The Hunger Games Movie

[Tommy2000GT]

Is this movie really that good? Yesterday I saw huge lines of people waiting to see it. I had no idea what it's about so I watched 21 Jump Street

 

[AstroManLuca]

Too soon?

 

[RiDE]

Never read the books... saw the movie yesterday. It was entertaining. I kinda got the feeling it doesn't do the book justice though from the way the pace was going. Oh well.

 

[Miramonti]

Screw the film. The attention this movie's gotten has me hyped to read the books.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Listening to Donald Sutherland on the Wrapup Show right now. He's such a great actor and he's pretty funny and interesting too.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Read his post again. He's talking about Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Right, in response to my post where I specifically called out Fellowship. Maybe my reading comprehension skills have failed on this fine Monday.

 

[Corporate Thug]

$4 for all three book in epub format:

http://bensbargains.net/search/hunger%20games/?sr=1

 

[RavenSEAL]

Retarded people are retarded:

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

 

[Emos]

Listening to Donald Sutherland on the Wrapup Show right now. He's such a great actor and he's pretty funny and interesting too.

Yes that was an awesome unexpected interview!

 

[Sephire]

Read the boooooks!

 

[FoBoT]

Retarded people are retarded:

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

that is why i don't twitter

 

[RaistlinZ]

Retarded people are retarded:

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

LOL. Comedy.

The author says Rue has "dark brown skin" and people are upset that she's black in the movie??

Morons. What race did they expect she would be with dark brown skin?

 

[FoBoT]

What race did they expect she would be with dark brown skin?

perhaps


Klingon?

 

[Ichinisan]

Retarded people are retarded:

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

Smells like a hoax to me. I don't think that's real.

 

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[MrChad]

Saw it last night and thought it was great. It's difficult to judge a movie on its own when you've read the books, but I thought they did the book justice and the castings for the most part were spot on.

 

[MrChad]

Keep in mind the number of times they mentioned it's "just for the show". Maybe you're not SUPPOSED to believe it... eh? :whiste:

That said it definitely falls short of the book by a long shot. It was a movie made for fans, but they cut out enough to make them mad (and used shitty shaky cam). Then they didn't explain enough to make it good for you non-fans. So at the end of the day you have a movie that few people will like except die-hards who will like anything with the Hunger Games name on it.

What were the big parts they cut out? The books are told from Katniss' first person perspective; a good deal of it is just what's in her head, and that's tough to translate to film. I thought they included all the essential elements of the book. The only aspect that was underemphasized a bit for me was

Spoiler

the confusion over whether Peeta's affection for Katniss was real or just a play for the cameras. Nonetheless, it's clear by the end of the book (and the end of the movie, as shown in the train scene) that his feelings are genuine.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

I saw the movie today. It didn't seem that great. It is 2 hours long and only 30 minutes of action.

 

[SP33Demon]

What were the big parts they cut out? The books are told from Katniss' first person perspective; a good deal of it is just what's in her head, and that's tough to translate to film. I thought they included all the essential elements of the book. The only aspect that was underemphasized a bit for me was

Spoiler

the confusion over whether Peeta's affection for Katniss was real or just a play for the cameras. Nonetheless, it's clear by the end of the book (and the end of the movie, as shown in the train scene) that his feelings are genuine.

And anyone who hasn't read the book thought Kat genuinely liked Peeta. Epic fail of a movie.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Definitely. It would not set up the triangle in the later movies, or set you up properly for her "choice" at the end.

There is very little depth in these books, it is not smart to remove what little it had...

BTW, 2 hour movie with only 30 minutes action. Waah. Cry me a river.

 

[MrChad]

And anyone who hasn't read the book thought Kat genuinely liked Peeta. Epic fail of a movie.

Hard for me to judge since I read the book, but I disagree.

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She tells Peeta on the train that she just wants to forget what happened, and she also locks eyes with Gail in the crowd upon their return. Her feelings are clearly confused / torn, just as they were throughout all 3 books.

 

[gorcorps]

What were the big parts they cut out? The books are told from Katniss' first person perspective; a good deal of it is just what's in her head, and that's tough to translate to film. I thought they included all the essential elements of the book. The only aspect that was underemphasized a bit for me was

Spoiler

the confusion over whether Peeta's affection for Katniss was real or just a play for the cameras. Nonetheless, it's clear by the end of the book (and the end of the movie, as shown in the train scene) that his feelings are genuine.

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-changed the way Katniss got the pin, completely eliminating the Madge character
-made the dog/beast things generic when in the book they were basically reincarnated from the dead tributes... which was much more intense and creepy the book way

There's not many major ones, and as I've mentioned before I understand things have to be cut to make film time. My 2nd point is a big gripe though because I think they had time to do it that way and got lazy.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

And anyone who hasn't read the book thought Kat genuinely liked Peeta. Epic fail of a movie.

As someone who has never read the books, I got this impression, but I also got the impression she liked Gale but that was completely lost on him.

 

[PrayForDeath]

And anyone who hasn't read the book thought Kat genuinely liked Peeta. Epic fail of a movie.

The first book actually ended on a sour note regarding Kat/peeta's relationship. This was completely missing from the movie.

 

[Icepick]

In the theater now to catch the 10:20 showing.