'Out Of Gas'
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Tommy, we will hurt you. There was a person at the midnight show, in the front row, who had a phone out and in their lap for much of the movie. I kept trying to get Aims to throw popcorn.
I just remembered a thing. After the supplies explosion, when the career was yelling at the kid who set up the mines, the audience was laughing. And then, you know, they stopped rather abruptly.
I don't remember if that's exactly how it went down in the book (I thought Cato stabbed him, maybe?), but yeah.
he broke his neck in the book.
Ah, well, good for him.
I found this list of differences between the book and the movie. Lots of little things I'd forgotten, and a few bits where I prefer the movie.
Book: District 12's pouch with Peeta's medicine was orange.
Movie: The bag was grey.
OMG BLASPHEMY.
OMG BLASPHEMY.
True, but I did think when I saw that scene that the book had made a big deal about the size of the packs and how it would be easy for someone else to grab Peeta's because it was so small. That is something they could have done easily and, while much of the audience might not notice or care, others might wonder about big packs and think about what it was the others needed, you know?
Wait, the backpack Katnis got at the beginning was orange. Was the second backpack orange as well?
Oh, I was thinking of the later ones. But I did also notice that the first one wasn't orange in the movie. Don't know why that stuck in my head from the book when so little else seemingly did.
I was bummed that the night-vision glasses got left out of the movie.
Is this stuff "plot-related"? Should we be spoiler-fonting?
I noticed the change in the color of Katniss's bag and the uniform sizes of the 4 bags by the cornucopia. Because this is the shit that sticks in my brain. Thanks, brain.
I was surprised that the "Voice of God" announcements weren't more polished, especially the "there can be only one winner" one.
I need to go back and read the berries scene again, because it felt like Katniss showed her hand too much in the dialogue, which is somewhat understandable, as we don't get her internal monologue, but I was internally yelling at her to shut up about her thought processes, since they were being filmed with, you know, audio.
Debet, I felt the same way about the Voice of God announcements! They felt so...dull. I always heard them with far more fanfare in my head.
And I wish the berries scene had gone on longer. I thought that it took Katniss longer to come up with the idea, but I reread the scene in the book, and the timing is about the same, actually. I think because they compressed the Peeta-berries-Foxface thing, though, that it seemed too quick in the movie.
My Hunger Games review. LJ just introduced a new spoiler tag, so you can click at the end to magically make all the spoilery stuff appear!