Author Topic: explain 'the hunger games' to me, manchildren (Read 3590 times)

Van Cruncheon · « **on:** March 22, 2012, 10:31:55 PM »

cuz it sounds HOMOTARDED.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:33:41 PM »

basically, where does it fall on the spectrum of harry potter (barely tolerable and borderline readable) to twilight (textual botulism)

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:33:48 PM »

it sounds like a pulpy SF story from the back pages of Star Trek Magazine that got WAYYYYY out of control

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:33:49 PM »

it's basically battle royale meets fallout

Himu · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:34:31 PM »

so by using battle royale as inspiration alone, it's far better than harry potter and twilight but a tad under naruto

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:35:46 PM »

is it written for a fifth grade reading level, i.e. for americans

Himu · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:37:49 PM »

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:41:08 PM »

is anyone actually killed, or do they pussify it

does everyone abstain from sex, or do they pussify it

cool breeze · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:43:40 PM »

based on trailers alone: different colonies select a male and female combatants to fight in, uh, the hunter games (?). last kid alive wins. it's also nascar and the kids are celebrities until they die. I played the iphone game briefly too. you run and shoot arrows at giant insects. so maybe it's survival in general, and not just killing kids.

demi · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:45:34 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on March 22, 2012, 10:41:08 PM

is anyone actually killed, or do they pussify it

does everyone abstain from sex, or do they pussify it

wikipedia has a summary of all the books

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #10 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:47:23 PM »

My wife read all three books in less than a week.

I read the wiki summaries and called it a day.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:55:21 PM »

i swear to christ, when you posted on facebook about reading THE ENTIRE GAWKER FEED ON YOUR IPAD, i went to that stupid site and they had a huge headline about explaining the hunger games. learn to internet, taco

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:04:54 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on March 22, 2012, 10:33:49 PM

it's basically battle royale meets fallout

Add a sprinkling of The Lottery, put in a blender, hit puree for a minute, THEN MAKE FUCK TONS OF MONIES OFF OF STUPID GIRLS

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:06:07 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on March 22, 2012, 10:55:21 PM

i swear to christ, when you posted on facebook about reading THE ENTIRE GAWKER FEED ON YOUR IPAD, i went to that stupid site and they had a huge headline about explaining the hunger games. learn to internet, taco

oh he obviously read it. This is just a standard-issue Drinky trap to get unfortunates to admit to reading it, the better to mock.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:06:27 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on March 22, 2012, 10:34:31 PM

so by using battle royale as inspiration alone, it's far better than harry potter and twilight but a tad under naruto

I was going to say you have the most fucked up priorities but then I remembered the whole Shenmue thing and realized that would be redundant wait why in the fuck am I still typing this oh god someone help me

Himu · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:07:25 PM »

battle royale > naruto > harry potter > twilight

you're trying to dispute this?

Trent Dole · « **Reply #16 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:10:16 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on March 22, 2012, 11:07:25 PM

battle royale > naruto > harry potter > twilight

you're trying to dispute this?

Hmm, sounds fair. Dunno enough Naruto to say if it qualifies as > Potter though so maybe an equal sign there.

Himu · « **Reply #17 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:12:44 PM »

hunger games is like a cool idea, but written for middle schoolers. i'm sure drinky's daughter would enjoy it and she will force him to read it.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:17:50 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on March 22, 2012, 10:33:41 PM

basically, where does it fall on the spectrum of harry potter (barely tolerable and borderline readable) to twilight (textual botulism)

Wife's reading the books just to see what the deal is and her response is 'I'd put it below Harry Potter but above Twilight'. Also the lead character chick is kind of an idiot.

Eric P · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:19:05 PM »

battle royale for american kids with a dystopian twist.

it's...ok. I read the first one and enjoyed it for what it was, but haven't read the rest of the books.

it's no The Sexy Killer

(i just happen to be watching this right now. i don't know why either)

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #20 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:21:55 PM »

are there any monsters

Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 22, 2012, 10:50:11 PM

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on March 22, 2012, 10:41:08 PM
is anyone actually killed, or do they pussify it

does everyone abstain from sex, or do they pussify it
its set in a cruel future where tonguing butthole has been outlawed.

hence the title

Owl-faced Wizard · « **Reply #21 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:27:55 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on March 22, 2012, 11:21:55 PM

are there any monsters

Someone said something about

spoiler (click to show/hide)

dogs with human faces

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which sounded like a redeeming feature to me, but everybody was down on it.

I don't think Hunger Games can even use 'dystopian future' as a point of distinction from BR - that's there in BR too, just as background stuff.

Himu · « **Reply #22 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:45:26 PM »

Quote from: Owl-faced Wizard on March 22, 2012, 11:27:55 PM

I don't think Hunger Games can even use 'dystopian future' as a point of distinction from BR - that's there in BR too, just as background stuff.

i highly, highly suggest reading battle royale's novel. if you thought the movie was fucked up...

Eric P · « **Reply #23 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:47:52 PM »

BR was just released on BluRay. Watch the second film BUT (BUT!) watch it more in line with a Youth Gone Wild film like Wild in the Streets instead of a "real" sequel to BR.

It makes a lot more sense like that.

Mandark · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2012, 12:16:37 AM »

I'd rather have The Hunger Games as the voice of the American teenybopper id than Twilight, cause at least there's a heroine trying to survive/kill/generally do thangs, rather than deriving her whole identity from being, inexplicably, the love object of a bunch of moody teenage monsters.

If you're a young woman who wants to treat the main character of a novel as your stand-in and bask in the reflected specialness of an awesome guy who totally loves you, at least read Pride and Prejudice.

Austen

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2012, 12:27:42 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on March 22, 2012, 11:07:25 PM

battle royale > naruto > harry potter > twilight

you're trying to dispute this?

I mean, I guess it boils down to what you like. Wizards n' shit or WACKY JAPPY. I'll take wizards n' shit.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:03:58 AM »

May the odds be ever in your favor

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:09:07 AM »

sounds kinda cool to me

blame space · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:01:35 AM »

sick

I don't know about these book but it's cool there's a positive female role for the teens.. setting and cast seems epic. Day 1.. as long as the concentration campiness from the trailer isn't TOO overbearing.

blame space · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:14:58 AM »

*yawn*, am I right Count Dragula?

blame space · « **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:17:27 AM »

the genre of kids doing epic things all over my face.. #kids #epicteens

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #31 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:29:17 AM »

I just get tired of adults pimping it. Let me read my sophisticated Warhammer 40k stuff

blame space · « **Reply #32 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:41:43 AM »

what is everyone's favorite movie based on a book written for #epicteens? (manchildren only please):

mine is thumbsucker

blame space · « **Reply #33 on:** March 23, 2012, 03:42:49 AM »

and the second or third harry potter I don't remember

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34 on:** March 23, 2012, 04:21:14 AM »

The movie had kids killing each other, so there's that.

Of course, it's got nothing on The Running Man, but that's kind of a given.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #35 on:** March 23, 2012, 04:55:45 AM »

I don't want America to catch Japan's disease where the only fictional people who accomplish things are always under twenty.

the best detectives in the world, grizzled and battle scarred vets, top-level scientists, all who can't yet buy a drink.

Owl-faced Wizard · « **Reply #36 on:** March 23, 2012, 05:01:03 AM »

Quote from: blame space on March 23, 2012, 03:41:43 AM

what is everyone's favorite movie based on a book written for #epicteens? (manchildren only please):

mine is thumbsucker

I liked The Chocolate War, iirc.

Timber · « **Reply #37 on:** March 23, 2012, 06:19:57 AM »

Calling children's books "young adult" so that adults won't feel guilty for reading them is probably the most brilliant idea anyone has ever had.

Spurgeon · « **Reply #38 on:** March 23, 2012, 06:56:12 AM »

Friends talked me into seeing this at midnight, I was hoping for some form-fitting attire on Jennifer Lawrence. Plus it was a free ticket.

One scene where a character is applying "medicine" to a wound has funny dialogue because you can replace medicine with KY Jelly, and it still makes sense.

Just rent The Running Man instead.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #39 on:** March 23, 2012, 07:49:23 AM »

So it's The Lottery mixed with The Most Dangerous Game.....

Pass

Eric P · « **Reply #40 on:** March 23, 2012, 08:19:06 AM »

Quote from: Hitler Stole My Potato on March 23, 2012, 07:49:23 AM

So it's The Lottery mixed with The Most Dangerous Game.....

Pass

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #41 on:** March 23, 2012, 08:28:24 AM »

Since its an American book I'd be amazed if there's not some sort of clumsily shoehorned in Christian allegory, maybe involving the kuk kux klan, and obese fatties in those funny motorised wheelchairs.

You could actually do quite a good tv show using fatsters in their gopeds in medieval jousting competitions, they could go up against mechanical opponents, like a digger or a combine harvester. You could call it something catchy like 'Fat knights get seriously injured for the pleasure of the brain dead proletariate'.

tiesto · « **Reply #42 on:** March 23, 2012, 08:53:41 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on March 22, 2012, 11:07:25 PM

battle royale > naruto > harry potter > twilight

you're trying to dispute this?

Totally agree with you... I'd throw in Star Wars on that list, as even worse than Twilight though.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #43 on:** March 23, 2012, 09:09:09 AM »

The Hot Topic store in the mall is plastered with merch for this movie. That is all I needed to see.

Mupepe · « **Reply #44 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:29:37 AM »

My wife powered through this book in like a day. It sounds interesting enough. I've never seen (or read?) Battle Royale, The Lottery, The Most Dangerous Game or Miss Congeniality so oh well.

Himu · « **Reply #45 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:31:12 AM »

Battle Royale's film has Gogo from Kill Bill as a homicidal maniac. WATCH

Mupepe · « **Reply #46 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:50:47 AM »

OH SNAP!

Will watch.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #47 on:** March 23, 2012, 11:00:36 AM »

Quote from: Timber on March 23, 2012, 06:19:57 AM

Calling children's books "young adult" so that adults won't feel guilty for reading them is probably the most brilliant idea anyone has ever had.

You can make the same argument with calling comic books "graphic novels." Still pretty brilliant in terms of marketing.

bork · « **Reply #48 on:** March 23, 2012, 11:13:20 AM »

I always saw this as "The Running Man" for Twilight fans.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49 on:** March 23, 2012, 11:27:47 AM »

Quote from: lyte edge on March 23, 2012, 11:13:20 AM

I always saw this as "The Running Man" for Twilight fans.

Yeah, it's kind of like the Twlight-crowd version of The Running Man, but without all the awesome one-liners and crazy villains.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #50 on:** March 23, 2012, 12:23:47 PM »

I was talking to my wife, she said the Twilight comparisons are probably just stupid hyperbole. She hasn't read the Twilight books, but said the romance stuff in the Hunger Games trilogy isn't a huge focus.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #51 on:** March 23, 2012, 12:29:35 PM »

You've never seen an improbably smokin' lady scientist in western media? Ever?

Himu · « **Reply #52 on:** March 23, 2012, 12:51:47 PM »

EVERYONE WATCH AND SUPPORT BATTLE ROYALE ON BLU RAY

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #53 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:24:08 PM »

Movie is apparently fantastic, I should check it out soon.

Diunx · « **Reply #54 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:32:46 PM »

They could have fed 7 African countries with the money they have spend marketing this thing, smh.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #55 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:37:40 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on March 23, 2012, 01:32:46 PM

They could have fed 7 African countries with the money they have spend marketing this thing, smh.

You could say the same thing with nearly every movie made in the last 20 years.

Bebpo · « **Reply #56 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:40:15 PM »

Don't really care about this, but apparently it's at least entertaining so I can't fault the people who enjoy it.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #57 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:42:14 PM »

Quote from: blame space on March 23, 2012, 03:41:43 AM

what is everyone's favorite movie based on a book written for #epicteens? (manchildren only please):

mine is thumbsucker

by far

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #58 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:42:37 PM »

I had no idea what it was until two weeks ago, around the time people started frothing with excitement and talking about it everywhere.

I saw the movie last night. It was... ok. Yeah, it's targeting the younger crowed, the PG13 rating certainly dragged it down. I thought was struggling to maintain the seriousness and savagery of the "games" with that rating. The dialogue was tolerable, the cast was ok, save for Jennifer Lawrence; she was great, and definitely carried the movie.

I'm not good with rating movies, but I can easily dock the experience a star or two for how horrible all the hyperactive children and manchildren were at the theater. If you're sensitive to those crowds, you better avoid it for now.

Robo · « **Reply #59 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:46:54 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on March 23, 2012, 02:42:37 PM

I had no idea what it was until two weeks ago, around the time people started frothing with excitement and talking about it everywhere.

I saw the movie last night. It was... ok. Yeah, it's targeting the younger crowed, the PG13 rating certainly dragged it down. I thought was struggling to maintain the seriousness and savagery of the "games" with that rating. The dialogue was tolerable, the cast was ok, save for Jennifer Lawrence; she was great, and carried the movie.

I'm not good with rating movies, but I can easily dock the experience a star or two for how horrible all the hyperactive children and manchildren audience at the theater. If you're sensitive to those crowds, you better avoid it for now.

What time did you go? I was considering a late show for that very reason, but I suspect it won't make a difference.

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Author Topic: explain 'the hunger games' to me, manchildren (Read 3590 times)