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Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:54 am
by Kevin Thomas Riley
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.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:32 am
by Distracted
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.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:06 am
by Kotik
hm, m......y
Malarkey?
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:56 pm
by CX
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:35 pm
by Kevin Thomas Riley
This show looks like it was inspired by
The Hunger Games.
Emma Roberts cast as 'Delirium' heroine
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:01 am
by CX
Actually it sounds a lot like
Equilibrium to me.
Still no comment on
Battle Royal? I am disappoint.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:11 pm
by Kevin Thomas Riley
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.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:53 pm
by CX
Sounds like encouragement to watch it to me.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:17 pm
by Kevin Thomas Riley
Maybe someone should do an economic analysis of Star Trek? They have of
The Hunger Games.
The Economics of The Hunger GamesFive Economic Lessons Of The Hunger Games
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:24 pm
by Alelou
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:20 pm
by Weeble
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...
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:36 am
by Kevin Thomas Riley
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.
If that makes me a bad Trek fan, then so be it!
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:20 pm
by Alelou
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.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:55 am
by Jamieson
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.
...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.
Re: The Hunger Games
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:45 pm
by Kevin Thomas Riley