read the book, and I was able to enjoy the movie.

I think it's just another example where the PG rating hurt the movie. Don't get me wrong, I think the acting was great, setting was great and plot was generally good, but it was so clear that the directors were trying their hardest to stretch the PG rating. Just go 14A. The book is targetted at that age range anyway.

Also, Jennifer Lawrence has such a weird face. At times she is smoking hot, at times she is forgettably average. I don't know if it was makeup or camera angles or what but she is definitely the most variably hot actress I've ever seen.
 
This right here seriously bothered me. Not just because it would be a great way to throw the districts into riots but because it was a terrible plot device. Don't throw vicious mutant dogs into a movie about humans on the raggedy edge of morality.

In short: I'm too old for this shit.

Inspiration for the story came from reality TV shows. The producers of the games used these devices as a way to keep things interesting and create their own narrative within the game. It wouldn't be very fun to watch people camping on opposite corners of the arena for days on end, just as watching people live out their regular lives on TV wouldn't be very interesting either. It's partially manufactured to keep things interesting.
 
Inspiration for the story came from reality TV shows. The producers of the games used these devices as a way to keep things interesting and create their own narrative within the game. It wouldn't be very fun to watch people camping on opposite corners of the arena for days on end, just as watching people live out their regular lives on TV wouldn't be very interesting either. It's partially manufactured to keep things interesting.

yeah but if youre ripping off battle royale anyway, be smart enough to rip off the mechanism which keeps them on the move

no point half assing it if youre straight stealing already

not ah fuck it random forest fire
 
Another thing that bothered me!

So the rag-tag group of bad guys plants land mines around their supplies, hoping to kill Katniss when she attempts to steal said supplies. For no reason at all the leave a guard behind to...guard the booby-trapped pile of food and ammunition...I guess? Anyway, Katniss sees through their ruse and sets of the explosives.

But for some reason the main bad guy is pissed that the explosives went off and destroyed their supplies? Then why did you bobby-trap the supplies in the first place? They would've been destroyed regardless.

Aggghhghh, this is fucking dumb.
 
Another thing that bothered me!

So the rag-tag group of bad guys plants land mines around their supplies, hoping to kill Katniss when she attempts to steal said supplies. For no reason at all the leave a guard behind to...guard the booby-trapped pile of food and ammunition...I guess? Anyway, Katniss sees through their ruse and sets of the explosives.

But for some reason the main bad guy is pissed that the explosives went off and destroyed their supplies? Then why did you bobby-trap the supplies in the first place? They would've been destroyed regardless.

Aggghhghh, this is fucking dumb.

i couldnt wrap my head around it either

at first i assumed they wanted the supplies to themselves, so they set up mines to defend them

but then the actual stack of supplies is booby trapped as well because it explodes more than the actual mines do

why

why would you do this
 
yeah but if youre ripping off battle royale anyway, be smart enough to ripoff the mechanism which keeps them on the move

no point half assing it if youre straight stealing already

not ah fuck it random forest fire

I believe Suzanne Collins claims to have not known about Battle Royale when she wrote the book.

And there is no reason to believe that she had, since neither property is supremely original or difficult to come up with on one's own.
 
I believe Suzanne Collins claims to have not known about Battle Royale when she wrote the book.

And there is no reason to believe that she had, since neither property is supremely original or difficult to come up with on one's own.

yeah well i believe she's full of shit so whatever

her position is incredibly implausible

i dont care that she took the idea, ideas are ideas theyre free for everyone to use

she just did it shittier than she shouldve
 
yeah but if youre ripping off battle royale anyway, be smart enough to rip off the mechanism which keeps them on the move

no point half assing it if youre straight stealing already

not ah fuck it random forest fire
What keeps them on the move in Battle Royale?
 
i couldnt wrap my head around it either

at first i assumed they wanted the supplies to themselves, so they set up mines to defend them

but then the actual stack of supplies is booby trapped as well because it explodes more than the actual mines do

why

why would you do this

This is explained better in the book I guess.
The kid who re-armed the mines and setup the trap (because that is what it was, a trap to kill anyone who tried to steal their food/supplies) did too good of a job. Ideally a single mine would have exploded killing whoever was trying to steal the stuff, instead a chain reaction occurred blowing everything up.
 
What keeps them on the move in Battle Royale?

slight spoilers for BR

they have exploding rings around their neck, which are meant to keep them from escaping, but they also randomly select a number of sectors on the island, announce them to the competitors, and if youre in one of the sectors you have a few hours to gtfo before they blow you up using a broadcast radio signal

guess you better hope you did orienteering in school lol

This is explained better in the book I guess.
The kid who re-armed the mines and setup the trap (because that is what it was, a trap to kill anyone who tried to steal their food/supplies) did too good of a job. Ideally a single mine would have exploded killing whoever was trying to steal the stuff, instead a chain reaction occurred blowing everything up.

oh ok. that makes more sense

the movie just makes the entire thing look intentional. like she KNEW it would happen. kind of daft
 
Another thing that bothered me!

So the rag-tag group of bad guys plants land mines around their supplies, hoping to kill Katniss when she attempts to steal said supplies. For no reason at all the leave a guard behind to...guard the booby-trapped pile of food and ammunition...I guess? Anyway, Katniss sees through their ruse and sets of the explosives.

But for some reason the main bad guy is pissed that the explosives went off and destroyed their supplies? Then why did you bobby-trap the supplies in the first place? They would've been destroyed regardless.

Aggghhghh, this is fucking dumb.
The bombs were too powerful. they were supposed to just be powerful enough to blow up Kat who wasn't supposed to know about them.

the guard was there because they didn't really want the guy around to begin with and it would be better to kill Kat with no explosives.
 
I liked the movie but was a bit disappointed with the Games.

I adored the first hour in the District/Capitol. Ross totally nailed the feeling of dread, much more than the book ever achieved. My favorite scenes were
the reaping, Katniss and Peeta looking at and arriving to the Capitol from the train, the few minutes before entering the Games (the movie was oozing with atmosphere in this part)
. And the use of minimal or no score in some sections was brilliant. Such a great way to let you bask in the sounds of the characters and environments. I'm now questioning why more movies don't do this.

The Games themselves were disappointing. It really did just follow the script too closely at the expense of creating an atmosphere of danger. In the book it felt like Katniss had to be hidden and alert every waking moment, but that didn't translate well into the film. The arena just didn't feel dangerous despite all the bloodshed and the producers being able to instantly conjure up any horror. And regarding charater development:
Rue was certainly underdeveloped. I felt the scene of her death was executed well, but given how little audiences knew of her I'm not surprised some people are saying the scene had no emotional impact. I certainly felt sad but that's because Rue was a developed character for me via the book. District 11 rebelling was a nice addition though.

Also, regarding Cato:
I like how they handled him, especially that little scene before he died that was a redemption of sorts for his character. Totally disappointing that he was killed so fast though, I thought the way the mutts tortured him for hours in the book really grounded how gruesome the Games are.

I wasn't annoying by the shaky cam in most occasions. I can only think of two or three scenes during the Games where it was detrimental:
Clove and Cato's fight scenes. I thought the shaky camera and outright confusion when the Games started was great though, it captured the insanity of the moment nicely
. The action in the movie in general wasn't anything spectacular though.

Oh, and the ending was really damn fast. I appreciate that it didn't drag, but there wasn't any room to breathe either. They should've spent a few more minutes
on the train heading back to District 12
. By the way, this scene that wasn't in the book was awesome:
Seneca getting locked up in a room with those poison berries in the middle. Just great.


P.S. whatever happened in the Hunger Games is certainly more plausible than a movie studio spending $250 million on a movie set in Mars with a terrible lead actor.

... oh.



and the male lead was pathetic and shitty as all fuck

goddamn he didnt do a thing
Interesting that The Hunger Games is getting reamed for this, yet nearly every action movie barring Cameron movies and Harry Potter have an incredibly useless female lead and no one seems to complain about that.

Hmm.
 
I'm tired of the whole stolen-from-battle-royale thing.

The fight to the death arena dates as far back as gladiators in the coliseum.
 
Inspiration for the story came from reality TV shows. The producers of the games used these devices as a way to keep things interesting and create their own narrative within the game. It wouldn't be very fun to watch people camping on opposite corners of the arena for days on end, just as watching people live out their regular lives on TV wouldn't be very interesting either. It's partially manufactured to keep things interesting.

Hey, a wildfire, that's a clever idea.

Okay targeted fireballs? What the fuck.
 
Interesting that The Hunger Games is getting reamed for this, yet nearly every action movie barring Cameron movies and Harry Potter have an incredibly useless female lead and no one seems to complain about that.

Hmm.

what the fuck are you talking about, people complain about shitty female characters all the time

did you last talk about movies with someone who traveled here from the 1950s or something
 
and the male lead was pathetic and shitty as all fuck

goddamn he didnt do a thing


unlike the book...
the final chapters wrote about the things that peeta did do to save katniss.

made her desirable to sponsors/crowd
leading the pack away from katniss
save her from the pack; by staying up all night under the tree to ensure they didn't try to hunt her in the middle of the night
of course, he told her to run when she was stung.
probably more but I can't remember it all
by the time we revisted Peeta; he was critically wounded and sick.
and still manages to kill foxface :)


oh, the movie didn't/wasn't able to convey
katniss going deaf in 1 ear; which suprirsed me in the book. She was definitely more damaged/underdoggy in the book. She went deaf in 1 ear from the mine explosion.

re:cato's anger at the
damaged supplies. Cato is a brute. Intelligence really wasn't his game. Maybe the anger was directed because no one was killed by the trap; and because the mines were destroyed; he no longer needed the district 3 boy (tech+) and killed him

also re: gamemakers and age selection. They basically can do anything; because they're the capital. Its entertainment. eg.
the selection is to show; they can do anything to the districts under their iron rule. The idea of the tessserae is also not explored in the film. Also; re:fairness; there is a lot of mention of having an entertaining game; and past "boring games where tributes died from cold/hunger = boring shows. In the book; kato took over an hour+ to die after being toyed with by the mutts as it was "entertainment"; and the gamemakers let it continue because it was good tv. Katniss wasn't able to kill him; and she and Peeta had to listen to the dogs eat away at him for the hour. The dogs+Cato were under the shelter so she couldn't shoot him and was only able to when he was dragged out..

so yeah. differences.



like koodo; I thought the lead up to the games were stronger. I thought the violence was lacking and diminsihed act II.
 
yeah well i believe she's full of shit so whatever

her position is incredibly implausible

Jesus christ, I fear the day that I ever accidentally write something slightly resembling anything else. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is a healthy attitude to maintain, innocent until proven guilty and all that.

If one takes reality tv to it's logical extreme, mix in a little gladiator arena shit, and being a YA author, the recipe for this book is all right there without the need for knowing Battle Royale.
 
Have there ever been convincing
CG animals
in film?

Also, with all the Battle Royale comments, kind of surprised at no mentions of The Running Man or Smash TV. :P
 
Jesus christ, I fear the day that I ever accidentally write something slightly resembling anything else. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is a healthy attitude to maintain, innocent until proven guilty and all that.

If one takes reality tv to it's logical extreme, mix in a little gladiator arena shit, and being a YA author, the recipe for this book is all right there without the need for knowing Battle Royale.

why are you talking about innocent until proven guilty, am i a court of law or something? i can assume people are full of crap when their story is implausible

how is that unhealthy lol

do you literally go around believing everything people tell you without thinking about if it makes sense or not

and i mean im not saying she just ripped off BR obv

she also ripped off the running man

im not saying i care she did either, thats not my point. i dont mind people telling similar stories to one another, if they do it well or offer a new spin or something

this just seemed very half assed

yeah screw you gooster lol, beat me to it
 
Another thing that bothered me. The woman who announced at the reaping constantly talking about manners and such: People in the theater laughed at her comments because she was unaware there was a lot more going on than just manners, i.e. "lol she doesn't realize she's preparing a child to die."

It all goes back to the entire premise being wholly fucked. At least Battle Royale was much more tongue in cheek about it.
 
why are you talking about innocent until proven guilty, am i a court of law or something? i can assume people are full of crap when their story is implausible

how is that unhealthy lol

do you literally go around believing everything people tell you without thinking about if it makes sense or not

It's unhealthy because it's inherently negative. A due amount of skepticism regarding anything is always good, but there is nothing to suggest that Collins couldn't have come up with this story without BR. You say it's implausible like it's a fact when it is indeed perfectly plausible.

I don't know if she copied Battle Royale or not, but I would hate to be on the receiving end of such claims if they were not true. I don't know if they're true, so I don't make that judgment.

Another thing that bothered me. The woman who announced at the reaping constantly talking about manners and such: People in the theater laughed at her comments because she was unaware there was a lot more going on than just manners, i.e. "lol she doesn't realize she's preparing a child to die."

It all goes back to the entire premise being wholly fucked. At least Battle Royale was much more tongue in cheek about it.

She knows she's preparing a child to die, but she lives in a society and class level where that is acceptable. That was the point.
 
Another thing that bothered me. The woman who announced at the reaping constantly talking about manners and such: People in the theater laughed at her comments because she was unaware there was a lot more going on than just manners, i.e. "lol she doesn't realize she's preparing a child to die."

It all goes back to the entire premise being wholly fucked. At least Battle Royale was much more tongue in cheek about it.

nah; its because Capitol people; their children don't go into the games and she has no empathy and is a selfish. She's concerned about manners because people in the capitol think they're the center of the universe; and that manners matter. Well, to the people in the capitol; the hunger games are entertainment. Its her character; yes premise is fucked but the political story is there and will be covered in more depth in book2. And her character is mirrored in almost every single other character from the capitol. Their attitudes towards food while people in the district starved. Their attitudes towards the game

BR is not classy classic high cinema. Its gorey anime fun. The reason why its so well regarded is because of the combination of high violence and japanese school kids (and the associated campness).


your issue seems to be with the plot/universe. well, that's it.
Capitol = evil.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/03/23/the-hunger-games-vs-battle-royale/
 
She knows she's preparing a child to die, but she lives in society and class level where that is acceptable. That was the point.

And my point is that accepting that is impossible. It is simply too repulsive to represent any sort of human civilization post-barbarism. It's plain ridiculous and I don't buy it.

There are people in the Capitol who are obviously not okay with it and I can't imagine this society continuing like this without massive riots burning the streets every year during the games.

The premise is that the people of the Capitol enjoy it and enable it, and it's just not plausible. Which gets back to what I said earlier: I'm too old for this shit. I would have bought it as a teen but now I know better.
 
It's unhealthy because it's inherently negative. A due amount of skepticism regarding anything is always good, but there is nothing to suggest that Collins couldn't have come up with this story without BR. You say it's implausible like it's a fact when it is indeed perfectly plausible.

I don't know if she copied Battle Royale or not, but I would hate to be on the receiving end of such claims if they were not true. I don't know if they're true, so I don't make that judgment.

ok? youre allowed to if you want

i just disagree

and i think your whole philosophy is kind of dumb anyway. so you dont question people or their motives without ever knowing the 100% truth, because their feelings might be hurt or some shit?

i dont know why you expect other people to think like that
 
Alright guys, I can't decide if I should go see this movie tonight or not. There's a show in about an hour, I'm sitting on my butt not doing much else.

Guys from my work really like the books, and have told me I should read them, but I'm too lazy to read. I don't normally spend the high ticket prices at a movie theater either though. I really don't think it's something I'm going to like, but I try not to judge a book by it's cover either. Some of my favorite games/movies have come from low expectations.

One of my friends compared the love triangle stuff in this series to something like Twilight though, and Twilight is utter garbage (to me in my opinion anyway).

I'm usually a pretty open minded guy, but I just don't know what to make out of this movie/series. Help? What can you folks tell me about this movie to help convince me to go?
 
And my point is that accepting that is impossible. It is simply too repulsive to represent any sort of human civilization post-barbarism. It's plain ridiculous and I don't buy it.

There are people in the Capitol who are obviously not okay with it and I can't imagine this society continuing like this without massive riots burning the streets every year during the games.

The premise is that the people of the Capitol enjoy it and enable it, and it's just not plausible. Which gets back to what I said earlier: I'm too old for this shit. I would have bought it as a teen but now I know better.

its not non fiction. derp

Alright guys, I can't decide if I should go see this movie tonight or not. There's a show in about an hour, I'm sitting on my butt not doing much else.

Guys from my work really like the books, and have told me I should read them, but I'm too lazy to read. I don't normally spend the high ticket prices at a movie theater either though. I really don't think it's something I'm going to like, but I try not to judge a book by it's cover either. Some of my favorite games/movies have come from low expectations.

One of my friends compared the love triangle stuff in this series to something like Twilight though, and Twilight is utter garbage (to me in my opinion anyway).

I'm usually a pretty open minded guy, but I just don't know what to make out of this movie/series. Help? What can you folks tell me about this movie to help convince me to go?

read the thread. read the OP. see the trailer
 
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