I'm skeptical of the "If you haven't read the book, then you're screwed. There's no way to avoid running into people who've read it and want to talk about it." assertion. This board is the only place I frequent online where I've heard anything about the Hunger Games movies, and I have never heard the movies or books mentioned by a single person in meatspace.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 23, 2012 12:30:13 pm PST #17737 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
le nubian - Jan 23, 2012 12:52:40 pm PST #17738 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think the movie Hunger Games should be able to effectively deal with the plot and events well enough that it should be close enough to the book. It would be a major fuck up otherwise.
Books 2 and 3 need some tinkering I think. I just can't see how the 3rd book (except for some battle scenes) is all that filmable. Hell, the last part of the book is tell tell tell (very little to show). Hopefully they have a deft screenwriter. Maybe that's why they are going to split 2-3 into 3 movies.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2012 12:55:47 pm PST #17739 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think if it's high profile enough that EW writes about it without particular concerns for spoiling it's reasonable to assume spoilers are out there for the bumping into. Doesn't mean you *will*, but it's not exactly treated like your average Nolan movie or anything.
tommyrot - Jan 23, 2012 1:09:31 pm PST #17740 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I kind of want to know ahead of time if Bane
I am Teppy.
Sean K - Jan 23, 2012 2:47:12 pm PST #17741 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, Alien: Resurrection is much better than Alien 3. It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun.
Ugh. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I have a fondness for Alien 3, and what Fincher managed to salvage from it. And it's got Charles Dance FFS. And I could not stand anything at all about Resurrection. Even on rewatch, I found it painfully bad.
I kind of want to know ahead of time if Bane
My roommate and I are speculating that Nolan's actually going to take it further than that.
billytea - Jan 23, 2012 2:48:48 pm PST #17742 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My roommate and I are speculating that Nolan's actually going to take it further than that.
Follow it up with a nipple cripple?
tommyrot - Jan 23, 2012 2:49:58 pm PST #17743 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Bat-wedgie?
Sean K - Jan 23, 2012 2:54:27 pm PST #17744 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Hee! Both.
Polter-Cow - Jan 23, 2012 2:54:41 pm PST #17745 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He's going to take down his business, his possessions, and his name?
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2012 2:55:03 pm PST #17746 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My roommate and I are speculating that Nolan's actually going to take it further than that.
You think he's going to kill Batman?
Or...oh, god. Not...
BATUSI?