What the bloody hell is all this Hunger Games nonsense

[InOne]

Why do you not stop talking about it?

Why do you all have it in your sigs and avatars?

Why are they making a film of it?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://geektyrant.com/storage/post-images-2011/hungergamesnewphotos1.jpeg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERS ION=1312817680960

[Doogle]

It's an amazing book, people seem to hate it purely because it's becoming a big thing on the forum.

[Niall]

Why do you not stop talking about it?

Why do you all have it in your sigs and avatars?

Why are they making a film of it?

Because its amazing.

Because its amazing.

Because its amazing.

Now watch the trailer

OgssLmsOa2s

[Black Dagger]

Because it's fantabulous for all three questions.

[Jordan.]

Never heard of it

[Shaun]

Because I enjoy the books, I don't (but those that do are certainly not the first "irritating" TiBB meme), and because Hollywood and Suzanne Collins have an artistic vision/want some cash.

[Smithy]

Coz it's uhmazin

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Effie-Trinket-2.jpg?cb5e28

what will joe be wearing to the opening ceremonies

[Shaun]

I find the fact they brought out HG nail varnishes a little bit silly, though... considering how much the book ridicules the pursuit of fashion and glamour.

[Niall]

Those varnishes aren't real are they :suspect:

I thought they were just a part of the faux websites lionsgate has set up :suspect:

[Smithy]

same niall

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

they arent real :joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i would buy cinnas eyeliner though ngl

[Niall]

i would buy cinnas eyeliner though ngl

:laugh:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

did you see the promo poster things they released they are amazing :amazed:

[Niall]

Yeah. Have you guys seen the capitolcoture blog on Tumblr? :lovedup:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

why cant i find those posters anymore the ones with cinna, seneca and the blue haired guy i cant remember his name

and why arent they in gif format somebody help

[nicole_burks]

what have you started joe.

[Niall]

why cant i find those posters anymore the ones with cinna, seneca and the blue haired guy i cant remember his name

and why arent they in gif format somebody help

Caesar Fickerman is his name

[Smithy]

they're on DS scott, just search hunger games

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

cant find them :hmph:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

oh i was searching the forum instead of the site OOPS

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

somebody needs to gif them somehow

[Lee.]

Ate Catching Fire and Mockingjay being made into a film too?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

yes they ate lee

[Locke.]

All plans for the sequels will be cancelled after the first movie is a massive flop :idc:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

roy has already been converted you soon will be too

[Smithy]

David you only dislike it coz we like it :nono: If you read it i bet a £10 you'd like it :nono:

[Locke.]

Roy is only buying the book because he has ran out of toilet roll

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

he is on page 9 i will have you know :hmph:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

David you only dislike it coz we like it :nono:

this :bored:

[Niall]

David you only dislike it coz we like it :nono: If you read it i bet a £10 you'd like it :nono:

.

[Smithy]

We should like football/liverpool just to spite him :hmph:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i like footballers anyway

[Niall]

i like footballers anyway

Not for the gay reasons Scott :nono: liking them in the other way :nono:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

then no

[Doogle]

We should like football just to spite him :hmph:

i like footballers anyway

:joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

lets like something else he likes

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

sirens :amazed:

i liked that anyway tho el oh el

[Locke.]

Yes you can all like Sirens

[Smithy]

that pedo from lost

[Niall]

Game of Thrones is that ****ty thing he likes

Lets like that

[Smithy]

I liked sirens till scott fancied the dead guy, i stopped watching it after then

[SharkAttack]

Why do you not stop talking about it?

Why do you all have it in your sigs and avatars?

Why are they making a film of it?

Because Twilight is no longer and something new is going on. :joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

what dead guy :nono:

the one that hung himself in the shower?

he was hot kmt :hmph:

[Doogle]

Twilight never really happened, only little girls, fat girls and Niall liked it.

[Smithy]

what dead guy :nono:

the one that hung himself in the shower?

he was hot kmt :hmph:

he had rotting skin

[Niamh.]

Because Twilight is no longer and something new is going on. :joker:

Don't compare Twilight and The Hunger Games Ew. :nono:

[Locke.]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9072914/Is-The-Hunger-Games-the-new-Twilight.html

[Niamh.]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9072914/Is-The-Hunger-Games-the-new-Twilight.html

The answer is no :idc:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

no :nono:

[Smithy]

The most striking common factor between the Twilight franchise and The Hunger Games films is their provenance: both are adapted from hugely successful books by American women authors for the young adult market.

But while Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books are romances involving characters who happen to be vampires, The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins is far closer to science fiction. It’s set in the near future, with the USA, depleted by drought, famine and war

so no

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Each of these 12 districts must annually offer up a young man and a young woman, aged 12 to 18, who will be trained in the art of survival and thrown into an arena, to fight quite literally to the death, all in front of a live TV audience for whom watching is made compulsory. This event is known as The Hunger Games – think of it as reality TV, taken to a shocking, bloodthirsty extreme.

nothing like that silly twilight

[Black Dagger]

i like footballers anyway

Not for sexual reasons, Scott :tongue:

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Jasmine Weasley
02/16/2012 11:53 AM
I am sick and tired of you people comparing the Hunger Games to that THING! Really???All you see is the pretty faces and the love triangle??? Are you people THAT superficial??? If anything the love triangle is the LAST thing ANYBODY should be interested in when it comes to the Hunger Games!! It's a story about survival and the beginning of a revolution that can change the world and yet all you see is the barely existing love triangle, really I feel sorry for you!!! If you want you integrity to stay intact I would stop comparing anything to Twilight, you have to realize you insult us!


well said jasmine honey

[Black Dagger]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9072914/Is-The-Hunger-Games-the-new-Twilight.html

Silly news article is silly, trying to compare two completely different things, Hunger Games has Tracker Jackers, not sparkling fairies.

[Niall]

The Hunger Games is nothing like Twilight. :joker:

Twilight is romance, the Hunger Games is action/sci-fi. :joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i cant wait to see the tracker jackers in the movie :amazed:

[Vicky.]

yes they ate lee

:o

[Niall]

i cant wait to see the tracker jackers in the movie :amazed:

I'm gonna be so scared when that happens. i have such a bad phobia of wasps omg I can't. D;

[InOne]

Well I'm still a bit confused :nono:


Is there death, blood and despair?

[Niamh.]

Well I'm still a bit confused :nono:


Is there death, blood and despair?

bucket loads :hugesmile:

[Shaun]

The only comparison to Twilight is the success it's had :shrug:

The only thing I could feasibly compare it to is Battle Royale...

[Ammi]

bucket loads :hugesmile:

Tbh it is taking some getting used to Niamh......you're just so pretty without all that sh*t on your face....you just don't need it

[Niamh.]

Tbh it is taking some getting used to Niamh......you're just so pretty without all that sh*t on your face....you just don't need it

:laugh:

[Niall]

Well I'm still a bit confused :nono:


Is there death, blood and despair?

Yes. Truckloads of it.

[Smithy]

The only comparison to Twilight is the success it's had :shrug:

The only thing I could feasibly compare it to is Battle Royale...

the love triangle too, but thats a really small part of the story

[InOne]

bucket loads :hugesmile:

Is it teeny and about tragically misunderstood teens though? :suspect: Can't be doing with angst.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

no its kids beating eachother to death with rocks and such just buy it kmt

[Niamh.]

Is it teeny and about tragically misunderstood teens though? :suspect: Can't be doing with angst.

No, it really isn't. It's nothing like Twilight.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

imagine reading this though if you were like really clinically depressed

i think it would tip you over the edge :joker:

[InOne]

How many pages will it take me to get hooked?

And how much does it cost?

[Niamh.]

Is it teeny and about tragically misunderstood teens though? :suspect: Can't be doing with angst.

The last thing I want to be reading is teeny angst ****e, let alone 3 books of it :joker:

[Shaun]

the love triangle too, but thats a really small part of the story

Hmm I suppose, but Katniss (the lead character, for everyone else's benefit :p) doesn't really grasp the idea of love or romance, and there's a hell of a lot less angst in this.

It's more political, really.

[Smithy]

How many pages will it take me to get hooked?

And how much does it cost?

like £4 for the first book and a chapter or two

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

well theres a twist at the end of the very first chapter that got me hooked

idk if you can call it a twist but i wasnt expecting it anyway

and you can get them 2 for £7 at asda :amazed: probably cheaper online

[Niamh.]

How many pages will it take me to get hooked?

And how much does it cost?

It won't take you long to get hooked

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+hunger+games&x=0&y=0

[Niamh.]

well theres a twist at the end of the very first chapter that got me hooked

idk if you can call it a twist but i wasnt expecting it anyway

and you can get them 2 for £7 at asda :amazed: probably cheaper online

What was that? Haven't read them since the summer

[InOne]

I shall consider it :idc:

[Niall]

Just buy them :nono:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

its sf depressing though get the Kleenex ready :sad:

[Doogle]

What was that? Haven't read them since the summer

I started yesterday and can't remember

[Novo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Khushrenada13/*****plz.jpg

[Shaun]

the twist at the end of the first chapter is pretty much spoiled if you've seen the trailer :laugh:

[Niamh.]

the twist at the end of the first chapter is pretty much spoiled if you've seen the trailer :laugh:

Oh, That Prim is picked?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

yeah prim getting picked did nobody else see that as a twist D:

idk what i was expecting but i wasnt expecting that

[Doogle]

Was that only chapter 1?

Yes I wasn't expecting it, I thought she was only going on about Prim loads because she cared so much about her, it didn't trigger in my mind that she could potentially be picked. I just assumed it quite obviously wouldn't be her. I blame "May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor"

[Smithy]

I saw the trailer before I read the film, so no that wasn't a twist

[Niamh.]

yeah prim getting picked did nobody else see that as a twist D:

idk what i was expecting but i wasnt expecting that

Don't they say that happens at the back of the book, I'm sure I knew that already, must have read it somewhere before I started reading the book

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

oh yeah it does say that on the back :joker:

i must have completely forgot about it coz at the end of the first chapter i was like :eek:

[Doogle]

I didn't read the back, you guys were my blurb for the book basically

[CharlieO]

IT IS A COPY OF SPY KIDS 3(d)

[Novo]

IT IS A COPY OF SPY KIDS 3(d)

:joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker:

[Tom4784]

Ironically I think Locke and that lot would eat it up if they gave it a chance, it's as far removed from Twilight as you can get really.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Ironically I think Locke and that lot would eat it up if they gave it a chance, it's as far removed from Twilight as you can get really.

:worship:

[Novo]

Ironically I think Locke and that lot would eat it up if they gave it a chance, it's as far removed from Twilight as you can get really.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llavvrkvLE1qbu7b1o1_500.gif

By that lot i hope you mean King_Anton, Samuel and Roy_Mars

[Jessica.]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llavvrkvLE1qbu7b1o1_500.gif

By that lot i hope you mean King_Anton, Samuel and Roy_Mars

:nono: You haven't even heard about the cool weapons!

[Locke.]

Think he typed Locke instead of Novo

[Smithy]

/bow and arrow

[Smithy]

Think he typed Locke instead of Novo

yeah we all know he's the leader :idc:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/embedded/1000x600/40fb28b5212aee8613407ef51d39a68694558157.jpg

myself and cinna having an intimate moment

[Tom4784]

Yes, if you weren't all such mini-me's of each other I'd bother to remember all your names :hmph:

But yeah, as a man of impeccable taste I'd endorse it. If you like Battle Royale you'll like THG and I'm saying that as someone who considers BR to be one of my favourite films.

[Doogle]

I didn't imagine him black

[Tom4784]

I think it said he was in the books.

[Locke.]

yeah we all know he's the leader :idc:

He couldn't even lead himself to the corner shop, bobnot is our leader

[Doogle]

Oh did it? /mess

I read it around my friend who kept distracting me, might be why I missed it. I recall him having brown hair and that was it :conf2:

[Novo]

Yes, if you weren't all such mini-me's of each other I'd bother to remember all your names :hmph:

But yeah, as a man of impeccable taste I'd endorse it. If you like Battle Royale you'll like THG and I'm saying that as someone who considers BR to be one of my favourite films.

and If you keep lipping off like that and your actually going to get the Skull crushing finale Dezzy

53Fmom_5NIM

[CharlieO]

It is basically this

http://i39.tinypic.com/125ops8.jpg

[Tom4784]

http://cleandallaswrestling.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/zackrydersuperstarspreviewwwe1.jpg?w=500

I've already got you on the verge of tapping out :hmph:

[Shaun]

loads of people seemed to be surprised by the fact that Cinna, Rue and Thresh were black... it was pretty obvious I thought :conf2: I think Dylan you're just a massive racist.

[Niamh.]

loads of people seemed to be surprised by the fact that Cinna, Rue and Thresh were black... it was pretty obvious I thought :conf2: I think Dylan you're just a massive racist.

:laugh2:

[Brother Leon]

Chris Brown>>>>>>>>>>>>>THG

[Smithy]

I imagined rue as corn chip girl from recess, ngl :idc:

[Shaun]

remember that time THG hospitalised a woman

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

did anybody else think that [THG/CATCHING FIRE SPOILER YALL]

it was a bit odd how rue and thresh were the only black ones and came from the plantation-like district where they got whipped and stuff D:

[Smithy]

not when i read the books, but when i realised they were black then yes i did

[Shaun]

-technically 'The Hunger Games' killed about 1800 children but still-

[Doogle]

loads of people seemed to be surprised by the fact that Cinna, Rue and Thresh were black... it was pretty obvious I thought :conf2: I think Dylan you're just a massive racist.

:laugh2: Spot on. :tongue:

I must've not paid attention properly to his description. D:

I know Rue and Thresh are black now, for whenever they're introduced.

[SharkAttack]

Don't compare Twilight and The Hunger Games Ew. :nono:

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put them up in comparison in any other way than as a mere social/media phenom. My better half, who is in her mid-30's, very much enjoyed the books and is also looking forward to the films. One of my fav books is The Long Walk by Stephen King. That and Battle Royale have inspired a nice new genre of kids vs. government. How can it *not* be good? :joker:

[Niamh.]

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put them up in comparison in any other way than as a mere social/media phenom. My better half, who is in her mid-30's, very much enjoyed the books and is also looking forward to the films. One of my fav books is The Long Walk by Stephen King. That and Battle Royale have inspired a nice new genre of kids vs. government. How can it *not* be good? :joker:

Well I'm 33 so there you go :joker: You should give them a read, I promise they're nothing like Twilight!

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/10/18/the-hunger-games-versus-the-ratings-game-how-will-the-movie-get-a-pg-13/

Books are one of the last unrated media. It’s probably that old maxim, “Well, at least they’re reading,” that has kept the Tipper Gores and the Joe Liebermans of the world from slapping a parental warning on the cover of YA novels (“Warning: Graphic paragraphs ahead”). But once these books are turned into movies, all such bets are off. The MPAA gets to rub their hands together, purr “Exceeellent,” and slap on a rating that may or may not be complete nonsense.
The Hunger Games poses a particularly interesting problem. The book is designed for readers 13-and-up, the same group covered by a PG-13 rating, but this is no Harry Potter. As dark as the later books and films in J.K. Rowling’s series got, and as malicious and evil as Voldemort was, they in no way match the violence and horror of 24 individuals battling to the death as televised bloodsport. Arrows through the throat, spears in the side, faces chewed off by wolves. Add to that the fact that it’s children, as young as 12, on the receiving and giving ends of these attacks, and you can begin to understand how there will probably be some issues translating this story from the page to the screen. It’s important to note that all this killing serves a very distinct purpose in the books. The Hunger Games is a war novel, and Collins means it to reflect the horror and destruction that accompanies human conflict. No deaths are portrayed glibly, not even those of the villains. But it may be too much to ask the organization that cites “slime,” “quirky situations,” and “intense depiction of very bad weather” as reasons for giving a movie a harsher rating to recognize that distinction. So how will The Hunger Games movie pull off a PG-13?
I imagine it will end up being a tightrope-walk. There’s no way the studio is going to let it get stamped with a scarlet “R,” as that would shut out huge swaths of its target audience, not to mention frustrate millions of fans of the books who will be required to drag along their parents in order to see the film. So violence that was front-and-center in the book will probably happen a little off to the side. When someone gets hit by an arrow, you’ll hear the thunk, but the camera will hold steady on the face of the victim. In short: There will be blood, but not too much. Even with these tricks, though, there’s still the possibility that the bare premise alone of kid-versus-kid violence will prove too potent for the Hays Code-lite folks at the MPAA. The only thing that’s clear is that the filmmakers have a pretty daunting task ahead of them. Rue’s death a visually and emotionally difficult scene, will be the real test: Will they be able to make it as much of a punch to the solar plexus as it needs to be? We can only hope so.
What do you think? Can The Hunger Games be turned into a PG-13 movie without losing its power? Would you rather an R-rating if it meant the movie was more faithful to the book?

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BUT DONT READ THE SPOILER IF YOU HAVENT READ THE FIRST BOOK AH/

[Smithy]

I am not reading all that :idc:

[Kizzy]

At 15 is my lad too young for the books/film?

[Smithy]

no

[Niamh.]

At 15 is my lad too young for the books/film?

No, there a 13 and up rating on them

[Scotty07]

:idc:

[Bollo]

One of my fav books is The Long Walk by Stephen King. That and Battle Royale have inspired a nice new genre of kids vs. government. How can it *not* be good? :joker:

I love The Long Walk too, an amazing story