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thekitchensink on 16 March 2012

As a huge fan of the books, I'm quite looking forward to this :)

My only trepidation is the lack of an R rating. The books are very graphic and disturbing, and they'll have to work some serious cinematic magic to make certain scenes have the same poignancy with a PG-13 rating.

The trailers look very promising, though.



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Coca-Cola on 16 March 2012

Gonna go see it tonight. Decided not to read the book before the movie.



benao87 on 16 March 2012

Looking forward for this one. I do hope this ain't no Twilight.
Never heard of the books, might pick them up if I like the story.



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green_sky on 16 March 2012

Movie looks great. Makes crap like Twilight seem even more crappier if possible. Also Jennifer Lawrence :)



PullusPardus on 16 March 2012

I keep hearing about these books but I am too much of a pussy to try to read them and then find out they're Twilight 2.0.
and thus wasted a good time on reading crap and buying a book.



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Boutros on 16 March 2012

OMG SO EXCITED AMAZING SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 100% with 11 reviews!!!!!!!!!! 8.2 average rating so far!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Boutros on 16 March 2012
PullusPardus said:
I keep hearing about these books but I am too much of a pussy to try to read them and then find out they're Twilight 2.0.
and thus wasted a good time on reading crap and buying a book.

People compare it to Twilight because it's a female lead. There's a bit of a love story but nothing out of the ordinary and it's not at all a big part of the book (at least the first one). More than Harry Potter but considerably less than Twilight.



PullusPardus on 16 March 2012
Boutros said:
PullusPardus said:
I keep hearing about these books but I am too much of a pussy to try to read them and then find out they're Twilight 2.0.
and thus wasted a good time on reading crap and buying a book.

People compare it to Twilight because it's a female lead. There's a bit of a love story but nothing out of the ordinary and it's not at all a big part of the book (at least the first one). More than Harry Potter but considerably less than Twilight.


I'd take a children's book (harry potter, Narnia, Spiderwick Chronicles) over any teen Book and some crappy Mature books



Zim on 16 March 2012
Boutros said:
PullusPardus said:
I keep hearing about these books but I am too much of a pussy to try to read them and then find out they're Twilight 2.0.
and thus wasted a good time on reading crap and buying a book.

People compare it to Twilight because it's a female lead. There's a bit of a love story but nothing out of the ordinary and it's not at all a big part of the book (at least the first one). More than Harry Potter but considerably less than Twilight.


...Surely it's more Battle Royale than Harry Potter. You know what with seeming to be a copy with the bare minimum amount of changes made. Like erm changing foreign people to Americans. 



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Funtime on 16 March 2012
PullusPardus said:
I keep hearing about these books but I am too much of a pussy to try to read them and then find out they're Twilight 2.0.
and thus wasted a good time on reading crap and buying a book.


Read the books. Don't have any fear of them being like Twilight. I'm a 30 year old man and my wife is a Twi-hard. I fucking despise Twilght and I've seen all of them so far. The thought of taking my wife to the next movie in the series makes me want to run out and punch the first person I see using too much hair gel in the face!

I let my wife talk me into reading the Hunger Games books once she assured me that they're not like Twilight. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and read all 3 books. They're very very good, and this is coming fom a 30 year old male who usually prefers darker, more mature themed books like 1984 and Game of Thrones.

I highly recommend reading them. They're extremely dark, and graphic conidering the targt demographic, and the setting and story are just awesome.

Think of The Hunger Games as a cross between Lord of The Flies and The Running Man set in a post-apocalyptic future where political corruption and oppression is the norm.

That's my 2 cents anyway.