Re: Hunger Games

Loyal Subject on Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:44 am

Well, I'm not saying I'd want every series to do that. But I do think there are a little too few. At least, there are a little too few that are extremely popular.

Lee on Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:10 pm

That's true, I can't really think of any. The only one I can think of is Cyborg 009, which is also very old and not so popular. It's about people who are captured and experimented on to become scientist experiment cyborgs.

Most of them are from different time periods, so a lot of turmoil goes on because of that. And in the ending two of the main characters die. One death could had been avoided, but they died with the main character so he didn't have to die alone.

Loyal Subject on Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:17 pm

Like I said, the only popular (and its more like semi-popular) one I can think of is American McGee's Alice. But even that is different because it starts with Alice being mad and doesn't show her completely breaking down. She's already broken.

I mean, there's a chance the movie of the Hunger Games won't go there. Though I don't see how it can be avoided.

Lee on Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:00 pm

Hollywood can find a way. I mean Disney was able to mesh together Alladin, which wasn't even how the original Alladin was. It was like a series of different works, or so I've been told.

Loyal Subject on Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:06 pm

^ Yeah but Aladdin's different. Aladdin is a fairy tale and therefore doesn't have a lot to go by in terms of story. So it's easy to manipulate. Aladdin also wasn't a new york time's best seller where everyone was desperate to read the book before the movie came out lol XD and where fans would kill the writers for changing their precious story on top of that :p

im saying its going to be hard to get around because that becomes an essential component to the last book. i dont see how they can get around something like that.

Lee on Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:08 pm

Well you're implying that they'll be making all three. Look at the Last Airbender, we haven't heard word, but we all know that Night isn't making the next two.

Loyal Subject on Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:22 pm

^ Because I'm almost positive they will make all three.

See, there's a huge difference between Last Airbender and Hunger Games:

1. Hunger Games is already getting good reviews. It's 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and the movie isn't even out yet.

2. There is no racial controversy in terms of casting so it's not like the fanbase is split. There also has been very little controversial elements in terms of how accurate the movie is going to be.

3. Hunger Games is based on a book so when the movie was announced, the books got way more fans. Last Airbender did not generate as many new fans before the movies were released. Seriously, if you think about it, a lot of fans did not jump the Avatar bandwagon when it was released. If anything, it would have gained fans if it was a good movie. But it wasn't so it didn't.

Lee on Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:54 am

Still, don't count your chickens before they hatch. You never know what might happen. Twilight has a crazy fanbase and I hear all the time that it sucks. I wouldn't know because I never read the book or watched the movie, but I have no desire to either.

So the opposite could happen to the Hunger Games or it could just be bad and no one likes it. You never know until you see it for yourself.

Loyal Subject on Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:15 am

Yeah but Twilight made money. Last Airbender was a failure. Hunger Games is going to make money, I'm almost positive.

Lee on Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:55 pm

This really has nothing to do with the movie or book, but when I first heard about this series, I always imagined a big giant hamburger. Yeah...I don't know.

Loyal Subject on Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:59 pm

^ you know, if so many people didnt know about it, we should have done a study as to what people thought it was about just based on the title.

a giant hamburger seems plausible.

Lee on Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:13 pm

Well it was a cheeseburger actually, with the whole works :P

Loyal Subject on Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:13 pm

Still, makes sense to me.