Whoa, whoa...calm down. I read the book and I would recommend it to any adult. It is the first and only Young Adult book I have read.
It's a movie for teenagers in that it's an action movie where there is a hero (heroine) and a potential love interest. Wait...that's just a movie. Admittedly there are teenagers in the movie (mostly played by adults).
It's not animated, so that would make it not anime. While I got a laugh over the idea that BR would be obscure to non-otaku, it's becoming more clear to me that you have bad taste and are too lazy to look something up on Wikipedia. That or you're trolling in MC.
Sure, but even the Harry Potter series isn't quite this contrived. Hey, I still liked it. It was just...not very challenging. It's for teens.
This movie was filmed all around here, and it's all anybody's been talking about for the past month. I'll eventually watch it, but not in the theaters.
Wife made me buy the book for her. On the Kindle. So now I've got it and no book goes on my Kindle and doesn't get read.
Finally saw this last night with the entire family and everyone (including the wife) thought it was pretty durned good. There's a fair chance I'll go back and read the books now. The one thing overall I wasn't clear on was some of the technology that seemed to allow them to materialize dogs (among other things) out of nowhere. Not only that, but if they can do that, why do the goodies from sponsors need to float in on parachutes? Overall, pretty good. Woody H. took me right out of it, though. Terrible casting choice IMHO. I kept thinking about zombieland every time he was on screen.
Haven't seen the movie, but a couple of thoughts based on having read the books: 1. The books, as far as I can recall, didn't have transporter-style technology. The mutts didn't teleport in; their sudden appearance just came as a surprise. So you may have just thought that they did. 2. The Capitol -- which is the richest part of the society -- would be the ones to transport the mutts, so it could afford to use teleporters assuming cost is a factor. And they would also have the resources to develop the tech. The districts, which pay for the supplies, would be less likely to be able to afford it or the wherewithal to develop it. 3. There's a game/viewing advantage to having goods come in via parachute -- people watching get to wonder what the supplies are, and competitors get to see that goods are dropped off in a certain area and can decide to head over that way to attack the recipient. There's a game/viewing advantage to having the mutts appear suddenly -- both the participants and the viewers are taken by surprise.
Well, the movie makes it fairly obvious (visually, via special effects) that the hounds were sort of "materialized" into the arena.
One of the interesting things I read about the movie is that there's at least some fans who were upset that two of the characters, Rue and Thresh were black, even though they were essentially described as such in the book.
I just watched it. it was decent. Jennifer Lawrence's character seemed plausible. She acted it well. I would have liked more story/background on Why the Games were necessary. And what happens to the past winners. i also liked that her character didn't fall in love at the end with the Boy. You could see that the character was playing to the audience out of necessity. And UA: You might like it because jennifer lawrence is quite good looking in this role.
The reason the goods from sponsors were dropped in is that they were real physical items that had to have real chemical properties. The hounds were simulated. Physical simulations, but not real animals.
My daughter loved the book and the movie. I've neither read the book nor seen the movie. Not seeing the mass appeal based on what I know about it. Then again my daughter (and wife) don't like Star Trek or most science fiction either so to each his own.
From the sound of it, she'd pretty much have to get naked and do this :dildo: to make enduring the rest of the movie worthwhile.
Just finished reading the books. Really great. There's a part in the last one that's a tearjerker on the same level as the escape from the graveyard in Harry Potter 4. Very much looking forward to Donald Sutherland reprising his role as President Snow for a more substantial part. I also wouldn't be surprised if they try to split the last 2 books into 3 movies. You heard it here first.
[/quote] If that's what the book says I would go with that, I'm just going off how I interpreted the movie. The way they decided on the animals to create, they way they appeared and the way their behavior was controlled (walking off as soon as the games were finished) was all very artificial.
I don't think I'll bother seeing it. From the synopsis I've read it seems like a zero-brain-engagement formulaic hodge podge of Battle Royale and The Condemned.
