Well it's a teenage movie from a book, what did they expect
[quote=Video]"It's basically just a rip-off of Battle Royale"[/quote]
That's the biggest reason I'm not a fan of The Hunger Games.
Also, when someone asks me if I like the series, which strangely happens pretty often, I always get yelled at for saying no. :v:
[b]Edit[/b]: Let me clarify here. I'm talking about the books. Not the film.
I haven't read the book, but when I watched the movie I could tell that it was missing the point entirely.
meh, books were good, movie was okay.
"Nailed it"
The movie is much better if you read the books. You have an inner monologue going on the whole time, and you'll understand it a lot of it better.
[QUOTE=Super Muffin;37442964]That's the biggest reason I'm not a fan of The Hunger Games.
Also, when someone asks me if I like the series, which strangely happens pretty often, I always get yelled at for saying no. :v:[/QUOTE]
Not liking the movie because it's INSPIRED by another movie is bullshit. I watched BR before The Hunger Games and thought it was okay but pretty retarded at times. In my opinion The Hunger Games took an idea of people being put in a big arena to fight to the death, and made it not weird as fuck to watch.
I downloaded the first chapter as a pdf. Was the single worst thing I've ever read. God awful prose, vapid dialogue, characters who managed to be both one dimensional and bi-polar. The film actually wasn't too bad, other than the shaky cam. I have seen far worse.
I read all the books, and watched the movie.
I liked it, though i'm still puzzled on how the movie got so damn popular among teenage girls.
I should probably get around to reading and watching Battle Royale too.
[QUOTE=Fausty;37446701]Not liking the movie because it's INSPIRED by another movie is bullshit. I watched BR before The Hunger Games and thought it was okay but pretty retarded at times. In my opinion The Hunger Games took an idea of people being put in a big arena to fight to the death, and made it not weird as fuck to watch.[/QUOTE]
And you assume I'm talking about the movie.
[I]Battle Royale[/I], the book, has an intense amount of well-written social commentary. The workings of dystopian Japan's government is fully explained. There's also discussion of social norms and types of music now banned by the government, in what is really a much more detailed world. The kids are placed into a military program which exists only to scare the general public, to prevent an uprising or attempts to flee the country. The program, as it's called, has a past, present, future, and long-time reason for existing. It's not the violent macguffin of [I]The Hunger Games, [/I]which is a poorly explained allegory to reality-tv which makes no contextual sense when you look at how poor the world is supposed to be. The games in [I]The Hunger Games [/I]fills the same purpose as the program does in [I]Battle Royale, [/I]but it doesn't make as much sense in practice. Read past the first book in the [I]Hunger[/I] trilogy, and you end up with something that parrots [I]1984[/I], [I]Battle Royale[/I], [I]Fahrenheit 451[/I], [I]Brave New World[/I], and a handful of other actually well written dystopian novels. There is nothing unique in the [I]Hunger[/I] trilogy. At least, nothing I've noticed while reading them. You can't get much more generic than books 2/3.
I'd recommend reading books and not films based off of them.
[B]Edit[/B]: Now that I think about it, there really isn't anything unique in [I]The Hunger Games. [/I]It mixes[I]The Running Man[/I], [I]Battle Royale[/I], and the disputed area of [I]​1984.[/I]
[QUOTE=Fausty;37446701]Not liking the movie because it's INSPIRED by another movie is bullshit. I watched BR before The Hunger Games and thought it was okay but pretty retarded at times. In my opinion The Hunger Games took an idea of people being put in a big arena to fight to the death, and made it not weird as fuck to watch.[/QUOTE]
No the Hunger Games WAS weird as fuck to watch. Battle Royale's characters at least had emotion, I actually felt something when someone died or thought it was really fucked up. Hunger Games was like watching robots fight in an arena which would have been cool if the camera wasn't so goddamn shaky all the fucking time.
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[QUOTE=Super Muffin;37447304]And you assume I'm talking about the movie.
[I]Battle Royale[/I], the book, has an intense amount of well-written social commentary. The workings of dystopian Japan's government is fully explained. There's also discussion of social norms and types of music now banned by the government, in what is really a much more detailed world. The kids are placed into a military program which exists only to scare the general public, to prevent an uprising or attempts to flee the country. The program, as it's called, has a past, present, future, and long-time reason for existing. It's not the violent macguffin of [I]The Hunger Games, [/I]which is a poorly explained allegory to reality-tv which makes no contextual sense when you look at how poor the world is supposed to be. The games in [I]The Hunger Games [/I]fills the same purpose as the program does in [I]Battle Royale, [/I]but it doesn't make as much sense in practice. Read past the first book in the [I]Hunger[/I] trilogy, and you end up with something that parrots [I]1984[/I], [I]Battle Royale[/I], [I]Fahrenheit 451[/I], [I]Brave New World[/I], and a handful of other actually well written dystopian novels. There is nothing unique in the [I]Hunger[/I] trilogy. At least, nothing I've noticed while reading them. You can't get much more generic than books 2/3.
I'd recommend reading books and not films based off of them.[/QUOTE]
I honestly thought the book for Battle Royale wasn't that good, and that was before I even heard of the movie which I think i great. Definitely in my top 10
I've read the first two books and watched the movie. I liked them.
The third book on the other hand I decided to stop reading. The arena was the charm of it, not some people running around in a "war". And all the minor and very uninteresting characters that keep being introduced, like all the army guys.
The movie was just bad and everything felt artificial and got everyone I know who didn't read the books to say "Why all that?"
[QUOTE=zzzz;37447524][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u843KNE-exo&feature=player_embedded[/media][/QUOTE]
Transformers takes the cake.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJuDo5ots0&feature=player_embedded[/media]
I watched this with my friend one time just for kicks. We ended up pointing at inconsistencies and just generally making fun of the movie.
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Also Jennifer Lawrence's neck is fucking long.
books were decent if you were a chick i guess
i dunno i had to read them for school and as a guy it was really hard to have to write a paper relating yourself to a girl that's main internal struggle is between two other dudes
I enjoyed both the books and movies.
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Or, movie, I guess.
I only saw the movie and knew nothing about the books and thought it was pretty okay. The constant shaky cam got annoying though.
I read the title as Honest Hearts and thought it was FNV related. Think it's itme fore bed.
I don't care about the book or movie. I just wanna fuck the actress
[QUOTE=Raidyr;37452524]I only saw the movie and knew nothing about the books and thought it was pretty okay. The constant shaky cam got annoying though.[/QUOTE]
I've kinda got used to it because it seems to be in every bloody movie now.
All I saw on facebook and tumblr when the hunger games were released were shitty instagram photos of apple notebooks with the hunger games, shit like
[quote]omg best movie didn read the book but stil[/quote]
and other cringe worthy shit
I'm yet to see it and even read the books but the movie didn't look so good when the trailers were out
[QUOTE=Fausty;37446701]Not liking the movie because it's INSPIRED by another movie is bullshit. I watched BR before The Hunger Games and thought it was okay but pretty retarded at times. In my opinion The Hunger Games took an idea of people being put in a big arena to fight to the death, and made it not weird as fuck to watch.[/QUOTE]
Being a person who read the HG first, I didn't think that it was weird, but shocking. That's actually a good thing though, fighting in an arena is supposed to be horrifying, not as if you're safely walking in a suburban neighborhood. "Normal" is boring.
I didn't feel much for the deceased characters in The Hunger Games. They didn't appear to be affected heavily in the arena. It didn't go in depth about everyone's personality and what caused them to have the mindset of a killer.
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