Is anyone excited for The Hunger Games film?

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Watched it today. Worth the money.
On another note, the entire audience burst out laughing at the end of the "Breaking Dawn Part 2" trailer.

My experience at the theatre:

Watched some of the previews before the actual previews. Saw the thing about turning your phone off and then the screen went blank. 15 minutes after it was supposed to start I went and complained, turned out the projector had burned out and I was the first to let them know. So we ended up going to the showing an hour later around 1 in a different theatre. But we got to watch it for free and get our money back. I thought it was odd that we saw a preview for a show called The Client on lifetime. It was obviously a show about an escort service. And their were a bunch of younger teenagers there, during a school day. So 3 times during the movie they started clapping, and laughed when they weren't supposed to. From now on I only want to go to a movie at times their won't be a lot of younger people.

Otherwise I thought the movie was pretty good.

good but not great, I felt like it was missing or off, I don't know why.

+1 about the books. Probably the reason why it's good material for a movie. Not too much to digest, but just enough depth to give the impression of having something meaningful to say.

Is anyone else like this? The more something gets hyped, the bigger the bandwagon, the more annoyed and disgusted I get with it - be it Harry Potter, Twilight or what have you. It can even impact my enjoyment of something that I used to like - suddenly all kinds of people like it, and I start to see the flaws more prominently.

No and here is why.

The book is a remake of the anime battle royale.
The main is almost always in a type of fog....I mean it half the time I think she likes drugs.
The characters were very flat.
The battles were played up as epic bloody but the ones we see sound childish.
At the end a movie like thing being made is one step away from these typed of real life battles from happening....

I will be on my way to see The Hunger Games once I finish here.

No... it's not...

Novel: Manga: anime: then live action film...

I feel there is no comparison except that children are killing each other...

The battle royal series (which I have both read and watched) is a hypersexual, psychoviolent rampage with many terrifying portrayals of familial misuse and abuse. It was a an indictment o fthe culture that the author grew up in. There is an "It is better to suffer than make a scene" ethos in the culture that he was condemning. Further, an entire class was selected. It was ENTIRELY ratings driven. The class was not chosen at random. It was picked specifically for its ability to create a spectacle.

Hunger games is an indictment of a different sort, one against a government that was so horrible that over 2/3 of the country rebelled and lost. Now the richer of the people has to keep these people in check. Random choosing for the first book. An attempt to wipe out a revolutionary leader...

It is a subtle, but key difference...

Further, Suzanne Collins insists she had never read/seen/heard of it. It would be suicide for an author to plagiarize an idea like this. I suspect she is not that stupid.

Having seen the movie, I will say only this...

It was the most faithful rendition of a book I have seen. However, due to some filming decisions (shaky cam) a large part of the film, I feel, is unwatchable

I just watched it. Loved it.

I also thought it was awesome! Now to read books 2 and 3 before Catching Fire (book #2) becomes a movie in Nov. 2013!! !!

Gosh I am super super super jealous I so wana see it Miley Cyrus hunky boyfriend is in the movie

The lines for The Hunger Games have been incredible, which is why I am waiting until Wednesday afternoon to see it. I read the book, it's a page turner. I watched the trailer on Youtube and noticed the characters at the Capitol are not as exaggerated as they are in the book.

We had no such lines, but we also went to a 12:30 am show

I wana see this movie so damn bad I might try to see it next week some time.

I am a little over 200 pages into the sequel, Catching Fire and am I the only one who thinks it is too much like Hunger Games? It seems like Catching Fire isn't moving along quickly enough. I am at the part where the Quarter Quell is about to commence and it's just like another Hunger Games in the second book! I thought the second book would be devoted to the rebellion and trying to escape the clutches of the Capitol.
How many descriptions of Katniss's dresses does one need? Book one was full of them even though I loved Hunger Games. Book two goes into clothing overdrive. Even the Quarter Quell chariot costumes sound almost like the ones in book one, anyone notice? Sorry to say I am getting bored with Catching Fire. I bought Mockingjay and hope it's more...fresh.

My review is available on my blog... there is mild language and mention of Stephanie Meyers... you have been warned.

http://wayoutonthecorner.blogspot.com/2 ... movie.html

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It's a very common thing. TV Tropes has not one but two articles about it:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeAversion
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeBacklash

I myself have experienced this. But in order to keep an open mind, I have tried some popular things and found out that I actually liked them, such as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Homestuck and Hetalia.