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Just watched "The Hunger Games" ---- wow
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:32 am
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:32 am
What an abysmally stupid movie, and I'm guessing it's because the source material is stupid. Somebody please tell me there's a better story within the books than the crap that I just witnessed. No sense, whatsoever, of any social desperation or fear or hysteria or dementia that would allow such an event... no sense of history that would lead to such a point... no sense of outrage or protest, as one would expect, from at least a small segment of the population... a story with no sense, whatsoever.
I couldn't help but compare it to "The Running Man"... was it a ripoff thereof? Couldn't touch it... couldn't match the depravity of the audience or the genius of Richard Dawson... nor the exhilaration in the fights. Hell, even "The Truman Show" was miles better in depicting the character and motives and emotions of its live public audience.
"1984" this wasn't.
And maybe I missed something... it was only a small part of my dissatisfaction, anyway... but how is it that holograms can actually eat people?
I couldn't help but compare it to "The Running Man"... was it a ripoff thereof? Couldn't touch it... couldn't match the depravity of the audience or the genius of Richard Dawson... nor the exhilaration in the fights. Hell, even "The Truman Show" was miles better in depicting the character and motives and emotions of its live public audience.
"1984" this wasn't.
And maybe I missed something... it was only a small part of my dissatisfaction, anyway... but how is it that holograms can actually eat people?
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Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:33 am to Rex
2nd worse cinematography ever behind the 30 minutes I saw of Contraband
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:33 am to Rex
Yeah it was pretty boring
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:37 am to Rex
The book is much better. The first book is actually pretty good, parts of the second are too. Third one is terrible
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:37 am to Rex
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What an abysmally stupid movie, and I'm guessing it's because the source material is stupid. Somebody please tell me there's a better story within the books than the crap that I just witnessed. No sense, whatsoever, of any social desperation or fear or hysteria or dementia that would allow such an event... no sense of history that would lead to such a point... no sense of outrage or protest, as one would expect, from at least a small segment of the population... a story with no sense, whatsoever.
Yeah, the book actually explains all that. The movie is just completely rushed all the way through and removes some key elements. It was very disappointing to me.
This is a pretty spot on review of what is wrong with the movie: LINK
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:40 am to Tiger1242
i haven't heard one person ever say the 3rd was enjoyable
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:41 am to Carson123987
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i haven't heard one person ever say the 3rd was enjoyable
Bc it isn't
Posted on 3/18/13 at 12:43 am to Rex
The movie is a watered-down version of the book. It removed some of the novel's more violent and adult themes to secure a PG-13 rating.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 1:11 am to Rex
A movie so shitty that even Jennifer Lawrence's acting couldn't save it. 
Posted on 3/18/13 at 1:33 am to Bench McElroy
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A movie so shitty that even Jennifer Lawrence's acting couldn't save it.
To be fair, Katniss is a pretty boring character in the 1st book.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 1:51 am to Carson123987
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cinematography
It was like watching 10 minutes of Mao's Last Dancer combined with all of The Running Man.
The cinematography for the "action" scenes was no better than Running Man's was filming in some indoor studio in 1987.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 2:51 am to Rex
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I couldn't help but compare it to "The Running Man"
Same here. I didn't think Hunger Games was bad but I didn't read the books so I have no clue how true it is/was.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 2:53 am to Rex
like someone else already said, the first two books are pretty good. The last one is probably one of the worst books in terms of trying to understand what the frick is going on.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 7:23 am to poncho villa
Heck, I didn't think the book was much better.
Just a different take on Battle Royale, Running Man, or The Long Walk.
Toned down to get PG-13 when it clearly should be R.
Just a different take on Battle Royale, Running Man, or The Long Walk.
Toned down to get PG-13 when it clearly should be R.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 7:48 am to Carson123987
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i haven't heard one person ever say the 3rd was enjoyable
The 3rd was enjoyable
Posted on 3/18/13 at 7:54 am to Rex
Nah the books are horrendously written. I actually thought the movie was significantly better.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 7:56 am to Rex
It was a dumb plot to begin with. If the movie was that bad I don't see how a book could make it better.
Posted on 3/18/13 at 7:59 am to Rex
Is Hunger Games the new cool movie to hate on now?
Posted on 3/18/13 at 8:08 am to SG_Geaux
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Is Hunger Games the new cool movie to hate on now?
Well, this is the Movie/TV Board.
I liked it and care not what anyone thinks. It could have been better, easily, but I thought it was cast pretty well. Not as good as the book, but is any movie ever as good as its paper counterpart?
Posted on 3/18/13 at 8:15 am to Carson123987
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i haven't heard one person ever say the 3rd was enjoyable
I found the third one enjoyable up until the end of the book. As I got closer and closer to the final pages, I wondered how the author was going to wrap the story up with so little time remaining. Then I read the end and found she couldn't wrap it up. One of the worst endings to a book I have ever read.
ETA: Admittedly, I did like the tone of the ending if that makes sense.
This post was edited on 3/18/13 at 8:16 am
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