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Old 04-13-2012, 05:17 PM
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I Saw Hunger Games

and I want my money back.

Thought it had the possibility of being cool, but it is indeed designed for a 12 year old mind. The average audience age was 50.

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Old 04-13-2012, 05:18 PM
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I went to it with the theory the book was a metaphor for the author's struggle with an eating disorder as a teenager. After viewing I changed my mind.
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Old 04-13-2012, 05:39 PM
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I thought it would have been better if they hadnt Disneyfied it.

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Have you ever seen "Battle Royal"? IMDB
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Old 04-13-2012, 08:19 PM
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I've heard of it. Looks to be more my speed.
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Old 04-13-2012, 08:26 PM
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I've heard of it. Looks to be more my speed.
I'm sure it will.
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Ah yes, the Kill Bill girl.

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Have you ever seen "Battle Royal"? IMDB
This was the very first thing which came to mind when someone told me the plot to Hunger Games. If hunger games isn't a rip off copy it sure is one heck of a coincidence.
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Ah yes, the Kill Bill girl.

Chiaki Kuriyama - IMDb
I didn't even know. She won't disappoint in Battle Royal.
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The book was originally published by Scholastic. It's in my school library's young adult section, available to 8th graders with parent permission, what did you expect?

Jennifer Lawrence plays a 16 year old??
Okay....
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The book was originally published by Scholastic. It's in my school library's young adult section, available to 8th graders with parent permission, what did you expect?

Jennifer Lawrence plays a 16 year old??
Okay....
My wife has been doing the book series with her kids in reading class. They are all crazy about them. From what I've heard the books are far more graphically violent than the film was allowed to be in order to appease the nanny state. Apparently they figure the kids have to be protected from the movies but not the books which they've all already read.

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My wife has been doing the book series with her kids in reading class. They are all crazy about them. From what I've heard the books are far more graphically violent than the film was allowed to be in order to appease the nanny state. Apparently they figure the kids have to be protected from the movies but not the books which they've all already read.

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Wasn't that way when I was in high school. "Catcher in the Rye" was a banned book because the School Board decided it was dirty filthy and nasty and obscene in 1963.


So of course I went and snuck out and got one and read it.

To this day I never figured out the answer to Holden Caulfield's question about where the ducks on the pond went for the winter.
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