So I saw The Hunger Games

[cleolinda]

Numbered thoughts are organized thoughts!

Comments

[spectralbovine]

I BASICALLY AGREE WITH EVERY WORD IN THIS POST.

Seriously, you nailed everything I loved about the movie. Everything.

[geminai5]

THIS TIMES A MILLION. *nods*

[cleolinda]

Well, I realized later that I never said anything about Elizabeth Banks because I had just started thinking of her Effie Trinket as a real person.

[diddakoi]

I could not believe how much she disappeared into that role. It was pretty amazing. "That's MAHOGANY!"

[maxineofarc]

I was surprised by how well the kid playing Peeta sold it, for me. I was never a big fan of his in the books, but now I'm kind of on his side.

Initially I was like "wtf movie, now you're asking me to feel SORRY for CATO? lolno" but later when I had a chance to think about it a little more, Cato and the other Careers are just as much victims of the system as the others; they just don't realize it.

RUE. ALL THE TEARS. The casting was very good in general, but they could NOT have found a better Rue. I'm tearing up just thinking about it!

[aerrin]

I have found this shortish fic really amazingly effective at presenting a side of the Careers I'd never considered. Especially what it must have been like for Cato and Clove when that announcement came down.

[geminai5]

THIS TOO!

[sea_of_tethys]

Yes, totally. The careers act like prats, but they're just doing what they've been trained to do. They're still basically child soldiers.

[cleolinda]

Well, turns out that Suzanne Collins wrote for TV before she got into publishing.

[supersyncspaz7]

I just found out a few weeks ago that she used to write for Clarissa Explains it All, which was one of my favorite TV shows when I was a little kid. It's mind-blowing (and awesome, really) to know that the same woman who wrote for this show about this quirky girl who had a pet alligator wrote The Hunger Games.

[purple_smurf]

Yes, THIS. I mean, there are parts that I wish weren't left out, but I'm struggling to tell family members whether they should see the film or read the book, because I worry that after seeing the film they'll be asking were xyz were in the book. Also, the locked room was a fantastic alteration.

[geminai5]

Poetic really, what happened to Seneca.

[cleolinda]

It was so THEM, wasn't it?

[geminai5]

Indeed. Has Snow's fingerprints all over it. Surprised there wasn't a white rose next to the berries.

[purelush]

Josh Hutcherson was the biggest surprise for me. I wasn't expecting him to suck, I just didn't expect him to be so good.

The first time we saw him, I almost clapped because he looked so sickly and unattractive and like he was going to pass out or puke. And then we watched him get stronger and stronger until he's this injured, dirty, noble sexy guy in a cave and Katniss is all "yeah, I could do this."

[geminai5]

^_^ This exactly.

[jenncatt]

Omg, this, absolutely. It was that that hairstyle was so deeply unflattering, I literally couldn't understand how he had been cast. And *then* we got the first bit of the flashback and he starts looking like someone who could be Peeta and it all starts to click. And emotional manipulation through hairstyling is so very Hunger Games, of course ;-)