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The Hunger Games (2012)

March. 23,2012
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7.2
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PG-13
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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.

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TrueJoshNight
2012/03/23

Truly Dreadful Film

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SnoReptilePlenty
2012/03/24

Memorable, crazy movie

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Iseerphia
2012/03/25

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

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Rosie Searle
2012/03/26

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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sonnygoten
2012/03/27

I remember loving this movie when it first came out to the cinemas in my early twenties. Now I'm in my late twenties and rewatching this movie, and it feels dull. Perhaps my perspective had changed with age; I'm no longer the target audience for this kind of fare. Perhaps this is a watch-once-and-forget type of movie; and watching it a 2nd time was my mistake. In any case, I recommend this movie only to the Young Adult and New Adult audiences and only for a one time watch on a lazy Friday night. It's not exactly a master piece.

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dcm-20130
2012/03/28

This is a watered down copy of Battle Royale which was unique and entertaining as hell! Honestly, I had to watch this silliness due to a sleepover and, I just wanted to turn it off and let the kids watch the far superior Kinji Fukasaku movie instead. However, the kids were only 9 which is about the age cap on this piece of ripped off crap.

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gerumghl
2012/03/29

Many people who hates on this movie are most likely people who are against the "young adult fiction" genre. Just like how I was. But honestly, this movie's alright to what it tried to bring to this dystopian world with Katniss as the main pov. It doesn't only overly on romance all the time, which is a relief on these types of movies. Instead, we get some good battle royale footage, and an actual background and good reason for its existence. Pretty good start off in the series.

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Johnny H.
2012/03/30

The Hunger Games has become a household name in pop-cultural life, and this film is an entertaining introduction to a broadly-appealing yet well done dystopia not too far off the brutality of Battle Royale or The Running Man. It's not Twilight (thank Christ for that) and thankfully it's got a better romantic triangle than any of that vampire hogwash had going for it.This series is like a millennial-appealing take on other sci-fi dystopias ranging from George Orwell's 1984 to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; where those stories explored totalitarianism in more subversive ways this one shows how extreme things can get when violence is thrown into the equation.Considering this came out in 2012 and people are STILL saying whether or not this ripped off Battle Royale I think that those addresses are fair, and that it doesn't suffer from the pre-established derivativeness of something like Divergent (which apparently carbon-copied the story so much the films themselves were distributed by Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment).Anyway, this film is an adaptation of a book that was craving a movie based on it, and it's a good action flick focusing on young men and women trying to survive the worst to-the-death scenario you could possibly imagine.

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