Hunger Games

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Maybe I should give the books a try…because I was bored as hell with the movie. Everyone has their tastes…so I’m no way going to write it off as garbage…but is this a case of them fucking up with the adaptation from book to the screen??[/quote]

I didn’t see the movie, but I’d say don’t waste your time with the books, unless you’re a 13 year old girl.[/quote]

So you have read the books?

I have read over 30 books this year SN how many have you read?[/quote]

I read the first one, thought it was awesome until the actual games, then it turned into Twilight: Dystopian Future Edition. The ending promised more of that and then some, so why would I want to read the other two?

It was like enjoying a delicious, exotic piece of fruit, and then taking a bite only to find that the rest of it is completely rotten. Maybe my expectations were peaked too high from the first part of the book, but I’ve never been so high on a book and then left so disappointed at the end.

My e-peen is over 40" long Derek how deep is your e-vag?

LOL books r srs bizniss![/quote]

hahahahaahahaha caught me at a grumpy moment. My apologies.

I enjoyed the first book and I am halfway through the second. Now you got me worried about the end. [/quote]

Hey man if you liked the first one then maybe you’ll be ok. I loved it until the last third or so. I have no idea what the other two are like. The plus side is they are fast reads so you’re not investing that much into them, especially if you read that much.[/quote]

Yea I like fantasy books and with the easy reads I can put them down in one evening. Its not LOR or Enders game for sure, I actually normally do not like the protagonist that are female driven. But I thought it did a decent job of making this 16 year old girl pretty resilient. [/quote]

Resilient maybe but ever the pawn. That actually bothered me a lot when listening to the book. It’s like she could never see more than one step ahead and usually at least three steps behind everyone else.

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Just saw the movie with my 10 year old. She read the first book last year and has read them all.

She was excited to go to the movie, but like a good reader, she picked apart the movie for differences in the book (some scenes different/excluded, casting, etc). It was awesome that she so vividly remembers the books.

I thought the movie was done well. You have to approach it with the audience in mind. They certainly could have gone the R route but I thought it was alright.

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SPOILERS - I have to vent here

[quote]Tex Ag wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Yea I like fantasy books and with the easy reads I can put them down in one evening. Its not LOR or Enders game for sure, I actually normally do not like the protagonist that are female driven. But I thought it did a decent job of making this 16 year old girl pretty resilient. [/quote]

Resilient maybe but ever the pawn. That actually bothered me a lot when listening to the book. It’s like she could never see more than one step ahead and usually at least three steps behind everyone else.[/quote]

Which makes sense really, because for most of her life all she’s ever had on her mind was feeding her family. The other people pulling the strings, even Peeta, have had the luxury of knowing where their next meal was coming from at all times.

My biggest gripe is the way everything played out in the arena. All of the bad guys killed all of the good guys (except the Fox Face chick that died from eating poisoned berries) so nobody had to make any tough choices, they changed the rules of the game so the romance could continue, the whole “nursing each other back to health” deal in the cave…I mean seriously, everything after the tracker jackers got released was terrible in my eyes. I got increasingly pissed off with every page after digging the hell out of it up til that point.

I agree with Derek that Katniss appeared to be a very strong girl, so why have her conveniently succumb to emotion in the middle of a death match? Why did that have to happen? And if you’re going to have the drama of “star crossed lovers” that are going to have to kill each other, why throw that out of the picture with the rule change? I was all set up for that story line to unfold, and then with a few keystrokes the bitch (Collins) just made it evaporate.

WHY EVEN BOTHER TO SET IT UP IF YOU’RE JUST GOING TO KILL IT WITH NO FUCKING PAYOFF?

/rant

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I feel like if kids didn’t like this book and it was a adult thing a la “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” there would be less hate from the people in this thread IMO.

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Hunger Games = Shameless Western Battle Royale ripoff.

Disgusting. What’s even more disgusting is how well it is doing financially, for being a blatant ripoff and a TERRIBLY written teenage girl one at that.

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lol.

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Saw it over the weekend.

I was entertained, seeing a different look on a quickly tiring premise.

Battle Royale
Running Man
Death Race
Surviving the Game (to a degree)

I really liked Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, he handled that role very tenderly, very much how Cinna was portrayed in the book.

As for all the stark colors of the city folk, Jesus isn’t that whole thing getting tired?

Two more things:

Is Jennifer Lawrence going to be typecast as an Appalacian Honey-pot from here on out?

and

Stanley Tucci is no Richard Dawson.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
SPOILERS - I have to vent here

My biggest gripe is the way everything played out in the arena. All of the bad guys killed all of the good guys (except the Fox Face chick that died from eating poisoned berries) so nobody had to make any tough choices, they changed the rules of the game so the romance could continue, the whole “nursing each other back to health” deal in the cave…I mean seriously, everything after the tracker jackers got released was terrible in my eyes. I got increasingly pissed off with every page after digging the hell out of it up til that point.

I agree with Derek that Katniss appeared to be a very strong girl, so why have her conveniently succumb to emotion in the middle of a death match? Why did that have to happen? And if you’re going to have the drama of “star crossed lovers” that are going to have to kill each other, why throw that out of the picture with the rule change? I was all set up for that story line to unfold, and then with a few keystrokes the bitch (Collins) just made it evaporate.

WHY EVEN BOTHER TO SET IT UP IF YOU’RE JUST GOING TO KILL IT WITH NO FUCKING PAYOFF?

/rant[/quote]

Are you talking about succumbing to emotion as in the love story part? the book goes into more detail in this that she fakes it to get more aid from the sponsors.

The changed the rules to be 2 winners because they realized Katniss and Peeta were content to sit in a cave and never end the games… this got them out and back into the action.