[GeorgiaDawg32]

Personally, I could care less about this movie. I refuse to watch something where the object is to kill 23 other people and be the last standing.

[TwoSwords]

I know. We can just read about Mexico, Syria, Chicago, LA.

[SampleMan]

I don’t know about the movies, but the books are great.

The story line of the books concerns the evils of a too powerful central government.

How did you like Sparticus?

[Treeless Branch]

Wow. You don’t have a clue.

[tanknetter]

... where the object is to kill 23 other people and be the last standing.

"People" may be technically accurate, but the best term to use here is really "kids". The youngest child killed in the first book (and current movie) is only 13. In the movie she first assists in killing another child, and wounding several others (by pointing out a big next of lethal, genetically-engineered wasps to another contestant, who then drops it on them) and is then killed via javelin to the torso.

Now while child-survival scenarios like this can make great literature (Lord of the Flies, for instance), I don't really think that's the case here. This is action-adventure bloodsport marketed to teenagers, with everyone only looking to find "meaning" in it ex post facto, as a way to justify their own desire to read/see it.

One thing that really creeps me out are all the Liberal hand-wringers who are completely outraged by the killing of Trayvon Martin, but were pretty much wetting themselves in glee waiting to see "The Hunger Games" its premiere weekend.

[BenLurkin]

Hollyweird is run by some very sick puppies.