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Post by Gilberto on Sept 23, 2012 14:23:07 GMT -5
Sean, Greg and Gary talk about the ALIENS franchise, plus a little talk about The Expendables 2 and this year's DragonCon. Episode 162 |
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Post by lynn on Sept 23, 2012 21:42:50 GMT -5
I totally agree with you Greg, Hunger Games was a steaming pile. I watched it this weekend, or rather tried to... it was like, an hour into it before they started killing each other! I was so bored. Then they started killing each other and I was still bored, and I realised it was because I had zero interest in any of the characters. In fact there were several I was kinda hoping would die, but not enough to keep watching the movie. My sister has been telling me to read the books since before the movie, which I haven't done. I'll read the books and see if they're better, maybe it's more interesting when you get more from the protagonist than just long looks of... blankness. Maybe there's something going on inside her head that we needed to share to make her interesting. Maybe she was just thinking about bread all the time, like in all those flashbacks. Hey, that's the nice boy who threw some bread in the mud near me when I looked sad that one time. Instead of giving it to the pigs. How nice is he? So nice I'm going to just about punch him when he tells everyone he always loved me. Nice. Maybe she was still thinking about the bread. Maybe it was all the stupid costumes getting to her. We need to show how rich and opulent the capital city is compared to the dreary place she grew up, make everyone look like they came from a child's drawing of Marie Antoinette. The Sophia Coppola version. Wait, bad make-up? These people must be rich as hell! How dare they not give that bad make-up to the poor people? Instead of making them fight on MTV? WHYYYYYY?  ? |
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 24, 2012 17:03:18 GMT -5
I'm the only who didn't hate Hunger Games? I went in with a low expectation, but I was actually impressed with the direction. I thought they set the mood and built suspense pretty well, and it was an interesting satire of our reality TV culture.
There's a Japanese movie called Battle Royale about school kids forced to battle to the death. It was made in 2000 and comes from a 1996 book, so the movie and book predate Hunger Games. It sounds like it would be more up your alley, Lynn. It was banned for a while for being too intense.
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