Rate the last movie you saw.

[IPD]

oh, and just in case you think the book was better...

An Exercise in Editing, or, Why The Hunger Games Makes My Eyes Bleed | I Wrote This

and that's just the nit-picking points. imagine if we actually got into the plot...

[Echo419]

pretty weak by comparison if you ask me. the AVP video vs the HG video makes HG look like Saving Private Ryan. and for the love of god please don't say that sucked and Alien Resurection or Pootytang were cinematic master pieces.

oh, and just in case you think the book was better...

An Exercise in Editing, or, Why The Hunger Games Makes My Eyes Bleed | I Wrote This

and that's just the nit-picking points. imagine if we actually got into the plot...

never read the book so I could give a shit.

[IPD]

That was the best I could find in a 2 minute internet search. Unfortunately, Red Letter Media hasn't yet crafted a brilliant masterpiece depicting all of the things gone wrong with HG.

My issue with it isn't JUST how it's depicted in the movie, it's the implausibility of the scenario that the author crafted. Is there only one continent? Why are the districts forced to stick around, rather than just make off in the dead of night? Why is there so much "forced" animosity between districts, when its clear that the rage is not against the other districts? I mean the list goes on and on.

I get what she was TRYING to do with it, but it's SO forced. The "haves" are depicted with such opulence that it's comical; it makes Elesyium's depiction look positively inspired. The "oppression" is so over the top that it was clear--at least to me--in the first 15 minutes that "dar's a revooolution brewin'!!!". Sorry, but Cardassians oppressing Bajorans is much more plausible and believable than HG schlock. We're supposed to believe that there's all this technology that allows the "haves" to rule and oppress from afar, yet somehow the underground movement hasn't seen fit to systematically thwart these control measures in ways that would seem innocuous? I mean, they could easily get away with it--there's nobody actually PHYSICALLY there 99% of the time. And the biggest turnoff is just how heavy-handed her delivery is. It's like if there was how-to book of "how to wring emotions out of your audience", and she never got past chapter 1. The incentive for "hating" the "bad-guys" is so thick it's suffocating. The self-sacrifice element of volunteering is overplayed to the extent that I was painfully aware that I was supposed to be emotionally distraught over it.

I can't say if that's all movie, all book, or both. All I do know is that subtle is usually best--and there's nothing subtle about HG; it's designed to force-feed the audience entertainment while forcibly eliciting emotional response from them.

I had more "emotional connection" to the rape scene from (the original Swedish version) "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", than I did to all of HG 1&2 combined.

I guess what I'm saying here is that some movies give me the out-of-body "feeling" like I'm aware of what the movie is trying to do to me; how it is intended to affect me, the viewer. And when that happens, it means the movie is SHIT. It means that suspension of disbelief has ended--and I can no longer enjoy it for cinematic storytelling.

Maybe AVP does that to me if I watch it again. It DIDN'T do that to me the first time I saw it. HG did. Both of 'em. Just sayin'.

[Alan92RTTT]

While I like AVP as a fun monster movie mashup its not a good movie.

[CoopKill]

I enjoyed HG1, while I was put off by HG2. There is not enough spine left after the first one to hold up a sequel. Has the been there done that feel, and the whole puzzle in the pond thing was fail.

Tried to watch Frozen without any knowlege of what it was. 8 minutes in the Mrs. look over, and the thumbs went down. Could not stomach the musical aspect long enough to get hooked in the story. 1/10

[NickS VR4]

Divergent 4/10.
Capt America: Winters Soldier 9/10.
300 #2 5/10
Bad Words 6.5/10

Divergent was ok, and I look forward to a sequel, just didn't think the first was that great.

[anyonebutme]

After the Dark: 9/10 and I'm only halfway through it. Very good thought exercises, and it's progressive so it doesn't loose you when the story opens up. only looses 10/10 because lack of bewbies, lol.

[IPD]

I enjoyed HG1, while I was put off by HG2. There is not enough spine left after the first one to hold up a sequel. Has the been there done that feel, and the whole puzzle in the pond thing was fail.

Tried to watch Frozen without any knowlege of what it was. 8 minutes in the Mrs. look over, and the thumbs went down. Could not stomach the musical aspect long enough to get hooked in the story. 1/10

Oh come on. Frozen was not THAT bad. Not a 1/10. I've seen 1/10 movies.....NO ONE wants to see 1/10 movies. 1/10 movies aren't just awful, they make you want to kill people; usually those responsible for making the movie.

...you must not have young kids in your house either...

[NickS VR4]

Grown ups 2 was 1/10. I couldn't force myself to watch the whole thing.

[IPD]

Grown ups 2 was 1/10. I couldn't force myself to watch the whole thing.

first one wasn't any better.