bought the DVD today... watching it currently

8/26/2012 5:51:47 PM

um i have watched this movie like 8 times already. and i reread books 2 and 3 last weekend.

kindofobsessed

8/27/2012 8:02:33 AM

Finally got around to watching it. The shaky cam wasn't as bad as I had imagined it would be, and I'm the kind of person that gets easily annoyed by that kind of thing. I guess all the complaints set an expectation of a high annoyance level so it didn't seem as bad as I had imagined.

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"I was not impressed with Haymitch in the movie at all."

Yeah, I've got to agree with this.

And I kept imagining this guy

saying F'n A, Cotton. F'n A.

[Edited on August 27, 2012 at 8:14 AM. Reason : -]

8/27/2012 8:09:51 AM

My problem with Haymitch was that I always kind of envisioned him as a veteran with PTSD sort of deal. The Hunger Games fucked him up and watching children die year after year trying to train them only made it worse. Woody Harrelson didn't play it like that at all, it was basically his character from Zombieland.

8/27/2012 8:30:59 AM

Funny you should say that. When he first made his appearance and went right for the food I found myself wondering if he'd get pissed that there were no twinkies.

8/27/2012 10:23:33 AM

Finally caught it this past weekend. Fairly impressed. And I was one of those people criticizing it as a Battle Royale knock off when I first heard the premise.

8/27/2012 10:27:28 AM

The Hunger Games has aged well in my mind after a few months. Knowing the characters as opposed to relying on the poor character development from the movie definitely improved things, and I enjoyed the second viewing much more.

That being said, as per the comment above:
-Watch 'The Hunger Games' if you are interested in an overarching story or a fight-against-the-1% plot.
-Watch 'Battle Royale' if you want action and complicated social scenarios.

That being said, I still think I prefer the Battle Royale lighthouse scene over the entire Hunger Games movie.

8/28/2012 9:52:55 AM

I am very disappointed in the movie and glad I didn't pay money to see it in theaters.

8/28/2012 2:03:30 PM

I thought Woody did a pretty good job as Haymitch. I think he could have been a little more of a drunk and an asshole...but I definitely didn't see him as the guy posted above. You have to remember that he won the Hunger Games at some point...so he was fairly athletic in the past.

8/28/2012 2:19:19 PM

after going back and rereading the second and third book, i felt like Haymitch's character evolves a lot more as you get further along in the series. i think katniss also starts to understand Haymitch more.

8/28/2012 4:24:18 PM

The books however, are much better.

I like Woody as Haymitch, but his acting.... seems forced or something at times.

Before I saw the movie I thought Lawrence was a perfect katniss (pretty and athletic), but after watching it ... blah she is a terrible actress

8/28/2012 5:05:17 PM

Soooo I think I'm satisfied with the choice for Finnick, but who should play Annie?

8/29/2012 9:20:05 PM

I saw Annie as someone that looks like Alison Brie (wild eyed and pretty ) with an athletic build (since her skill was swimming)



or maybe Emma Roberts



... but they have to be able to pull off crazy

8/29/2012 11:24:33 PM

Emma Roberts would be a good choice. i pictured Annie as a thin tall blonde haired girl.

i think i pictured everyone that way though

8/30/2012 8:51:38 AM

well if you go by the book, Annie is dark haired and green eyed with some mental issues.... but at this point I just want someone who can bring some acting skills to the movie (so I am leaning toward Brie only because I would be wary of an actress that I amm not familiar with)

8/30/2012 3:55:06 PM

gave in and bought the dvd at target today

9/2/2012 3:03:35 PM

thought this movie was really good. watched it last night and was pretty enthralled.

9/2/2012 5:13:13 PM

the movie sucks.

9/3/2012 10:45:42 AM

9/7/2012 1:09:58 PM

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"thought this movie was really good. watched it last night and was pretty enthralled."

agreed. i've never read the books and don't plan to do so. but i definitely enjoyed the movie.

9/7/2012 3:48:26 PM

Aw man. I really liked the idea of Tony Shaloub.

9/7/2012 5:49:17 PM

what the fuck? a black playing beetee?

did they not learn their lesson from rue??????

9/8/2012 11:32:00 PM

Maybe that was the point (??)

9/8/2012 11:44:21 PM

?

9/8/2012 11:47:41 PM

Ya know people made such a stink about people from 11 being black so they tried to spread it around

9/9/2012 12:05:24 AM

What was the problem with Rue? I thought the book described her as dark skinned. I didn't picture her as being black when I read the book, but I liked the actress in that role. She was one of my favorite characters in the movie.

9/9/2012 11:11:47 PM

Is everyone going to be black in this next movie? If so I'm not watching.

[Edited on September 10, 2012 at 12:36 AM. Reason : kidding]

9/10/2012 12:36:14 AM

i was being sarcastic about the rue thing... there were a bunch of closet racists that flipped their shit when a black girl was cast as the part (even though the book very clearly described her as dark skinned)

9/10/2012 9:41:29 AM

lol

Did the racists at least appreciate the part where district 11 started the riot?

9/10/2012 10:55:57 AM

there were totally lots of visible white people in those scenes

them people are so dumb, for real

9/10/2012 1:55:49 PM

Quote :

"Aw man. I really liked the idea of Tony Shaloub."

That's what I had in my head when I was reading through. Maybe its because I had also recently watched Galaxy Quest.

9/10/2012 3:49:38 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjGk_jU6t5A&feature=youtu.be

9/21/2012 4:16:47 PM

^hahah. i lol'd

9/21/2012 4:52:23 PM

^^lol that made my day

i looked at some of the other bad lip reading videos and they weren't as funny

9/21/2012 5:32:40 PM

I don't know the Mitt Romney and Twilight ones are hilarious IMHO.

9/21/2012 5:40:04 PM

First trailer for Catching Fire http://www.thehungergamesexplorer.com/us/

4/15/2013 9:06:57 AM

I thought they were going back into the arena. They didn't show any scenes from it in that preview.

4/15/2013 9:14:05 AM

This is being called a teaser trailer; I'm sure there will be arena scenes in future trailers.

Personally, I'm perfectly content with this trailer as it stands and could go without seeing any more. I'm hyped with plenty left to be seen.

4/15/2013 9:25:39 AM

i really like the trailer. doesn't give too much away

i think they'll save the arena for the movie - should be a good one - i think i remember hearing that they filmed that in Hawaii.

[Edited on April 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2013 9:50:57 AM

I hope they devote enough time to the arena in the actual movie.

4/15/2013 10:47:24 AM

Zing!

4/15/2013 12:11:13 PM

looks good to me. I still haven't read the books, but will eventually get to it. But the teaser/trailer what-ever has my attention.


III

4/16/2013 3:57:52 PM

Just rewatched The Hunger Games on Netflix. It was a lot better than I remember when I saw it in the theater.
On the big screen it was so hard to follow everything during a lot of the quick cuts and fast camera work. On the small screen there was much less to keep track of visually.

4/16/2013 5:05:08 PM

watched the trailer last night; certainly looking forward to the continuation of the story. and certainly looking forward to more jennifer lawrence

4/19/2013 1:23:44 PM

I'm going to see Catching Fire tomorrow night at the IMAX. It's for the GF, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited too

11/20/2013 1:18:44 PM

So....what now? I doubt they had already finished filming PSH's parts, so do they replace him with someone else?

2/2/2014 1:41:36 PM

2/2/2014 1:51:26 PM

^^ i read somewhere earlier today that he had 7 days of shooting left for part 2 of mocking jay. That's probably a few scenes. From what I read, they didn't think it was going to cause too much of an issue, but that one specific scene would have to be re-written with another character doing something that he would have been doing.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-the-fate-of-his-role-in-the-hunger-games/

2/3/2014 12:28:11 AM

Holy crap I didn't know Elizabeth Banks was their guide.

3/11/2014 8:12:13 AM

First teaser for Mockingjay Part 1

6/25/2014 1:17:45 PM