"Don't worry Charlie conservative, I won't pull the football away this time"!
I guess they forget Obama telling people they need to sacrifice and then his old lady loading up on lobster and exotic vacations.
Watched that movie just the other day, and it just wreaked of liberal/socialist ideology. The only character with a backbone was the girl who hunted (on king’s land no less) to provide for her family, and eventually became the nemesis for the sutherland character. The only reason I watched the whole movie was to see how the powers to be in the would respond to the potential threat that the girl would pose.
The hair on my arms stood up when he said that.
Hope and change.
“Don’t recall Bush demanding each state..... Was it around the time he let Ted Kennedy write education “reform,” or when he was expanding the Medicare entitlement?”
Well “No Child Left Behind” and Medicare Entitlements, are building blocks that lead to societies like in the Hunger Games
——In the same interview Sutherland said, “[The Hunger Games] so clearly and carefully echoes [today]. I think the people with Occupy Wall Street and Occupy L.A., out of those people will come a leader. It has to. It’s time, it’s absolutely time.”——
Sutherland must have been smoking some serious weed... If he thinks a “leader” will emerge from the OWS movement...which is almost entirely AstroTurf not grass roots...OWS is paid for and and funded by socialist like Soros and world wide union movements....
There are tools nothing more...
By the way, while reading the books, I couldn't figure out why the author called the story "Hunger" Games. Every single page had some reference to food and people eating lots of it. And in the movie, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence, at any rate) was obviously VERY well fed. She is a very healthy girl.
This movie is an obvious rip-off of what the Aztecs used to do to their subservient tribes. I won’t be seeing this movie.....With a girl warrior hero? Another example of the feminization of American society
How much you wanna bet Suzanne Collins thinks Obama is the bestest thing ever to happen to America and is going to save us all from the big bad government that Bush created??
Panem is basically North Korea with gladiator sports and reality TV. It’s nothing less than the nightmare of communism made accessible to every teenager in the country. In that regard, the author has inadvertently provided us a great cultural service.
Beyond the politics of this opinion it is just not true. There is virtually no mention of capitalism and corporations when it comes to the evil empire, free enterprise takes place in a black market setting, and the whole thing is basically a Stalinist state. The only critic of American culture here is that of a shallow, entertainment driven society, where people get off watching obscene garbage on TV. A valid critic that conservatives and liberals can agree about.
Criticism of Bush era is simply not there.
Funny i read these books twice before passing them on to my granddaughters and I thought of the communist democrats not Bush.
I to saw the extras and wondered how these Hollyweird types drew Bush. Then I didn’t have to look to far for the answer they’re liberals and commits and only have a small mental capacity.
Hunger Games is about overcoming tyrant, oppression, and extreme evil. That is what the left is all about.
What a pantload of tripe. From Wikipedia:
"Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her father's service in the Vietnam War also affected the story, with Katniss having lost her father at age 11, five years before the story begins. Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story. She considered the moments where Katniss reflects on happier moments in her past to be more enjoyable."
There are nearly two hours of special features on the release.
The letter from Sutherland and the rest of this are featured in a very small segment. I’d be surprised if anyone made it to this part of the Special Features.
We rolled our eyes and went on to the next segment. For the dummies, this is very significant. For the kids, it’s the bad guy talking, for those with a brain, we wonder how Jack Bauer spawned from those loins.
I feel like boycotting #2
Suzanne Collins must like the poverty and government in control of our lives if she hates Bush.
Leftists are such hypocrites
The source material Battle Royal was in an alternate future where Japan WON WWII.
Even then, America was somehow the bad nation in the world because when Battle Royale II came out, it begins with the demolition of 7 towers by Afghani terrorists who somehow convinced the winner of Battle Royale I to join their group.
And of course, “we” deserved it. The director of I died during the making of II, so I don’t know how much shared sentiment there was. But it clearly alluded to 9-11-2001 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So of course Hollyweird is going to draw some kind of allusion.
Huh? it's a rip-off of the Japanese "Battle Royale"...