Hunger Games?

[JayFarrar]

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.

 

[BYH]

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 ****ing awful Twilight ****, then it's fine by me.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

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

 

[BYH]

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

SportsJournalists.com IS a dystopia.

 

[Care Bear]

I would volunteer for **** Whitman.

 

[spikechiquet]

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

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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.

 

[Bradley Guire]

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.)

 

[Beef03]

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.

 

[spikechiquet]

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.)

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

 

[YGBFKM]

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.)

Nothing is more common than purposely trying to be different.

 

[micropolitan guy]

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

 

[Care Bear]

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

It really is. What a shame.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I feel for the people who can't sympathize as much with the characters because they're black. Even though they're black in the book too:

http://blogs.wSportsJournalists.com/speakeasy/2012/03/30/hunger-games-tweets-spur-debate-about-racism/

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

http://www.happyplace.com/14941/if-the-hunger-games-was-made-by-other-directors

 

[Armchair_QB]

I saw this when it was called The Running Man.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

No, you didn't.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

I already ordered this from Vivid Video. It must be a typo that it's called Hung Games.

 

[Versatile]

I already ordered this from Vivid Video. It must be a typo that it's called Hung Games.

That's funny; my version is called Huger Games. Vivid must need a copy editor. I'm in.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I was mowing my lawn yesterday and I stopped to chat with my neighbor. While we were chatting, his wife came home from the grocery store and he walked over to help pull the bags out of her trunk and she yelled, "I told you, STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!"

He explained that they had seen Hunger Games the previous night with another couple and he remarked about how hot Jennifer Lawrence is. His wife said, "You have a teenage daughter. How can you make a comment like that about another teenager?" I pointed out that Lawrence is in her 20s and he said, "Yeah, but the character is younger in the movie and I don't think that would help my case."

I can't wait to see it.