I didn't think I'd like it, but went to see it with my girlfriend and another couple last night (the girl in the other couple was also the one who dragged the guy along).
I actually thought it was pretty good. Corny at parts (what movie isn't), and not as difficult to watch as it should have been given the subject matter (although a few scenes were pretty sad/reflective, and of course I understand that a certain degree of circumspection is required for a teenage audience).
i'd rather be ____ wrote:
The characters are the ultimate cliches. The plot is completely predictable. There are lines of dialogue /narration included in the movie to point out the most obvious things, but to me it seemed just insulting to the viewer.
This is how I felt about the book. I work with a middle school youth group and I read Hunger Games because we were discussing it with the kids. The phrase "show, don't tell" often came to mind.
I actually laughed out loud when the narrator describes the Hob simply by saying "that's the black market." Don't just blurt out that the Hob is the black market. Describe the place. Tell me how people are acting. I'll pick up on what's going on without having the message shouted at me.
Great writers don't just tell you what is happening. They draw you into the scene. They leave things for you to figure out. They have some sense of subtlety.
i'd rather be ____ wrote:
AVOID THIS MOVIE.
I went willingly to see it with my wife, who has read the books and everything. I had no preconceptions about the movie, in fact I didn't know anything about it. I was open minded.
It was one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life.
The characters are the ultimate cliches. The plot is completely predictable. There are lines of dialogue /narration included in the movie to point out the most obvious things, but to me it seemed just insulting to the viewer. The script has to be the corniest piece of trite shite ever written.
I was appalled at how bad this movie was.
True, and Shakespeare is lame too. I mean Romeo and Juliet dying at the end? Soooo predictable. And Julius Caesar? So sixteen centuries ago.
I don't like to dis everything, but it does help establish my artistic superiority.
Saw the movie. It has some of the worst camera work I've seen in a while. My head is still spinning. The whole movie is filled with shots that are moving up and down and side to side, also in and out of focus. Enough already! Some call it art, I call it vomit.
I've read the books and just saw the movie. I liked it and I hope they have a sequel. If you read the book, you should see the movie just to see how it compares.
An even better book of fiction titled The Long Walk is by Slavomir Rawicz. This is a truly engrossing book that can be read quickly.
trollism wrote:
They had to tone down the violence in the Hunger Games because they needed to make the film a 12 rating rather than a 15 (don't know the US equivalents). I read somewhere that they thought it was disappointing that they had to do it, but the under 15 market is huge and they couldn't afford to alienate them.
PG-13 and R (17).
I think that's one of the main things that made it only manage a 5.8ish outta 10 for me.
You just can't have a book that attempts to decribe true desperation and brutality in a movie geared towards youngish teens.
This is a story about teenagers killing each other, and the directors decided to basically ignore that part.
Aside from that it was odd because i feel like if you read the book and watched the movie you knew what was going on, but got a bit distracted by parts that didn't exactly follow the book. And if you didnt read the book first then you didn't really understand all of it. Or took it differently.
I was disappointed they didn't have the tracker jackers make the girl like swell up and ooze a lot more, that woulda been some cool effects. And peeta and katniss (the 2 main characters) sustained only 2 vaguely major injuries, while all the others were just small scratches. (in the book, they're in a lot worse shape)
The most epic parts were rushed and awkward. Thresh came and saved katniss, but said like 1 word then ran off. I feel liek they shoudla spent 2x as long with the interaction so you can tell that he was indebted to her and paid off his debt by saving her life.
And the book gives the background of each character, tell you about hwo the Capital oppresses them, etc. The movie is : love story, saves sister, wins fight in cliche ending with lover,
And she never almsot died of thirst. And it was awkward how they portrayed them blowign up the supplies. In the book, katniss figures out that they are mines and then tries to blow them up. She was originally goignto try to dump them in the lake. In the movie, she randomly knwos that there are mines all over. And you don't even really see why Cato got mad and snapped the mine-layer's neck.
And because it's from a first person point of view in the book, the movie tries to tell you waht's going on in katniss' head by having the games director just announce it to the audience that's watching the games, which seems like a real cheap tactic that's blatantly obvious.
Its a new age 1984 for the teen population. I'm a 21 senior male in college and I got hooked. I usually read non-fiction but these books are easy to ready and for anything dexter, true blood fans out there plenty of action specifically in the latter books.
That's a really cool story bro but True Blood is also extremely shitty.
Might as well be named the Tribulation Games. Maybe meant to precondition us for a scenario where Obama rules what is left of humanity from the ruins of the USA ("Mystery Babylon").
tl;dr
Saw it on friday. It was superb, but the violence was tone down compared to the book.
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Aside from that it was odd because i feel like if you read the book and watched the movie you knew what was going on, but got a bit distracted by parts that didn't exactly follow the book. And if you didnt read the book first then you didn't really understand all of it. Or took it differently.
Exactly. Even if I read the book, not sure if I would still be impressed. With that said, sure there were some exciting parts to the movie but overall, I was disappointed. Too much predictability,and like someone mentioned above- too much motion sickness of filming and definitely for teens!
Heck, I enjoyed the Harry Potter and the Twilight series much better than this movie and I haven't read either of the books! Just my 2 cents as a parent.
same goes for the book wrote:
i'd rather be ____ wrote:The characters are the ultimate cliches. The plot is completely predictable. There are lines of dialogue /narration included in the movie to point out the most obvious things, but to me it seemed just insulting to the viewer.
This is how I felt about the book. I work with a middle school youth group and I read Hunger Games because we were discussing it with the kids. The phrase "show, don't tell" often came to mind.
I actually laughed out loud when the narrator describes the Hob simply by saying "that's the black market." Don't just blurt out that the Hob is the black market. Describe the place. Tell me how people are acting. I'll pick up on what's going on without having the message shouted at me.
Great writers don't just tell you what is happening. They draw you into the scene. They leave things for you to figure out. They have some sense of subtlety.
cool, you made it to the second page. no wonder you're a teacher.
Looking forward to the movie.
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I thought The Long Walk was what Judges take into the Cursed Earth when they resign their Judge status.
I thought The Long Walk was from the front porch to my front seat.
Most of the reviews I looked at were positive. Here's what others thought...
Finally saw it. Would rate it about 7/10. Having read the books, it was interesting to see the changes they made. Bugged me how the Mockingjay pin story was changed.
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