It’s a shame, really - the movie was a lot of fun.
But, then, it seems one cannot expect people who indulge in make believe for a living - and an opulent living at that - to demonstrate the capacity for cool and rational thought in the real world.
Funny, when I read the book I couldn’t stop thinking about the powers of a big government that can force a citizenry to watch and participate in a system of mandatory murder and total manipulation. Do you think Sutherland donated his bonanza to a Toronto food bank or homeless shelter?
And yet it was the GOVERNMENT that was bloated and rich and exploiting everyone else in the books and the movie.
Sweet sweet tear of Libtard derangement...
And here is what it means to be a liberal.
The folks who adorn their walls with images of Che are the same folks who place the nations healthcare in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.
The evil they claim to see in others, they simply cannot, or will not see in themselves
Hey Oddball... “stop with them negatives waves baby”!
LLS
Only watched the movie. Jennifer Lawrence is fine for one’s eyes.
Party affiliation is irrelevant to the workings of our government. The agenda progresses regardless.
Is he kidding? The Hunger Games are subconsciously making the next generation deathly afraid of a strong centralized government. The main nemeisis is an all powerful national government, using drones and troops against its own people. All the money and resources are siphoned to this strong centralized area while the zones live in squalor and submission. A lot of currently teenage girls should be joinng the ranks of the tea party in about 10 years if my theory is right.
They blame Republicans for their oppression yet the wealthiest of the wealthy in this country mostly Leftist Democrats like Sutherland.
Socialism is for the people not the Socialist.
How come some petulant dorkweed gets to insert his political nasty into a major film?
The investors should be financially punished when they fail to clean out the gratuitous snot from these otherwise outstanding productions.
The author ripped the concept off from another book from 1999, called Battle Royale.
I have read all three books, and I don’t see how any of that could happen under a Conservative/Libertarian society. First of all the GOVERNEMNT runs everything in Panem. There are no corporations, people do not have the freedom to live where they want, they don’t have the freedom to ANYTHING they want, the people can’t have guns, only the authorities can have a gun. People can be killed for hunting. People can be killed for talking bad about the government. The people living in the districts work for the GOVERNMENT, and the Government forcefully distributes the wealth and produce of each district to the surrounding districts. Meanwhile food is rationed by the government. While the people at the top, and the people who live in the Capitol get the best of everything and live it up.
The Hunger Games trilogy has more in common with Communism than Free Market Capitalism.
The capitol in “Hunger Games” is definitely liberal.
* body modification (mostly liberal except military tattoos) * utter concentration of people into small zones (liberal/fascist Agenda 21)
* idealization of nature as people free and protection of animals, to the point that starving people are whipped for hunting for food or mutilated into avox
* the rulers rule but consider military service beneath them (using sector 2 people as peacekeepers unless a citizen is deeply in debt), whereas conservatives value service
I’ve read all three books and watched the movie this weekend when I got it from Netflix. The first book is extremely detailed and the movie is not. It couldn’t be. If it was, the movie would be at least four hours long.
Keep in mind that comments made Suzanne Collins, who authored the books and helped write the screenplay, and by other folks associated with the movie are designed to get you to watch it.
— SPOILER ALERT! —
Bear in mind that this is just the first part of the story. In the books the government is overthrown by the people living in the districts and a representative form of government is installed.
Drew McWeeny a senior-reviewer at hitfix.com: “Obviously there’s not going to be a revolution in the streets of Panem...”
Show your ignorance Drew. It is obvious you did not read books 2 and 3. What an idiot. There IS a revolution and it is lead by the Mockingjay.
You know how they say "Hunger Games" in France? "Battle Royale with cheese." Frank Capra would have loved Hunger Games, Catching Fire and The Mockingjay. Katniss Everdeen would have been a freeper, not a DUmmy clone. She hates government, loves weapons and kills everything she sees. That's our girl.But if it is a totalitarian government run by DEMOCRAPS it will be OK.
So as long as democraps are growing government as fast as possible, we will not have to worry when the hunger games will start
“Don’t recall Bush demanding each state should offer up their children to fight to the death on reality television.”
I think this is what Liberals call, “The Iraq War”.
Having read the trilogy I really disliked how the series ended....no spoilers from me....but I thought it sucked....
I hope the last movie changes the ending...
Personally, I would like to see an American version of the Japanese movie Battle Royale, but with a twist.
In the original movie, Japan was wracked with crime, economic chaos and despair, popularly blamed on high school students.
In the American version, America should be relatively prosperous and happy, but the government (Obama’s, but that doesn’t need to be said) wants everybody to be miserable, starving and full of hate, and thinks that it can bring the ruin of America by providing ruthless entertainment of children killing children to “the masses” on live TV.