Carapace reviews continue...

[farla]

And they can be roughly summed up as "I disagree and/or disapprove of your characterization" so we should return to the standard fireworks in short order.

Comments

[wintersheir]

Off-topic: Farlaaaaaaaaaaa I'm trying to read the hunger games again and it's sooooooooooo bad. Thank you for being the ray of sense in this dark time.

[farla.livejournal.com]

^_^ Could be worse, though, it could be Wither.

(Why are you reading it again?)

[wintersheir]

I guess by "again" I mean "second attempt to finish" since I gave up in disgust shortly after the pig-shooting scene originally. And the why is a sordid sort of book club obligation, sigh.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Farla, I've long enjoyed your scathing review of the series and was wondering if you intended to do a review of the film? The fight scenes are pretty meh and the exposition isn't very well done, but Stanley Tucci is terrific.

P.S. I apologize for posting this comment somewhere entirely unrelated to THG series.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I wasn't planning to but now it seems like I will. I'd really rather have something I could pause and rewind, but ah well.

[(Anonymous)]

BT? Or you could wait till the dvd. BUT YAY YOURE DOING ANOTHER MOCKING REVIEW! i'm rereading your THG chapter reviews so I can tell my friend how illogical and silly everything is. Looking forward to it!

[farla.livejournal.com]

Both torrenting and DVDs require extended waiting, so...

[(Anonymous)]

I just checked isohunt and there seemed to be a few good copies available *shrugs*

I wonder if the film producers came across your extensive reviews while checking out what the interwebs thought of THG though. Hehe, its could've been a lot worse! At least they skipped most of the rampant Effie hating.

[farla.livejournal.com]

The ones I saw were flagged as fake or damaging or in Russian. The movie industry is a bit unhinged, I tend to just avoid them.

[(Anonymous)]

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/379845545/the+hunger+games?tab=comments (http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/379845545/the+hunger+games?tab=comments)

I'm selfish and really want to read your hilariously cruel review of the movie (:

[farla.livejournal.com]

I thank you for your diligence, but what I mean is, I just went to see the actual movie and then wrote and posted a review (http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/2012/03/hunger-games-movie.html) yesterday. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, though - I thought they improved a lot of the big problems with the books.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Farla, are you going to review or comment on the Hunger Games film? I saw it yesterday and expect that Collins or her co-writer might have read your review because some of the changes made to various parts seemed right in line with your criticism.

The most interesting to me (spoiler-ish if you'd rather not read, I'll scroll down a bit):










Katniss is far less choosy over what she eats when starving. Instead of throwing the burned bread at her feet, Peeta chucks it towards her and it lands in a big dirty puddle but she doesn't care and takes it home anyway.

Instead of trading a squirrel for a loaf of bread, Gale trades it for a single small-ish roll and it's implied that's a HUGE treat; a waste of resources they'd nearly never do.

Best of all, Peeta. They cast a regular-looking dude who is a few inches shorter than Jennifer Lawrence and he's fine that she's better at getting them food and protecting them ("you go hunt and I'll gather stuff). In the train home he acknowledges he was pretty sure Katniss was always pretending to be in love with him for the cameras. He's sad but not heartbroken about this.

[(Anonymous)]

They did keep in a lot of silly stuff, like the "shoots squirrels in the eye" thing. Oh, and Katniss and Prim have different hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, freckles... Oh, and the fighting scenes were terrible. For a movie that was about childmurder there was a startling lack of onscreen action, maybe a few trippy flashes, then suddenly there's a fresh corpse on the ground, but thats very meh... And half the 'actual' hunger games seemed to show people sleeping ):

But it is much better than the book though (love Stanley Tucci as Caesar!) Probably since we spent less time in the madhouse that is Katniss' mind.

Agree with what the anon above said (:

[farla.livejournal.com]

The eye thing is easier to dismiss in the movie as Peeta just exaggerating, though. The violence being so minor was weird but that's possibly a rating issue - though Glimmer still managed a relatively awful death.

[farla.livejournal.com]

As I said above you, yes on the movie.

I think most of the changes were pretty obvious ones, they hardly required me to point them out.