Hunger Games?

Maybe I missed it, but no thread on the Hunger Games?

Read the book earlier this week and saw the movie last night. I was pretty pleased.

Looks like from the box office receipts, lots of people were pleased as well. Its opening weekend was the biggest ever for any new film that wasn't a sequel, and third all time, behind the second Batman and one of the Harry Potter films. I haven't checked the adjusted receipts on box office mojo but I suspect Hunger Games would still rank pretty high.

Weird mix of people at the theater, some soccer moms, their kids (not sitting with their moms) a hipster douchebag who hairsprayed then teased his hair up before walking into a darkened theater where no one would see his hair.

 

I haven't read the books, but my wife dragged me and I was surprised to find I enjoyed the movie very much. I usually conk out in movie theaters but this one had my attention from the word go. Smart and suspenseful and far less lazy than most popcorn flicks.

Way too dark, in my opinion, for teenagers, but if they are reading this and racing to see the movie adaptation instead of doing the same for that fucking awful Twilight shit, then it's fine by me.

 

Oh thank God. I thought Jay was offering to start a Hunger Games of his own.

 

SportsJournalists.com IS a dystopia.

 

I would volunteer for Dick Whitman.

 

The movie thread has been talking Hunger Games...hence why no thread was started.

 

Good article on Jennifer Lawrence in this week's Rolling Stone.

Apparently, she was one of the runnersups to play Lisbeth in the Dragon Tattoo movies.

I'm guessing she's pretty happy with what she ended up with.

 

Meh. Seems like the thing people go to see just because everyone is going to see it. I'll pass.

(Hence, why I passed on Lord of the Rings, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Twilight, Harry Potter, etc.)

 

I hadn't read the books, had heard good things about the movie, saw it tonight with some friends, and I quite liked it. The concept had been described to me previously and I cannot figure out why this is carrying a Twighlight/teen flick stigma with it. I agree with BYH that it was far too dark to be just a teen movie. I liked it a lot, held me from beginning to end, although I thought it dragged a bit at the beginning.

 

Wow. You are so anti-establishment. That's so cool.

 

Nothing is more common than purposely trying to be different.

 

I saw it also and enjoyed it. The first book of the trilogy was solid, but "Mockingjay" is the equivalent of "Godfather III."