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Old 03-22-2012, 04:33 PM   #1
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Someone else I know mentioned Battle Royale. You could also mention Logan's Run, The Running Man, The Long Walk, etc.,.
yea, thats what i said earlier....mashup of 70s Sci-Fi Dystopia (Soylent Green, Logans Run, Clockwork Orange, etc..) and Battle Royale. Very odd subject matter for young adult fiction. Not something girls would normally be attracted to.
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Old 03-22-2012, 07:48 PM   #2
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Someone else I know mentioned Battle Royale. You could also mention Logan's Run, The Running Man, The Long Walk, etc.,.

All I know is, this movie has gained in popularity as release date approached. We started with a midnight Imax show and a midnight show on the regular-theater side. We added a 2nd midnight. We added a 3rd midnight. They're all sold out and today we added a 4th midnight. I'm sure the film will die down significantly in popularity but, just based on the opening weekend, it should turn a healthy profit.
Whereas those other movies are similar, Hunger Games is damn near and exact copy of Battle Royale though..

This movie is geared more towards girls, Royale is for the guys, think of it as a Tarantino movie..
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Old 03-22-2012, 03:23 PM   #3
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This really seems like and odd premise to be so popular amonst the young adult fiction crowd. A combonation of 70's dystopia sc-fi and the Japanese flick Battle Royale.
Dystopian is the new vampire.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...t-hunger-games
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And there are a ton of fantastic YA dystopian novels (it was my pet genre for a while). The Uglies series by Westerfeld will likely be a movie soon. Shipbreaker is really good. Unwind by Westerfeld is awesome. Little Brother by Doctorow is amazing though it's near future dystopian.
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Old 03-22-2012, 05:37 PM   #6
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And there are a ton of fantastic YA dystopian novels (it was my pet genre for a while). The Uglies series by Westerfeld will likely be a movie soon. Shipbreaker is really good. Unwind by Westerfeld is awesome. Little Brother by Doctorow is amazing though it's near future dystopian.
Thanks for the recommendations. I am on a bit of dystopian kick myself, not YA right now, but could go that direction. I'm reading Swastika Nights at the moment. Quite disturbing.
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I saw it an a preview event this evening and I also read the books about a year and a half back.

It felt flat and rushed. I know that they're trying to cram a lot into 2 hours and it's never the same as the book, which makes it OK to skip a lot of things but the parts that they kept still felt rushed.

As best I can remember they stayed true to the book, which is rare.

The special effects were really terrible in a few spots.

For someone who hasn't read the books there will be no expectation for a 2nd or 3rd movie. It just kind of ends. One of my friends after the movie who hasn't read it just said "that's it?".
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Oh. I had no idea this was a girls book / movie.

I knew the main character was a girl, but that was it.
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Oh. I had no idea this was a girls book / movie.

I knew the main character was a girl, but that was it.
It's not a girls book. There re just a lot of teenage girls who like it.
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It's not a girls book. There re just a lot of teenage girls who like it.
What is a girls book if it's not one that's more attractive to girls than guys?
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What is a girls book if it's not one that's more attractive to girls than guys?
This is an interesting question.

Is there such a thing as a girl book or a guy book? There are certainly genres that fit this mold... Romance novels vs war stories.

Would it be based off of who winds up liking it more? What if it's a brutal war book that more girls wind up liking (not likely)?

When I read the Hunger Games I didn't think it was a girl book but later I found out that I was told that it was a young adult book and now I'm seeing all of the screaming idiot teenage girls on TV and I'm wondering what I got myself into.
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This is an interesting question.

Is there such a thing as a girl book or a guy book? There are certainly genres that fit this mold... Romance novels vs war stories.

Would it be based off of who winds up liking it more? What if it's a brutal war book that more girls wind up liking (not likely)?

When I read the Hunger Games I didn't think it was a girl book but later I found out that I was told that it was a young adult book and now I'm seeing all of the screaming idiot teenage girls on TV and I'm wondering what I got myself into.
LOL. The book was kind of meh to me, but good enough to keep reading. I happened to be reading it when I went into the hospital for a minor surgery and 3 different female nurses noticed and gushed about how much they loved the book. After surgery, I had some physical therapy and two of the female therapists also gushed about the book. Those were my first hints that women seemed to be getting more out of the book than I was.
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I have to admit, Jennifer Lawrence is smokin. Love that she's not rail thin too. Prefer her as a blonde though.
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I have to admit, Jennifer Lawrence is smokin. Love that she's not rail thin too. Prefer her as a blonde though.
She a hell of an actress. (Winter's Bone)
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