May the odds...
While everyone else is seeing The Avengers I finally saw The Hunger Games tonight.
WOW that was intense. And brutal. I was genuinely scared for those kids during the Reaping even though Primrose being selected and Katniss volunteering is in the trailer so I knew what would happen, but the way it was presented and even with just a little build-up showing their lives holy crap that was intense. Same with the part where Katniss is saying goodbye to Cinna right before she enters the arena - I was scared for her. (This might just be me though. Anticipation of a something awful and unavoidable happening is something that really gets to me, so those moments of the kids waiting for the names to be drawn and Katniss about to enter the game she knows might kill her - that sense of "this is happening whether I want it to or not, no matter how terrified I am" hit me hard.)
I loved how they conveyed without actually saying how gruesome it is that the tributes have to pretend to be happy to compete. Overall I liked that they conveyed a lot of things without words, just through the way it was filmed or the way certain things were presented together.
At the Cornucopia when the tributes first enter the arena and half of them are killed right off the bat - such a "shit just got real" scene. Damn.
I haven't read the books and I only knew about the basic fight-to-the-death plot (though I got spoiled for Rue's death, bleh), and I enjoyed seeing it with fresh eyes not knowing what was going to happen. I though about not reading the books so I could have the same experience with the rest of the movies but Catching Fire's not coming out until November 2013, and I can't wait that long to know what happens so looks like I'm reading the book. :D
WOW that was intense. And brutal. I was genuinely scared for those kids during the Reaping even though Primrose being selected and Katniss volunteering is in the trailer so I knew what would happen, but the way it was presented and even with just a little build-up showing their lives holy crap that was intense. Same with the part where Katniss is saying goodbye to Cinna right before she enters the arena - I was scared for her. (This might just be me though. Anticipation of a something awful and unavoidable happening is something that really gets to me, so those moments of the kids waiting for the names to be drawn and Katniss about to enter the game she knows might kill her - that sense of "this is happening whether I want it to or not, no matter how terrified I am" hit me hard.)
I loved how they conveyed without actually saying how gruesome it is that the tributes have to pretend to be happy to compete. Overall I liked that they conveyed a lot of things without words, just through the way it was filmed or the way certain things were presented together.
At the Cornucopia when the tributes first enter the arena and half of them are killed right off the bat - such a "shit just got real" scene. Damn.
I haven't read the books and I only knew about the basic fight-to-the-death plot (though I got spoiled for Rue's death, bleh), and I enjoyed seeing it with fresh eyes not knowing what was going to happen. I though about not reading the books so I could have the same experience with the rest of the movies but Catching Fire's not coming out until November 2013, and I can't wait that long to know what happens so looks like I'm reading the book. :D