Hunger Games Discussion

[Phantom]

Seneca was my favorite character (his beard was my second favorite). And

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his "execution" was probably my favorite scene, so you guys saying it should have been cut make me sad. :( The juxtaposition of all the rich elegance and sophistication of the palace and the room and the fancy bowl with the sheer twistedness of that as a method of execution was beautiful and very Snow and implies delicious psychological horror before just cutting away and letting the viewer imagine the rest. The whole movie was worth it just for that. :D

Thing is in the books we don't learn he had died until the next book. (Can't remember if it was second or third one.)

Did anybody else think

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the suicide threat scene for Katniss and Peeta felt pretty anticlimactic (in the movie, at least)? It was kind of just "It's okay, Katniss, you can kill me." "No, let's both kill ourselves so there will be no winner!" "Okay!" Peeta seemed to just agree to it without Katniss ever expressing some kind of actual passion about how she'd rather die than give the Capitol a winner, so it didn't feel nearly as significant as it ought to be. It did make it more believable for them to be able to spin it as "we couldn't live without each other", but when Katniss goes on to be practically worshipped by the rebellion, I'd have expected them to want to make this scene come across as at least kind of awesome.

It was a rather quick decision in the books if I remember right. But I agree it felt rushed in the movie. It was like "look homicidal berries, let's nom". Thing is the whole scene before that was pretty damn active, when in the books it was a lot quieter before suicide nom. (Cato slowly dying inside the cornicopia).

 

[Butterfree]

Thing is in the books we don't learn he had died until the next book. (Can't remember if it was second or third one.)

Well, yeah, but I don't really see why not learning it until then is in any way important. Especially given Seneca got quite a bit of attention in the movie, so having it happen offscreen and then be revealed in the next movie would just have been odd.

 

[Phantom]

True. I guess it follows with the change in perspective from Katniss to a third party.

 

[Superbird]

change in perspective

Speaking of which, I'm supposed to be writing an essay about that. Do any of you have interesting ideas?

 

[Tailsy]

Seneca's execution scene is definitely one of the best additions *w* and just Seneca in general. He's a lot more interesting in the film, him and his funky-ass beard. I liked how they actually used the natural third-person perspective of the film to round out the nature of the Capitol in all its weird creepiness and Snow being a big smellface. ("Everybody likes an underdog!" "I don't :|") The cuts to Caesar and Claudius discussing the Games were nice, too. Actually the fact that we get to see that kind of thing is why I prefer the film? It gives a lot more dimension to Panem than you get to see in the first book and idk it's nice to get away from Katniss STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER!!!! Everdeen every once in a while. (Although tbf she seems a lot more sympathetic in the film; agreeing with Butterfree here with Jennifer Lawrence's acting.)

And tbh what I was paying attention to in the DEATHBERRIES scene was just Peeta totally randomly stroking Katniss's braid. Dude that shit ain't been washed for like two weeks what r u doin you mad plank. Although then I just think Peeta's sort of boring and I would have probably just left him for dead like he asked because I'm a dick, so. WHO KNOWS.

 

[Zero Moment]

One day, if I were ever to grow one, I would like to have a beard even half as glorious as Seneca's 0_0

 

[Coroxn]

Just after watching the movie, and I was pretty impressed. I loved Seneca in the movie, and in general I like the third-person-ness. I love the TV commentator bits, as well, which were good ways of spouting exposition. I especially liked the District 11 bit, explaining just why the rules were bent to have two victors-at least temporarily.

The final scene in the arena was very anticlimactic. I was actually really looking forward to that scene, and it was severely disappointing.

All in all, I liked a lot of the movie (Tracker-Jackers and the Fire for the win) and the bits I didn't like were mainly due to things not crossing over in the adaption. My cousin, who never read the books, cried twice when she thought Peta was going to die, and at the "Winning won't help much, because she came with me" scene had her reduced to a blubbering mass.

She loved it.

 

[Noctowl]

I liked this film. It was pretty cool. I might read the books sometime...when I get the chance.

I swear Katniss was saying 'okay' far too much though. It was like her catchphrase.

Also, I found a lot of it quite predictable. I won't go into it because I dunno what spoiler tags are but I knew sorta what was going to happen around the start.