Liberal agenda etc etc
Liberal agenda etc etc
So pumped for this. I need to reread the books just to prepare.
I've only read the first two so far, but it didn't seem to need much clean up. The deaths weren't much worse than your average movie violence, I'd say it matches the Lord of the Rings films, and those came in at PG-13.
As for the themes, yeah it's a bit dark for the rating, but if you screw with that, it'll kill the story.
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I just got the second book in the mail. First one I couldn't put down was so good. My Twlight has arrived. Suck it tweens.
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The third sucked nuts, it felt really rushed and predictable. 1st> 2nd > 3rd.
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At the beginning, I didn't know anything about The Hunger Games. When I saw how you guys were excited I downloaded Book 1 and read it without watching the trailer to avoid spoilers or forming theories in my head. Now that I'm done with the book and watched the trailer.. damn that's gonna be 1 awesome movie. All I hope is they don't stretch book 1 into 2 movies.
i just read these. they are def for 13 year old girls. glad to see i was so spot on with my earlier posts. holy shit. could have been a good story if it was written by a man that knew what the fuck. also the whole third book was a bucket of lol.
you guys are all teenage girls.
I just finished the first book. Rather surprised that this passed whatever board approves the "young adult" rating on books. It's hyperviolent. I think they're much better than the Twilight series. I thought it was well written for the genre. Katniss Everdeen is pretty much the polar opposite of Bella Swan. It's almost as if she was written in response to Bella Swan.
Just finished reading all three. The first one was great, the next couple were simply OK, like the first book was a huge success, but she wasn't sure where to go with a sequel. I think I would have just rather had a new Hunger Games, with the main viewpoint from several different characters, so you didn't know how it would end, rather than the relatively predictable revolution & war story it became.
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new trailer is out , there is also a twitter contest Yahoo is doing.
http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/pla...l#vid=28173924
Hollywood reporter talks about a social media game
Rolling Stone interviews Cinna aka Lenny Kravitz
really grinds my gears how awesome the story could have been
I feel like all the trailers released give you less than no idea what the story is.
I think the books were good. Maybe I liked a lot of the thought process of Katniss(that I fear will not translate into the movie) such as how she does things, but feels like she is being used by everyone. How she is afraid all the time, etc.
As I said in the Books thread. The first book is decent, the other two aren't worth reading. These are for 12 year old girls.
Won't be seeing the movies.
It's darker then Twilight and a hair better written.
So yes. The same terrible shit.