I liked The Hunger Games. I thought it succeeded in being "about" something without dedicating lengthy, talky scenes to various deep thematic truths. The fact that you're able to have a discussion about the film's relationship with, for example, reality television, means it pretty much did its job.

By the way, it starts streaming on Netflix tomorrow for people who haven't seen it yet.

The history we're told says 13 districts rebelled. 12 send tributes. I assume nobody in District 13 survived the war?

I don't have lightwave, so I'm using Blender to learn how to do 3D modeling and such.  I'm at the veryyyy beginnig so I might have something in a week or two.

Glad to see that there's yet been no engaging discussion about this film.   

A question I came away from the movie with was, what's more moral, training kids to have a fighting chance in the games, or letting random weak ones get picked in the lottery? Districts 1 and 2 had the right idea.

Combat training for your youth, even the basic stuff, would just seem like a good idea. Also a stealth project for future rebellion. Districts 1 and 2 leading the eventual overthrow of the system would be a great turn of events

So basically what you're saying Red, is that it's their own damn fault and they should just get off their asses and work?

The books indicated that training for the games was expressly forbidden, but that the capital ignored it in the case of the rich districts. District 12 would not get the same leniency, and if Katniss wasn't subtle with her hunting she'd get in trouble too.