hunger games

[kaydeefalls]

HOLY SHIT, HUNGER GAMES IS THE MOST DEPRESSING YA SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF STORIES MAKING ME LOSE THE WILL TO LIVE.

Seriously, if I had read this at age ten, I would have -- well, actually, loved it to bits just as much as I do now, because I was a profoundly fucked up child who liked reading books about teenagers dying tragically of cancer (I am deeply ashamed of some of my past literary choices, although not quite so much so as of my excruciatingly embarrassing fondness for the Sookie Stackhouse books). But anyway. Rocks fall, everyone dies! BUT ONLY IF THEY'RE LUCKY.

Goddamn, that was bleak. And really, really good. AND REALLY, REALLY BLEAK.

They're filming these? Seriously? Do they somehow expect to maintain a PG-13 rating without deviating so drastically from the storyline as to change it entirely, or are we just accepting these as grown-up movies that happen to feature a bunch of teenagers?

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[lorax]

HEE. I was waiting for that reaction.

I have NO IDEA how they'll film those an keep a PG-13 rating, but I'm guessing they'll fight tooth and nail to do so because they won't want to lose the teen audience. Which. . . is going to suck, because without the bleakness and rampant death, they're not going to be the same story at all.

[kaydeefalls]

I guess most of the graphic violence and death could happen offscreen? But man, I don't know, kinda hard to cut the scene where a twelve-year-old girl dies slowly by spear.

[lorax]

I KNOW. And much as I have issues with the casting so far, the little girl they cast as Rue is SO ADORABLE and I'm just thinking HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DO THIS WITHOUT AN R RATING?

I am STILL mourning some of those deaths. For killing SO MANY PEOPLE, she still managed to ave me care about them even.