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Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts) Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:57 AM Mar 2012

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Anyone planning to see the Hunger Games?

Trying to change my sleeping habits because I got talked into a midnight show. I'm going to try to stay up an hour every night until Thursday.

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Anyone planning to see the Hunger Games? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 OP

My gf already has tickets.... cliffordu Mar 2012 #1

Well, if she's "dragging" you along, you'll thank her for it. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #2

I'm not going to make that showing. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #3

I go gladly wherever she wants me to go. cliffordu Mar 2012 #4

She's a lucky girl. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #8

I'd like to think that's true - cliffordu Mar 2012 #24

Same here charlie and algernon Mar 2012 #27

I'm probably going to see it NewJeffCT Mar 2012 #5

He's one of the top attractions in my book. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #9

I will be seeing it Friday night with my wife dr.strangelove Mar 2012 #6

I'll be seeing it over the weekend a second time with my spouse. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #10

Nah. HappyMe Mar 2012 #7

I'll probably see it as often as I saw those Harry Potter movies LynneSin Mar 2012 #11

What is your genre? Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #12

I see this as a movie that will be overrun with kids LynneSin Mar 2012 #15

I'll let you know. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #16

You could probably rent Battle Royale jakeXT Mar 2012 #29

No, but I wish it would blow the Twilight series out of the water. RiffRandell Mar 2012 #13

I have to agree. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #14

She is really one of the worst actresses. HappyMe Mar 2012 #17

at least Hunger Games NewJeffCT Mar 2012 #26

Yep. My daughter has been asking for weeks and today I bought us tix for the midnight showing Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #18

This is the first midnight show that's actually starting at one a.m. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #19

Hmm HappyMe Mar 2012 #20

I don't get it either. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #21

I'll wait for a while before I get tickets sakabatou Mar 2012 #22

I'll post on Friday to let everyone know if they should jump on it. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #23

I'm going on Sunday... one_voice Mar 2012 #25

Not really. n/t RebelOne Mar 2012 #28

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)

1. My gf already has tickets....

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:02 AM

Mar 2012

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

2. Well, if she's "dragging" you along, you'll thank her for it.

Reply to cliffordu (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:05 AM

Mar 2012

Trust me.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

3. I'm not going to make that showing.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:44 AM

Mar 2012

It's 1:43 AM and I'm already getting dizzy. The movie is at 1:00 am! I won't even make it halfway through!

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)

4. I go gladly wherever she wants me to go.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 06:04 AM

Mar 2012

maximum satisfaction all around.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

8. She's a lucky girl.

Reply to cliffordu (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:02 PM

Mar 2012

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)

24. I'd like to think that's true -

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 10:08 PM

Mar 2012

But I'm the lucky one, and I know it.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)

27. Same here

Reply to cliffordu (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 09:32 AM

Mar 2012

Going early next week with her and her friends.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

5. I'm probably going to see it

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:04 AM

Mar 2012

but, not sure when. Definitely not the midnight show, however.

Just read the book last week. I think Woody Harrelson is perfectly cast as Haymitch.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

9. He's one of the top attractions in my book.

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:03 PM

Mar 2012

His characters may be all zany, but they're not the same.

dr.strangelove

(4,851 posts)

6. I will be seeing it Friday night with my wife

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:16 AM

Mar 2012

We both enjoyed the books quite a bit.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

10. I'll be seeing it over the weekend a second time with my spouse.

Reply to dr.strangelove (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:04 PM

Mar 2012

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

7. Nah.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:18 AM

Mar 2012

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

11. I'll probably see it as often as I saw those Harry Potter movies

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:17 PM

Mar 2012

which was also zero

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

12. What is your genre?

Reply to LynneSin (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:19 PM

Mar 2012

Lots of people aren't into fantasy. For the longest time the only thing I liked to read were journalistic pieces.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

15. I see this as a movie that will be overrun with kids

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #12)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:33 PM

Mar 2012

which i am not into

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

16. I'll let you know.

Reply to LynneSin (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:38 PM

Mar 2012

But I doubt it. It will probably attract a sci-fi crowd.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

29. You could probably rent Battle Royale

Reply to LynneSin (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 03:52 PM

Mar 2012

Tarantino's favorite movie, it seems to be the same idea.

Book Brawl: Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games

Every month I’ll pit two books, somehow related, against one another in a brutal, literary fight to the death. Two books enter. One book leaves.

This month the brawling books are Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale (1999) and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008). They are fighting it out due to their shared subject matter of kids killing kids in a government-sponsored bloodbath. So who shall prevail in our own me-sponsored bloodbath? Read on to find out!

http://litreactor.com/columns/book-brawl-battle-royale-vs-the-hunger-games

edit: Full movie is on youtube

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

13. No, but I wish it would blow the Twilight series out of the water.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:24 PM

Mar 2012

I am so over that shit.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

14. I have to agree.

Reply to RiffRandell (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:30 PM

Mar 2012

They should have wrapped it up with the last movie.

I hope Kristen Stewart is able to break out her Bella performance in Snow White, because I know lots of little girls have grown up and are over her clumsy mannerisms.

If her acting career takes a dive, she can always go into modeling.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

17. She is really one of the worst actresses.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #14)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 01:41 PM

Mar 2012

She always kind of look like she's having a stroke or something. Until I saw that she was in Snow White, I may have watched it On Demand. Now I don't think I will bother.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

26. at least Hunger Games

Reply to RiffRandell (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 07:24 AM

Mar 2012

has a strong female lead in Katniss - isn't one of the criticisms of the Twilight books that Bella kind of mopes around waiting to follow Edward's lead, who kind of stalks her as well?

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

18. Yep. My daughter has been asking for weeks and today I bought us tix for the midnight showing

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:08 PM

Mar 2012

on opening day.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

19. This is the first midnight show that's actually starting at one a.m.

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #18)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:31 PM

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HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

20. Hmm

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #19)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:36 PM

Mar 2012

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

21. I don't get it either.

Reply to HappyMe (Reply #20)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:49 PM

Mar 2012

There are no early shows unless it's that free preview which you need to know somebody that knows somebody to get tickets.

sakabatou

(42,177 posts)

22. I'll wait for a while before I get tickets

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:53 PM

Mar 2012

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

23. I'll post on Friday to let everyone know if they should jump on it.

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #22)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:59 PM

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one_voice

(20,043 posts)

25. I'm going on Sunday...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 10:15 PM

Mar 2012

going with my daughter, mother, and niece. I've read all three books.

My son and his sweetie are going Friday.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

28. Not really. n/t

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 03:36 PM

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