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Movie Rec & Thoughts: The Hunger Games
Saturday, March 31st, 2012 09:02 amA roundabout lead-in to my thoughts on this movie: when I lived in Japan, I went to see "Boys Don't Cry" as part of the Kochi City Modern Art Museum's series that I mentally translated as "films that some people here might want to see but won't get a wide release because the material is too challenging to translate." Going in, I really didn't know what BDC was going to entail. I went with my foreign friends Scott and Maggie, and the three of us were the only foreigners in the theater. Well. That rape scene is one of the most uncomfortable experiences I've ever had at the movies. I wanted to crawl out of my skin, or turn off my ears during it--it was that awful. But the strangest thing was that no one else in that theater made a sound during that scene. I wanted someone else to cough, or fidget, or do something that would let me know that I wasn't alone in my discomfort, that another human being in the audience found the material on screen as morally repugnant and unsettling as I did. It was all I could do not to cry loudly--I think I may have sprained something internally from holding my emotions in.
Then the movie was over, and the staff played the trailer for next week's film: "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut." (That trailer wasn't a palate cleanser, per se, but it did break up the tension in my soul a bit.)
Anyway, this leads me to my thoughts on "The Hunger Games": I channeled about 10% of that uncomfortable from BDC, which I hadn't done in a movie theater in a long time. And, annoyingly enough, the audience here did almost the same damn thing. ( Spoilers for a particular scene; you probably know the one I'm talking about. )
Side notes:
* The archery nerd in me really wants to try shooting some of those beautiful arrows Katniss had.
* Katniss' fire dresses were beautiful, especially the second one. I have to admit that if I could buy clothes that did something amazing like that, I probably would.
* The food in the Capitol did not look very appetizing. I kept expecting someone to say "Here, try these larks' tongues!" Although that would have been on the "very obvious" side of the equation.
* MAC cosmetics gets a special thank-you in the credits, and holy crap, do they ever deserve it! It was like their whole color palette was on display in the Capitol. I did love Cinna's gold eye liner, very striking and beautiful.
* Trailer Park: We saw the "Breaking Dawn, Part 2" trailer, and Jacob was loudly booed by someone down in the first row (ha ha); "The Avengers" is interesting me less and less with each passing promo (not enough ladies, too many mans); and "Titanic" in 3D will not be something I spend my money on.
Then the movie was over, and the staff played the trailer for next week's film: "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut." (That trailer wasn't a palate cleanser, per se, but it did break up the tension in my soul a bit.)
Anyway, this leads me to my thoughts on "The Hunger Games": I channeled about 10% of that uncomfortable from BDC, which I hadn't done in a movie theater in a long time. And, annoyingly enough, the audience here did almost the same damn thing. ( Spoilers for a particular scene; you probably know the one I'm talking about. )
Side notes:
* The archery nerd in me really wants to try shooting some of those beautiful arrows Katniss had.
* Katniss' fire dresses were beautiful, especially the second one. I have to admit that if I could buy clothes that did something amazing like that, I probably would.
* The food in the Capitol did not look very appetizing. I kept expecting someone to say "Here, try these larks' tongues!" Although that would have been on the "very obvious" side of the equation.
* MAC cosmetics gets a special thank-you in the credits, and holy crap, do they ever deserve it! It was like their whole color palette was on display in the Capitol. I did love Cinna's gold eye liner, very striking and beautiful.
* Trailer Park: We saw the "Breaking Dawn, Part 2" trailer, and Jacob was loudly booed by someone down in the first row (ha ha); "The Avengers" is interesting me less and less with each passing promo (not enough ladies, too many mans); and "Titanic" in 3D will not be something I spend my money on.
