{"id":737,"date":"2012-03-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-hunger-games\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:00:00","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched \u201cThe Hunger Games<\/a>\u201d on Monday, and I was quite taken by it\u2026<\/p>\n

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Not by the movie itself, but the idea behind the movie. First rant: when will directors stop with the shake-cam take on action? It serves no purpose\u2026 if they\u2019re aiming for a \u201creal\u201d feel to it, maybe don\u2019t cut down on the blood and guts? Just saying, it\u2019s annoying watching a movie and all the action scenes are just a jumble mess of things on screen\u2026 It\u2019s not real, it\u2019s not visceral, it might have been fun the first 3 or 4 times you saw it in a movie, but enough is enough\u2026<\/p>\n

For those that don\u2019t know, \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d is based on the first book of a series of novels<\/a> called \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d by Suzanne Collins<\/a>. I\u2019m not going to say I read the books before I watched the movie, because I never knew of the books before, to be honest (which apparently is a terrible thing to do amongst the nerd nation). <\/p>\n

Although the movie has tremendous flaws (the aforementioned shake-cam, the plot pieces that don\u2019t go anywhere, the lack of background about the story-world), it picked my interest enough to consider picking up the books\u2026<\/p>\n

The movie takes place in a dystopian society where some provinces of a larger domain tried to rebel against their masters. After being defeated, their punishment was to deliver every year two people to compete in a type of fight-to-the-death televised show. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit silly, I admit\u2026 As crowd control measures go, this one is pretty rotten\u2026 Still, that\u2019s the setting, and what happens in the movie seems like an updated version of 1987 movie \u201cThe Running Man<\/a>\u201d, which I enjoy very much\u2026<\/p>\n

The characters are the usual flat-fare that Hollywood has shoved in our faces for years and years, and the \u201cTwilight\u201d undertones can become annoying sometimes, but all in all, the characters are likeable enough for me not to lose interest in them\u2026 The main character Katniss in particular is pretty interesting, oscillating between teenage crybaby (the \u201cTwilight\u201d undertones) and a strong, driven woman (where it becomes a lot more interesting).<\/p>\n

The aesthetic is also pretty interesting, with that kind of excessive, over-the-top visuals we\u2019d expect from a decadent society that indulges in blood sports for kicks\u2026<\/p>\n

As I said, the movie is interesting enough to make me wonder about the books\u2026 if they deliver a bit more than the movie in terms of ambient and background story (and more evolution to the characters), they actually might be very nice!<\/p>\n

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I watched \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d on Monday, and I was quite taken by it\u2026   Not by the movie itself, but the idea behind the movie. First rant: when will directors stop with the shake-cam take on action? It serves no purpose\u2026 if they\u2019re aiming for a \u201creal\u201d feel to it, maybe don\u2019t cut down […]<\/p>\n