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Yeah, I don't know if I'd call it "fantastic." It was good, maybe even very good, but that's about as far as I'd go. See how you feel about it after a few months, when the excitement has worn off.

[Dan2680]

Eh, I would have to side with nascar in saying it was a pretty fantastic movie, but the books are even better. I finished reading the first book and onto the second now and I can barely put the books down.

The movie leaves out a fair bit of details (story is obviously the same) compared to the book, with a few slight differences... but I loved it.

I will probably be there when the store opens so I can buy the movie, lol. Hell I just bought the trilogy at the book store, lol.

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The movie was a bit better portraying a few of the scenes in my opinion though (the "girl on fire" scenes and when rue dies for examples).

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Yeah you're way more enthusiastic about it than me. I'd call it a solid B+, maybe even an A-.

[Evil Rudekker]

Mrs Rudekker and I have just started reading the book. We liked the movie, which we saw last weekend, but we both like the book better. The book is more explicitly anti-Panem (at least in the first chapter), and Gale seems less like set dressing.

[Dan2680]

Mrs Rudekker and I have just started reading the book. We liked the movie, which we saw last weekend, but we both like the book better. The book is more explicitly anti-Panem (at least in the first chapter), and Gale seems less like set dressing.

I am about halfway through the 2nd book, and things are getting pretty crazy lol. I am like addicted to the hunger games now...

[Vvardenfell]

Mrs Rudekker and I have just started reading the book. We liked the movie, which we saw last weekend, but we both like the book better. The book is more explicitly anti-Panem (at least in the first chapter), and Gale seems less like set dressing.

hmm I have only read the book (first one) and he seemed to be just there to complicate any feelings the protagonist could develop towards Peeta, I guess he must be even more minor in the film I was disappointed that they didnt show Katniss and gale's reunion by the end of book one, but I guess saving something like that for the next book is a good way to make the reader buy it xD

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See, this is exactly the kind of mushy nonsense that makes me not want to read the book.

[Dan2680]

Just finished reading the 2nd book... it just kept getting more and more intense, until the last 4 or 5 pages and it was getting pretty crazy, then the very last sentence was a major bomb.

[m3g4tr0n]

It is a pretty good movie, but it is very girl-centric. All the male characters are flawed, most either incompetent or evil.

Luckily, my wife went with her sisters, so I didn't have to sit through it. After that idiotic baseball scene in Twilight, I'm done with chick-flicks.

[Dan2680]

Luckily, my wife went with her sisters, so I didn't have to sit through it. After that idiotic baseball scene in Twilight, I'm done with chick-flicks.

Lol, the hunger games isn't a chick flick but jorost is right, most of the bigger characters featured in the movie are girls. The focus is obviously mainly on Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.

Also, I have finished reading the books... the first one was great and built up to the secondly very nicely. The second book was simply amazing in my opinion, it was very intense for the second half of the book. However the third book took a shift that in my opinion is out of place... so I didn't like it as much as the other two. Overall the trilogy was a good read and I would recommend it.

[Vvardenfell]

However the third book took a shift that in my opinion is out of place... so I didn't like it as much as the other two. Overall the trilogy was a good read and I would recommend it.

I think this is why alot of people didnt like deathly hallows, out of the confort and routine of hogwarts, quidditch matches and christmas

[Dan2680]

Ok I actually found a review that sums up my feelings on why I didn't like "Mockingjay" as much as the other books... I couldn't quite pin point it but this article says it perfectly.

This is a major spoiler so... read at your own risk. This is a snippit from the article, I will post it as well in the spoiler.

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While I loved this book, I do have some criticisms of it. I was expecting Katniss to develop more in Mockingjay. I really thought her internal struggle would be a reflection of what was happening in Panem. I thought that as the districts took back their power, so too would Katniss emerge as the master of her own destiny. Unfortunately it never really happens. She never reaches her full potential and ends her days in passive reflection. Was she manipulated by Snow, or did she, in the final moment, act on her own, setting everyone free to start over, with no Capitol and no District 13? It felt to me that Katniss’ inner journey was never fully resolved. I would have liked her to have had a moment to reflect, to know that she had achieved it, that she had finally become the Mockingjay for real and that once she’d finished her task – had done all she could do – she was ready to leave. But there is no neat ending for Mockingjay. It doesn’t’ get wrapped up nicely with a bow. The ending was a little unsettling, which is definitely part of its strength and its beauty, but a part of me was left wishing for a just a little bit more.

http://www.myhungerg...ingjay-review-2

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Meh. Nothing I read there makes me want to explore the series any more than I already have, which is to say very little. I'll see the movies as they come out, I'm sure, but the books hold no attraction. I still have Game of Thrones sitting on deck.

[Phate]

I still have Game of Thrones sitting on deck.

Read it. Read the full A Song of Ice and Fire series. It is very close to being my favorite series I've read.

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I will. I just haven't been in the mood for it the last few times I was ready for a new book. I'm reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo now. Maybe Game of Thrones will be next.

[The Dark Empire]

It was a good movie but it was slow moving at times. I know this was to build the plot but it was so slow.

[Phate]

I will. I just haven't been in the mood for it the last few times I was ready for a new book. I'm reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo now. Maybe Game of Thrones will be next.

That is also a great book. Undecided on whether I like the Swedish movie or the American movie better though.

[Vvardenfell]

I was so bored in the cinema watching the sequel of the girl with the dragon tattoo I do like watching foreign films overall though

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It was a good movie but it was slow moving at times. I know this was to build the plot but it was so slow.

Heh. DE, this is the second time today you've complained about a movie that I considered to be appropriately paced as "too slow." Have you considered the possibility that you have ADHD?

[The Dark Empire]

Heh. DE, this is the second time today you've complained about a movie that I considered to be appropriately paced as "too slow." Have you considered the possibility that you have ADHD?

what was the first movie I complained about and I'm positive I don't have ADHD but thanks for the concern lol