The Hunger Games

[backwardsk]

Anybody into this trilogy and going to see the movie this weekend?

I read these last year, and have been looking forward to this when I learned that Woody Harrleson would play Haymitch.

The wife and I will check it out tomorrow.

[backwardsk]

Don't know why it has a thumbs down. I must have fat-fingered it.

[thundercleetz]

My wife read the triology in less than a week. She loves the books. I got "assigned reading" to finish the first one this past week so we could both go see the movie tonight. I finished the first book yesterday. I surprisingly liked the story. I thought it was going to be a really girly book. It is a very easy read and there is a lot of action. The movie is getting great reviews and seems to be of high production quality. I am excited to go see it tonight.

[backwardsk]

That's too funny. I read them based off of a recommendation from my sister-in-law. Then I noticed all of the "young adults" reading it on the train.

[allstar1579]

My wife read the triology in less than a week. She loves the books. I got "assigned reading" to finish the first one this past week so we could both go see the movie tonight. I finished the first book yesterday. I surprisingly liked the story. I thought it was going to be a really girly book. It is a very easy read and there is a lot of action. The movie is getting great reviews and seems to be of high production quality. I am excited to go see it tonight.

I did it the other way around, I read them at the beach last summer (I like quick easy reads on vacation) and had to make her finish reading it this weekend so we can go see it Tuesday night.

It's definitely not the sappy love story everyone thinks it is (at least the people that haven't read it and try to post about it) and the 2nd and 3rd are even less about boys and girls. I'm excited to see the movie, should be pretty action packed.

[square634]

The first book was pretty good, but I thought the second two were pretty bad overall. The "good" and "evil" are way too cut and dry for my taste, but I guess that's what you get in a children's/young adult series.

My girlfriend and I are seeing the movie tonight, I'll report back.

[waroriole]

The first book was pretty good, but I thought the second two were pretty bad overall. The "good" and "evil" are way too cut and dry for my taste, but I guess that's what you get in a children's/young adult series.

My girlfriend and I are seeing the movie tonight, I'll report back.

Yeah, I liked the first one. The second one was too predictable, but OK. The last one was just awful. The girl was so obnoxious and lacked any redeeming qualities that made you want her to succeed.

[SammyBirdland]

Took my 13 year old daughter to see Hunger Games on Friday Night. I enjoyed it a lot. I haven't read the book, but my daughter did. The people behind us talked the entire time, so I got filled in on all the differences between the movie and the book as the movie went along

[square634]

I thought it was pretty good. At the beginning of the movie, I was worried that it was going to suffer from the nauseating shaky-camera syndrome, but the action sequences were handled fairly well. It hit the major themes and moments from the book as far as I'm concerned.

[oriolekid]

Read the book after I lost a bet at Christmas. Saw the midnight showing and I thought the movie was fantastic. I had a horrible feeling this was going to be like M. Night Shamalan's Last Airbender which I had high expectations for as well, but this one gave me hope again that not all adaptations of things that I actually like are terrible.

[Gurgi]

Yeah, I liked the first one. The second one was too predictable, but OK. The last one was just awful. The girl was so obnoxious and lacked any redeeming qualities that made you want her to succeed.

I liked the first one a lot. The second was just so-so. The third I quit reading halfway through. I just couldnt deal with the lazy story anymore.

I think the author didnt know what to write and just put down anything.

[allstar1579]

I liked the first one a lot. The second was just so-so. The third I quit reading halfway through. I just couldnt deal with the lazy story anymore.

I think the author didnt know what to write and just put down anything.

Yeah this is pretty close. You can tell it was designed to be a 1 book thing and not a series, and when the publishers asked for 2 more it was like uhhhh ok.The whole tone and scope of things just change so much. If you look at the BIG picture though (trying not to spoil things) the first one dealt JUST with the games and hinted at some underlying issues. The second started getting into the underlying issues and tried to bring those to the forefront while still featuring the games, and the third dealt JUST with those issues outside of the games, but brought the games into real life.

While I do agree that they changed so much it's no slam dunk you'll like them by the third one, I got where they were going with things, and while I think they could have done a much better job in the third book, I liked the direction they were going from the second. The whole series in all three parts kinda reminds me of "The Running Man".

[PaulFolk]

Saw this last night. Really, really enjoyed it. I've never read the books, but I might go ahead and do that now.

[MikeAD]

This was one of the 5 worst films I've ever seen in a theater. Boring storyline, terrible dialogue, the camera was shaky, very poorly shot, etc. etc.

Went with two colleagues, the theater was packed. These two younger girls were in the back laughing at the more ridiculous scenes. This was enjoyable.

[Tony-OH]

My wife, daughter and older son went to go see it and they liked it. I had no interest in seeing after I saw the amount of teenage girls waiting in line for the first showing. I may see it once it hits Blue Ray, but I don't have any real interest in seeing the movie.