The Hunger Games

[hells_half_acre]

My sister is in town for the weekend, and her son wanted to see The Hunger Games. Luckily, Vancouver happens to have a theatre that is STILL PLAYING IT.

I went along...

I have not read the books...

But I keep hearing all this stuff about Katniss/Peeta or Katniss/Gale (or Peniss and Kale?)...but but...did people see the same movie that I did? Because where the hell are my Katniss/Cinna shippers?!? This is my OTP....at least for the movie.

Anyway, good times. Really well done movie. Katniss was a really great character. I also liked how the wounds/injuries were realistic...in that when they got injured, it was srs bsns...and Katniss actually went into shell shock when something exploded close to her.  

But, like I said, I haven't read the books, so I have no idea whether it's a faithful adaptation or not. I just thought it was a good film.

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was really surprised by how popular such a dark satire was. But, if never occurred to me that maybe people didn't realize that it was a dark satire :P Oh man...I weep for the future if that's the case!

Peeta is a very interesting character to me (again, I don't know what he's like in the books). In the movie, I thought he came across as a very cunning guy...but more bordering on the Slytherin form of cunning, rather than the Ravenclaw form.

Yay for Appalachia!!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Absolutely Peeta would be Slytherin. In the first movie he's very much in control of how people perceive him, and is far more astute than he seems to be.

In the books he goes through a lot, to say the least -- based on what my kid has reported to me!

Satire goes right over people's heads most of the time. Most people are not taught how to read it. ):