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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:54 am

Two movies!? I guess that means they'll make at least four new movies, since the last book probably will be split up as well.
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Distracted » Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:32 am

I'll give you one guess. It starts with an "m" and ends with a "y". And I'm ashamed to say that I've drunk the koolaid. My daughter got a Katniss Barbie doll for her last birthday.
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Postby Kotik » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:06 am

hm, m......y

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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:35 pm

This show looks like it was inspired by The Hunger Games.

Emma Roberts cast as 'Delirium' heroine
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby CX » Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:01 am

Actually it sounds a lot like Equilibrium to me.

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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:11 pm

Well, I have heard of the comparisons between Battle Royale and The Hunger Games before. Since I'm not familiar with the former and I have only seen the HG movie, I wouldn't know if or how much they resemble each other. :dunno:
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby CX » Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:53 pm

Sounds like encouragement to watch it to me. ;)
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:17 pm

Maybe someone should do an economic analysis of Star Trek? They have of The Hunger Games.

The Economics of The Hunger Games

Five Economic Lessons Of The Hunger Games
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Alelou » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:24 pm

OMG, ANOTHER new chapter! NORTH STAR Chapter 28
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Weeble » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:20 pm

Read the Salon article, rolled eyes, looked for a barf bag. Somehow i do not see a hundred years of technological advancement overpowering thousands of years of human behavior. Besides who is to say that world is better. And will they make good beer...
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:36 am

Yeah, as any reader of my episode reviews might recall, I've never bought into that Hippie Trekkie stuff. I find the working premises (and they're often inconsistent throughout the different shows and episodes) behind the supposed "evolved humanity" of the 23rd and 24th centuries to be unworkable. Human, to say nothing about alien, behaviour simply is what it is and cannot really change in such a fundamental way.

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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Alelou » Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:20 pm

I'm sure you can find whole treatises on ST economics in various places, but they should make you barf just as much. It is, after all, a hopeful and fairly egalitarian view of the future, or I expect we'd see characters brooding or at least joking about money, property, class, and economic security once in awhile.
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Re: The Hunger Games

Postby Jamieson » Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:55 am

lfvoy wrote:I'm still personally getting over the idea that the next book needs two movies to tell its tale.

...really? Where I come from, editing is considered a good thing, and goodness knows Collins edited the holy crap out of the books before submitting them for publication. :duh:



...where did you see/hear that it was being split?

As for Delirium, it's another YA dystopian trilogy (the third book comes out soon). The Hunger Games popularity sparked a jump in YA dystopians...I work part time in a big-chain bookstore, usually in the kids/teen section, so I get to see first-hand the trend in YA books - it starts with one popular story, a bunch of others follow (some as good or better, many many worse), and then the next big thing pops up and it starts all over again.

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Re: The Hunger Games

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