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posted February 03, 2012 12:01 PM            

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They have a new trailer here: http://mockingjay.net/

Is anyone else looking forward to this? I liked the books (although, as usual, the love triangle bored me). It comes out when the Sun is conjunct Uranus in Aries.

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posted February 03, 2012 06:44 PM            

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I liked the books a lot, they were so different from Twilight and Harry Potter.

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posted February 03, 2012 07:10 PM            

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Cool

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posted February 03, 2012 07:50 PM            

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I preferred them over Twilight, as well. The trailer gave me goosebumps. I hope the movie is good.

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posted March 12, 2012 10:12 AM            

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http://hungernames.com.

I was Pip Gristlewhist, in the 69th hunger games. killed by sneezing whilst holding a knife. Not too smart then...

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posted March 12, 2012 03:05 PM            

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A new Twilight trailer will be on the movie. And it might be the first seven minutes of the movie (like on the Eclipse DVD).

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posted March 25, 2012 10:41 PM            

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I wasn't there for the trailers. I was briefly at the bookstore, and then running around trying to find tea (before going back to the bookstore, because the garage didn't have any hot water...). We should have stayed and relaxed for fifteen minutes. At least we bought our tickets earlier.

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posted March 26, 2012 12:23 PM            

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How good was it?

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posted March 26, 2012 01:51 PM            

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I was disappointed by the rushing, and the usual deleting of some parts of the book. It also seemed like they weren't in the arena anywhere near long enough; they were supposed to come out of there almost dead from hunger, dehydration, freezing weather, etc.

I remembered later on, though, that the author wrote the screenplay, and she wanted to make sure that it would be PG-rated. So maybe they couldn't make things look as bad on-screen as they were in the book (aside from children killing children, that is).

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posted March 26, 2012 02:15 PM            

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Yeah they had to edit out the actually violent parts. I found it a little...boring, in comparison to the books. I did like how the Capitol was portrayed, Caesar Flickerman's character especially.

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posted March 26, 2012 04:08 PM            

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I've just read responses from fans of the books, who are up in arms over several characters having been black. What the hell? They're especially insulting the actress who played Rue, of all people - that little angel.

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posted March 26, 2012 05:09 PM            

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Paraphrasing Jon Stewart...

There are black people in your movies because black people are also consumers of them

ETA: I haven't read the books but have heard a lot of praise about them regarding Katniss and how she is a wilful young woman with her own agency quite the opposite of Twilight's Bella.

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posted March 26, 2012 05:32 PM            

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Originally posted by Frozen Queen:
Paraphrasing Jon Stewart...

There are black people in your movies because black people are also consumers of them

ETA: I haven't read the books but have heard a lot of praise about them regarding Katniss and how she is a wilful young woman with her own agency quite the opposite of Twilight's Bella.

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I was just saying something similar to my mother. My aunt has been trying to get her to read Twilight, and run out and buy the movies, and I know she would hate them. Bella doesn't even come close to Katniss - she wasn't fleshed out that much beyond her love for a family of vampires. It's been three/four years since I read the books, but she doesn't compare. The character actually inspired me a bit, in terms of just getting on with things, her smarts, and with the things she excels at, like archery, and self-sufficiency. I think she makes a great role model.

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posted March 26, 2012 06:31 PM            

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I watched a bootleg copy at my friend's house. Not bad. I might read the book.

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