Posted a negative comment about the Hunger Games on my FB and...

seeshellirun · 5 months

After 45 pages, I posted that "I just wasn't feeling it" but that I was going to finish it and see what happened.

Apparently, what everyone else read was "YOUR CHILDREN ARE UGLY AND IF I SEE THEM IN FRONT OF ME I WILL KICK THEM IN THEIR TINY SHINS".

GenericHamburgerHelp · 5 months

I told someone on FB that I thought the "Bridges of Madison County" sucked. She unfriended me, and then and texted my stupid-ass sister to tell me to stop posting hateful things on her Facebook page. We are all in our early 40's.

hollowgodric · 5 months

Well Woody Harrelson was in it and I thought the rest of the cast did a pretty good...

Rampart.

cantrememberpw12345 · 5 months

Is this going to be another thing like Twilight where people being snarky and dismissive are going to be more annoying than the people obsessed with it?

For YA it's pretty good in my opinion. You might enjoy it as an adult and you might not. It's a little unfair to treat a property intended for one demographic by the standards of another.

pandalin · 5 months

HUNGER GAMES IS THE BEST YOU JUST DON'T APPRECIATE TRUE LITERATURE no but seriously they're alright, man, if you're looking for a quick palate cleanser between books.

Edit: Palette schmalette. Thanks Amadan.

Nico_74 · 5 months

You might need to lay low for awhile at a relative's house

Mudders_Milk_Man · 5 months

The novel is middle-of-the-road "Young Adult" fiction.

It's nothing all that special, but it's decently written, and streets ahead of Twilight.

iamiamwhoami · 5 months

I've never heard of the books until a few days ago. I just watched the trailer for the movie, and I have to say it looks pretty fucking awesome.

hetaliafan · 5 months

The books are not bad, it's just when people mix the hunger games with twilight I'm like BITCH PLEASE. who dosen't like gore?

KingOfTheMonkeys · 5 months

I've been hearing a lot about this series lately, but I really don't know anything beyond the title. What's the deal?

bvanman · 5 months

I stabbed a man with a trident!

brackishthefish · 5 months

I love how all of a sudden EVERYONE was the biggest fan ever and can't believe, omg, that it got made into a movie because they are all totally such huge fans and omg can't wait to seeeeee it, omg.

StudleyMumfuzz · 5 months

David Edelstein of NPR cause the Hunger Games the work of moral cowards. Interesting read.

"If the film's director, Gary Ross, has any qualms about kids killing kids, he keeps them to himself. The murders on screen are fast and largely pain-free — you can hardly see who's killing who. So despite the high body count, the rating is PG-13.

Think about it: You make killing vivid and upsetting and get an R. You take the sting out of it, and kids are allowed into the theater. The ratings board has it backward."

PAYTONCROW · 5 months

To be honet with my fellow redditors I'm reading the book and I'm loving it but of course I'm a teenager which is the target adience.But even so its still a great read.

Feenster · 5 months

Serious question. Is Hunger Games like the next Twilight fad for women? I see a lot of girls on my FB going on and on about it and have yet to see a single guy say a word about it. I never heard of Hunger Games until about a week ago.

binermoots · 5 months

Seriously. I read the first one and thought it was OK, but I NEVER thought it would warrant such a sensation. I read 2 and 3 and they where so bad they made book 1 worse.

5eraph · 5 months

I posted once that it's a very interesting concept (albeit unoriginal in many respects) and that it has a lot of really interesting underlying issues that could have been expanded upon if it wasn't also written as a tween romance love triangle... Same result as OP.

rvbcaboose1018 · 5 months

I think the General thing that bothers me about HG is the sheer amount of hype surrounding it. My teenage years showed me to never give into hype too much and always expect the worst out of...well anything (MW2, Reach, TLA by M. Night, ect.)

Theres also the fact that ive never even heard of the Hunger Games till the Super Bowl (i think thats when the commercial appeared). The premise looks good, im not gonna lie. And maybe one day, ill read the books. But in the mean time, ive got about 10 Tom Clancy books, 1 Napoleon book and 1 Lincoln Assassination book in my possession. Those take priority.

FukushimaBlinkie · 5 months

All people talking about Hunger Games does is make me want to go watch/read Battle Royale again

IAmGingerSnap · 5 months

I remember when the Hunger Games was a book for nerds and not obnoxious, hormonal, pre-teen girls. Those were the good days...

duchovny · 5 months

So why exactly is this movie getting so much hype?

oridjinn · 5 months

So I cannot remember why I started reading The Hunger Games. I think I was just looking for new trilogies. Fantasy/SciFi kind of search and I grabbed like 4 different series...

Yeah 4 different Trilogies.

Anyways I start reading THG.. and I was quickly hooked.. not cause I thought it was good... but because the situation totally freaked me out for some reason. I mean it's the same basic story we have seen a million time before, but something gripped me.

I read all the way to the end of the 3rd book.

I loved the first book. 2nd book was very very cool. and the 3rd book sucked ass. Now despite my opinion of the 3rd book I love the entire series. I hate the 3rd one more for the way the story went than for the writing...

and I went to go see the movie today and I laughed and Cried, so did my wife. we loved every minute of it.

I will be buying her a Mocking Jay Pin soon.

And you know what I think of your opinion? Meh. cool I don't care if people like or dislike the same thing I do. I enjoy having company and someone to talk to, but other than that.. what ever I liek plenty of things other people hate. and i like other things that are becoming fads or have been fads.

On a side note I find Skyrim to be a very plain and simple game. Morrowind/Oblivion with a graphical patch. Nothing more. I think it is a 'Good' game, but I have no idea why it is so popular. As a contest I went and played Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Obilvion. and ended up loving M and O.

DF is as cool as hell, but the controls and a few other.. lacks of modern niceties kept me from delving deeper.

Anyways My friend also accused me of trolling when I simply said things like "Skyrim is a good game, but I don't find it much different from Morrowin or Oblivion personally, but a very cool game."

Boom. all i got was "Stop Trolling Dude!"

berwak · 5 months

Yeah, I know how you feel. What ever you do though, don't post on Reddit that you think Avatar was a really shitty movie and was nothing more than a modern mix-up of Pocahantus and Ferngully with shitty acting and pretty 3D........ah for fuck's sake, I did it again damnit!!

Captain_d00m · 5 months

Rocco Botte of Mega64 on The Hunger Games

Albatoonoe · 5 months

So, can I call it "Diet Battle Royale" or not?

frankie29 · 5 months

My opinions on the book series went as follows: 1st Book- This is kinda not good, but I am sure the others will make up for it. 2nd Book- Oh shit son, things are finally going to get good! 3rd Book- I hate you Suzanne Collins.

Typhun · 5 months

Probably a similar reaction reddit has when somebody says Starship Troopers was a shitty fucking movie.

WTFisBehindYou · 5 months

I read this like I read all of the Eragon books. There were no marvel of modern literature but I enjoyed the story. Fuck the Eragon movie though.

Mathmatical · 5 months

Can someone like spoil the book for me and tell me a summary of how the second two books are? Cause I barely liked the first one enough to finish it but I'd kinda like to know how she ended the series where everyone hates it so bad. In summary...I'm lazy. Tell me why the last book sucked. Please?

g0ldenr3bel · 5 months

Its k, i feel the same way, I got through the first book and had no end, like even for a series is still didn't have anything similar to a fucking end, then i couldn't finish the second book cause it was such a shitty lovestory

searingsky · 5 months

Dystopian novels are hit and miss for me.

I hated Brave New World, not so much because of the themes (even though I found much of it irrelevant) but because of Huxley's writing style.

1984 on the other hand completely blew my mind, in every way.

thescrapplekid · 5 months

I actually lost a few friends today about what I said about the Hunger Games being like Battle Royale and The Lottery

reevolver · 5 months

It wasn't good. But it wasn't bad either.

Shippoyasha · 5 months

It's not that Hunger Games is bad.... it is just utterly unimpressive to me. It 'works' as a movie, but it kind of reminds me of Harry Potter. It's great entertainment and all, but they could have been so much better, imparted the darker feel and details of the book more, etc.

I suppose it can keep building up to the finale and be satisfying in its own way like Deathly Hallows part 2, but I feel these series of movies has a lot of room to improve. Possibly the effect of making it palatable for the mainstream, but most importantly, Hollywood.

piouspastafarian · 5 months

I hold the opinion that the books were OK, not great. This opinion has received some interesting responses.

TooSexyForMyKayak · 5 months

Overhyped book is overhyped.

Clarke1337 · 5 months

What the hell is the Hunger Games?

dash141 · 5 months

If I could somehow get Kony and a negative review on the Hunger Games on a Facebook update, I think I could single-handedly bring Facebook to its knees.

SpineBuster · 5 months

People have been flipping their shit about this movie for months. Up until a few weeks ago, I thought it was some fucking weight loss challenge they were getting into.

Ruhlmdc · 5 months

My friend posted a joke saying hunger games was a pretty good battle royale and one of his friends exploded on him. Why do people feel the need to rabidly defend that book when, from what I can tell, it's basically a most dangerous game free for all? (I may end up seeing it, my critic friend thought it was shitty but I still want to see how similar it is to battle royale)

EDIT: Also my friend was talking to his friends at his college, they mentioned hunger games. When it was described to him he was like "oh so it's battle royale". He explained what battle royale was, they called him a weeaboo (didn't realize watching a mainstream japanese film made you a weeaboo) and told him they're completely different (when asked how, they just repeated that they were completely different).

[deleted] · 5 months

What's this hungergames-bullshit, reddit's fad of the week? Americanized battle royale, big whop. Who cares.

wavefunction84 · 5 months

I said that I thought Quentin Tarantino was an overrated director whose movies only appealed to people's inner-hipsters. I gave his movies a chance: I watched Pulp Fiction twice, I saw Reservoir Dogs and a few others. I could understand why people were into them but I found them boring and lacking in meaning.

This was a few months ago and people are still leaving me angry comments. Sometimes, even angry messages. I might get attacked on here too. It seems that I don't "get" Quentin Tarantino. I think I "get" him fine and just plain don't like his movies.

You're not allowed to be in your teens/20s and not like Quentin Tarantino, apparently.

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