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

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it - i think it is a good adaptation of the book esp given the book is all Katniss POV. I agree with you on Katniss and Cinnia! And great casting there too.

[kuhekabir.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. To be honest, all this talk about it from every possible side has put me off the movie so I haven't seen it yet either...

[franztastisch]

Aw man I love the Hunger Games. And I thought the film was good, but I still prefer the books. I reccomend you read them. I've been making people read them all over the place and I'm happy to say no one has been disappointed yet! :D

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I read the book on an airplane recently. I think this is one of the rare occasions when the movie is probably better than the book; it wasn't bad, not at all, and there were a few small things that the movie left out or skimmed over for obvious and practical reasons...but the writing is a little on the rough side, a little heavy on the exposition. It made me want to go into beta-mode, because the potential was there but the writing was clunky as hell, at least in the first third of the book or so. Once it got into the whole fight or die territory, it was on studier ground. But the great thing about movie adaptions is that they add polish. The telling, not showing, is an easy vice to fall into in writing, but a lot harder to do in a visual medium like the movies.

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I can't read the books, the writing style puts me right off. My son and his friends who were in sixth grade/ 11-12 yrs old DEVOURED them. I was like, are people all over the country really so psyched about having their 10-12 yr olds go to see a GLADIATOR TOURNAMENT WHERE CHILDREN FIGHT TO THE DEATH?!?!?!?

So then I felt the onus was on me to actually go see the movie.... and I thought it was amazing. I really did not expect it to be quite as politically satirical as it was. I totally burst into tears in the middle at the events in District 11.

I kind of think most people who go to see it don't view it beyond the surface to see what the message is about the growing gap between rich and poor, and the exploitation of labor all over the world by the richer nations. I liked how they handled it.

also I totally ship Katniss/Cinna. Peeta is kind of weird if you ask me, and Gale is just not my type (nor Katniss's either I doubt).

Also, I am Appalachian, so it's awesome to see My People valorized in film. :P

[majorshipper]

LOL NGL my OTP after walking out of the theater was Katniss/Cinna. But then I went home and read through the trilogy and fell in love with Katniss and Peeta.

It was a good movie, and, actually, a good adaptation, I thought. It stayed true through almost all the main points and only really deviated where it was necessary. I liked it.

I was really fascinated by the world and the social commentary, too. That's actually what attracted me to it. We get more of that in the later books, though, so it isn't as obvious in the movie.