Anbody here read this series? I'm halfway through the first book, and I absolutley love it.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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I've recently finished Catching Fire and I like both books a lot. I've heard some people didn't like Mockingjay (the third and final book) because it was extremely depressing. I love the character of Katniss I think she's one of the best heroines to come out in a while (in any kind of media). The book is very much Katniss' story, there are other prominent characters but she is the essential focus. Some people have said that Peeta and Gale are bland, I personally liked Peeta (not so much Gale) but I can maybe see where they're coming from. I'm glad you started this discussion because I was thinking of starting my own, now I don't have to YAY! Now all I've got to do is start a Code Lyoko discussion (or have someone else do it for me) and I'll be completely satisfied.
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Yeah, I'm one of those people (who doesn't like Peeta). Well really, its not that I don't like him, I just don't have any interest in him overall. Though I'm very interested in where his general relationship with Katniss will go. :)
My friend tells me that the tracker jackers come back later in the series, so I'm excited about that too.
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Yeah, I'm one of those people (who doesn't like Peeta). Well really, its not that I don't like him, I just don't have any interest in him overall. Though I'm very interested in where his general relationship with Katniss will go. :)
It's going to go very far, very far indeed. You'll probably warm up to him soon enough.
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I read all three books, because my students wouldn't shut up about it :)
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Isn't this like Battle Royale?
Will watch the movie nontheless.
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Bumping given the movie came out this weekend.
So I watched the movie. Never read the books. I know people that enjoyed the series and had no idea what the story was about other than kids end up trying to kill each other.
That said I liked the film and am borrowing the books from someone so I'm planning on reading them.
Peeta is my only real gripe, but even that's somewhat minor. He reminded me of Pariston from hunterxhunter. His attempts to manipulate the crowd made me want to punch him in the face (though I get why he was doing it) and I felt his confession of love scene was forced and thought he was playing some kind of angle. Even after I realized he was a truly nice guy, he still kind of bugged me. (I watched you every day. That seemed more creepy than heartfelt).
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I'm on the third book now. My thoughts on the film is the movie was very faithful to the first book of the series and capture the characteristic of each character. I did like that the movie shown the behind the scene. The movie handle a lot of the important scenes in the book really
! Rue's death, which I did cried when I was reading it. I did cried during the scene in the movie.
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I saw the movie on premiere day. It was alright. Never read the books, but I liked it for the most part. Just hated the camera work, really.
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Saw the movie on Friday. I thought it was pretty good. Not a masterpiece by any means, but it was worth the price of admission. Doesn't really make me want to read the books, but I'll gladly check out the sequel movies, which I assume they'll make.
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Not too shabby.
And with that news, I'm amazed the theater I went to was as uncrowded as it was. Of course, I did go at 2:00 on a Friday.
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Temtped to read the book, not convinced yet though, we shall see where boredom gets me.
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Just got dragged along to see the film. I’ll admit that my sole knowledge of The Hunger Games before seeing the movie was that it’s ‘kinda like Battle Royale.’ And frankly I hate Battle Royale…so I didn’t want to see this movie. That may not be sound logic but whatever.
For the most part the film was a pleasant surprise. For a movie that last almost two and a half hours it moved quite nicely. The premise was solid. I think most of the characters were pretty shallow and never really got as fleshed out as they should have but the main character was quite good, both in acting (mostly) and in writing. The film was a bit more quite than expected but that didn’t bother me – if anything it improved my opinion of it. I wouldn’t say I am blown away but the film deserves a solid C+ rating. Worth a look.
A question. Did anyone else get a Celestial Dragon vibe from all the rich people? I totally did.
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A question. Did anyone else get a Celestial Dragon vibe from all the rich people? I totally did.
Well, granted the pompous, monstrous elitist is a pretty darn old trope.
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Well, granted the pompous, monstrous elitist is a pretty darn old trope.
Absolutely but the people in the film almost looksed right out of Oda's imagination. It was pretty awesome. I almost wanted to start looking for Sabo's parents.
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Better than Twilight book and movie wise. That's all that count.
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Better than Twilight book and movie wise. That's all that count.
Thats all that counts????????? How low can your standards get?
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Better than Twilight book and movie wise. That's all that count.
I dunno the romance is pretty twilightly. Two handsome guys blindly in love with an attractive yet unattainable female. It's not that bad in the first book but the romance plot gets progressively more irritating by the 2nd and 3rd. If you remove those pieces it's an alright read though. The movie was a more or less faithful adaptation. Much closer to the source materials than say, the Harry Potter movies, but still entertaining and accessible to people who have never read the books.
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90% of fiction has love triangles.
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90% of fiction isn't worth reading…
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How close is this to Battle Royale really?
It just seems like Battle Royale for kids? Is it battle royale for kids?
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The premise has some pretty damn close things. But there are differences from what i've heard.
But the similarities seem quite heavy.
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I dunno the romance is pretty twilightly. Two handsome guys blindly in love with an attractive yet unattainable female. It's not that bad in the first book but the romance plot gets progressively more irritating by the 2nd and 3rd. If you remove those pieces it's an alright read though. The movie was a more or less faithful adaptation. Much closer to the source materials than say, the Harry Potter movies, but still entertaining and accessible to people who have never read the books.
Bella is not unobtainable…lol. She actually seems quite easy. All you really have to be is good looking.
I might look into this series. Although it seems to be aimed at people younger than me, I'm kinda curious about all the hate going on lately with the movie.
Anyone else feel like society flipped a switch and decided to go insane?
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Bella is not unobtainable…lol. She actually seems quite easy. All you really have to be is good looking.
I might look into this series. Although it seems to be aimed at people younger than me, I'm kinda curious about all the hate going on lately with the movie.
Anyone else feel like society flipped a switch and decided to go insane?
hate going on? got any links?
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hate going on? got any links?
yeah ppl seem to be loving this movie. breaking records all over the place. Meanwhile Battle Royale was banned…
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I am 300 pages into the book and it's a real page turner, it's been pulling me into the plot. Nice that it was only published in what, 2008? 2009? Good book. Hope to see the film soon.
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hate going on? got any links?
A lot of internet message boards pre-hated (and even still hate) the movie because most people considered it a Battle Royale rip-off influenced by Twilight. And once you get into the mindset of I NEED TO HATE THIS, it's kind of hard to get over it. Even if the movie is great.
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hate going on? got any links?
I'll look for the link I saw, but it was hate for there being black people in the movie. From what I've heard from fans that actually read it, yes there are black people or "dark skinned" people in the book but I guess it's something you can gloss over. So some people are pissed…for the dumbest reasons.
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Thought it was a drawn-out and boring film. With few memorable characters.
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Just got back from seeing the movie. I found it enjoyable, but now I'm gonna read the book, because I'm pretty sure I'll like that better.
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I hear this film has shaky cam on an establishing shot of a house
Can I just fucking not see this movie because that sounds like it'll murder me on the spot
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I've read both Battle Royale and Hunger Games. Hunger Games has more elements to it that either help or muck up the story. Battle Royale is more simple and has a greater focus on characters. I consider Battle Royale to be superior.
Just saw the film. Overall it was good. I'm torn between whether to say the books are better or the film. Both drop the ball on a lot of things, but do well where the other failed. For example, Katniss is a lot more tolerable in the film since the book is in first person and her thought process was crappy at times. I also really liked that Seneca Falls was more prominent in the film and had good scenes.
Shaky cam was annoying, along with the editing.
One thing I felt walking out was that I really dislike the way novels are being adapted into film lately. It doesn't make a film necessarily bad, but I'd rather they were retellings of the story rather than just the story directly lifted from the book with some parts cut for time. Not sure if I'm getting my point across, but think about One Piece movie 8 vs movie 9 (which was more of a retelling).
Anyway, here's a hilarious dissection of each chapter of the Hunger Games series: http://farla.livejournal.com/274937.html. I still maintain that I like the books and the film, but some of the points brought up here are valid.
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90% of fiction isn't worth reading…
Love triangles aren't necessarily bad. It's just another trope that's been used for longer than anyone can remember and is just another way of telling stories. The problem is they've become really overused and creatively bankrupt as of late and that's why most people are getting sick of them. But I don't think it's fair to say that they're automatically bad. But I think it's fair to say they're rather hard to write well at least for long periods of time and at this point most writers just throw them into the story because they don't have any better ideas. My two cents.
Anyway my sister is obsessed with the books and basically forced me to read them. I thought the first two were pretty good and I'd recommend them to most people. Third one was kind of boring though, really took forever to get off the ground and was pretty lame on the whole. So I went to see the movie and I was very happy with it. Nothing really bothered me too much, not even the shaky cam believe it or not. I do wish they fleshed out the relationship between Katniss and Rue though because they kind of rushed that. But on the whole I was quite satisfied with it and I'm very happy it's making so much money because teenage girls really need to have something to obsess over that's actually halfway decent.
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@Kareem:
I do wish they fleshed out the relationship between Katniss and Rue though because they kind of rushed that.
Would've been nice. Could've trimmed out about 40 mins of the practicalities of the game and used it to make some characterization.
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Would've been nice. Could've trimmed out about 40 mins of the practicalities of the game and used it to make some characterization.
To be honest one of the appealing aspects of the book/movie was how much they went into detail about how the games worked. Because if it was just "go into the arena and fight" people would've been complaining about that too. I understand that some people don't enjoy that sort of thing (myself included) but I thought it worked out quite well. Maybe that's just cause I read the books though.
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I'd imagine that a lot of things would've made more sense to me had i read the books.
But going in unprepared i felt that pretty much every character except for Katniss and the sack of flour guy were faceless voids who i cared little about.
Would have loved for the president and his right hand producer to have been expanded on, felt like a waste of potential to just have them in 3-4 scenes
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Saw the movie last night, it was good but not anything special. Some thoughts:
It had the same problem lots of book series turned movies do, where it tries to hard to lead each movie into the next one and forgets to just make one whole movie. The themes of hope and not being a pawn in these peoples game were touched upon but never really resolved. You have overall conflicts that carry over throughout the series but you need at least a few things to come full circle to make the movie feel complete.
Also
! Half the people in my theater cried when Rue died and I really don't know why. Maybe they read the books and she is a more developed character there but I'm sorry I am not crying over a character who's name we first got 2 hours in. I took her death as hard as any of the other younger kids, brutal and sad, but she was no were near developed enough to make me care deeply for her as a character.
! Another thing is that these kids are really dumb. When your part of an "alliance" with four of the other best fighters in the games why don't you just wake up in the middle of the night, slit there throats and walk away?The shaky cam in every movie (damn you Chris Nolan) is really starting piss me off. It isn't a "stylistic choice" its a crutch your using because you can't film close quarter fighting scenes!
It would have landed to the tension of the movie if it went full on R with the violence and brutality, but I understand the financial reasons of keeping it PG-13 and seeing 12 year olds slaughtered did enough to get the message across.
Wish we could have seen the reaction of the trainers and people watching the games, would have been interesting to play into the whole who was getting sponsered and how the odds were going but I guess its not that kind of movie.
The movie did enough to make me want to see the next one and maybe take a stab at the book series (though that forshadowed love triangle is worring me), but it didn't wow me like some people were saying it would.
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i think this series has a new fan (me)
i went in not really expecting much, perhaps just a bland last man standing type survival thing with Twilight overtones, but i was really interested and sucked into it.
this is also glorious http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/03/hunger-games-costumes-on-the-talk-dont-fit-trayvon-martin-topic.html
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So we've all notice the Battle Royal, the Running Man, and Roller Ball similarities, but have any of us noticed the Achewood similarities?
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Haven't read or seen this yet, but I'm very interested in it. However, has anyone here about the rampant racism that a bunch of Hunger Games fans apparently showed recently?
I've been laughing my ass off. Basically a bunch of people have been complaining that the movie made a character named Rue black. They claim that making her black (For some reason) makes her less innocent and makes them less inclined to care about her so the impact of her death is lost to them and that ruined the movie.
That's racist and pants-shittingly stupid on its own, but the part that really REALLY makes me laugh VERY hard?
The Book specifically describes her as black. Let me repeat that for effect, the Book specifically describes her as black.That would be like going in to see the first Harry Potter movie and going "Wait, why did they give him glasses?! How am I supposed to root for some four-eyes NERD!?". only with, you know, like a ton more racism.
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Haven't read or seen this yet, but I'm very interested in it. However, has anyone here about the rampant racism that a bunch of Hunger Games fans apparently showed recently?
I've been laughing my ass off. Basically a bunch of people have been complaining that the movie made a character named Rue black. They claim that making her black (For some reason) makes her less innocent and makes them less inclined to care about her so the impact of her death is lost to them and that ruined the movie.
That's racist and pants-shittingly stupid on its own, but the part that really REALLY makes me laugh VERY hard?
The Book specifically describes her as black. Let me repeat that for effect, the Book specifically describes her as black.That would be like going in to see the first Harry Potter movie and going "Wait, why did they give him glasses?! How am I supposed to root for some four-eyes NERD!?". only with, you know, like a ton more racism.
Yeah, I had posted a link for some "pants-shittingly" stupid tweets about it. It's so mind boggling that that would matter or effect how a scene feels.
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I haven't read the books yet but I watched the movie,the story was great but I didn't like the ending that much.
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Somehow got my hands on the books and literally read the first in one sitting. Just as Flux said, it was a real page turner!
! I absolutely love the way the author handles stressful urgent situations. I think the part where she was stung by the tracker jackers was handled so well I was feling trippy just reading through it. And I think I discovered a stealth jab at twilight there lol.
Most of the characters could have been handled better. Most of them were a rather underdeveloped blob of names and district numbers. But those that mattered were handled well. Little Rue, I cared about most. You just don't kill of an innocent fictional kid on my watch! DAMN YOU ALL! Her death almost got me a little upset, if it weren't for the fact I saw it coming. She had to go for Katniss to have more motivation to kick the capitols ass. The part where she receives bread from Rue's district gave this even more emotion. Also I was rooting for Foxface because she was a glorious little bastard. When we are talking about good side characters, this is it. She didn't even have a single line of dialogue but all her antics made me laugh. The rest of the cast was hard to keep apart. But it did no harm. I can see however how this would make the movie counterpart confusing and a little hard to follow.
I also started the seocnd book. And I don't know why but this one kinda sucked for me and I am too bored to read it to the end.
I think the shift from a gritty action story, sprinkled with a bit of romance here and there to a love story set in an atmosphere of survival made a difference for me. Bleh…Let's see if it gets a bit better as I force myself onward. Maybe this might have been a stronger experience, if it were just one book with a more poignant ending.So we've all notice the Battle Royal, the Running Man, and Roller Ball similarities, but have any of us noticed the Achewood similarities?
This is delicious
Haven't read or seen this yet, but I'm very interested in it. However, has anyone here about the rampant racism that a bunch of Hunger Games fans apparently showed recently?
I've been laughing my ass off. Basically a bunch of people have been complaining that the movie made a character named Rue black. They claim that making her black (For some reason) makes her less innocent and makes them less inclined to care about her so the impact of her death is lost to them and that ruined the movie.
That's racist and pants-shittingly stupid on its own, but the part that really REALLY makes me laugh VERY hard?
The Book specifically describes her as black. Let me repeat that for effect, the Book specifically describes her as black.That would be like going in to see the first Harry Potter movie and going "Wait, why did they give him glasses?! How am I supposed to root for some four-eyes NERD!?". only with, you know, like a ton more racism.
Yeah you joking, right Rin? Please say this is a really bad joke or I won't be able to live on this planet anymore.
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Maybe this might have been a stronger experience, if it were just one book with a more poignant ending.
I came to this exact conclusion after reading the books. Not that it's a bad series, but it's three books for the sake of being three books.
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Just finished the final book of the series. All I can say it was pretty good. I shed a few tears during some of the final half of the book. I will say that all three books are pretty good reads.
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So I finished the book and hyped it a bit and got two of my friends to read it (I actually sent one my copy of the book in the mail) and she read it in three days and the guy read it in four. Now I and she have seen the film and it's so cool we're all into it now, good for discussion.
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Back to sweep the nation!