plot-wise it isn't really much like Hunger Games

I don't think most of the Next Hunger Games are, so I'm not sure why they hit that angle in sympathetic messaging. I'm sufficiently not stupid that I can make an actual call. Please to treat me that way. I just stopped and thought if any of the NHG had been all that Hunger Gamey in a way I thought derivative or boring, remembered no, and then cracked the dumb magazine.

I guess whoever she is would love to be the next Jennifer Lawrence, but that's about it.

Well, Shailene Woodley does have an Oscar nomination of her own, so she's on track.

Maybe they are hoping this movie will make a lot of $$ like HG did and that's why they are marketing it similarly? Weird shit.

YA dystopia is YA dystopia. You think marketing won't seize on a superficial similarity and push it like hell?

YA dystopia is YA dystopia

Well, except when it's not. Are you saying it's warranted?

Shailene Woodley does have an Oscar nomination of her own, so she's on track.

Until I see the Most Gorgeous Doof Next Door gifs she's just one more chick that didn't win.

Well, except when it's not. Are you saying it's warranted?

I am saying I don't find it strange in the least.

Wait--so all YA dystopias *are* the same, or they might as well be the same? That's what I don't understand. If you keep selling A as B, you do risk a backlash.

The target marget (i.e. teens) doesn't seem to care about the finer distinctions at this point.

But is that because it's effectively correct (at the scale at which they're talking), or it's wrong but they don't care?

I know nothing other than skimming one article, so I'm not arguing a point--I'm asking you guys for an interpretation of the facts, such as they are.

What Amy said. I'm sure they all have their differences, but it's practically become a genre unto itself like paranormal romance. There's The Maze Runner, which is also being made into a movie, and Matched, which I think is also optioned, and it sure seems like a lot of them are about a teenage girl choosing between two guys. I think Incarceron was also set up to be a successor, but I haven't heard too much about it.

But is that because it's effectively correct (at the scale at which they're talking), or it's wrong but they don't care?

Little of Column A, little of Column B, from what I can tell. Many of them do sound similar, but despite all the different premises, they start to run together.