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Baitball Blogger

(46,753 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 01:31 PM Mar 2012

Hunger Games: Major Spoiler Alert!

The reviews are in from the prescreenings. Here is one from a source that usually leaves nothing to the imagination and has her own, er, spicy language. Now this is her take so don't read further if you don't want to read what this critic found wrong or right with the movie.

From Lainey Gossip:
There’s a lot they get right in The Hunger Games. Most of it is right. Almost all of it is right. One important element however is not right at all.

Let’s start with the great parts, ok?

The “world” they’ve created, or recreated, or imagined from Suzanne Collins’s story is perfect. District 12 is perfect. The house Katniss shares with her mother and Prim is exactly how I imagined it. I know you’ve seen the trailers of the scenes from the Reaping but when you watch it in full scale, it’s profoundly disturbing, awesome in its attention to detail, and further complements the terrible events that unfold there.

Then there’s the Capitol. I won’t say more about the Capitol and what happens in the Capitol because I think you should enjoy it for yourself. I promise you’ll enjoy it. I promise your eyes will explode. I promise you’ll enjoy Cesar Flickerman SO MUCH and you will grow a boner for Wes Bentley’s Seneca Crane. Welcome back. And welcome to the Five List. (It’s currently broken. You can sh-t on Jacek for that.)


http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/23015/The-Hunger-Games-movie-review

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Hunger Games: Major Spoiler Alert! (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 OP
Bloomberg is just announcing that Hunger Games will be the biggest picture this year siligut Mar 2012 #1
I'm already working to turn my body clock forward so I can make the drive home after the movie. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #2

siligut

(12,272 posts)
1. Bloomberg is just announcing that Hunger Games will be the biggest picture this year
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 01:41 PM
Mar 2012

Midnight shows are sold-out all over the country. Thank you for keeping us up on the movie. I take it you are really looking forward to it?

Baitball Blogger

(46,753 posts)
2. I'm already working to turn my body clock forward so I can make the drive home after the movie.
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 01:51 PM
Mar 2012

I came across this Huffington Post review which I thought was bland until the last line or so:

"it's more than a love triangle or an adventure film. It's a cautionary tale. We figuratively sacrifice the children of others in order to lead the lives of comfort we lead."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-block/the-hunger-games-movie-review_b_1367614.html

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