People are spoling a film that won’t be out for 2-3 years and I’m supposed to quit using a handy function about a movie that’s out now?
Scammer, there is a search function available to you.
District 5 provides the power to the whole of Panem - not just the Capitol. One look at their logo will tell you it doesn’t all come from coal. In fact, it could be that very little power comes from coal, and that most of the coal mined in District 12 is redistributed to the other districts for whatever they need it for - textile mills in District 8, machine shops in District 3… who knows, maybe they use coal as bait to catch some kind of mutated Chilean sea bass in District 4! 
Furthermore, the amount of power District 5 delivers to your district may vary according to how much of a threat President Snow thinks an uprising there may be. Katniss certainly doesn’t have any trouble slipping under the “electrified” fence around District 12 to go hunting in the woods, and nobody in power there even cares as long as the fence is tall enough to keep the beasties on the other side.
Saw it today. I actually liked the film a bit better than the book (though I’m not a huge fan of the book – it was okay.) One thing in particular struck me, though.
I really, really liked Cato’s sort of “breakdown” at the end, because it spun the story a bit differently for me. He realized that Katniss and Peeta had already more or less been declared the winners, because of the “two winners” announcement, and it devastated him – not only because he was going to die, but because it robbed him of his life’s purpose.
As far as I can recall, that angle was totally absent from the book, and Cato was nothing but a scary monster. This was considerably deeper than most of the angst the book was riddled with, in my opinion.
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Actually at the time of the announcement of the survivor rule, his partner was also alive. In the books
He was rather upset at her death, which is not shown in the movie
Right, but now that he knows that announcement no longer applies to him, I think he sees the writing on the wall.
Finally saw it this weekend. I haven’t read the books. Decent crowd in the theater even though the movie has been out a long time. The shaky cam really got on my nerves. Especially the unnecessary shaky cam when they were just panning around town, wtf?
The movie was very good, if a bit uneven. Some parts went too fast, some went too slow. I suppose in the book there was a lot more to Katniss and Lenny Cravitz’s friendship? Because in the movie they get close for no particular reason that I can see. I really don’t care much about the Peeta/Katniss relationship and the time in the cave was very slow.
The people running the games seem inept, why all the fireballs after Katniss with no warning? No “turn back, you are going the wrong way and we will hurt you.” Summoning dog creatures out of thin air? That hardly seems fair. Then changing the rules so there could be two winners, then changing them back again? No wonder there is unrest in the districts.
I really sort of expected the games to be Katniss sniping people from the trees with her arrows, but that would be standard action story fare and I’m glad they didn’t go that way. The plot nicely dodged Katniss having to decide whether to kill any of the little kids at all. Not sure how I feel about that. I suppose if it came down to the end with her and the kids and she refused to kill them, the game controllers would just send dogs or fire out to kill them.
I haven’t seen the movie yet but did read the book. It seems a lot of people ask that about certain parts of the movie: “I suppose the book goes into more detail?”
Actually, no. The book really doesn’t go into a whole lot of depth on anything. Sounds like what ended up on the screen is what the director had to work with.
This is not quite true. The book goes into exhausting detail telling the reader exactly what Katniss is thinking at all times. This spares the reader the apparently unwanted burdens of thinking and interpretation.
It seems pretty clear why this wouldn’t work so well for a film.
Yes, the book is written in first person but even then Katniss’ thoughts aren’t really that deep. Some people asked if the book goes into more depth about her feelings about Peeta or Gail and I’d say no, she’s pretty clueless about her feelings for either of them. Maybe that is accurate for a 15 year-old?
Why does she have a bond with Cinna? Bascially because he was nice to her and that’s about as deep as it goes.
I did wonder if the announcements about the rule changes were made to the contestants but not included in the TV broadcast. I asked a friend who’s read the books, but she said answering this question would spoil things for the later books/movies and I said I’d rather not know then.
We saw the movie this weekend in the second-run theatre - I liked it except for two major problems - far too much shaky cam, and far too much of the movie shot in extreme close-up. It was frustrating as hell - pull back and quit shaking the camera! I’m trying to see the movie here!
yes, it is. coal is made into coke.
I was at Walmart last night @ midnight standing in line to buy the Blu-ray on release. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before.
It’s amazing the things you’ll do for your kids. 
One of the students where I work bought the DVD today and we watched it in the dorm’s TV room.
I would like to point out one little item that I noticed immediatly that younger viewers will miss. I read all 5 pages of this thread and didn’t see it mentioned.
A few scenes before the almost ‘Romeo and Juliet’ scene where they are about to eat the poison berries but then don’t, Katniss is in the forest whistling a signal, to find Rue? I don’t know, it’s a little before she finds her in the net.
Anyway, the scripwriters are having a little fun, because that whistle is the first 4 notes of the ‘Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet’, from the movie that came out in the mid '70s when I was young. I recognized it right off. Whistled it all the way home from work.
Now that the DVD is out you can see what I mean.
Here is the whistle signal. Listen to it a couple times and then the Henry Mancini music in the link I posted above.
edit:
Sorry. I posted a spoiler. Well, kind of. But it was about music in Book 3.
Mancini didn’t write that. He basically did a cover of the theme from the film music written by Nino Rota. Mancini’s single version did hit number one on the Billboard 100 chart in 1969.
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Anybody want to clue me in on how to get the digital copy off the blu ray? I have a BR player on this computer, but can’t find the damn thing on either BR disk. Searching the net gets me little more than stores (Google is getting really sucky, btw). There aren’t any instructions on the disks themselves and the official website is no help.
I got the digital copy off the DVD by following the instructions on the piece of paper at the front of the case, which required me to go to iTunes and type in a code. YMMV.
Shit. I gave the box to my daughter, God only knows where that piece of paper is now.