Hunger game movie review

[Azrael]

So here's my completely and totally relevant review of this god-awful movie.

Now, I have always been a fan of bloodsport. The concept of humans killing each other as a game makes me all giddy inside, and fills me with a warm sensation that no one could ever touch. But I swear to the almighty Allah, teenagers manage to ruin most of every damn movie they get their sweaty, angsty hands on.

Nothing makes a movie more terrible more than pandering to the teenage audience. Movies that do such a thing consist of angsty teenagers that are in love and have super duper abilities.

Here's the generic concept:

After a national rebellion, the government split the nation into twelve districts. To keep order amongst the people, we shall have teenagers, aged twelve to eighteen, fight in the annual 'Hunger Games,' where one person will be crowned the victor for killing everyone else. Our main protagonist, Ketness (or however the hell you spell it,) volunteers herself to be part of the games to take the place of her sister. The male that accompanies her, Pita, falls in love with her and will do anything for her. During the games, the rules change so that Pita and Ketness may both be crowned the victors if they both survive! I wonder what happens!!!1!!1!one

We get it, teenagers can do some cool stuff. Just stop putting them in movies, we don't want to hear about some girl/guy complain about his/her love interest and be angsty and such. If I wanted to watch that, I'll go into any high school that has ever been ever.

tl;dr 2/10 would not bang.

Resistance is futile. Come support your fave team. If you're for Peeta + Katniss then join all those that love Peeniss. Unless you prefer Gale & Katniss of course, then team Gayniss it is.

Utopia, what are you doing?!?

[Dokuritsu Nippon]

Well, admittedly, I've never read the books (somewhat seriously considering it now if I had the time), so I'm not sure how accurate the film was to it. Possibly for the better. I tend to be rather a canon-nazi (*actually let out a tirade of profanity when I first saw the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film, and they had Cho - NOT Marietta - betraying DA... >__< *).

That said, while I was vaguely aware of the premise from its viral advertising and all, I wasn't the keenest on seeing it per se. Seemed kind of like a Battle Royale ripoff, as has been noted. And well, I still kind of see it in that light, but it had some interesting features.

More or less though, a female acquaintance dragged me along to it last night. And I had to say, it was surprisingly better than I thought (the audience booing the @#$@#$@ out of the Twilight trailer definitely was a good first impression. xP). I dunno, in some ways it was a lot like Battle Royale, but since that's so freaking awesome, it's certainly not a bad thing per se.

It was an amazingly more class-conscious film than I'd expected though, which, given my politics is a big plus. Viva Districts 11 + 12 and fuck the oppressors of the Capital! (Probably the biggest factor in me want to read the book is to see how much it goes into those things philosophically, as it's harder to on a screen, but it did a decent job).

Also rather nice to see a strongish female protagonist. For what was relatively an action flick, it's somewhat refreshing. Kind of at the needless extreme of Peeta being a useless pussy (at least in the film, again, uncertain of the book), but ehh...

And, at least in the film (not familiar with the books, again), the whole love-triangle thing was really awkwardly done.

Overall, it was better than I expected. Not "OMG THE BEST FILM EVER", but decent enough.

[The Akkadian Empire]

Best film? Never. Best Book? Never.

Alright film, and alright book? Sure.

[The Deep Vault]

So here's my completely and totally relevant review of this god-awful movie.

Now, I have always been a fan of bloodsport. The concept of humans killing each other as a game makes me all giddy inside, and fills me with a warm sensation that no one could ever touch. But I swear to the almighty Allah, teenagers manage to ruin most of every damn movie they get their sweaty, angsty hands on.

Nothing makes a movie more terrible more than pandering to the teenage audience. Movies that do such a thing consist of angsty teenagers that are in love and have super duper abilities.

Here's the generic concept:

After a national rebellion, the government split the nation into twelve districts. To keep order amongst the people, we shall have teenagers, aged twelve to eighteen, fight in the annual 'Hunger Games,' where one person will be crowned the victor for killing everyone else. Our main protagonist, Ketness (or however the hell you spell it,) volunteers herself to be part of the games to take the place of her sister. The male that accompanies her, Pita, falls in love with her and will do anything for her. During the games, the rules change so that Pita and Ketness may both be crowned the victors if they both survive! I wonder what happens!!!1!!1!one

We get it, teenagers can do some cool stuff. Just stop putting them in movies, we don't want to hear about some girl/guy complain about his/her love interest and be angsty and such. If I wanted to watch that, I'll go into any high school that has ever been ever.

Complaining about love interest=/=complaining about the concept of being forced to kill a loved one, all while doing lots of other things, such as, I don't know, participating in bloodsport.

Really...

[The Deep Vault]

I think it's excellent. I think you're put off by the romance and the dumbass fans with their Team Peeta and Team Gale shit.

You're kidding, right?

I love GOOD romance stories. But the whole story was trite and poorly written.

...better explanation, perhaps?

I'm going to go ahead and guess you found a plothole in the design of the world, but...

[Orrachius]

It was way better when it was called Battle Royale.

[Supreme Pwnage]

Id give it a thumbs up. The only thing I didn't like was that the fore suit was utter crape. It didn't look real at all. And the shaky camera was annoying.

[Soviet Canuckistan]

Excellent, though it would be bad but it was awesome, I'm going to read the books and felt the games themselves were kinda rushed.