The Hunger Games Channel 4
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Is this the UK premiere?
Is this the UK premiere?
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FusionFury
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The books was much better granted.
I got it cheap on Blu-Ray and it's one of my best purchases, the picture quality in the fighting scenes blow me away.
I probably would have recorded it though as it's on C4 and not availabe on Sky movies.
Same. I really enjoyed it on the second viewing, maybe cos I've read all the books now and can see how they are trying to set them up more here.
The First Book is by far the best. BUT The film didn't match it.
The second book was brilliant but not as good. However Catching Fire: Film was AMAZING!
At first I thought it wasn't bad for a kids film and then I got really bored after an hour but carried on watching. Unfortunately it doesn't live up to the hype and I didn't enjoy it.
Don't know when (if) I will get round to watching it.
I thought it was just average and run of the mill.
I don't understand why everyone was going on about it at the time it was released.
It seemed very bog standard and generic to me.
TV show from the seventies.
Almost like it's not really about the games themselves or something...
I too saw it first only the other night, and I kind of liked it.
An interesting piece of dystopian SF that at least plays out its themes rather than discard them (a common trait). The equation of charade and reality is handled well, and nicely echoed in the romance aspect later on. The game itself proves surprisingly brutal, giving it more kick than expected. And Jennifer Lawrence - all coltish strength and vulnerability - is as splendid and commited as ever.
As a piece of film-making you could say it's nothing more than briskly efficient, and some spotty CGI does let it down a bit (the over-cautious $78m budget perhaps). Overall, however, it does its job well. Forget the 'young adult' tag, there's a lot to commend.
(oh, and I'm glad I liked it as I didn't want its rabid fans attacking me in the street ;-))
But not Lenny Kravitz ?
You can't deny the similarities with BR though. And unless you're a die hard HG fan you can't deny which is the better film. (but that's for another thread and will be my last mention of BR vs HG if I post again in here)
It was just okay for me. The early part of the film dragged and the set-up with the little girl may as well have had a neon sign. I didn't get Bank's pantomime dame thing. Hemsworth's character was superfluous. And the thing with Peeta painting himself I found ridiculous. Your life is in danger and you stop for an art class? And I didn't see him with a mirror at any point. Lawrence was solid as ever, still haven't seen her turn in a bad performance. Although I don't like her as Mystique.
The strength of BR is the ensemble cast and seeing how the 40 or so kids react individually. You get to see pretty much all their deaths. BG is more focussed on one person, and most of the others die off-screen. Society and the way in which fame and media are consuming, are big parts of it. Very different films, without much in common other than the obvious idea of kids fighting each other.
I thought his drunkenness was underplayed. In the books he's the town drunk. As a previous winner, he was set up for life, and he spent most of his money on alcohol. The film does show that to begin with, but he sobers up fairly quickly.