The Hunger Games Movie?

[cheezMcNASTY]

Anyone see it yet? Have you read the books?

I saw it last night and for a standalone movie it was good. For a movie based on a book that I have read, I was very disappointed. They rushed through a lot of things and didn't really introduce a lot of characters that deserved to be mentioned. I remember at one point, the two main characters are talking about a girl you had never really been told anything about and they called her by her nickname in the book, "foxface." Problem was, they never really told the audience that she even had a nickname or why it was her nickname. They also skipped over, in my opinion, the two most meaningful moments in the entire arena: the gift from district 11 and what those beasts in the climax of the story really are. I'd give it a 6/10.

 

[TRA Rotid]

Comparing books with movies based on books is generally a bad idea.

When I first saw Harry Potter: Philo's Stone I didn't understand half of it, because I knew the information that should have been there was in fact missing.

The trailer seemed interesting, but Hollywood is in a very low period right now so I'm not expecting anything but eyecandy from most of the movies.

I saw John Carter the other day - a guy from school gave me a free ticket - and I'd rate it 6.5/10, just below the "recommend it" threshold of 7, even though it was good. Very similar to Time Machine, which I loved.

 

[Aions]

I just orded the book trilogy a few days ago, i wanna read the books first.
My friends mom was reading the books like a year ago and i was gunna borrrow them from her but completely forgot

 

[Tyloric]

I thought it was phenomenal. It's very true to the book. It has an 86% rating on rotten tomatoes (critics) and a 95% from users.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Heard lots of good things about it though I know very little about it myself but I am interested.

 

[Drew2686]

The Hunger Games set a record-breaking opening.

John Carter was a complete flop, taking an epic hit financially.

Yet I have absolutely no intention of seeing the former, despite the "craze" that seems to be about it, and I would like to see the latter.

 

[Hermit]

Books = words words words words words words words words, lots of space for words words words delicious words

Movies = Less space for words, can't make them a million words long like books words.

Words.

 

[Tsuyu]

Cheap knock-off of Logan's Run and Battle Royale.

 

[Skotekal]

Girlfriend said it was a pretty big disappointment. I haven't read the book and I don't plan too. Or seen the movie. Therefore any opinion I form is invalid.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Cheap knock-off of Logan's Run and Battle Royale.

The premise did make me think Battle Royale and The Condemned.

 

[Aions]

Cheap knock-off of Logan's Run and Battle Royale.

This is a Logan's Run rip-off and ive never seen Battle Royale so... :/

 

[Firis]

Boring crappy movie based off an overrated book series.

 

[Azer249]

Battle Royale > Hunger Games.

As some people have said, i just think it's a crappy rip off. Can't beat Battle Royale!

 

[Tyloric]

So cynical... srsly.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

I think Battle Royale and Hunger Games are apples and oranges, really. I've read both books/series and, while they're about similar things, they take very different angles.

Battle Royale is (obviously) more mature than Hunger Games. It focuses on how a sane person's mind can be warped and survival instincts can kick in. It aims to disturb with extreme violence.

Hunger Games is more of an ongoing story featuring the arena as a major element, but it's tied to something bigger which is explored in the second and third books. Yes, it has some pretty twisted violence in it and kids doing grotesque things to one another, but the focus is much more grounded in the state of the country. Even when they're in the arena fighting to survive, the countries politics are never far away. It's geared towards a younger audience (though pretty accessible for any age group imo).

To be honest, I think the overarching plot of the series has more in common with 1984 and V for Vendetta than it does with Battle Royale. Is Inception a rip-off of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just because they both feature businesses based around manipulating people through their dreams? Of course not.

But hey, every popular young adult novel has its haters.
I just think there are much more deserving targets for scorn than The Hunger Games.
Looking at you, Twilight.

 

[Tsuyu]

You can't deny that it is a repackaging of Battle Royale with a sprinkling of Logan's Run on top. It is just so unoriginal. But at least it treated the material fairly and came out a half decent movie. Original or not, the end result wasn't horrible.

Unlike Twilight which pretty much raped both the vampire AND werewolf genres.

 

[Quistrix]

 

[Aions]

finnished the book, saw the movie, book was better. But is that not always the case?