The Hunger Games movie sucks bloated goat ***Follow

That's a pretty horrible analogy even for you. People prepare for winning the lottery by being very good couch potatoes, because that's what they expect they'll be able to do for the rest of their lives if they win. I don't think anyone in the Hunger Games series has a mistaken impression of what will happen if their name is drawn.


Kind of a moot point isn't it? I haven't read the books or seen the film. I do know writers though so I will go out on a limb and predict that the series is chock full of teens (and former teens, otherwise known as adults) who are inordinately (some might even argue implausibly) capable with a variety of weapons and survival skills. Am I right? I mean, the theme's kind of a survival of the fittest thing, right?




/shrug (haha! I slay me). Like I said earlier, the presence of a contrived premise to create the main plot elements in a story does not preclude me enjoying said story. If it did, I'd have to hate about 90% of the films/novels that I do like. Doesn't mean I wont point out that said plot is contrived though.

So intuitive.

Probably aiming it at tweens limited the depth the author was going to take the story.

No, you aren't. Like I said before, plenty of the districts are too poor to devote any sort of time to training their kids in any sort of survival skill other than learning how to deal with going hungry. The main character only does well because her father taught her to hunt, and both of them would go hunt in the forest together (which was illegal and the government considered it poaching). They specifically state in the book, that in the 74 year history of the Hunger Games (in the beginning of the first book anyways), there have only been two champions from District 12. The vast majority of the time, the career tributes from districts 1, 2, and 4 end up winning because they have been taught survival skills and how to use weapons, as their districts are better off financially. Hell, Peeta (the other tribute from 12 in the book) doesn't have any survival skills either, and his family owned the bakery and rarely went hungry. Well, the one survival skill he has is how to camouflage himself using paint, but that's more of a trick he came up with because he's good at artistic creativity from decorating the cakes his family's bakery produced. That wasn't really something he was taught, it was more along the lines of something he pulled out of his ***.

I know you think that this isn't realistic, but myself and plenty of other people in this thread (and others beyond this forum) disagree. If you are so poor that your family frequently goes hungry, you aren't going to preoccupy yourself with training for a battle that each year, you only have about a 1/1000 chance of winning entry into. Those are still pretty slim odds. A tenth of a percent I think? And that was just the figure for district 12, which Katniss says is a pretty small district.

Rateups for a thread that has Smash, Totem and Gbaji in it. Glad to see Totes that your giant black trousersnake isn't impeding your weeping vag. Get over it.

It's funny because he makes bread. This joke only works if you pronounce "Pita" that way.

But not spelt.

And don't say you can't see how it's spelt when you're in the cinema. You still know.

Yeah, don't think so. Maybe up in Frankfort, or wherever the gangsters live.

Thank you, strange spammy Korean Gene Siskel!

Indeed, if I understand him correctly (and I think I do), it is good because he has seen it.

Oh, to have the power to make the works of others better simply by viewing them. Truly he is blessed.

Whatever, dude.

One of these days I need to see that movie; if just to figure out what all the fuss is about.