[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Think he typed Locke instead of Novo

yeah we all know he's the leader

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

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

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.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

yeah we all know he's the leader

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

[Novo]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

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

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

Youtube video

[CharlieO]

It is basically this

[Tom4784]

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

[Shaun]

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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

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

[Brother Leon]

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

[Smithy]

I imagined rue as corn chip girl from recess, ngl

[Shaun]

remember that time THG hospitalised a woman

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

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

Spoiler:

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

[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]

Originally Posted by Shaun

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

Spot on.

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

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

[SharkAttack]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Don't compare Twilight and The Hunger Games Ew.

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?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by SharkAttack

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?

Well I'm 33 so there you go 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/...e-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.

Spoiler:

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?

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

[Smithy]

I am not reading all that

[Kizzy]

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

[Smithy]

no