The Hungry Games – Catching Fur
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The Hunger Games
Coming Soon
- Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- IMDB: link
We now have our first trailer for The Hunger Games sequel which focuses on The Capitol‘s attempts to quell the rising rebellion Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) defiance has caused by destroying the young heroine. Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Willow Shields, Toby Jones, Donald Sutherland, and Liam Hemsworth all return. The sequel also stars Jena Malone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jeffrey Wright. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens in theaters November 22nd.
The Hunger Games
- Title: The Hunger Games
- IMDB: link
Long before the young adult novel by Suzanne Collins on which The Hunger Games is based, Hollywood has enjoyed the idea of a culture putting murder on display as reality television for the enjoyment of the masses. From the enjoyable The Running Man to the deplorable The Condemned the results have been mixed.
And we’re not even going to get started on the dozens of gladiator and horror movies that use some version of the tale as well. Originality is not this film’s strong suit. And with a running time of 142 minutes neither is brevity.
The Hunger Games gives us a world in which the twelve poor outlying districts attempted to rise up against the rich capital state 74 years ago only to be thwarted and beaten back down. Now, in memory of the events and to keep the populace in line, one male and one female between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen by lottery to kill each other on live television in “The Hunger Games,” with as much pomp and circumstance as they can muster. Murder, of and by children, it seems is to be the sport of the future.
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