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danny_galaga:
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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saint:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 31, 2012, 09:57:47 am ---Anyone else catch she used the wrong side of the knife to saw at the tree limb and notched her arrows the wrong direction more than once? :P
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I saw the knife thing also and want to look at it again. Don't some knives have a sharp edge, and a serrated edge? Gonna look at that when I get the Blu-Ray.
Mikezilla:
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--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 30, 2012, 04:45:46 pm ---Katniss should not have saddlebags.... I thought everyone was supposed to be starving? Guess that's what you get using Americans.
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:stupid I haven't seen the movie yet, but all the photo stills I have seen, I kept thinking why the heck do all the kids from every single district look so damn healthy.
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Its cause its supposed to rival Twilight. All the damn kids look the same with their stupid hair, and everything. ::) I still think Katniss has a slight case of down syndrome. :dunno
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 27, 2012, 12:03:33 pm ---I thought Jennifer Lawrence was way too old for the main actress, to be honest. I figured that weird looking kid from City of Ember might work, but then she's already been in a Hunger Games knock off called Hannah.
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+1000
I read all of the books twice. Saw the movie two days ago.
I really liked the books. I wanted to get up and leave this movie it was so bad.
I agree 100% with saint's assessment of shaky camera work. I don't get motion sick from it but it annoys the crap out of me. There is no reason to be watching people ride a train and the camera is shaking. Ooh, we're walking down a hallway in an emotional moment. Let's skip the acting and just shake the camera around. The idea wrecks a whole movie.
Katniss is too old, she very clearly isn't starving, and she has nice clothes. How does that fit the story at all? When they finally got around to the bread sequence with Peeta they are the same age. Katniss isn't starving in the rain, she looks like she got drunk and fell asleep on the ground, and Peeta comes out to judge her. And it was just last week judging by their age. That is probably the key element to the entire first book completely botched out of laziness. Total fail on a character development standpoint. Especially on Peeta. Peeta is no longer a kid who took a punch to give some bread, he's no longer a kid who helped the drunk clean himself up, he's just a kid that has a little charisma for the audience. Katniss is no longer a survivor who kept her family alive. She's just a hot chick in a village short on them. Haymitch is no longer a suicidal drunk tormented by his role as Mentor. He's just a guy with bad hygiene. Katniss' mom isn't a "middle class" woman who gave up her comfort for a man she loved, and then was crushed by his death, by crippling depression. She's just a weak woman who can't support her kids. The whole basis for every main character in this movie is watered down to nothing. The result is a bunch of cardboard cutouts, a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- load of camera shaking, and eventually some CGI pit bulls that even tommy wouldn't like.
I thought this movie was a piece of crap from beginning to end.
Mikezilla:
You might have just saved me 24 bucks Chad. I enjoyed the books as well, so we probably share the same feelings as to how the characters should be portrayed in the movie. If they are done that poorly, and missing the mark completely, I probably shouldnt see it cause it will ruin the books for me.
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