quester, it was their way of showing respect. I don't think it was ever explained beyond that -- just that it was a custom unique to the district.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
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Hil R. - Mar 25, 2012 5:49:14 pm PDT #19007 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
smonster - Mar 25, 2012 6:33:17 pm PDT #19008 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Oh, another difference that disappointed me a bit. They really downplayed that Katniss stays very ambivalent about Peeta throughout the games, and is laser-focused on survival. At the end at the Cornucopia when they announced that only one tribute could win, book!Katniss turns her bow on Peeta only to realize ashamedly that he has thrown his knife aside. It's a shame to lose that kind of nuance in the characters and their feelings.
Hil R. - Mar 25, 2012 6:39:14 pm PDT #19009 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Another thing I noticed was that they didn't really play up the "hunger" part of it too much. They didn't really say why Katniss and Gale hunt, the part about getting more grain if you put your name in the lottery more times was barely mentioned, and they cut up the conversation between Katniss and Rue where Rue talked about how they'd get punished if they ate the crops. And in the book, there was a real sense that Katniss was eating every bite of every meal in the Capitol, because she's known her whole life that any meal might be the last one for a while, and that wasn't really mentioned at all.
Scrappy - Mar 25, 2012 7:23:59 pm PDT #19010 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
A friend is trying to figure out if the film is okay for his 9-year-old son to see. He has seen all the HP movies and all of the new Doctor Who and did fine with those. How "real" is the violence?
bon bon - Mar 25, 2012 7:36:42 pm PDT #19011 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
This does not seem appropriate for a nine-year-old to me; the premise is insanely dark. The violence is not gory but it is specific. You witness the killings of some 20-odd children.
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2012 7:47:48 pm PDT #19012 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
How "real" is the violence?
Very. You really feel it. It's not for nine-year-olds.
le nubian - Mar 25, 2012 11:17:20 pm PDT #19013 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy, I concur. I don't think this is a great movie for 9 year olds. Children die in this movie. Not particularly graphically, but if I saw this movie when I was a kid, I would have been traumatized. Nightmares for 2 weeks.
I almost feel like if the child is too young to read the books, they are probably too young to see the movie.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2012 2:57:42 am PDT #19014 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I almost feel like if the child is too young to read the books, they are probably too young to see the movie.
Yeah, I agree with that. And I think it's going to be kid-by-kid for a 9 year old, really. I was nervous about the little girls in my row at the theater, but they were at least quiet and seated throughout -- can't say if they had nightmares!
flea - Mar 26, 2012 4:36:08 am PDT #19015 of 30000
information libertarian
I will say there is certainly talk of Hunger Games in elementary schools. My 8 year old 3rd grader asked me about it, and that definitely came from school. I would not let her read the books at her age (she is sensitive and also not a good enough reader yet), but some kids not much older are.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 26, 2012 5:41:26 am PDT #19016 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
Ha! Fair assumption considering it broke a shit ton of box office records.
It started making a profit on its production budget with the Saturday matinees, so I'd imagine there was a Brady Bunchopening credits-style conference call among studio execs by dinnertime.