The Hunger Games Movie

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The Hunger Games Movie; Based off the novel~
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Lady Miracle	Mar 25 2012, 08:39 AM Post #31
[insert something cheerful here] Posts: 8,037 Group: Former Monarchs Member #9,289 Joined: August 20, 2008	And even if they didn't, the first book takes a lot of time to explain things in great detail- things that could just take a few minutes to show. So I think it would be fairly understandable. Also, forgot to mention but I am adding the note to the first post of the thread: KEEP SPOILERS HIDDEN. Yes, some of us have already read all three books, and some of us have already gone out and seen this movie, but for the sake of those who haven't done either and are interested, keep them hidden. You can use color codes or spoiler tags, it doesn't matter. As long as it's hidden; that's all I'm asking.
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Lord Bowie	Mar 26 2012, 05:37 PM Post #32
What is the difference between a duck? Posts: 4,799 Group: Former Monarchs Member #7,312 Joined: April 10, 2008 Playstation Network ID: Allbowdown Xbox Live Gamertag: allbowdown	I saw the movie on Friday and it was pretty awesome, starts off a little slow but that's predictable for it to attempt to explain things in the way the book would, and Woody Harrelson makes everything awesome automatically. I'm kind of happy I had my buddy Justin along for the watch since he seems to make everything hilarious for some reason, like in the Breaking Dawn trailer, when you see the deer that Vamp-Bella (or whatever) is stalking he was all like "NO! BAMBI!" and the whole theater just sorta chuckled. He sorta did something similar in the movie though inadvertently, it's during a scene where she is crying (you will probably know it if you've seen), basically the main sad scene.. she's crying and for some reason he just started laughing which got contagious in the surrounding few rows. "You look like a butterface when you cry, stop it." But yeah even without his comical input, the movie was awesome.
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~~Broly~~	Mar 26 2012, 05:40 PM Post #33
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Nail Strafer	Mar 26 2012, 06:32 PM Post #34
Flying Battery Act 2 Posts: 1,218 Group: A Rank Hero Member #8,106 Joined: May 5, 2008	This movie was my first exposure to the Hunger Games franchise. To be honest with you it reminds me a lot of Battle Royale, which is a Japanese film released in 2000. The basic concept is very similar. A group of teenagers are released into an area and forced to fight to the death until only one remains. Except in Battle Royale the context is that this is an alternate history where Japan won WWII and now uses the Battle Royale game to terrorize the population into submission. Every year one high school class is kidnapped and then released onto an island to kill each other off. To force the students to fight each other, all of them wear exploding collars. If students don't die fast enough, all of the collars will be detonated and nobody will win. Hunger Games to me feels like a lighter and softer version of Battle Royale (relatively speaking of course). Most of the killing and gore in BR is shown on screen fully while HG cuts away most of the time or they use those real annoying jump cuts to hide most of it. But I don't think that's a bad thing. HG has a much better setup before the game actually starts, while BR more or less just catapults you straight into the game without much chance for the audience to get invested in the characters and the setting. However, in BR, many of the characters are looking for a way to break out of the game or sabotage it, which I thought was more interesting than what HG does. In HG Spoiler: click to toggle the characters in general just play according to the rules and expectations laid out for them and only try to subvert the game at the very end. I would have liked to see more of that in HG. If I had to say which one I liked more, I would probably say HG. The movie moves forward slowly, but not too quickly. It also gives you a lot of time to get invested in the characters, and having to wait so long for the game to start makes it all the more edge-of-your-seat once it begins. The stakes just feel a lot higher simply because of the movie taking its time up front. I think this was a very good idea. Edited by Nail Strafer, Mar 26 2012, 06:46 PM.



Lord Bowie	Mar 26 2012, 07:37 PM Post #35
What is the difference between a duck? Posts: 4,799 Group: Former Monarchs Member #7,312 Joined: April 10, 2008 Playstation Network ID: Allbowdown Xbox Live Gamertag: allbowdown	I honestly liked that most of the death and gore in Hunger Games was implied.. I'm not afraid of gore and I love to see it in Horror movies but this wasn't a horror movie, at least not in THAT kind of capacity.. There's a classiness to having something happen or acting like something happens, but leaving the viewer to imagine certain intricacies or not, obsessive gore and such isn't a necessity and can actually be a detractor to movies. I agree that the pacing of the movie was just about right for a movie converted film.. it's not horrendously slow, but it explains enough to satisfy fans of the book and also get first timers (like myself) into the story decently enough to follow along. @Nero - I didn't know any of us were in character in the first place, but thank you. xD
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Nico Yazawa	Mar 27 2012, 06:11 AM Post #36
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GopherKing	Mar 27 2012, 11:29 AM Post #37
Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen! Posts: 774 Group: E Rank Hero Member #12,385 Joined: September 6, 2011 Xbox Live Gamertag: GopherKing Game Currently Playing: Pokemon Black 2	I saw it the other day and was actually pretty pleased with how close the movie stuck to the book. I noticed very few inaccuracies, and the ones I did notice were completely inconsequential to the movie.
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Fenroar	Mar 27 2012, 11:57 AM Post #38
Perfectionist Posts: 3,036 Group: E Rank Legend Member #9,478 Joined: November 2, 2008 Gender: Male 3DS Friend Code: 1504-6189-5960	Nail Strafer Mar 26 2012, 06:32 PM This movie was my first exposure to the Hunger Games franchise. To be honest with you it reminds me a lot of Battle Royale, which is a Japanese film released in 2000. The basic concept is very similar. A group of teenagers are released into an area and forced to fight to the death until only one remains. Except in Battle Royale the context is that this is an alternate history where Japan won WWII and now uses the Battle Royale game to terrorize the population into submission. Every year one high school class is kidnapped and then released onto an island to kill each other off. To force the students to fight each other, all of them wear exploding collars. If students don't die fast enough, all of the collars will be detonated and nobody will win. Hunger Games to me feels like a lighter and softer version of Battle Royale (relatively speaking of course). Most of the killing and gore in BR is shown on screen fully while HG cuts away most of the time or they use those real annoying jump cuts to hide most of it. But I don't think that's a bad thing. HG has a much better setup before the game actually starts, while BR more or less just catapults you straight into the game without much chance for the audience to get invested in the characters and the setting. However, in BR, many of the characters are looking for a way to break out of the game or sabotage it, which I thought was more interesting than what HG does. In HG Spoiler: click to toggle the characters in general just play according to the rules and expectations laid out for them and only try to subvert the game at the very end. I would have liked to see more of that in HG. If I had to say which one I liked more, I would probably say HG. The movie moves forward slowly, but not too quickly. It also gives you a lot of time to get invested in the characters, and having to wait so long for the game to start makes it all the more edge-of-your-seat once it begins. The stakes just feel a lot higher simply because of the movie taking its time up front. I think this was a very good idea. I think Battle Royale and the Hunger Games are from the same author. That's why some fans of the former have a beef with the latter, as many say it pretty much ripped it off. Have never read Battle Royale though, debating whether I should, but like said, I love the Hunger Games. In response to spoiler though: Spoiler: click to toggle They were some hints that characters were against this as the movie went along, like Peeta said when talking to Catniss. The sabotage or break out of the game though I hear is more apparent in the later two books.



Lady Miracle	Mar 28 2012, 05:45 AM Post #39
[insert something cheerful here] Posts: 8,037 Group: Former Monarchs Member #9,289 Joined: August 20, 2008	OK, so I went and saw the movie and I liked it~ They eliminated a few scenes from the book, but I don't think it was so much as to ruin it; in fact, I kind of appreciate how they removed some of the lovey-dovey mush from the book (though I was a bit disheartened not to see the bit about the "sugar berries;" that scene always struck me as both funny and scary whenever I read it and it was one of my favorite scenes, but I digress). All in all, I think they did a great job.
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Nico Yazawa	Mar 28 2012, 01:12 PM Post #40
Lava Reef Act 2 Posts: 3,958 Group: D Rank Legend Member #12,454 Joined: October 10, 2011 Gender: Undisclosed Game Currently Playing: tales of symphonia	Actually, instead of seeing it today we're seeing it tomorrow. And I'm reading the book now. Kinda confusing and all, but lol oh well..
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Lord Pianta	Mar 31 2012, 08:38 AM Post #41
Il Piantissimo Posts: 3,320 Group: Former Monarchs Member #9,741 Joined: February 7, 2009 Gender: Male Nintendo ID: Piantab	I saw the movie yesterday, and to be honest I really didn't like it that much. It felt like they left too much out from the book that the movie felt incomplete. I can understand the likeability if you haven't read the book though, but still. As for the soundtrack, really not that memorable. They could've used much better music to make the action scenes and sad scenes much more powerful.
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Lady Miracle	Mar 31 2012, 08:49 AM Post #42
[insert something cheerful here] Posts: 8,037 Group: Former Monarchs Member #9,289 Joined: August 20, 2008	My sister had the same complaint. Personally, I liked how it came out, but I won't deny there was a lot cut from the book. Overall, I think the main gist and feel of the movie fit the book nicely. This is just probably another one of the cases where the book is better. (Or at least, more heavily contained. XP)
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Wallace	Mar 31 2012, 09:04 AM Post #43
Break out the L-word. The other L-word. Posts: 1,889 Group: S Rank Hero Member #11,873 Joined: February 24, 2011	But you can't really compare the book and movie of any given story together scene-by-scene. They're called "movie adaptations" for a reason: if you made a movie just like the book, word-for-word, it would be way too long and probably not near as interesting to watch. Hell, some scenes from a book may be impossible to reenact in a movie without a lot of really expensive CGI work. The point of a movie adaptation is to get the main idea, theme, characters, and story of a book in a visual and audio form, and to entertain the viewers. I guarantee you that if the Harry Potter movies were word-for-word translations of the book, no one would have watched them because they would have been hours long, and there would be long boring parts that would put everyone to sleep. I really think, though, that the "long boring parts" of The Hunger Games were adapted well for the big screen. The parts where Katniss is flying solo are left brief yet complete, and where there is information we need to know that was explained through exposition in the book, we are given effective cuts to Caesar and Claudius, presented with a flashback, or are otherwise filled-in on what we need to know for the story to make sense in a mostly non-intrusive way.
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HollyYoshi	Mar 31 2012, 12:27 PM Post #44
I object to your claims Posts: 15,025 Group: =SB= Queens Member #9,640 Joined: January 9, 2009 Gender: Female Country: United States of America 3DS Friend Code: 1891-1489-0768 Nintendo ID: Agent_Blaire Game Currently Playing: Yoshi's Island	Dang...I really want to watch this movie. I'm waiting until they bring it to the Dollar Theater here in SA - less money to pay for a ticket. =3



Lord Pianta	Apr 1 2012, 02:35 AM Post #45
Il Piantissimo Posts: 3,320 Group: Former Monarchs Member #9,741 Joined: February 7, 2009 Gender: Male Nintendo ID: Piantab	Truth is, I'm not comparing the book to the movie, I know that's an impossible thing to do. But I'm saying that the movie felt kind of rushed if you've read the book. Spoiler: click to toggle Haymitch' tip to Katniss was to find water immediately. In the movie, she found it right after the fire attack. In the book, she had a lot of trouble finding it and almost died of dehydration. I think that's one of the minor things that could be better. But nevertheless, I still enjoyed the movie.
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