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Vigo:
Well, I watched the movie over Easter Weekend. I meant to post earlier, but I agree with PBJ a lot. I felt the whole hunger element was gone. The funny thing is during the games, they were showing her eat...a lot, but they never bothered showing much passage of time. They show probably 6 meals take place during the games, but only visually show you that maybe 4 days have past. My wife who never read the book was confused why she was always going around eating all day. In the movie, it seems like she finds water within 20 minutes of the games starting.

I think character development was cut short as well, you had no connection to why Rue was a big deal, it feels like they knew each other for one afternoon. When you get to the brutality and killing, it was done well and kept pace. They thankfully cut back at the cheesy teen romance. Gale's anger against the capitol was completely gone, so he is just a dope gazing off into the sunset. Haymitch was one dimensional, which is a shame because woody did a great job, they just didn't give him any film time. They didn't even bother chopping off Peeta bread's leg, but I guess that wasn't a critical thing to do for the movie.

District 12 was a shaky fail, you had no sense of how Katniss had to trade to survive and put her name in for rations of grain. They just shook the camera for ten minutes while she ran around. Her thunder thighs and the well-fed nature of everyone in the district takes away any notion of hunger being a key element. They didn't even seem poor when townsfolk are watching the games on a couch on their 60" flat-panel tv screens.

But even after all my complaints, it wasn't necessarily a bad film. It was just not a masterfully done film. Kinda like one of the frustrating Harry Potter films. You just end up cringing when they miss the mark or chop out parts that were critical to the story, but you will still watch it again.

Dummy:
I cant remember any specific examples.
 The movie itself captures the actual games part of the book pretty well.
   I had forgotten how much of a central theme this was to the story

danny_galaga:

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--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on April 03, 2012, 08:35:01 am ---There's no resemblance between the stories of The Hunger Games and Hanna.

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The trailers for Hanna made it look like the whole thing was her fighting for her life in the woods.  The actual movie, of course, was all weird and made no actual sense and seemed to involve the same 2 or 3 city blocks they kept trying to pass off as different countries.



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Filming locations for
Hanna (2011) More at IMDbPro »
 
Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Essaouira, Morocco

Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Filtergewoelbe Wasserwerk Friedrichshagen, Berlin, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

Hotel Concorde, Berlin, Germany

Kemijärvi, Finland

Leger, Lenggries, Bavaria, Germany

Lenggries, Bavaria, Germany

Ouarzazate, Morocco

Ruka, Kuusamo, Finland

Spreepark, Plänterwald, Treptow-Köpenick, Berlin, Germany
(amusement park)

Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on March 30, 2012, 07:25:02 pm ---
A work colleague saw it the other day, and I asked him "I thought this was a kids movie?". He couldn't articulate what demographic it is aimed at, I went and watched it anyway. Yep, it's a kids movie. Not bad mind you, and it was freakin' awesome to see Lenny Kravitz in an acting role. I give it 3/5





--- Quote ---my score for recent movies you may have seen:

  5/5 - The Way Back, The Kings Speech, Michael Clayton, In Bruges, Gran Torino, Mary and Max

4.5/5 - Taken, Iron Man, Reign Over Me, Watchmen, The girl with the dragon tattoo

  4/5 - True Grit, Traitor, Bedtime Stories, Sunshine, pineapple express

3.5/5 - 300, Max Payne, You dont mess with the Zohan, Yes Man

  3/5 - That new Indiana Jones flick, Disturbia, That new TMNT flick,

2.5/5 - Angels and Demons

  2/5 - The Love Guru. Note: My 2 is probably someone elses 1. Just leaving room for worse!

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A friend was visiting town, and she was keen to see this. I didn't have the heart to say I'd already seen it, so off we went. I actually enjoyed it more the second time around!  

DaveMMR:
For a while, had no idea what any of this "Hunger Game" crap was - figured it was something like "Twilight". Out of curiosity (and the witnessing of men my age glued to their copies of the first book), I decided to give it a read. I am glued to it. Right now I'm almost done with the second book.  Want to see the movie now.

I'm really not much of a fiction reader (I prefer biographies and instructional books) so perhaps maybe the fact it was written for the young adult made it easier for me to plow through.

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