Yo this is bullshit, Peeta is supposed to be huge.

Dude scored an 8 just by picking things up and putting them down.

I pictured him looking like this

1/19/2012 11:14:39 PM

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"lets not talk about the 2nd and 3rd books in this thread?"

I assumed this was for all things HG universe related

1/19/2012 11:47:38 PM

I kept hearing about this thing and waffling on the subject.

"Fights to the death for popular amusement? I could get into that..."
"From the perspective of a teenage girl? Fuck all that noise."
"But she does straight up kill people, and there's a dictatorship..."
"Yeah, and there's a love triangle. I say again, fuck all that noise."
"But they reference cannibalism a few times and the protagonist seems pretty bloodthirsty!"
"Fine, I'll read the goddamn things."

I ended up reading and enjoying them. The books managed (I thought) to downplay the feminine/relationship/teenage/emotional/whatever horseshit, and I pray to the god of book-to-film adaptations that the movies will do the same.

But that god is a fickle god, and I'm afraid it is as likely to deliver six hours of some chick menstruating about her boyfriends as it is a trilogy of bloodsport, revolution, and post-apocalyptic insanity.

1/20/2012 4:12:12 AM

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"o this is bullshit, Peeta is supposed to be huge."

I thought they made him out to be really strong, but not like a bodybuilder. More "stout" than absolutely jacked.

1/20/2012 9:04:08 AM

I hear slackerb knows somebody in this?

1/20/2012 9:08:13 AM

^^i agree with this. i don't think he's supposed to look like a body builder at all.

1/20/2012 9:36:42 AM

I pictured him more muscled than the actor they picked, but not some kind of behemoth or anything.

1/20/2012 10:21:29 AM

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"Yo this is bullshit, Peeta is supposed to be huge. Dude scored an 8 just by picking things up and putting them down. I pictured him looking like this"

That's not the way I remember him earning an 8... it was their plan for him to earn a good score but that's not what I remember happening..

1/20/2012 2:50:25 PM

Spoiler




















I thought his specialty was camouflage
















end spoiler

1/20/2012 3:09:50 PM

I thought it was being a pastry chef.

1/20/2012 3:14:14 PM

Too bad you can't frost someone to death.

1/20/2012 3:28:49 PM

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"He receives a training score of 8 after his private session with the Gamemakers, saying that he threw some weights around because the Gamemakers were clearly not interested in him."

1/20/2012 3:33:03 PM

1/20/2012 6:37:53 PM

^ that's awesome, thanks for posting that!

1/20/2012 8:58:34 PM

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"lets not talk about the 2nd and 3rd books in this thread?"

OH SNAP

IT'S THE ENTERTAINMENT PO-LICE

1/20/2012 9:14:50 PM

I never really pictured the districts being that huge...it sounded like each district had one big city with small towns bordering it. When the reaping took place weren't all the eligible children present from the ENTIRE district? That would be one hell of a commute.

I guess the population of each district is just condensed to one small area and the rest is no-man's land?

And I'm guessing that map is only based on the information provided in book 1 because Districts 5 & 6 have specific resources they provide as well.

[Edited on January 21, 2012 at 2:13 AM. Reason : -]

1/21/2012 2:10:29 AM

[quote]bdmazur[/user] is correct. He told Katniss that's why he got such a high score. He was still trying to hide his talent at the time.

1/21/2012 9:04:18 AM

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"Too bad you can't frost someone to death."

yeah, but you can kill millions with an oven.

Ask the jews.

1/21/2012 9:18:03 AM

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"I never really pictured the districts being that huge...it sounded like each district had one big city with small towns bordering it. When the reaping took place weren't all the eligible children present from the ENTIRE district? That would be one hell of a commute."

That's just one person's interpretation of the map, I pictured it much smaller as well. Although in Book 2, Katniss guesses that in the larger districts, they do the reaping ahead of time, and just have a portion of their district attend the ceremony.

1/21/2012 10:27:40 AM

as i was reading i figured the districts were mostly unoccupied vast areas of territory with a centralized town/city center as the "capitol" of that district, if you will. but then you would have smaller villages spread out that would be involved in that particular district's craft: fishing, mining, farming, etc.

1/21/2012 12:37:19 PM

Why don't any of the districts reach the coasts? That would mean all of their fishing came from inland lakes and not the ocean. That's not really how I envisioned Panem to look at all

1/21/2012 1:12:57 PM

They do reach the coast... it's just not the coast you're used to. Apparently, the outer edges of North America are underwater by the time Panem is created. So, all the blue areas outside the district are water.

But there are a lot of these created maps. Many of them have the districts much smaller, or slightly shuffled around. I just thought that one looked nicest.

[Edited on January 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2012 1:44:20 PM

Thinking back on it, I don't think any of the districts are large geographical areas. Katniss crawls under the D12 wall to go hunting, so she's outside of the district, but not inside of another. So the districts don't actually have borders with each other. It's really just cities. Based on each district's climate, people, and industries, it's probably something like this:

Capitol - Denver
1 - Las Vegas
2 - Santa Fe
3 - San Diego
4 - Houston
5 - Kansas City
6 - Detroit
7 - Vancouver (or anything southwest Canada)
8 - St Louis
9 - Chicago
10 - Dallas
11 - Atlanta
12 - Ashville (or any NC or WV mountain town)

1/22/2012 1:28:48 PM

i'd put most of district 12 north of nc, closer to wv, like you mentioned.

1/22/2012 4:23:16 PM

How the hell can the western mountains and all of Hawaii be underwater?

1/22/2012 5:01:45 PM

maybe the west coast finally fell off into the ocean

1/22/2012 6:53:33 PM

global warming. this book is clearly hipster propaganda.

/sarcasm

1/22/2012 6:59:01 PM

Interesting . . .

http://capitolcouture.pn/

1/24/2012 8:59:13 AM

This "magazine" or whatever it is supposed to be totally blows. If Effie Trinket was such a big deal, she wouldn't have been assigned to 12. The front page mentions a volunteer from D12 but none of the other districts at all? This is just awful compared to what I expect a real Capitol publication would look like.

I figured they'd be releasing a lot of online content for this movie...I was hoping for some videos of the victory tour for "last year's champion" (73rd games winner) since that always precedes the next reaping.

[Edited on January 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM. Reason : -]

1/24/2012 11:15:20 AM

^^wow. Talk about a website that was very much so not designed to be viewed on an iPhone.

1/24/2012 11:16:27 AM

I would've swapped District 8 with District 11 as states like Illinois, Iowa and Missouri have more of a "breadbasket" feel to them while the Southern states highlighted have a textile tradition (that is, until we outsourced it all to China).

1/24/2012 11:18:18 AM

District 11 is "very warm" in the other books. So, I definitely think a southern placement is appropriate for that.

1/24/2012 11:56:29 AM

D11 also has a much larger black (African-Panemian?) population. The only black kids in the movie are from D11.

1/24/2012 12:06:58 PM

So this map is just fan speculation right?

1/24/2012 2:19:18 PM

Yes

1/24/2012 2:19:48 PM

Would have been nice if she had actually included some maps. Those were really helpful in Tolkien's books.

1/24/2012 2:27:26 PM

Yeah I like the maps in A Song of Ice and Fire also but it didn't stop fan speculation, since they only included one continent and small parts of another.

This was one of my favorites, a stylized world map
http://gamesofthrones.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/World_Map.jpg

1/24/2012 2:47:56 PM

I really don't understand why having a map would increase anyone's enjoyment of the books. While I was reading them I basically ended up pretending that it was a fictional world. Once they said that all of the citizens for 1/13th of the entire landmass gathered in one place at a time, all realism or relatability for modern maps went out the window for me.

1/24/2012 9:09:18 PM

The districts don't abut one another. District 12 is probably some shithole town in West Virginia. There could be hundreds of miles separating them.

That being said, I've read the whole series and was kinda bummed by how shitty it was. But then again, I hate everything.

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"How the hell can the western mountains and all of Hawaii be underwater?"

Global warming, bro.

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"This is just awful compared to what I expect a real Capitol publication would look like."

WHAT AN ATROCITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111@@2LOLZ

1/24/2012 10:41:11 PM

sounds like an endorsement to me

1/24/2012 10:42:34 PM

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"The districts don't abut one another. District 12 is probably some shithole town in West Virginia. There could be hundreds of miles separating them."

That's an interesting way of looking at it. I had already accepted the fact that each district was, in essence, just a small city (or larger city in some cases) but I considered the part outside the fence (assuming each district was set up the same way as 12) to still be part of the district. But it probably makes more sense to think of a district as only the part where people are allowed to go.

As a side note, I was hoping the books would eventually get into what exists in the parts outside of the cities, but that never happened. I guess the books just weren't that deep in that regard.

1/24/2012 10:48:25 PM

i dont see how giving details about the wilderness that the narrator couldnt possibly know would help the plot or character development

then again i've only read the first so far

1/24/2012 11:00:44 PM

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"How the hell can the western mountains and all of Hawaii be underwater?"

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"Global warming, bro"

I think the point being made that Hawaii's highest point is 13k feet and California is 14k feet, for them to be under water, the entire east coast would be 7k feet underwater.

1/24/2012 11:09:45 PM

turns out, Collins is a tool fan and she is implying that california has broken off from the US and sunk into the ocean

alaska is just artistic license.

1/24/2012 11:21:11 PM

I finished book 3 last night. My final assessment::

Hunger Games: awesome plot with minimal character development
Catching Fire: decent plot, way too predictable, too much recounting of prior events
Mockingjay, first half: some cool war strategy scenes, but a very forced love triangle
Mockingjay, second half: a lot of gore that seemed unnecessary, as if the author closed her eyes, flipped open to a random page, and said "someone should die here," and then did it again a few times (it tried a bit too much to be like Harry Potter 7).

1/25/2012 11:07:34 AM

So, are we discussing the 2nd and 3rd books in this? Or just the movies? I want to know before I post potential spoilers.

Also, Katniss's first interview with Caeser, I expected a more flashy dress. This one is pretty, but not how I imagined Cinna's designs:


[Edited on January 30, 2012 at 1:48 PM. Reason : ]

1/30/2012 1:46:13 PM

seems like a thread for the hunger games film would only discuss the first book, but somebody cried when i made that request last page.

the thread was kinda poorly titled, which makes it even more confusing

1/30/2012 5:23:32 PM

Finished the 3rd book today. Dumbledore dies.

1/30/2012 5:37:34 PM

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

1/30/2012 5:41:15 PM

new trailer http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-hunger-games/

2/2/2012 5:55:28 PM