The Hunger Games - Part 1

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That's a great TV spot. The Capitol looks great! Very Coruscant-like at night (I love that planet in the SW prequels lol).

I was so worried the romance twist in the book/movie isn't being marketed at all. They could have really focused on that aspect of the marketing and they haven't.
 
It's kind of refreshing that they haven't focused on that element of the story. If they did people would negatively compare it to Twilight, which isn't really fair to either series. They are almost nothing alike.
 
Saw this in the store earlier. Very nice.

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Dr. Evil said:
Collider.com has extensive coverage with interviews:

http://collider.com/jennifer-lawrence-the-hunger-games-interview/151332/

http://collider.com/josh-hutcherson-liam-hemsworth-hunger-games-interview/151346/

http://collider.com/nina-jacobson-the-hunger-games-interview/151422/

http://collider.com/elizabeth-banks-lenny-kravitz-wes-bentley-hunger-games-interview/151360/

http://collider.com/alexander-ludwi...andla-stenberg-hunger-games-interview/151369/

http://collider.com/donald-sutherland-the-hunger-games-interview/151356/
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I can't express how much I have come to love Elizabeth Banks. I always admired her work. In the roles I had seen her in she was always very good. But her involvement in The Hunger Games has really endeared her to me. I think she has been the most influential actor on this project to me. It has me paying more attention to her and reviewing her body of work. She is a great all around actress and a great spokesperson for The Hunger Games. So positive and supportive. It could all be an act but I get a sense that she is a really down to earth person who loves what she does. Terrific interview with her, Lenny and Wes.

I truly hope they find a way to expand her role in the sequels.
 
The marketing for this film has been perfect. My interest is peaked and I haven't even gotten a chance to read the books yet. If this is suppose to be the next Twilight (in terms of box office revenue) then I think it has already surpassed it. The Hunger Games has already done what Twilight completely failed to do....appeal to a male audience.
 
I just can't see it opening that huge not until the sequels come.
 
Why does every film have to appeal to men? And again twilight had no trouble making tons of cash without men. Thor appealed to men and didn't make as much as three out of four twilight movies and John Carter also appealed to men and it just bombed. Men aren't the be all when it comes to film. Anyways; I sure hope that this film is good, so far I am digging the book and I'm only 70ish pages in. It's not the greatest thing ever but it is interesting so far.
 
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I SEE SPIDEY said:
Why does every film have to appeal to men? And again twilight had no trouble making tons of cash without men. Thor appealed to men and didn't make as much as three out of four twilight movies and John Carter also appealed to men and it just bombed. Men aren't the be all when it comes to film. Anyways; I sure hope that this film is good, so far I am digging the book and I'm only 70ish pages in. It's not the greatest thing ever but it is interesting so far.
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I love Thor, but that movie didn't appeal to women, so it's not comparable. The difference here is that it is looking like Hunger Games is appealing to both men and women.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Why does every film have to appeal to men? And again twilight had no trouble making tons of cash without men. Thor appealed to men and didn't make as much as three out of four twilight movies and John Carter also appealed to men and it just bombed. Men aren't the be all when it comes to film. Anyways; I sure hope that this film is good, so far I am digging the book and I'm only 70ish pages in. It's not the greatest thing ever but it is interesting so far.
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Well, Thor appeals to men due to his powerful appearance and the action scenes in the movie, but they've tried to appeal to women with a shirtless Hemsworth (and put in the trailer, as a matter of fact), having a romantic subplot with Jane Foster/Natalie Portman, and the heart of the story is about father-son relationships, and not to bash frost giants in the face. I guess they could've made Lady Sif a bigger character so the movie can be called Thor and Sif, but I'm not sure what else they can do to make Thor cater to female demographics even more.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Why does every film have to appeal to men? And again twilight had no trouble making tons of cash without men. Thor appealed to men and didn't make as much as three out of four twilight movies and John Carter also appealed to men and it just bombed. Men aren't the be all when it comes to film. Anyways; I sure hope that this film is good, so far I am digging the book and I'm only 70ish pages in. It's not the greatest thing ever but it is interesting so far.
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Because we run this *****.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Why does every film have to appeal to men? And again twilight had no trouble making tons of cash without men. Thor appealed to men and didn't make as much as three out of four twilight movies and John Carter also appealed to men and it just bombed. Men aren't the be all when it comes to film. Anyways; I sure hope that this film is good, so far I am digging the book and I'm only 70ish pages in. It's not the greatest thing ever but it is interesting so far.
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Although I have no way of knowing this I don't think that's what Sentinel meant. HG is projected to do better then Twilight because it appeals to men and women instead of just one. But that's not saying that all films have to appeal to men. John Carter would do better if it appealed to women but it didn't. You think they added Spock/Uhura relationship in the new Star Trek movie because men wanted it to happen? No they added it to appeal to women. It goes both ways. Now there can and certainly are films that appeal to only one demographic but they're not going to do better than a film that appears to both.
 
That's it, I am going to see it.
 
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