Hunger Games

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:21 pm

Anybody read this book? How come it reads like a Hardy Boys mystery?

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:24 pm

Tweak Da Leak wrote:Anybody read this book? How come it reads like a Hardy Boys mystery?

They're for kids/teenagers, that's why they're similar.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:40 pm

Dan wrote:
Tweak Da Leak wrote:Anybody read this book? How come it reads like a Hardy Boys mystery?
They're for kids/teenagers, that's why they're similar.

Have you read it? Is it any better than those twilight or harry potter books? Or are they all atrociously written?

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:43 pm

The Harry Potter books are actually extremely well-written.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:55 pm

It's good. Not written better than Harry potter but just as addicting

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:01 pm

Tweak Da Leak wrote:
Dan wrote:
Tweak Da Leak wrote:Anybody read this book? How come it reads like a Hardy Boys mystery?
They're for kids/teenagers, that's why they're similar.
Have you read it? Is it any better than those twilight or harry potter books? Or are they all atrociously written?

No, I've never read any of those, but they're all found in the young adult sections in stores, so they're just not geared toward me.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:15 pm

Combo7 wrote:The Harry Potter books are actually extremely well-written.

You must think Michael Creighton is a literary god.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:27 pm

I read all three books in three days over Christmas vacation. They are decent the love triangle is gay but doesn't play that big of a part. Mostly it's just a lot of ultra violence. They are written for teens so you cna burn through them and honestly they are pretty damn good storytelling, now the movies are goign to suffer from not being R rated...

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:21 pm

i sing a song for ruuuuuuuuuuue
(spoiler alert. spoiler alert)

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:26 pm

read the first one. waiting for the other two to come out on paperback. like trademark said, shit is good storytelling.

if you want a good story about survival, politics, and fighting, and dont mind some teen angst thrown in there, read it.

Tweak Da Leak wrote:
Combo7 wrote:The Harry Potter books are actually extremely well-written.
You must think Michael Creighton is a literary god.

seriously though, i read the first 4 potters and they are pretty good for what they are. i stopped reading the 5th really early on because it lost its appeal. oh well. one of the few books ive read that i didnt first buy. glad i didnt.

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:58 pm

Tweak Da Leak wrote:
Combo7 wrote:The Harry Potter books are actually extremely well-written.

You must think Michael Creighton is a literary god.

Nope, he just holds a special place in my heart because Jurassic Park was the first adult novel I read.

Seriously, J.K. Rowling is an extremely gifted novelist. This is the popular consensus among critics, other writers, etc.

Jayou Ayen · Post by **Jayou Ayen** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:36 am

I'd never heard of the Hunger Games until the marketing campaign started.
Obviously I'm out of touch with today's youth, but is this shit really major?
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/box-offi ... -midnights
They are estimating an opening weekend of $135-140 million?
Holy shit.

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alpha · Post by **alpha** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:41 am

I would just like to add... I've read a ton of books in my life. Some great, some ok and some awful. This is the only series that has kept me wanting to read more and more. It was like crack or discovering a dope series and running through a season in a weekend.

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:44 am

Ru's fuck with the Hunger Games like that?

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:51 am

yeah man, i was stunned when they announced Ru's name for the games

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:06 am

Ru was a real of ru

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:33 am

Hahahahaha

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:39 am

Btw, saw the movie tonight, really good. I don't know how you could have filmed it any better. They left some stuff out, but how could you not? Only think they needed to show more was Haymitchs transition from a drunk idiot into the teams patriarch.

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:03 pm

thought it was decent, should have been much better.
all the 'girl on fire' shit played really corny
the mayor of d12's daughter is the tom bombadil of this all
it was pretty significant in the book that she was the one who gave katpiss the mockingjay pin
could nit pick more but there's no real reason to
i'll watch it again in theaters
and in the mean time
throw up my 11
FO ROOOOH!

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:05 pm

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunge ... movie-made

lol @ this
i mean, have you even seen rue's top 8?

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:09 pm

3rd highest domestic weekend opening ever

1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 WB $169,189,427
2 The Dark Knight WB $158,411,483
3 The Hunger Games LGF $152,535,747

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:13 pm

it was better than the last harry potter for sure

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:56 pm

how could a bitch named Rue not be a nubian queen my nigga?

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:11 pm

Are motherfuckers talking shit on Michael Crichton in here?
Fuck is wrong with yall

BlingRhames · Post by **BlingRhames** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:48 pm

I thought the movie was really really poorly made.

Read the books in a weekend, like Alpha. Pretty cool, tho also very gay at times. I'm surprised the movie got such great reviews. Badly directed, poor acting, bad effects etc.

ric · Post by **ric** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:38 pm

@bling rhames
thank you very much sir

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:51 am

BlingRhames wrote:bad effects

as mentioned above I thought both of the 'girl on fire' instances played pretty awful, primarily because of the effects. the only really instance of bad acting i can recall was katniss volunteering to take prims place in the games. thought that that was pretty cringe worthy ever since it was in the trailers. woody/kravitz just weren't right for their roles, which i would chalk up more to bad casting than bad acting (hate to diss woody, but 'tis true)

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:37 am

I agree, some of the scenes that were dope in the book just looked gay. Went with a few friends that hadn't read it and i'm pretty sure they hated the scene where she was getting interviewed. they kinda fucked up the katniss/peeta angle.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:28 am

BlingRhames · Post by **BlingRhames** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:29 am

Yeah, I thought Peeta was badly cast.

The acting was generally laughable, I thought, but what's-her-name did a pretty decent job, even though it seemed like she hated the role.

The audience was laughing at the kid's deaths in the theater, which I found to be a pretty good barometer of how off the mark the direction was.

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