What about the part where Haymitch flat out tells her that she has to lie to Caeser Flickerman because powerful people were upset with her so she has to sell the idea that she was madly in love with Peeta? I'm pretty sure that was in the movie.

 

You asshats are really taking this movie discussion way too fucking seriously. It's just a movie. Everyone's entitled to an opinion.

Unrelated:

Actually, PTSD is quite a common trait of those who commit suicide. And if that bitch doesn't have PTSD, then I'm a nice, well-adjusted person.

 

Pretty sure you meant attempt, there.

 

Applies in past tense too. Not like their medical records suddenly disappear into thin air.

 

Movie was Meh. I read the book prior because it was so popular and it was okay. For a movie about children killing each other it was surprisingly un-gory.

Same thing for the book. I never picked up on the fact that the reason this book was so popular was because the main audience was teen girls. At least not until the 4th chapter.

But its a good kind of popular because its a Twilight alternative.

This movie was okay, and my sister enjoyed it, but I doubt I would see the sequel. Especially after reading the wiki on what happens in the next two books.

Movie industry is just looking for a potter alternative right now. There is a void to fill, and nothing has quite reached the epic event that was the potter universe. It was this generations Star wars.

I will say this. That black girl Rue; she can Act.

Otherwise, the movie and the book were pretty much exact except for a few key glaring differences. The leg, Mayors Daughter, backstory on the Peeta Bread incident...

If you are a 16 year old DLP Brat, Get a Mocking jay pendant and Troll your local theater for Fan girls. You can sit through this movie and you might get some...

Plus it's not Twilight.

Joe Out.

 

Just saw this on imgur, 'An insight into how The Hunger Games were filmed':

 

I'm told that this is the lead wench in an interview. I haven't seen the movie or even a poster, so it could be Ginny for all I know. Mad respect to her if this is legit, though.

 

I'd just like to add, quietly, that most of my friends (who are a mix of 15-18 year old males and females) includingseveral sixteen year old girls, enjoy this series and have enjoyed it for far longer than it has been in the public eye.
Heck, I first got recommended it a good three-four years ago by one of the people who is now sixteen and happens to be a girl.
Stupidity and undeveloped reading skills/comprehension/choices are not a "sixteen year old girl" thing, they are a people thing. The library where I work has just as good circulation of shitty westerns and shitty sci-fi and shitty fantasy read by guys your age as it does shitty YA fiction and romance novels.

 

I think this is appropriate.

~spoiler~

 

Saw the film on Wednesday, and I enjoyed it. Not quite the essential, genre-defining SF film I've seen some critics bill it as, but well made, acted and written, and enjoyable. I haven't read the books, but I might check them out, and I'll probably watch the sequels as well.

 

Translation from Hipster: We think we're better than you because we liked something before it was cool.

 

I guess that'd make me a hipster, then, since I liked manga and anime before it was cool, and the same thing with vidya. At least at my school, anyway.

Hell, I just went with calling myself a trendsetter because people started wearing the same clothes I did.

I was baffled by this because I wasn't exactly one of the popular kids.

 

I'd think that she probably knew what she was talking about. She is, after all, a master of that sort of thing.

As for the movie itself, I have to say, I was disappointed. They did too much buildup for a rather mediocre ending. They also, of course, had the little black girl ask for more of something that looks suspiciously like chicken (that was a nice touch, subtle racism is a forgotten virtue in films these days.)

I didn't go expecting, or looking for, a bloodbath -- but I didn't go expecting a future where they have fucking hoverjets and still rely on coal for power either. The subtheme of virtuous countryside/decadent urban lifestyles was not particularly appreciated either.

 

You realize it only became a spoiler when you mentioned that it was a spoiler right? It was just a joke about the romance usin HIMYM as context. I haven't finished reading the third book yet, but now a part of the ending's been revealed to me. Thanks a lot Sree.

 

There's a significant quantity of retardation in this thread, Sree, as one should perhaps have expected when you've been so active in it, but the purported demographic actually isn't. The Twilight Saga, an example you brought up earlier, has some scenes that probably wouldn't be considered 'for' its demographic when taken out of context. As do dozens of YA and Children's books. Including Harry Potter.

I'm not suggesting you're anything but an expert on not only the Young Adult genre but what is targeted at 16 year old girls specifically, you understand, but I think your own enjoyment of the books probably has nothing to do with what the target market was. Or maybe it is relative, but not in the way you'd imagine.

Anyway - in my opinion, the books were simplistic, rambling, and only a cut above outright drivel. The film, however, surprised me in being a little better. Nothing to write home about, and not necessarily one to recommend, but yeah. It wasn't made particularly well - I think J.J.Abrams snuck in and fixed gyroscopes to all of the filming equipment. Also could have done with a little more soul to it though, in the same way that the Harry Potter adaptations could have. And Twilight , I suppose. Filmmaking-by-checklist is all too common when wrangling franchises out of successful YA books - as is the rabid fucking fanbase, it seems.

 

You know what this movie really needed?

Lens flares.