no way. really?
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
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le nubian - Mar 24, 2012 12:32:41 pm PDT #18965 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2012 12:51:07 pm PDT #18966 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find it rather amazing that that's the actor's actual facial hair.
It just seems fussily trimmed to me. What's exceptional about the growing of it?
Someone needs to put that beard on Abed, stat.
DebetEsse - Mar 24, 2012 12:52:42 pm PDT #18967 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That they kept it like that, to that degree, for the entirety of filming.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2012 12:59:35 pm PDT #18968 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh--right. An actual beef I had with the movie, apart from the reasonably trivial Peeta's look thing--the fight scene editing.
I guess it might have been to make sure they got the PG-13 rating, but when two brunettes are wrestling, or two blond men are fighting, that sort of choppy camerawork and editing are really confusing, and I'm already headachey and shit. I thought that was messy.
Given that they panned over a landscape of adolescent corpses at the start of the Games, come on. Show some punches landing. I could not follow those fights well, especially Kat's.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2012 1:13:19 pm PDT #18969 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I thought the fight scene direction and editing was malpractice.
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2012 1:17:43 pm PDT #18970 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I really liked it and thought it was fine. I thought it captured the chaos and tension well, and I didn't mind that I couldn't follow each and every motion.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2012 1:18:00 pm PDT #18971 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have any complaints about the fight choreography/direction, because I couldn't see it. I assume it was serviceable, but they just had to make everything look like nothing, in case we thought teenagers were hurting each other.
eta:
I didn't mind that I couldn't follow each and every motion
I couldn't tell who was who, who had the upper hand, what they did to win. Basically, I couldn't follow more than one motion at a time. It didn't communicate anything to me except "conflict!" Which I already understood. The fight scenes were for elaboration.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2012 1:28:32 pm PDT #18972 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I didn't expect kung fu direction, but the fact that I couldn't see ANYTHING is problematic. Why have a fight? Do something else and imply a fight: show people at home reacting to the fight.
Showing a blur is not helpful.
DebetEsse - Mar 24, 2012 2:02:58 pm PDT #18973 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I very much noticed at the time that the last fight was confusing as all get-out to watch.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2012 2:41:11 pm PDT #18974 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Current HG numbers:
The Hunger Games' $68.3 million opening gives it the biggest opening day of any non-sequel, and the fifth-biggest opening of all time. Midnight showings accounted for $19.7 million of the film's take, which gives you a sense of how devoted fans of this series are.
I was just going back and reading the discussion that I hadn't read before, and I'm curious about this, Suzi:
I just feel for anyone who hasn't read the books or even a summary and walks in cold, just knowing it is a popular flick. They are in for a world of hurt.
Do you mean in the sense of it being a more angstful movie than you might otherwise have imagined? The most popular trailer seems to stress that, so I'm not sure what the big surprise would be.