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Entertainment Weekly just did a cover story on the movie two weeks ago. According to the writer of the article who was shown an advanced copy of the movie by the director Gary Ross:

"But if the footage Ross just shared represents the tone of the entire film, rest assured the movie will be every bit as raw and harrowing as the reading experience. The scene doesn't rely on splatter and gore but instead focuses on the frantic and vulnerable expressions of the kids in a desperate state of fight or flight, none more moving than Lawrence's primal crouch as she prepares to sprint for the cover of woods."

"Ross, who co-wrote the scripts, says, 'Is it violent? Yes. Do we back off from what it is? No, we don't. But i'm not interested in violence for violence's sake.'"

The article also states that the love triangle is not a big focus in the movie.

The Twilight aspect for me is the Peeta/boy Katniss hunted with/Katniss triangle. Did you read the post I quoted?

Not to change the subject, but I think it's crazy that a movie that shows young kids killing one another and hunting each other down gets a pg13 and the bully movie just got an R solely for language. The mpaa has some interesting perspective on things.

I'm not sure Gavin Hood is the best director for a movie like this. I hope it's not special effects heavy... but it probably will be.

Lol, that reminded me of how in the book locke and valentine basically take over the world by posting on messageboards....

Nuts to that!

Olympics but with kids killing each other.

Looks stupid like all the other fantasy vampire garbage that's out there.

And doesn't have pasty vampires or constipated female leads.

Read only the first book (and about 10% of the second one). Writing was definitely made for the Young Adult/Teen Fiction audience. I was not a big fan of how choppy. The. Writing. Was. It. Got. Annoying. Plot was okay overall, though I'm not really the one to judge what is "decent" or not, especially since we divide literature (real books) and popular fiction. I only read the first Harry Potter book, and about a page of Twilight, so I'd probably rank them as follows: Potter>Hunger Games>Twilight. Someone said it's basically Brave New World + The Dangerous Game + Teen Fiction. I guess. It also kind of reminded me of Battle Royale for some reason. Out of the trailers, it seems the film will be better than any Twilight film, though I'm afraid that they'll up the teen romance for obvious reasons.

Edit: Yeah, Battle Royale is more than just a "reminder." Also, it seems they really upped the romance (no surprise).

Brady Hoke, Rick Majerus, Charlie Weis and Mark Mangino are put in a room with a single turkey leg. Let the carnage begin.

It seems to just be really easily digestible, dystopian future, sci-fi. I've been curious about it because it sounds like something i would be into but i realized that almost every single person I know that is into it is a girl. I am not sure why.

This. When the people trying to convince me to read the book/see the movie, and that it's not for girls but for lots of people are my mom and two sisters, I'm skipping it.

Me too. I've only read the first one, and it certainly isn't a model for "good writing." I guess if it gets kids reading, I'm all for it. My students can't get enough of the books. They are actually begging for reading time (we're reading it in class).