Just saw it. Pretty great. Wow. What a phenomenon. They played it on 10 screens at The Grove (in LA) at midnight. Insane crowds. My brother said it was the same in Eugene. I think it's safe to say it will set the record for Thursday midnight box office. It will challenge for best weekend ever. I had not read about the book or even heard of the movie until I saw a post on a message board about it three days ago. Go figure.
I am completely baffled as to the hype for this movie. the plot sounds lame as fuck. kids in a survival type thing where they kill them each other? can't believe my FB wall of people watching this crap last night at midnight.
The books are quick reads and pretty good. They're short enough that you could read them over a weekend if you didn't have anything else pressing. The first book is particularly good. My wife and I were thinking of going tomorrow morning, but I'm worried about fighting crowds. I hate fighting crowds for movies.
The author claims to have never seen/read this prior to writing Hunger Games, but apparently there are a ton of similarities (aside from the obvious, kids killing each other) between HG and Battle Royale. I guess it is good that HG has all this popularity cause for the first time BR is being released in Region 1 format (we have a region free dvd player, otherwise I would have never seen it). Apparently it is Quinton Tarantino's favorite film (according to the US trailer) and probably the reason he cast the actress that played Gogo in Kill Bill. [video=youtube;Y-T7yPJVvXw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-T7yPJVvXw[/video]
I tried to describe the hunger games as battle royale, and they looked at me like i was crazy. I didn't realize BR wasn't that well known.
The version I had, the subtitles were all screwed up, and missing in parts, and I still thought it wasa great movie. Bunch of kids running around killing eachother, some with crossbows, some with pot lids. I dunno.
You don't need hunger games for that. Just go to goggle, search "free porn" and . . . ta da, hot chicks you can stare at till your palms bleed.
i was working at the theater for a dance competition this weekend, and nearly all of the 12 year olds are dying to see this, must have hula hoops or wheelyboards or whatever the kids are into these days
el prez has immense disdain for anything that everyone likes or agrees with, which explains his love for aluminum luggage and big mac snack wraps
Stood in line (up here in British Columbia) with my 11 year-old daughter last night to see the movie. She's read all three books and has been giddy waiting to see it. She liked it, but thought the movie did not do justice to the books - fairly typical. Never reading the books myself - and just watching it for entertainment value, I found it to be a 5.5 - 6.0 out of 10. Story line is rediculous. Overall quite corny. I previously took the girls to Twilight - the original of those vampire movies - and I enjoyed it very much. I would have given the movie a 7.5 out of 10. So if that is a measuring stick - then The Hunger Games kind of fails.
