May the odds be ever in your favour! [Hunger Games Movie]

Grey Ghost

what does "smh" mean

miscellaneousinsanity

The stylists who work under Cinna were pretty much completely glossed over in the book. They help give a sense of average Capitol citizens and the divide between the Districts and the Capitol. I understand why they they would be skipped but it would've been nice to have at least been introduced to them.

miscellaneousinsanity

"shaking my head"

Rolo

Grey Ghost wrote: »

what does "smh" mean

shake my head

Rolo

That Dave Fella wrote: »

What's with that filter? Like is there any need for that sepia shit?

kids love instagram

Grey Ghost

ugh

Bedigunz

Oh I thought it was "so much hate" which is still pretty apt to what these assholes are going on about.

Also saw this on the tumblr:

TheStig

Dux

Bahahahaha

Bedigunz

A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »

Bedigunz wrote: »

I should never have gotten that haircut...

Nice.

Anywho, yeah. I've banned myself from the D&D thread. Actually I've banned myself from any thread that contains Ross or Drez. I'm suddenly a much happier person.

Yeah those two are just like, ruining any form of sanity in that thread.

One is convinced that if you were at all surprised by the skin color of Rue and Thresh, you're a racist.

The other is pissed that there is no explanation as to why the Capitol is evil and why the districts go along with the shit.

TheStig

Every movie needs the nerdy science guy (preferably played by Jeff Goldblum) to explain exactly how something works/why something the way it is.

Centipede Damascus

Atomic Ross is the Armond White of D&D

moocow

I enjoyed the movie! The shaky cam wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, the only part about it that annoyed me was when they seemed to just swing the camera around randomly during action scenes.

The transfer from page to screen was handled pretty well, and having recently read the series twice, I wonder how much I filled information/emotion into anything missing from the movie. I only had two problems with the move from book to reel:

Spoiler:

I feel the Peeta-Katniss relationship was handled a little clumsily. Without Katniss' internal monologue, I'm not sure if they got across that she didn't really "like" like Peeta. And they really downplayed his feelings of anger and betrayal when he found out the whole "love" thing was part of a cold-blooded, logical strategy between Haymitch and Katniss.

The other thing I felt wasn't pulled off well was the berries. It seemed like Katniss was a little bit too confident that it would save them both, not that she knew she couldn't kill Peeta in cold-blood and face her district and herself afterwards. That death right there was better than committing murder. The movie removed the desperation from the scene and turned it into a cunning plan. I dunno, maybe I'm remembering the book wrong.

But it was still really enjoyable.

facetious

Bedigunz wrote: »

The other is pissed that there is no explanation as to why the Capitol is evil and why the districts go along with the shit.

I love how I don't even need to read the thread to know who this must be.

Nogs

Seriously wrote: »

Skull Man wrote: »

alright I read the first one of these yesterday

Spoiler:

what the fuck, did everyone become dog-handed werewolves at the end

is that going to be addressed later or WHAT

I just sorta

ignored that


I'm not sure what was going on there

that is to say I know what was going on there

but I don't know what was going on there

they kinda get into this in the second book with the birds.

Basically its mostly psychological warfare, not just physical.

Grey Ghost

Centipede Damascus

no no no no no

Grey Ghost

Look at it

Grey Ghost

LOOK
AT
IT

lostwords

That just made me dry heave

RT800

W...what?

The Geebs That Is A Pony

moocow wrote: »

I enjoyed the movie! The shaky cam wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, the only part about it that annoyed me was when they seemed to just swing the camera around randomly during action scenes.

The transfer from page to screen was handled pretty well, and having recently read the series twice, I wonder how much I filled information/emotion into anything missing from the movie. I only had two problems with the move from book to reel:

Spoiler:

I feel the Peeta-Katniss relationship was handled a little clumsily. Without Katniss' internal monologue, I'm not sure if they got across that she didn't really "like" like Peeta. And they really downplayed his feelings of anger and betrayal when he found out the whole "love" thing was part of a cold-blooded, logical strategy between Haymitch and Katniss.

The other thing I felt wasn't pulled off well was the berries. It seemed like Katniss was a little bit too confident that it would save them both, not that she knew she couldn't kill Peeta in cold-blood and face her district and herself afterwards. That death right there was better than committing murder. The movie removed the desperation from the scene and turned it into a cunning plan. I dunno, maybe I'm remembering the book wrong.

But it was still really enjoyable.

Spoiler:

I think the change with the final confrontation maybe worked a little better. In the book, Cato was basically a monster, right down to the end. They humanized him a bit more with his little speech, which fits a little better with the whole "they're shitty TO ALL THE DISTRICTS, even the ones they like" thing.

miscellaneousinsanity

I should be flipping my laptop at that, GG, but I think marathoning My Brother My Brother And Me episodes has inoculated (desensitised?) me against the horrors of yahoo answers

YaYa

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I CAN SEE EVERYTHING NOW

THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AND IT SHALL BE BLESSED WITH A GREAT PURE FIRE

TrippyJing

SAKURA CULLEN

SAKURA FUCKING CULLEN

#pipe

People like that are why phone numbers in movies always start with 555

Straightzi

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I know now what it is to feel love

YaYa

just finished Mockingjay again

it was way better than I remember it being!

The Geebs That Is A Pony

sakura cullen is the perfect name for someone that sucks on tampon popsicles

The Geebs That Is A Pony

fuck you firefox, I am not capitalizing popsicle

moocow

I just got reminded of something browsing the terrible D&D thread.

In the movie, holy shit, Katniss is tall as hell. Wait a minute.

Apparently, IMDb says the actress is 5'7", and so is Peeta's actor. So she's not super tall, he's just...kind of on the low end of average. Gale's is 6'3". You'd think they could've looked around for another dude who was 6'0"+ to play Peeta.

/nitpick

Straightzi

Wait why does this guy have to be over six feet?

FirmSkater

I refuse to believe that tampon vampire is real. It has to be someone trolling

moocow

Because Katniss is supposed to be short. Peeta is supposed to be tall and strong!

I dunno, it just kind of stuck out that she was as tall as Peeta. Didn't really lessen my enjoyment of the movie.

Straightzi

A lot of men in Hollywood are short and a lot of women are tall

That's kinda how it goes

JelloJello

Straightzi wrote: »

A lot of men in Hollywood are short and a lot of women are tall

That's kinda how it goes

As clearly stated, twice, by use "moocow", the character of Peeta, as written in the book, is tall.

TheStig

JelloJello wrote: »

Straightzi wrote: »

A lot of men in Hollywood are short and a lot of women are tall

That's kinda how it goes

As clearly stated, twice, by use "moocow", the character of Peeta, as written in the book, is tall.

Probably because he wasn't from Hollywood.

Liiya

JelloJello wrote: »

Straightzi wrote: »

A lot of men in Hollywood are short and a lot of women are tall

That's kinda how it goes

As clearly stated, twice, by use "moocow", the character of Peeta, as written in the book, is tall.

Mm, and Katniss is supposed to be "small but strong" I think, which makes me think of less than 5ft1". Though I must admit I don't think I would have picked up on the height thing unless it'd been pointed out.

Antimatter

Hugh Jackman is 6'2"
Wolverine is 5'3"

just

saiyan

Liiya

Antimatter wrote: »

Hugh Jackman is 6'2"
Wolverine is 5'3"

just

saiyan

Huh! I never knew Wolverine was that short. The more you know!