The Hunger Games

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This is what passes for fun entertainment nowadays. Not satisfied with portraying adults killing adults, we now entertain ourselves watching kids kill? We truly are the culture of death. I guess this is the logical path for a society that allows the murder of over 50 million children in the womb.
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The whole series is about how horrible it is that their world is that way, so they rebel and try to change things.
 
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CEM5:
I would love to see this movie, but would it be recommended for one to read the book first? I usually prefer reading the book(s) then watching the movie(s).
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Baelor:
I would advise against seeing the movie if you have not read the book, because it would be a bit hard to follow (IMO) if I did not already know what was going on. Furthermore, even if you can understand everything that is happening, you still would not really understand it because the book is much more fleshed-out and, most critically, narrated in the first person, something that is inherently lost in film without ‘thought’ voiceovers.

tl;dr: Movie was very good; read the book first for sure.
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beehumble said:
This is what passes for fun entertainment nowadays. Not satisfied with portraying adults killing adults, we now entertain ourselves watching kids kill? We truly are the culture of death. I guess this is the logical path for a society that allows the murder of over 50 million children in the womb.

May God help us.
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I assume you have not read the books, seen the movie, or are familiar with even the most basic elements of the plots and themes of either?

This is what happens when people speak on those topics about which they know nothing.
 
Baelor said:
I assume you have not read the books, seen the movie, or are familiar with even the most basic elements of the plots and themes of either?

This is what happens when people speak on those topics about which they know nothing.
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Oh no, is this going to be the next Harry Potter thread - monopolized by people who have never read the book or seen the film? I think it’s quite clear from the movie that the kids DON’T like the “game” they’re put into, so much so that the winner was not who I thought it would be. (I phrased that the best I can without getting into SPOILER territory.) And I’m curious to see how the story continues.
 
havana1 said:
I think it’s quite clear from the movie that the kids DON’T like the “game” they’re put into, so much so that the winner was not who I thought it would be.
(I phrased that the best I can without getting into SPOILER territory.) And I’m curious to see how the story continues.
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Having seen the movie, and having read the World News section here at CAF … here’s the lens I watched the movie from:

A president in the nation’s capitol is imposing a mandate straight out of the culture of death on freedom-loving citizens. There is no way to get around the mandate simply by saying it goes against your conscience, and the mandate is backed up by law enforcement. What would you do if you personally were thrust into an arena where all eyes were on you and you were faced with decisions regarding how to handle this situation? Do you comply with the system and look out for “number one/me, myself and I” hoping somehow you can exist that way? Or do you buck the system by doing your best to help those who are similarly oppressed, even if it means personal risk to yourself?

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The government has decided that the people in the Districts are somehow not as important. They starve so others can gorge vomit and gorge some more. I might not be able to say this movie is pro-life but at least it is “anti-death culture”.
 
Haven’t seen the movie, but I did read a self-proclaimed feminist’s review who said Katniss is a feminist character, although she insisted it wasn’t because she shoots arrows and beats up boys. Does this movie have a feminist undertone of some kind? If you Google “katniss feminist” it auto-completes and there’s lots on it.
 
empther said:
That was the discussion topic scheduled for our last local Nerds’s Club meeting,
but nobody showed up.
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Maybe if there is a recurring monthly fee to access the club online, we’d all log in and spend some time together. Especially if we get experience points for each meeting.
 
I haven’t seen the movie or read the books, but knowing the premise I do think the story raises some interesting philisophical questions.

What would be the most “moral” or “right” thing to do if one were to be put in that situation having to fight others for their own survival.

I’m not sure what I would do given that I’m not the most athletically inclined person or all that skilled with any medevial type weapons. I wonder if just a refusal to fight hoping to inspire others to rebel against the capital might be a more moral way to face the situation. Being a conscientious objector basically. I don’t know though, it brings up a lot of interesting possible scenarios having not heard the story yet. What do you think you would do?

I may try to read the first book before seeing the movie.
 
Of course. They will involve visiting every board on CAF at least twice. Also stuff like having to pass a nerdly persuasion check to convince some diehard from the non-Catholic religions board to go to the water cooler and say something frivolous.
 
I really hope the name Katniss doesn’t become popular now.

Imho, it is not pleasant on the ears at all.
 
FromTheAshes777 said:
I haven’t seen the movie or read the books, but knowing the premise I do think the story raises some interesting philisophical questions.

What would be the most “moral” or “right” thing to do if one were to be put in that situation having to fight others for their own survival.

I’m not sure what I would do given that I’m not the most athletically inclined person or all that skilled with any medevial type weapons. I wonder if just a refusal to fight hoping to inspire others to rebel against the capital might be a more moral way to face the situation. Being a conscientious objector basically. I don’t know though, it brings up a lot of interesting possible scenarios having not heard the story yet. What do you think you would do?

I may try to read the first book before seeing the movie.
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I think that if you refused to fight you might just get slaughtered in the beginning. Of course some just ran at first. Some enjoyed the killing, others only killed when directly being attacked.
I would say more about rebelling but I don’t want to give away any thing. But the power was vastly one sided. I think that if they had gotten 24 tributes willing to stand and refuse that they would have made a big show of killing them painfully and slowly.
 
I really hope the name Katniss doesn’t become popular now.
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Imho, it is not pleasant on the ears at all.
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I read somewhere that it was the 61st most common girl’s name for 2011. Primrose was up there too. Gale and Peeta were pretty common for boys. Bleck.
 
I’m reading the book out loud to my boys right now- and funnily enough, my husband happened to overhear me reading one of the chapters and now insists upon being there himself when I read it to them. I can’t remember when thats EVER happened! :eek:
We all plan on seeing it in the movie theater when we are done.
 
I just ordered a Battle Royale Blu-ray combo. Can’t wait to watch it. It just sucks to see so much popularity and attention go to Hunger Games. BR is a cult classic, so seeing the main plot/idea being used in Hunger Games just really pi$$es me off… America always bites off of Asian ideas and gets credit for it. I guess the American remake deserves some credit for “making it it’s own” and gaining American popularity.

The author of Hunger Games to claim she had never heard of Battle Royal is just a flat-out lie.
 
MugenOne said:
I just ordered a Battle Royale Blu-ray combo. Can’t wait to watch it. It just sucks to see so much popularity and attention go to Hunger Games. BR is a cult classic, so seeing the main plot/idea being used in Hunger Games just really pi$$es me off… America always bites off of Asian ideas and gets credit for it. I guess the American remake deserves some credit for “making it it’s own” and gaining American popularity.

The author of Hunger Games to claim she had never heard of Battle Royal is just a flat-out lie.
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OR . . . .

Maybe she just knows the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, where Crete forced Athens to send seven male and seven female “tributes” to fight the Minotaur (some legends say every year; others say every nine years), and Theseus volunteered to take the place of one of the tributes, killed the Minotaur, and rescued the remaining tributes.

There’s even a love triangle, with Theseus – the star of the story – being the object of love of both Ariadne and Phaedra, kind of like Katniss – the star of the story – being the object of love of both Peeta and Gale.
 
MugenOne said:
I just ordered a Battle Royale Blu-ray combo. Can’t wait to watch it. It just sucks to see so much popularity and attention go to Hunger Games. BR is a cult classic, so seeing the main plot/idea being used in Hunger Games just really pi$$es me off… America always bites off of Asian ideas and gets credit for it. I guess the American remake deserves some credit for “making it it’s own” and gaining American popularity.

The author of Hunger Games to claim she had never heard of Battle Royal is just a flat-out lie.
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I could believe she’s never heard of it. I haven’t either.
 
Godfollower said:
OR . . . .

Maybe she just knows the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, where Crete forced Athens to send seven male and seven female “tributes” to fight the Minotaur (some legends say every year; others say every nine years), and Theseus volunteered to take the place of one of the tributes, killed the Minotaur, and rescued the remaining tributes.

There’s even a love triangle, with Theseus – the star of the story – being the object of love of both Ariadne and Phaedra, kind of like Katniss – the star of the story – being the object of love of both Peeta and Gale.
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Actually your spot on. I read the other day that Theseus and the Minotaur was the inspiration for The Hunger Games.
 
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