The Hunger Games BLEW ME AWAY
Mar. 26th, 2012 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI was really surprised at how strongly I got caught up in it, to be honest, as
- The costuming is fantastic. The people in District 12 look they'd fit in perfectly in late Depression-era rural mining country, and even in the Capital there was a strong 1930s influence (as well as touches of pre-Revolutionary France). I wish I could find some good screencaps. And Donald Sutherland very definitely looked like the Victorian throwback someone of his age could have been in the '30s.
- It's not so much the fighting that makes the movie mature and too old for younger kids to me as the emotions. I don't mean the bits that made me cry - Katniss saying goodbye and talking to her mother like the adult, Rue's death and the subsequent riot - but how much it makes you think, even if you're older than 18, about what you would do if you had your name in the Reaping or if you were picked to fight.
- KATNISS IS THE BEST HERO OF ALL TIME. So many of my buttons were hit: the "let's make you stand out visually", the legitimate skills, the seriousness, SO BRAVE.
- The love triangle was more compelling than it was represented to me as; I was expecting there to be a lot less between Gale and Katniss. At the same time, it was so much better than most love triangle beginnings, far and away so, which somehow makes me irritated that people fought a petty shipwar over it. (I know, it's hypocritical of me. Although to be fair, HP wasn't an intended love triangle and I didn't fight anyone in AtLA.)
- Speaking of shipping, Peeta, you poor simple bastard. I don't blame Katniss, of course there was no way for her to tell him that it was for the audience with cameras on them all the time, but it was so cold - and amazing, totally impressive. I'm sure there will be some prime suffering in the next movie.
- As I'm not in the fandom I haven't seen meta on it, but I know that in general pairings where the woman is the more active/cool party are often dismissed as nerdboy fantasies (and therefore sexist - though of course the reverse is also and more objectively sexist; the fact that both are called wrong is ridiculous). I hope nobody has been saying that about this one, because it is frankly an awesome pairing and I love both of them and their relationship-of-convenience-on-one-side-oh-god-Peeta.
- I'm kind of enjoying being a movie-type fan rather than a book one, for once, but I'm going to read the books once I get my Kindle.
- Wasn't too fond of the cinematography, especially during that last fight scene and Peeta and Cato having the same color hair.
- I don't know what's up with the salute, and please don't tell me! It gave me shivers - the combination of enigma and (at least in the first instance) subversion of expectations of noise.
- This is so not a ripoff of Battle Royale. Yes, it's a similar scenario, but even if she did get the idea from it, it's so very different in just about every way that, well, it's just not.
- When it comes to dystopic futures, go big or go home. Hunger Games goes big. Shades of Grey goes big. Books like XVI that want to be the next Hunger Games do neither - age tattoos aren't horrifying enough to really unsettle you, but also aren't realistic enough to be worrying.
- The costuming is fantastic. The people in District 12 look they'd fit in perfectly in late Depression-era rural mining country, and even in the Capital there was a strong 1930s influence (as well as touches of pre-Revolutionary France). I wish I could find some good screencaps. And Donald Sutherland very definitely looked like the Victorian throwback someone of his age could have been in the '30s.
- It's not so much the fighting that makes the movie mature and too old for younger kids to me as the emotions. I don't mean the bits that made me cry - Katniss saying goodbye and talking to her mother like the adult, Rue's death and the subsequent riot - but how much it makes you think, even if you're older than 18, about what you would do if you had your name in the Reaping or if you were picked to fight.
- KATNISS IS THE BEST HERO OF ALL TIME. So many of my buttons were hit: the "let's make you stand out visually", the legitimate skills, the seriousness, SO BRAVE.
- The love triangle was more compelling than it was represented to me as; I was expecting there to be a lot less between Gale and Katniss. At the same time, it was so much better than most love triangle beginnings, far and away so, which somehow makes me irritated that people fought a petty shipwar over it. (I know, it's hypocritical of me. Although to be fair, HP wasn't an intended love triangle and I didn't fight anyone in AtLA.)
- Speaking of shipping, Peeta, you poor simple bastard. I don't blame Katniss, of course there was no way for her to tell him that it was for the audience with cameras on them all the time, but it was so cold - and amazing, totally impressive. I'm sure there will be some prime suffering in the next movie.
- As I'm not in the fandom I haven't seen meta on it, but I know that in general pairings where the woman is the more active/cool party are often dismissed as nerdboy fantasies (and therefore sexist - though of course the reverse is also and more objectively sexist; the fact that both are called wrong is ridiculous). I hope nobody has been saying that about this one, because it is frankly an awesome pairing and I love both of them and their relationship-of-convenience-on-one-side-oh-god-Peeta.
- I'm kind of enjoying being a movie-type fan rather than a book one, for once, but I'm going to read the books once I get my Kindle.
- Wasn't too fond of the cinematography, especially during that last fight scene and Peeta and Cato having the same color hair.
- I don't know what's up with the salute, and please don't tell me! It gave me shivers - the combination of enigma and (at least in the first instance) subversion of expectations of noise.
- This is so not a ripoff of Battle Royale. Yes, it's a similar scenario, but even if she did get the idea from it, it's so very different in just about every way that, well, it's just not.
- When it comes to dystopic futures, go big or go home. Hunger Games goes big. Shades of Grey goes big. Books like XVI that want to be the next Hunger Games do neither - age tattoos aren't horrifying enough to really unsettle you, but also aren't realistic enough to be worrying.
