The Hunger Games teaser

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by KevB

It was the violence (specifically teen on teen) that worried me.

It's pretty tame, in my opinion.

[Chiefnj2]

It's primarily a violent book. It's Survivor where instead of voting other off, they just kill each other as quickly as possible. If the contestants aren't killing fast enough, the producers help by changing the landscape. I presume the movie will cater to tweens and not show the deaths in detail.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by patteeu

It's much more tame than the premise might suggest. No issues with sex or language that I can remember at all. Obviously, there's some violence, but it didn't seem particularly graphic or scary to me. I wouldn't have had a problem with my girls reading it when they were 12. I suspect that there are far worse books in their middle school library or the young adult fiction section of the local library.

So it rips off Battle Royale but leaves out the gore??

If anyone wants to see it how it should be netflix battle Royale on netflix, the sequel sucks though.. And you have to watch it subtitled..

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Valiant

So it rips off Battle Royale but leaves out the gore??

If anyone wants to see it how it should be netflix battle Royale on netflix, the sequel sucks though.. And you have to watch it subtitled..

Author, fwiw, claims she knew nothing of BR when she wrote book.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by KevB

My 12 year old wants this for her birthday.....anybody read it and feel it's remotely appropriate for a 12 year old (albeit a fairly mature one)? The premise just seems very adult to me.

I'm not suggesting what to let your kids watch at what age in any way, but I was watching crap like Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday the 13th when I was like 6. Then again, that wasn't my parents choice. They password protected our cable box and my brother and I started at 0000 and just did as many numbers as we could each day until we got the right code. 0001, 0002, etc. Then when we got tired we would just stop at say 0432, write it down, and start again whenever we felt like it. I know this is a random story, but for some reason your post made me remember that.

[Deberg_1990]

Full trailer is out now for you fans.



http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/l...ergames/#share

[Deberg_1990]

Wow, now that ive watched this....i honestly think this looks like crap. Stop the "Young Adult Fiction" crap now Holllywood!!!

[allen_kcCard]

I thought it looks pretty good actually. I'd heard about the books but never read them.

[luv]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

I thought it looks pretty good actually. I'd heard about the books but never read them.

Watched that last preview from school without sound. Looks like it follows the book so far. I'll have to watch it again when I get home so I can tell what people are saying. All I can say is that Woody's character looks different than I had pictured. Otherwise, the characters look pretty much like what I would have pictured from the book's discription.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

I thought it looks pretty good actually. I'd heard about the books but never read them.

Guess im not the target audience.....looks too "kiddie" sci-fi for my taste.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Guess im not the target audience.....looks too "kiddie" sci-fi for my taste.

It's definitely kiddie/girlie sci-fi (romantic sci-fi). As someone who thought the books were pretty boring, I think the movies will be OK, especially as family friendly movies (depending on the level of violence your kids can take). I was in the minority thinking the first Twilight movie was OK when I took my two girls to see it though so take this with a grain of salt.

[KurtCobain]

I am so stoked about this. The first book series I've read since Harry Potter and Left Behind.

Except for Gale, the cast looks perfect. I think Woody was a great pick up for Haymitch. Before I read the last book, somebody told me he was going to be Haymitch in a movie version, so I read Mockingjay with the image of Woody as Haymitch in my head. Works well.

I really hope the movies do these awesome ****ing books justice. It should be better than Harry Potter movies because the author was in on the screenwriting, right?

[KurtCobain]

[KurtCobain]

The messages may initially seem a little conflicting from the stars of The Hunger Games. Earlier we were told by Elizabeth Banks that violence is not the focus of the film, but according to Lawrence, there will be “blood, death, and stabbing.” Okay, so that’s not exactly a surprise; nor is it difficult to understand that some of these things can be shown without being over-the-top on the gore factor.

There’s blood, death, stabbing, spears and arrows going into people. But you can have the impact of violence without being gory,” she said.

Jennifer also spoke about her initial hesitation in taking the role, fearing such a high-profile part rather than portraying the actual character. Luckily, her fears were soothed by her mother, who reminded her, “This is a script you love, a character you love…”

I would love to be Katniss for years… it was more the fear of how my own life could change,” Lawrence said.

Fortunately for us, it appears she will indeed get to fill the hunting boots of Katniss for years to come. I can’t wait to see her full performance on the big screen!

[KurtCobain]

'Hunger Games' Movie Is 'Very Faithful' To Book, Says Director Gary Ross

Posted 2/13/12 11:34 am ET by Kat Rosenfield in Movie News, Movies, Page Turners, Videos

With only a month to go before "The Hunger Games" hits theaters, now is the time for die-hard fans of the books to start really and truly panicking over what kind of terrible, shocking differences there will be between the literary trilogy we loved and the movie we can't wait to see. I mean, it's Hollywood! They could do anything! And what if they make Peeta a butcher boy, not a baker? Or what if Haymitch isn't as drunk as he's supposed to be? Or what if the infamous tracker jacker scene includes a surprise musical number in which the jackers don't just sting, but also sing, tap-dance and play jazz medleys on tiny dystopian saxophones?!! It'll be anarchy!

...Except actually, we don't have to worry about any of this. Because when Josh Horowitz sat down with director Gary Ross, he made sure to grill him real good about just how close he stayed to the source material when adapting the book for film...and Gary came back with the news that not only did he cling as closely as possible to Suzanne Collins' vision, but he was pretty close—literally—to Suzanne herself.

"She wrote the last draft of the script with me," Gary said. "We collaborated. We were in a room together! We locked ourselves up in a room and literally wrote the last draft of the script together."

Okay, then! Consider us assured—because if there's anyone we trust not to muck up the greatness of "The Hunger Games," it's the person who wrote the books. But Gary went one step further, explaining, "It's very, very faithful in the literal sense, but it's even more faithful in the tonal sense. My job is to give you that same visceral feeling you felt when you read the book."

And just in case you still weren't satisfied, Josh went ahead and asked him point-blank: Are there any differences between the books and the movies that are truly going to infuriate fans? Like, say, surprise deaths of characters we expected to see in the sequels?

"Oh no," Gary protested. "No, no, no. It's a faithful adaptation. There are obviously differences, because I'm adapting a book to the screen, but no. It's not like Peeta leaves the story or anything like that."

And by "anything like that," we assume he also means "there will be no singing, tap-dancing, saxophone-playing tracker jackers in this movie." Which is no doubt a great relief to all of us.