How many more do they need to make? Hunger games, Divirgent, I read that several more are lined up to be filmed. There was a shortlist a while ago with five or six of them. All of them written by women. All of them with a heroine who's saving a "world" which is about as big as a city. All of them about a republic and districts. Did all these people take the same $200 writing class?
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Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote: How many more do they need to make? Hunger games, Divirgent, I read that several more are lined up to be filmed. There was a shortlist a while ago with five or six of them. All of them written by women. All of them with a heroine who's saving a "world" which is about as big as a city. All of them about a republic and districts. Did all these people take the same $200 writing class?
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Crusoe wrote: Are there really that many dystopian trilogies doing the rounds at the moment?
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Erics Inner Monologue wrote: The Hunger Games is fucking shite though, isn't it?
I thought both films were alright. And it's nice to see a strong, independent female character on screen.
I'm not really the target demographic though.
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Erics Inner Monologue wrote: The Hunger Games is fucking shite though, isn't it?
Divergent was like watching some initiation ritual from a higher school, gone mad. Hunger games was ultimately bland and totally pointless. Nothing of significance happens. There’s no message of any depth. Yes, so they’re popular. So are vampire and zombie movies. Doesn’t mean I have to understand why people aren’t fed up with them by now and doesn’t mean I can’t question someone writing yet another dystopian trilogy. In the way that I don’t think all of them write them because of the writing itself, the quality storytelling, but instead sat there and thought “hey, I can write one and make millions on a book and movie rights deal”
They’re all an ultra light version and copy of the ultimate dystopian brilliant movie Battle Royale.
And I'm still waiting for Stephen Kings Dark Tower series to come to life on HBO. That will be something else.
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Isn't it great that kids these days are reading stuff that tells them to stand up to what are, effectively, fascist states? Is it perhaps part of the current dialogue about NSA overreach, excessive police force, reduction of civil liberties, and kids are choosing to read stuff that suggests they shouldn't basically take this shit?
It's an interesting change from the middle-aged-men-who-read-superhero-comics which broadly seem to be about a fight either against criminals, or super-criminals, or terrorists, or some sort of foreign-invasion. Stuff which might be argued reinforces the paranoia about civil breakdown and might encourage obedience to those who argue that perhaps we need a bigger, tougher Robocop. (*)
Hurrah for the Hunger Games.
(*) Note: I've seen about one superhero film in the last decade and only the Hunger Games of the Kids-Fight-The-Dystopian-Police-State movies, so I might be talking entirely out of my 'hole.
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(*) Note: I've seen about one superhero film in the last decade and only the Hunger Games of the Kids-Fight-The-Dystopian-Police-State movies, so I might be talking entirely out of my 'hole.
More to the point, there are loads of (very popular) non-superhero (and several superhero, broadly defined) comics which are skeptical of authority or portray people fighting oppressive governments.
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