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As a middle aged father who's read all the books, I say to all of you parents who are thinking about taking your young children to the movie or even letting them go by themselves.... WT17 are you thinking? Do some reasearch.. Read some reviews... You know, that parenting type ****.

In an 8:30 showing last night multiple parents got up with their children and took them out. Then as I was leaving I heard a soccer mom who was standing with two (probably) 3rd grade girls complaining to the theater manager about the movie being too violent. .....Idiot.
 
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As a middle aged father who's read all the books, I say to all of you parents who are thinking about taking your young children to the movie or even letting them go by themselves.... WT17 are you thinking? Do some reasearch.. Read some reviews... You know, that parenting type ****.

In an 8:30 showing last night multiple parents got up with their children and took them out. Then as I was leaving I heard a soccer mom who was standing with two (probably) 3rd grade girls complaining to the theater manager about the movie being too violent. .....Idiot.
 
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You don't even have to read the books. Read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia. How this has been marketed to tweens is beyond me.
 
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i have been deathly afraid of green witches and flying monkeys ever since i saw the wizard of oz at age 5.<div>
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when a movie is rated pg13 and its not due to sex, language or drug use, its because its going to be really violent. what dumbass would take their 3rd grader (8-9 yo) to a movie appropriate for 13 yo and not be prepared for content over their head? i swear most people should not be allowed to have children.
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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Not that it's bad in the books, but translated to the big screen it is going to have an entirely different feel. I've read the three books and thought that no one below the age of maybe 13 should have any business reading the book, much less seeing the movie. I haven't seen the movie, but I can only guess that they toned down the violence some from the book (and probably is still violent by YA standards). It ain't like Harry potter where it's magical types of killing going on. The Hunger Games has some very brutal death scenes.<div>
</div><div>I can't wait for Ender's Game to come out in a couple years. Ender literally beating the life out of another kid in the shower is going to scar for life some 8 year olds whose parents thought it would be okay to take their kid to see the movie.</div>
 
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It's not that violent. At all. Nor is it overwhelmingly entertaining. I've never read the books, and after seeing that cinematic abortion, I have even less desire to do so. The movie has this strange "Twilight saga" feel to it. All the bad guys look like Dr. Seuss characters, and for some unknown reason, all the parents in the movie just accept the fact that the government is going to take their children. People with pink hair are taking our babies? Oh well, might as well get used to it. As far as the on-screen violence goes, you see worse stuff on network television, so maybe those soccer moms have just sheltered their kids. Never again will I let a woman trick me into going to see a film just because "the books are good, and I think you'll like it". If your kids are 10 or above (maybe younger if they're really mature) they'll be fine.
 
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This would be the last movie that I'd guess would have a cult following. I don't see anything appealing about it at all.

And yeah I KINDA liked Twilight. Kinda. Especially after the series started making fun of itself.
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">How graphic is this teen-on-teen carnage? "You don't need to be gratuitous in order to be honest and capture the intensity of the book,"</span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">Hunger Games[/i]<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">director Gary Ross said in an interview with</span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">Entertainment Weekly[/i]<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">. "Is it violent? Yes. Do we back off from what it is? No, we don't. But I'm not interested in violence for violence's sake."</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">The result of Ross' vision is that the clashes and blows are filmed in herky-jerky snippets. We see bodies scattered across an open field with very evident wounds. Bloody and festering cuts, burns and gashes are fully visible on both Katniss' and Peeta's bodies. But in the actual heat of battle the camera flits in and away quickly. Repeatedly. But quickly.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); "><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(237, 239, 235); ">"What Suzanne [Collins] has done brilliantly is create a series that is a critique of violence using violence to get that across," says David Levithan, one of her editors at Scholastic Press, "and that's a fine line."</span>
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Ever heard of The Running Man by Stephen King? It was made into a movie in the 80's, and it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was okay, it had it's up and downs. Well the Hunger Games is basically the exact same thing except instead of one adult, it involves like 20 somthing kids. That's like taking Coke changinga fewthings and making Pepsi. I hate to see when people who ripoff an idea and make a profit on it, but I guess that's how it goes. I also heard that there was some book or movie from Japan called Battle Royal in the 90's that is almost identical to the Hunger Games. Idk never read or saw it...., but I can say The Hunger Games is a total ripoff of The Running Man
 
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Rebels7

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(King pen name). And the book couldn't possibly be more different than the movie.

Just saying.
 
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It's a total ripoff of Hamlet.<div>
</div><div>Or don't bother reading Carl Sagan's Contact. It's a ripoff of Clarke's 2001. Both have aliens and space travel. I think.</div>
 
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Longhorns510

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Don't expect a whole lot of orginality from the series or movie. There's no need to throw a fit over it. My point was an unoriginalthing was going to pull in a bunch of $, and I guess that's just how it goes. I didn't say the series sucked or was good or anything like that. And I agree 100% that almost everything now is a ripoff of something, and like I said that's just how it goes today. I just think it's funny how much $ it's going to make. Avatar's storyline was a ripoff of Pocahontas, and it made the most money ever. And now because of Avatar's success of being a 3D movie, half the movies now are in 3D some only in 3D, and now people have to pay an extra $4 or $5 to see a movie that really only has about 10mins of good 3D? I hate Hollywood haha. </p>
 
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Longhorns510 is obviously a Muslim Extremist looking to kill us all. Someone notify the FBI. Or Greg Byrne. Or somebody.
 
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Didn’t think it was too violent. It was entertaining, plus it had some redeeming social values for kids: Loyalty to family and friends, don’t trust the government, and how to defend yourself if you have to kill on television in a post-apocalyptic world.
 
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With bigger Tits. Video NSFW

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Making history, Lionsgate's The Hunger Games opened to an

astounding $155 million at the domestic box office, the third-best debut

of all time and the best for any film opening outside of summer.
 
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...are good. I wouldn't wipe my *** with Twilight (I read them all and they are complete trash). If you have a daughter who's into literature you should be thankful if she likes these books.<div>
</div><div>Lessons learned from Hunger Games:</div><div>Don't blindly trust political ideologies</div><div>Take care of your family and friends no matter what</div><div>You need help to get through difficult times, you can't do it alone</div><div>
</div><div>Lessons learned from Twilight:</div><div>If a guy is hot, nothing else really matters</div><div>
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