Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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Thatis a pretty odd thing not to make clear. It's one of the more horrifying aspects of the ending
Yes, I just don't think non-readers will get the full horror of it or the same takeaway of the moral issues that are in the book, especially since the way they play up the reality TV angle makes it seems everyone is complicit. Although, the brutal depiction of the cornucopia certainly makes you sit up and take notice.
DH says the press embargo was lifted last Friday after the junket.
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
megan,
yes. the book is already bad enough with kids killing kids for entertainment and to remind the populace not to rise up against the government. and then the place is booby trapped. so that's bad. but THEN you get that they took the dead kids and made them into beasts to kill the remaining kids. I mean, WTF?
That's when I said to myself in the book: this shit is REALLY fucked up.
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
Apparently nobody's - I posted that before I asked him.
Annalee Newitz post on FB:
On the bright side, I just saw CABIN IN THE WOODS and it was magnificent. It was meta all the way down, man. Plus, hilarious.
Just got tickets for me and Mark to the advance screening in Berkeley! I'll have to finagle something with work to get there early enough.
Huh, just realized that Mark hasn't met Drew Goddard OR Amy Acker in his Whedonverse watching yet.
I saw and ad for Dark Shadows the other day. I was a big fan of it when it was new and I remember how they introduced Barnabas and it really took off. They introduced a werewolf, alternate time tracks, people going to the past ... and then it got weird.
especially for megan, but others here too:
do you think there is an analogy to be made between "V for Vendetta" and "Hunger Games?"
Maybe for Catching Fire/Mockingjay.
But only in the sense that a lot of dystopian stories involve rising up against the totalitarian regime.
Unfortunately, I've never read or seen V for Vendetta.