Comments | aprilvalentine: I need to watch again...

aprilvalentine

I need to watch again...

Mar 20, 2012 12:05

and pay more attention this time. I did watch last night's ep and totally enjoyed the surfing scene and the following scene with Mary and the coffee etc. "so you guys are surfing buddies now?" and both of the guys wet. And the Ed Asner scenes. But I didn't pay close enough attention to write a review because... (and this makes me feel kind of silly ( Read more... )

hunger games, reading, h50

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aprilvalentine March 20 2012, 17:48:03 UTC

I can see why!

My daughter-in-law loves the books, but my son says he hasn't been able to get into them. Must be a guy thing.

vamysteryfan March 20 2012, 20:36:26 UTC

I liked them. The first book annoyed me a bit because one of the most important events too place "off-stage" as it were (the big group fight). I was worried it would be like the Twilight books and all we'd see would be Kat angsting while other people did the important stuff. There is some element of that in the other two but not as bad as I was drading.

I loved the way she looks at media manipulation, what people will do to survive, the graphic descriptions of the haves and the have-nots. It's actually socially challenging.

aprilvalentine March 20 2012, 20:45:18 UTC

I'm thinking they may show more of that in the movie, since some of the pics I've seen seem to show more of several characters than in the book. Since the book is totally first person present tense from Katniss' pov, we are a bit restricted in what we get to see and understand.

One review I read complained that the first book didn't explore the social issues, but just showed her "wanting to win" -- but that's not how I saw it at all. It does explore those things, about kids being forced to combat to the death, to the poverty and media manipulation. She wants to win because she would like to surviv and ultimately help her family. I think that reviewer missed something when reading.

catcrazy5 March 21 2012, 01:27:42 UTC

I read all three via audiobook a few months ago. [I haven't read a print book in ages. The only print I read is fanfic on my computer or PDA.] I remember wondering how they were going to adapt it for the movie with all the violence in the books, knowing the rating couldn't be too high considering the demographic the movie would be wanting.

aprilvalentine March 22 2012, 03:03:35 UTC

What I've read about the film is that there is violence in it of course, but it's not for younger kids, certainly. I mean, just the premise is enough: teenagers fighting to the death, even if you don't show a lot of gore, that's not Disney stuff.

provencepuss March 21 2012, 19:54:52 UTC

haven't and don't want to...(or Twilight for that matter!)

...but which series are you talking about with Ed Asner in it?

aprilvalentine March 22 2012, 03:00:16 UTC

Oh, that's Hawaii Five-0 (points at icon) which is on Monday nights. It's got great relationship stuff in it and this week, Ed Asner played the same character he played in the original series, which was really cool ( ... )