The Hunger Games
DVD - 2012


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Age Suitability
Add Age Suitabilitypink_dolphin_3025 thinks this title is suitable for 10 years and over
JosephMerrill thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 13 and 12
green_alligator_8499 thinks this title is suitable for 9 years and over
Notices
Add NoticesViolence: Some images might not be suitable for younger ages: a girl gets killed by tracker jackers and is all puffed up (it is really gross)
Frightening or Intense Scenes: Painful wounds and the threat of deadly peril are constants in this movie. The girl stung by the tracker jackers and the dying twelve year old are particularly upsetting.
Quotes
Add a QuotePeeta Mellark: So what happens when we get back?
Katniss Everdeen: I don't know. I guess we try to forget.
Peeta Mellark: I don't wanna forget.
"Go on. Shoot. Then we both go down and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I just didn't know that until now." -Cato Hadley, District 2
"Thank you for your Consideration," - Katniss
"Nice shooting sweetheart," - Haymitch
Peeta:" I keep wishing that I could think of a way......to show the Capitol that they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games." Katniss:" I just can't afford to think like that."

Summary
Add a SummaryI'll try not to give too much away, for those of you yet to see it! Indeed, I'll stop using actual names, further along.
__ Katniss volunteers for the games, to spare her 10 year old younger sister. She and her neighborhood baker's son, Peeta, find themselves whisked from semi-rural poverty, onto a 200 mph train, flashily attired with crystal chandeliers, flashy food, a garishly garnered gathering of a made up white faced, dress and jacket [yellow and pink?! I couldn't look! :-{ ], constantly ranting woman (Effie Trinket) "Aren't you so lucky to be on this train, such a smooth ride, all this flash food and furnishings! (Never mind you're off to your probable deaths!) May the odds always be in your favor"! Haymitch arrived, drunk and didn't dispense advice. He was able, however, to prevent an attack from Peeta, with a well placed foot onto his chest. Latter, a very concerned Katniss missed stabbing his hand by 2cm. Effie: "THAT'S MAHOGANY"!! Haymitch admonishers Katniss - she needs to win friends - for influence and sponsorship. They arrive, meet other contestants. Haymitch stays off the booze, briefs and gives them advice.
__ For instances:
_ One district has academy that trains fighters, who then volunteer for the Hunger Games.
_ Contestants jumping the start gun get killed by the organizers.
_ Keep away from the goodies pile at the start - turns into blood bath.
_ Go uphill and find water supply.
__THE GAMES START__. (I will stop using names). A brawl at the pile. Contestant 4 goes and grabs bag that had left the pile. Then gets bowled by another contestant, who changes her mind and they back apart, run off. Contestant 4 makes for the boundary. At 1.5km, the controllers set off a forest fire, with fire balls, to chase Contestant 4 back, leaving her with large burn to leg. Brief scene: Haymitch talks to wealthy couple. Contestant 4 receives paragliding robot, carrying curing balm. Contestant 4 sees Peeta has joined the Academy force, who go around killing other contestants, 5 on 1. They corner Contestant 4 up a tree and wait her out. Contestant 7 points out GE Wasp (hallucinogenic and possibly deadly sting) nest to 4. Who got it to fall on Academy, who run away. Contestant 4 then wanders, hallucinating from the Stings Contestant 4 received. Contestants 4 and 7 launch plan to get goodies from academy but C7 killed. Her district riots and rebels! Academy have surrounded goodies pile with mines. Contestant 4 knocks over goodies setting off the mines and wreaking many of the goodies. In Control Room, Chief Games Controller has another organize attack dogs to go after Contestant 4 - who does so with an Excessively Sadistic Delight! President Rose tells Chief Controller only one contestant is to survive - no sympathy or playing to public's appeal for underdogs - of whom there are far too many. (Haymitch had pitched letting two survive, as underdogs, to Chief Controller). I very much like President Rose and intend to start a committee for his re-election!! Back at the games, Mr Academy has a cry, tells other survivors he has nothing to loose because only knows how to kill! I'll end my summary here.
__ Written in main 08:50 30/11/15
In the Distant Future lies the ruins of North America. What remains of North America is called Panem, home to the Capitol and all it's 12 districts. Dating back to the Dark Days where the Rebels tried to take over, the Capitol "maintains" control over the districts by forcing their districts to choose 1 boy and 1 girl to participate in the Capitol's Annual Hunger Games. The hunger games is a televised arena death match that airs live on TV. There can only be 1 victor in the Hunger Games.
Comment
Add a CommentSome really great actors, never gets old, DEFINITELY one of my favourites!
Sometimes it's not fair to compare the movie to the book and I think this is the case for this film. I think it was spectacular but each person will create their own world as this is a very imaginative story.
@mrbeowulf, you obviously haven't read the books. I highly recommend you do, they are better than the movie and might clear things up for you a bit.
I liked it, but a bit violent in the cornucopia blood bath.
🏹 Unintentionally funny. Notice the train that never stops, you have to jump on while it goes by, like a Depression hobo. You could record a new comedy sound track for this and call it The Hungover Games.
The main idea of this movie is that teenagers hunt and kill each other in combat. Supposedly, there is famine and poverty and people are struggling to survive. I did not understand how these Tributes were treated to lavish buffet banquets with all you can eat food and drinks. In the movie, they also show the wealthy sponsors feasting on a large roasted pig. *****How can there be a famine if there are vast amounts of food available? Also, why do the poor and downtrodden put up with this garbage and they sheepishly send their sons and daughters to be slaughtered like lambs? Worst of all, this senseless campaign of butchery and murder is televised for people's entertainment. What is the purpose of the Hunger Games? Are the Hunger Games supposed to divert people's attention from their horrible living conditions? The movie said that the winning Tribute would be bathed in riches. Exactly how much money did Katniss and Peeta get for killing the other teenagers in this movie? I think this movie raised many questions that made me wonder about what story line is in the movie sequel.
A good movie, but I feel that it didn't quite capture the magic of the novel. I found it lacking Katniss's thoughts
An outstanding story and film. Loved it!
Co-written and directed by Gary Ross in 2012 based on Suzanne Collins’s 2008 novel of the same name, this American SF drama depicts the adventure in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem.
Foolish and disgusting is an elaborate televised fight to the death.
It looks like a copy of the Japanese novel Battle Royale and its film adaptation.
I just don't like the story.
This is a cool movie, but I was sad when Rue died.