Hunger Games movie

[azurelunatic]

Realized that I should probably watch the movie sooner rather than later, so I didn't have to avoid all the entries about it on the internet.

My priorities included making sure that the new MythBusters episode was going to play again later, and that I'd be home in time to see it. Which worked out all right.


It's always interesting to see what trailers get paired with what movies. Avengers got some glee. There was a fascinating Cinderella trailer with what looked like an eminently kickass Cinderella in reasonable armor. Who looked -- and my notorious faceblindness may be coming into play here, but I *swear* -- like Kristen Stewart.

Poor little Prim.

I know that heaps and heaps of stuff got left out, but I felt the result was a lean movie that zipped the fuck along in most places.

My reading of Cinna had been a little more, well, fabulous, and a little less intense, but man, Lenny nailed a really hardcore dude with an amazingly tough job. I'd also read Haymitch a little differently, though him more in terms of physicality -- more out of condition than he was -- but he was also excellent.

BLUE-HAIRED TALK SHOW HOST: I am every genial asshole tv show host you have ever loved to hate, all rolled into one.
AZZ: *I want your hair.*
KATNISS: Reconsidering that staying-alive thing, if it means trying to make nice with this dude.
PEETA: I was born to be on talk shows. Let me smell you.
BLUE-HAIRED HOST: You are weird, yet compelling. Tell me more.
AZZ: I can see your wig, mutt.
PEETA: Sadly, I do not get "all the bitches". My love is pure, yet tragic.
KATNISS: Do you prefer strangulation or stabbing? I'm liking the sound of strangulation today.
HAYMITCH: If you do not play nice for the cameras, the game is the least of your worries. I will kill you myself.

PEETA: You know, I think I'll team up with the Careers.
KATNISS: I hate you so much.
AZZ: You seriously expect me to tell all these short-haired beefy white boys apart while you're doing shaky-cam?

PEETA: I am one with the tree.
KATNISS: Let's roll with that star-crossed lovers schtick, if it's going to get us out alive.
GALE: Not liking this.
DUDE IN THE AUDIENCE: Team Jacob!
PEETA: My crush would be so much less creepy if we had more time to get to know each other properly.

SNOW: My love of harmless gardening enhances my immense creepiness.
CRANE: I am shockingly naive for someone in my position.
SNOW: Fix that.

PEETA AND KATNISS: *win*
CRANE: This isn't going to be a fun meeting.
SNOW: I left you dessert.

GALE: See, your sister's just fine! Can we go back to being best buddies?
PEETA: Still totally devoted here.
KATNISS: We're all fucked.

Comments

[kateshort]

Yes, it's Kristin Stewart, but it's Snow White, not Cinderella.

LOL @ Team Jacob guy in the audience. :D

[ajnabieh]

Thank you for confirming it was KStew. I thought she looked pretty badass in the trailer, which is not something I associate with her.

OK, she also looked pretty badass in the Breaking Dawn trailer. SCARY BELLA FTW.

[azurelunatic]

I recognized the ring, so I knew it was Breaking Dawn before 90% of the rest of the audience.

I ... have not even watched one of the movies.

[azurelunatic]

Aha! I knew there had to be something wrong when I was googling it at 4am but found nothing.

Team Jacob guy ... I sweartogods, it was like all of Daly City's hipsters were there.

[not_a_sniglet]

*Bursts out in a heap of laughter*

I love that summary, Az. Especially the part about strangulation.

-K. E.

[azurelunatic]

After the talk show segment, Katniss pins Peeta against the wall with her arm against his throat, clearly about ready to kill him. It was delightful.

[kareila]

No Avengers trailer for me, but I noticed Thor is in the Snow White movie too.

We got Dark Shadows instead, which looked like a ludicrous desecration of the source material.

I felt like the movie really toned down Haymitch - no falling off the stage at the reaping, no falling down in his own vomit on the train. You see him being kind of smirky and sarcastic with Katniss, but not outright leering. On the other hand, not sure I really wanted to see all that unpleasantness on the big screen. Definitely pleased the movie wasn't a gorefest. Cinna was my favorite too.

[ajnabieh]

See, I thought the Dark Shadows trailer looks...hilarious? In an awful way? Like, either it will be epic or terrible, and maybe epiterrible. I don't know source, though.

We got Avengers AND Dark Shadows AND Snow White, for some reason. Plus some awful bro movies.

[kareila]

What, no Breaking Dawn? That's a surprise.

[kateshort]

The scariest thing was, that one Dudes movie? Yeah... that's based off of What to Expect When You're Expecting. One of the movie posters even shows a woman holding a copy of the book. :|

[mmegaera]

I noticed Thor is in the Snow White movie too.

You don't know me, but this sentence made my brain hurt [g].

[emceeaich]

"I left you desert." CREEPY YET ENTIRELY FITTING DOOM.

[azurelunatic]

ENTIRELY FITTING. One almost feels sorry for him.

[ajnabieh]

I both thought it was a well-done movie, and missed the politics. Blue-Haired Dude was hi-larious. And Gale's angst!face was lolarious.

[azurelunatic]

It's so very hard to get good politics in an angstpacked traumafest. I wonder how it could have been done better.

Gale's angst!face, omg. When I say "Team Jacob!" I mean, literally, this dude somewhere in the middle left above me hollered "TEAM JACOB!" at that moment. No clue on whether his seatmates were the giggles, or the ones strangling him.

[asciident]

We got trailers for neither the Avengers nor Snow White. I think it was Breaking Dawn part 2, Movie: the Movie, Dark Knight Rises... there might have been another one.

With the caveat that I have not read the book: I hated this movie. It was lucky that Brandon and I were alone in the theatre, because I spent most of the 2.5 hours of film complaining about it.

[azurelunatic]

I was wondering how it would work for someone who had not read the books. What were you expecting from it?

[asciident]

Geez, where to start? A plot that wasn't riddled with holes, a more complete or at least less confusing sense of how things got to this point, something resembling human logic and decision making since at no point was I led to believe they aren't human, and maybe a conclusion that actually felt complete (which several other franchises have successfully managed even while simultaneously setting up sequels).

[asciident]

I will say the movie was visually compelling and the action bits were entertaining. I felt Rue was the best part of the movie, but she was a mostly-irrelevant supporting character.