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Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by vmarcilfan75, Apr 11, 2008.

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  1. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    lol, do a better job next time and thanks proving my point
     
  2. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Because of that aspect of the movie, I am surprised it got made.
     
  3. slickj101

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    Not my problem if your humor is as suspect as your taste in movies.

    I've seen studies that show some people can only be funny in desperate situations.
     
  4. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Enjoy killing children.
     
  5. slickj101

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    Don't forget eating them.
     
  6. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Only in desperate situations of course. In regular life, you love kids, however put yourself in a room with 10 ten year old and it is your or them, they are dead within the first minute.
     
  7. slickj101

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    Of course, I'm a kindergarten teacher.
     
  8. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    That doesn't matter, 100% of the people in this world would make the same decision, 100% of the time.
     
  9. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    If you talk to people who have actually gone to war you'll find that most wont agree with you. Even after going through basic and knowing they're going to war, a large percentage of people have difficulty killing another.
     
  10. slickj101

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    Not the ones I've talked to so far.

    My cousin is a weapons instructor in Afghanistan and he said you'd be disgusted by the number of kids who sign up just to shoot people like its a Call of Duty game.
     
  11. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    I'm gonna see the Hunger Games based on this discussion alone.
     
  12. slickj101

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    Don't. The discussion was much more interesting than the movie, imo.

    Minus the bright colors and ridiculous costumes.
     
  13. muscle979

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    It's unfortunate that Hollywood would decide to turn a decent story centered around teenagers being forced to hunt each other in a gladiator type tournament into a chick flick. This is the exact reason I knew to wait for this to come to video.
     
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  14. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    This movie is not a chick flick.

    Unless you thought Running Man as a chick flick because Arnold ended up with the girl at the end after she hated him in the beginning.
     
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  15. texanphinatic

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    I agree, this is anything but a chick flick - this is NOT twilight.
     
  16. slickj101

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    Certainly not The Running Man either.
     
  17. rafael

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    I know for a fact that the military commissioned several studies b/c they felt that it was a big problem that so many people didn't have the killer instinct even though they had been through basic, knew they were going to war and knew that the enemy wanted to kll them. Basically what you're saying was unrealistic is exactly what ws happening in reality.
     
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  18. slickj101

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    I said the scenario in the movie was unrealistic.

    Going to war and the many different situations that can happen and all the psychological variables involved is something else. I maintain that a study can't measure that accurately. Your sample size is also limited to only soldiers and doesn't take in to consideration people that aren't in the military.
     
  19. rafael

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    Based on what? You're going to have to have many psychological variables in the movie's situation as well. I get that you didn't like the movie, but it's simply not unrealistic that a person could react exactly as she did since we know for a fact that in similar situations have frequently acted exactly the same way.
     
  20. slickj101

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    No, it's def not impossible that someone would do that but for me it was something else that hurt the movie, especially
    How they end up conveniently changing the rules so the only time she has to kill someone is that mercy kill. The action wasn't good enough for the way things went down, imo. Not that I need a movie to have action to be good, but if you're going to take on a subject like that you better not fall short with those sequences. It did for me.
     
  21. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    The part that you do not like, imo is the one of the most interesting aspects of the movie.

    I do agree that the action scenes were shot terribly.
     
  22. finsincebirth

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    Wait she only killed once in the movie? Also about the

    rule change: I'm not sure how they did it in the movie, but in the book they change the rules to the two can survive so that they can keep playing the love angle since the crowd was eating it up. Then once they were down to two they changed the rule back so it would force a single victor. However Katniss was so upset that she and Peeta were going to eat the poison berries as a giant **** You to the capital. However if this had happened it would have undermined the capital and ruin the Hunger Games. So it wasn't as convenient as it sounds.
     
  23. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Agreed, it wasn't convenient, nor was it a happy ending. I thought the entire ending of the movie was ****ed up.
     
  24. rafael

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    I do agree that it was an interesting part of the movie and in character with how both the government and the characters had acted leading up to the end. I get that some didn't like it, but I did. I felt it was a good ending in the book although I don't feel that the movie captured the intricacies that lead to that ending. I can see how it could have seemed "convenient" in the movie if you hadn't read the books or didn't get the subtle hints in the movie, but it was anything but convenient. And I agree that it was only a happy ending to the mindless audience of the Hunger Games in the movie. To the government, the players and us as the real audience, it was not supposed to be a happy ending, but just an ending that set-up the sequels.
     
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  25. finsincebirth

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    As far as the book was concerned, I was fine with the way the Games ended but the actually ending of the book pissed me off.

    The whole the book ends as they step off the train and then we will see what happens next thing annoyed me. I usually like the first book in a trilogy to have a stand alone ending and not a to be continued. It's just my opinion but the ending suffered from the same ending that usually plagues the middle book.
     
  26. Jaydog57

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    Hijacking your Hunger Games thread for a second. Getting the movie channels free this weekend on Dish Network and watched 'The Green Hornet' and 'Green Lantern' this morning. Not sure which one was worse, they were both terrible and can only hope sequels are not in the works.
     
  27. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    Wrath of the Titans with terrible reviews...shocker

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  28. Jaydog57

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    Sounds like it should have gone straight to video. The remake of Clash of the Titans wasn't too good either.
     
  29. rafael

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    IMO Hornet was worse. Neither was good, but Lantern had a few elements that made me think it could have been good. I think Lantern ultimately failed b/c the villain wasn't relatable. These kinds of movies need great bad guys that we can somewhat understand, fear and root against. The bad guy here was basically an amorphous concept of evil.
     
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  30. slickj101

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    No matter how many times I see Full Metal Jacket, I never get tired of it.

    Ain't war hell?
     
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  31. Jaydog57

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    I saw the remake of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' tonight. It was kinda meh as expected, especially when you see Michael Bay's name in the opening credits. I did like the flashbacks showing why Freddy got burned, and it didn't have a cheesy Dokken song in the soundtrack like the Nightmare movies from the 80's.
     
  32. Alex44

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    Refuse to ever watch The Hunger Games. The book is a COMPLETE ripoff of the Japanese book Battle Royale.
     
  33. rafael

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    And that story borrowed elements from previous tales as well. I like to see different takes on concepts from different authors and directors.
     
  34. unluckyluciano

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    eh there are certain lines you don't cross. Take the departed for example. Every twist and turn was from the original version. I'll watch the hunger games as I think the movie will be ok. From what I read though the books were eesh.
     
  35. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Battle Royale was just a complete ripoff of The Running Man
     
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  36. rafael

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    That line depends on whether you liked the movie. I preferred the second Thomas Crown Affair to the original. Every year we get thematic cycles that are all rip-offs of each other (penquins or fairy tales, for example). Some pull it off better than others. The point is that I'm not going to refuse to watch a movie based on some made up moral ground about how it was a stolen concept. If I find the premise interesting, I'll watch it. It just seems like people come up with false justifications for being against a movie or book especially when something becomes popular or has economic or critical success. If people don't want to watch a movie or don't enjoy a movie b/c they didn't like the director or the actor or the story or whatever just say that. Most of the pretentious rationalization though comes of as B.S. IMO.
     
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  37. unluckyluciano

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    When somethings based almost completely off another story, then there is no way you can like one version over another unless you are basing it entirely on something like acting or graphics, because well its the same story. It has nothing to do with being pretentious, and everything to do with what's creative and what's not. I understand every artist get's their inspiration from somewhere else, but there is inspiration, and there is stealing.
     
  38. rafael

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    Until you see the movie you don't know what the differences are going to be. You've decided you don't like it based on nothing other than a perception.
     
  39. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    So The Hunger Games was pretty good...
     
  40. unluckyluciano

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    Uh no. Read above, I never said I wasn't going to watch any movie. I just said there are lines that make movies rip offs and not just artist takes.
     

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