The Hunger Games teaser

[jjjayb]

Originally Posted by ChiefFripp

That's probably why it was underwhelming. I think Shawshank Redemption is the only movie I've seen that lived up to the original written story. The Road came close.

I'll add another Stephen King movie: The Green Mile.

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Originally Posted by jjjayb

I'll add another Stephen King movie: The Green Mile.

I'll add another, No Country for Old Men

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

So I watched this with my daughter today. It was ok. Certainly better than I expected. It reminded me a lot of 70s scifi like Logan's Run and Soylent Green. Just the style and feel of it.

I think my favorite parts about it were Woody Harelson and Lenny Kravitzs characters. They were both basically mentors for Katniss. Hopefully they expand on those characters because they were great.

Hated the shaky cam work. WTF? Maybe they were trying to disguise the violence to get a PG13?

I'm still amazed that a book series and movie about kids trying to kill each other became this huge pop culture event. Heh.

Geh. My wife made me watch this after she read the books. You could tell it was made for teeny boppers. For as vicious and violent as the event would have to be, there wasn't much violence. At all.

probably not a spoiler, but I wouldn't want to wound any vaginas.

Spoiler!

And FFS, if she could shoot a goddamned bow, she should have set in the trees and picked ****ers off. She killed precisely nobody from a elevated or camouflaged position.

And creating the dogs and fire out of thin air? Come on. That's just hilariously terrible.

Harrelson is always typecast, but he does it so damn well it is hilarious.

Overall, the story is just not very believable, the action was meh, and there were several parts of the movie that were part of the books but were WTF moments without that explanation are just out of place.

Jennifer Lawrence is epic hot and played the part well. The other kid, Peter, I think did OK. The rest were meh.

It was just overall a bad movie. But it was better than I was expecting.

[ragedogg69]

Not sure if this has been posted yet but it is very relevant to my thoughts on this over hyped movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hp_x...layer_embedded

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Not sure if this has been posted yet but it is very relevant to my thoughts on this over hyped movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hp_x...layer_embedded

Haha. I totally agree, though I thought the book kind of sucked as well. There's better YA Dystopian fiction out there, imo.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

For as vicious and violent as the event would have to be, there wasn't much violence. At all.

Im sure its a very fine line the filmakers want to walk. Honestly, this material truly deserves a violent and gritty take. But they have no interest in that. Its a movie designed to pull in the 10-20 year old crowd with a PG13 rating which = more $$$$$$. No way they go with hard R rated take.

[mnchiefsguy]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Im sure its a very fine line the filmakers want to walk. Honestly, this material truly deserves a violent and gritty take. But they have no interest in that. Its a movie designed to pull in the 10-20 year old crowd with a PG13 rating which = more $$$$$$. No way they go with hard R rated take.

I would agree with this. The books as well were also geared toward the same age group, and while the books might be considered more violent and gritty, the filmmakers have a tougher line to walk to maintain a PG-13 rating.