The Hunger Games ::: 23 March 2012

Been kinda interested in seeing this given how good word of mouth has been. Anyone see this yet?


And of course, I expect j7wild to post a hundred photos of Jennifer Lawrence. On the first page. Don't disappoint us.

This review sufficiently put me off:

http://theincrediblesuit.blogspot.ca/2012/03/hunger-gamezzz.html

I saw the preview and I found it to be "The Most Dangerous Game" with Teenagers.

2 from the last one at the bottom:

https://bondandbeyond.forumotion.com/t407p45-to-watch-or-not-to-watch

No Thanks!!

Makeshift Python wrote:

And of course, I expect j7wild to post a hundred photos of Jennifer Lawrence. On the first page. Don't disappoint us.

how does 565+ Images grab you?

:cheers:



The Hunger Games Premiere Los Angeles March 12

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The Hunger Games UK premiere in London March 14

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The Hunger Games New York Screening March 20

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I think every teenager in North America will be seeing this movie this week.

I think its required viewing, or you get kicked out of whatever group your in.

Might be safe for adults by next month.

I'm going to see it this week...Hollywood is delighted though, when a movie opens to $68m in one day that means box office is definitely alive and kicking in this economy...

Based on the synopsis, this is a blatant "Battle Royale" rip-off...

Par for the course for Hollywood then.

I like Jennifer Lawrence, looks-wise, but I think it's only a matter of time until her tits disappear and we can see her rib cage through her skin.

HUNGER GAMES doesn't interest me, however. I wish it would kill that fucking Harry Potter box office record.

zzzzZZZZZZzzzzzz.....

Salomé wrote:

Based on the synopsis, this is a blatant "Battle Royale" rip-off...

Par for the course for Hollywood then.

and this is Invasion of the Body Snatcher ripoff for Teens by that lady who brought you the blatant Buffy The Vampire Slayer copycat ripoff

Too much Bourne-ish editing, boring story, lame acting, but the lead actress is hot.

And apparently in the future everyone dresses like Nicki Minaj. Nuke the planet before it's too late.

Mr. White did a great takedown.

Quote :

The Hunger Games hits bottom when Katniss and Peeta kiss; the applauding audience becomes suckers for the exact same tricks played on Katniss and Peeta. Ross dulls their perception and lowers their responses. As with Stanley Tucci’s ludicrous exaggeration of an Oprah Winfrey-style TV host, bread-and-circuses ringmaster Ross offers a tent pole blockbuster that is essentially a television show. Its lack of satire invites the public’s dumb gullibility.

http://cityarts.info/2012/03/23/starve-suckers/

Having read more about it, doesn't sound as interesting. With a premise like that and Jennifer Lawrence, I figured it might be something. Meh. At least it broke TWILIGHT's box office.

j7wild wrote:

Salomé wrote:

Based on the synopsis, this is a blatant "Battle Royale" rip-off...

Par for the course for Hollywood then.

and this is Invasion of the Body Snatcher ripoff for Teens by that lady who brought you the blatant Buffy The Vampire Slayer copycat ripoff

Hate that bitch.

I'll probably check out Hunger Games in a couple weeks, once the teen hordes have had their fill.

I watch a lot of commercial crap anyway and do enjoy a good timewaster,(although I couldn't stomach Twilight after watching two of the films, and I only managed one Harry Potter).

I do like teen films though, although HG looks like it might be a bit femme driven. I prefer teen flicks that focus more on guys behaving like, well teenage males, but I do feel compelled to at least see what it's about. The futuristic bent may at least be interesting.

The fact that it clocks in at almost 2 and half hours is also a bonus. More bang for the cinema experience buck.

in a couple of months, it will be at the $1.25 theater and on Tuesdays, it's 75 cents All Day!!

I went and saw The Hunger Games yesterday with two friends - we started reading the books together so it seemed incredibly fitting to finish this little journey. Overall I really enjoyed it and felt it captured the spirit of the book incredibly well.

It's well done - possibly my love for the series contributes into why I enjoyed this but what works is that this is not a happy film. There is a love triangle but its full of unrequited love. Hunger Games ultimately is not about that unlike Twilight where ... well Twilight is self-explanatory. It's more about the survival, the struggle ecterea which I'm aware sounds like someone being like 'Twilight is more then the sucky love triangle' but it really is. It's incredibly unhappy because even at the end you know shit is going down especially when you know what is to come. The ending of Mockingjay for example which I won't comment on because most haven't read it I'm guessing.

Collins doesn't hide away from the fact this world is not a nice place to live.

The acting was pretty good throughout - some weak points but nothing overly jarring, the visuals were great. I really did enjoy how they showed the difference between the poverty of the Districts to the wealth of the Capitols - they really kept to the book, among other things.

Python - can I just say go and see it. You may not like it, you may hate it but I feel its a pretty solid film. Nothing amazing or extraordinary but it does the novel justice.

j7wild wrote:

that lady who brought you the blatant Buffy The Vampire Slayer copycat ripoff

Sorry but in what way is Twilight a rip-off of Buffy?

I mean I know they have vampires and there is a badboyvamp love thing but there are plenty of other novels like that as well. I'm not saying Twilight is good or anything but I cannot see for the life of me how it blatantly rips off Buffy.

It's probably folly to argue about a book/movie I haven't seen/read, but just try to stop me.

Fae wrote:

There is a love triangle but its full of unrequited love. Hunger Games ultimately is not about that unlike Twilight where ... well Twilight is self-explanatory.

Wasn't Collins forced to write in a romance by her editor?

Fae wrote:

Collins doesn't hide away from the fact this world is not a nice place to live.

Isn't that pretty obvious? If anything, that conceit would be her main stylistic draw. What else does the film have to say?

I was arguing with my friend about this. She tried telling me it's a dystopian story, that the novel's lack of ethical commentary and the characters' lack of moral complexity was purposeful, because Collin presented everything "cold" and the characters were stripped of their humanity. Sounds like bullshit to me, especially if the novel just presents these games and then throws in all these one-dimensional characters. I don't care if Collins herself has nothing to say about the Games, but from what I've read the characters are completely static and flat. It's their reactions that count. I also told my friend that enjoying all these kids kill each other gorily is ironic, because it brings us to the level of the Hunger Games spectators. She told me the irony was also intended. Somehow I don't think the masses are self-reflecting like that. The novel doesn't invite it.

I've heard some people say it's about war. It's not about war. I've heard some people say it's a critique of reality TV. Wait, isn't it a dystopian novel? How is extreme reality TV dystopian?

Louis Armstrong wrote:

but from what I've read the characters are completely static and flat. It's their reactions that count. I also told my friend that enjoying all these kids kill each other gorily is ironic, because it brings us to the level of the Hunger Games spectators. She told me the irony was also intended. Somehow I don't think the masses are self-reflecting like that. The novel doesn't invite it.

I've heard some people say it's about war. It's not about war. I've heard some people say it's a critique of reality TV. Wait, isn't it a dystopian novel? How is extreme reality TV dystopian?

This is all probably quite true and exactly what I expect from this film. A load of nothing dressed up as "something".

Will be sure to get the large tub of popcorn, sit back, turn brain off and enjoy the magic of cinema.

==btw I wouldn't compare Buffy with Twilight. Buffy was smart, witting, entertaining TV. Twilight is just drek, although I did enjoy the wolfs in episode 3. I watched Twilight's 2 and 3 and then bailed. Maybe someday I'll waste some time and check out Part 1 and the two parter (4&5?) that ended it.

Ops is right. The Hunger Games does look-like a re-envision of the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000)

Battle Royale synopsis

In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as "Battle Royale," as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. BATTLE ROYALE proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.

You could argue that their should be a Hunger Games primer of similar movies, headlined by Battle Royale and The Running Man.

The positive buzz has colored me interested. I'll probably wait it out until theaters are emptier. As much as I love watching a movie in a packed house, I can't stand fangirl reactions.

Kids killing kids? Sounds like good kiddie entertainment for these days. In 10-15 years, Centipede 8 will probably be the shit for grade schoolers.

GeneralGogol wrote:

Centipede 8 will probably be the shit

In the mouth, no less.