Kinda has the whole Artemis thing going on.
Can’t we just watch a damned movie ?
People read WAY to much into movies.
In spite of the highest paid teachers and the highest county sales tax (Cook county where Chicago lies is 10.25%). The state is controlled from top to bottom by democrats and no one is willing to learn from their example.
Quite the opposite - America seems more than willing to follow it. Now the question is: how will our grand kids adapt to world Obama is bringing them?
Was the first one any good? I haven’t seen it.
Isn’t it schadenfreude that a libtard makes a movie to bash Bush but it reflects odumbo’s world to a T?? LOL
She cleans up nice.Collins is a bit of an idiot since in her books the government is all powerful very leftwing in its tyranny
It’s a good and diverting movie, but somehow blaming the whole thing on George Bush moves it into the category of silly. The cruel, tyrannical military officer who is the representative of the evil president of the fictional Panem was clearly meant to look like George Bush, just in case you didn’t get the connection.
Meanwhile, we have a genuinely cruel, petty, dictatorial, openly contemptuous person in the WH running what is becoming more of a coercive spy state every day, and the Hollywood liberals and authors love him. Bizarre.
The first book in the series was written in 2008, year 8 of the Bush (the younger) era.
The simple fact is that dystopian novels are extremely popular in juvenile fiction, and have been for some time now. We shouldn't be surprised that when such a story (and a best-selling one at that) is adapted into a well-made film, that it would be successful.
Keep in mind the author wrote these books under Bush, it was meant to be a comment about HIS administration.
Whats great, IMHO, is that it unwittingly describes the Obama admin better.
I find that liberals are pretty stupid when it comes to recognizing forms of government.
I read the three books; I liked the story line, although the books are kind of juvenile; it is hilarious to me that Stephanie Mayer is often attacked for her writing in Twilight (partly because of the whole “girl falls in love with a boy” story), but Collins is praised when her writing isn’t any better.
But a lot of liberals see “totalitarian government” and think that’s republicans. They don’t understand that totalitarian is more often from the left — of course they think Hitler is “far-right”, so what do you expect.
The other hilarious thing is how “Catniss” is thought of as a female hero, when the real hero of the book is Peta; Catniss is really just a pawn who makes a really good pawn because she isn’t a weak person. But almost nothing that happens to her is something she thinks up. She is always being told what to do by some man.
The movies have tried to correct some of the bad messaging in the book, by making her stronger and more independent (the first movie anyway, I’ll have to see the 2nd movie to comment on it).
For example. The basis of the book is that there is a cruel game played every year where 24 kids are sent to fight each other to the death. Now, ethically, if an evil man puts you in a cage with an innocent person, and tells you “kill them or I’ll kill you”, does it give you the moral right to take a life? Not in my book, (although the TV show Criminal Minds they actually had this happen, and suggested the kid who killed another kid would get away with it).
And after two hunger games described, who is the one person who actually never kills anybody? It is Peta. Catniss kills people; the book struggles to suggest that the people she kills were “worthy” of it, in one case they have already killed someone and she kills in response, but other times she kills kids who have never killed anybody simply because they are hanging with others who kill — remember every one of them but one will end up dead, after all).
Anyway, the books are great to discuss how you actually defeat totalitarian governments.
Have you seen this?
Incite Your Passion with the Instigator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8PqBKHrXA