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It was alright. It could have been better imo. It was often really corny and predictable. I think it would have been better if they made it rated R and had it be a little more violent.
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But yeah. he did. Eh, it's hard to tell. They don't scream as much as Twi-hards did.
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After thinking this over, I'd rather wait until it comes out on dvd and just wait until May 4 to watch in theaters again.
Is the fanbase really that bad?
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I suppose they're not worse, they're just equally as bad in a different way. At least with Twi-hards you could knock them off to just being 14 year old girls trying to live their ultimate love story through a one sided, protagonist written with so little personality that anybody could throw themselves onto it, supposing they wanted to. And at least they had the sense to realize not everybody gave a shit about their fantasies, or, at least, didn't want the guy giving out popcorn to know about them. With The Hunger Games, it seems like the fans are incredibly pretentious about how innovative and interesting the idea was, and they all seem to have the need to tell me their favourite part and blahblahblah like I'm supposed be just as interested about it as they are since, hey, The Hunger Games is for everybody, right?
/bitter At least I can take solace in the hype about it being over in about two weeks, just like every other book-turned-movie. Note I'm not really bashing the movie or the book or even the fans really, but working 16 hour days where 1298301938109 people go to see the movie makes me want to break a puppy over my knee. |
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I suppose the Hunger Games fans are voraciously invading your concession stands and popcorn machines, that's why they're 100x worse
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As far as THG goes, we have about 2,500 people a day for it. The sheer amount of them is unnerving. I would like to see a remake for Battle Royale, though, that sounds interesting, as long as it retains the hilarious comedy in mistranslations. "Wow! I survived thanks to my great bullet-proof vest!" was my grad quote. |
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03-25-2012, 02:03 AM | #32 |
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It's funny that I had never even heard of the hunger games until last friday when the movie came out. I am kind of surprised it has such a huge following. The book is most likely better than the movie, but the plot/concept is mediocre and generic. While I was watching the movie I found it to be way to predictable. I feel like they didn't make the movie with the idea that is should be a standalone story apart from the book.
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Pretty good movie, stupid ass crowd. So common nowadays.
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Okay someone synopsis this for me. Spoiler tags if you have to. What is the general idea?
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No, your guess is reasonably accurate and the movie is several levels of lame, don't worry about it.
If you haven't read the books or seen/read Battle Royale, you might find it okay, but I definitely wouldn't say it's as good as everyone thinks. Everyone I know that was hyped for it made it out to be really good, but everyone that wasn't and saw it just as a movie (or with limited knowledge of the books) thought it kinda sucked. The books are better, imo, although they're not a great read. Like Rubix said, it's pretty much Battle Royale + Twilight. A bunch of kids fighting for their lives with a subtext of the vulnerable lead female protagonist torn between two male characters that are very nearly polar opposites. I'm disappointed that she didn't play the mental effects due to the killings up more, since she did mention and hint at it, but whatever. Plus the third book sucks ass. It's horribly boring. And she writes like this. A lot. With too many short sentences. It drags. And gets old quick. But hey, other people will tell you differently, just my /2cents.
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That just sounds like bad writing and bad fiction to me. It's seriously written that way?
Also just for kicks I just now wiki'd it. I was like "Please tell me she didn't get the idea from watching too much reality TV. Please tell me she didn't get the idea from watching too much reality TV. *crosses fingers*" .. reads on ... looks like she got the idea from watching too much reality TV. *facepalms*. |
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Yeah, her concept of using writing style to affect the reading experience is pretty much to just constantly use short sentences. It works to an extent by providing pace and mild suspense, but it drags and gets old quick. I mean, it's obviously not as bad as I portrayed it in my previous post, but there's no real complex sentences or anything.
And yup, iirc, it was a combination of watching reality TV and something akin to the whole Kony thing that's been flying around recently that she claimed as having given her the idea.
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ok I saw the movie like over a week ago and the story was nice. The biggest problem is the shaking camera. Can't make out some of the action.
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