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Hunger Games

I enjoyed all three books. Great reading!

I think I downloaded a sample of "John Dies at the End" onto my Kindle. I'm in the middle of another book right now but I'll start that one next.
 
I'm just finishing the second book and it should make a good movie. Lots of new characters who could be entertaining.
 
I read all three books last week. They were really good!

The "muttations" were a little over the top, and the people of the Capital reminded me of Idiocracy a little bit.

I liked Catnip a lot. It's really rare that you get a female lead in a story who seems like a real person.

May the odds be ever in your favor.
 
Did you watch the movie, and if so did you like it?

I found the movie really boring, so I'm curious if the books are quite different.
 
I haven't seen the movie, but the trailers for it look kind of awful. I think you might like the books, though. Let me know if you want me to send them to you.
 
Sure, might as well. Thanks.

I think the only parts of the movie that I really liked were those concerning the outside world, which were nicely realised. The outfits and makeup were outrageous by our standards, just as every historical period's outfits appear outrageous to others. The only letdown to those scenes was Woody Harrelson, who delivered a sub-Owen Wilson performance. Just awful.
 
sub OWEN WILSON?

When Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson got together in that recent Intern film I believe a crucial battle between good and evil took place. It went like this:

1. If the movie got into production then the Dark Lord moved among us
2. If Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were cast together then his armies were more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
3. If the movie was a success then the World would end as we know it and hordes of Nazi Zombies would take over.

We were that close people. THANK YOU FOR NOT WATCHING THAT MOVIE.

The continuing success of Vince Vaughn is a worry though. If he ever teams up with Will Ferrell then evil could ride once more.
 
It's most similar to Battle Royale, which is about Japanese kids being sent to an island to fight to the death until only one survives. I forget the reason precisely. The main thing is, it's not boring, and nobody in it is the least bit reminiscent of Owen Wilson.
 
I struggled through Battle Royale late at night because I am arty and hipster and felt I had to watch it so that I could hang out on the internet and appear cool and urbane and RELEVANT. The yawning gaps in my real life are now filled with cult foreign film references that my real world acquaintances would never get and eventually all I would have is internet friends because my references started to become too esoteric and I couldn't actually converse with someone without saying "OH YEH, ITS A LITTLE LIKE THE JOKER KIKUCHIYO IN SEVEN SAMURAI ISN'T IT?"

Anyway, I watched it and it was OK I guess.
 
Most of the bad ones must get filtered out. By the time any of us see them they're virtually mainstream.

But I absolutely detested Alphaville when I first saw it, if that helps. Mostly because the voiceover sounds like the human personification of throat cancer.
 
I still haven't seen the first movie. I keep hoping it'll be on HBO or SOMETHING :rwmad:

The trailers for Catching Fire look a lot better than the Hunger Games. Like the spent more on the effects.
 
BATORU ROWAIARU is one of those foreign films that is serious but that needs to be watched as a comedy to be appreciated at all.
 
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