Topic: The Hunger Games

Happy April Fool's Day, errybody.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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Perfect choice for April Fool's Day. This movie sucked harder and dressed whore-ier than Mae West.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

Zarban's House of Commentaries

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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 Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Fuck this movie just based on its aesthetics, I cannot stand those costume and makeup choices. I don't care if its there for a reason, get it off my screen.

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

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soooooo...  Teague was bored yesterday, or... whatever day he put together all those pages... I half expected to see a RickRolled video in there somewhere... 

Since it's April Fools, I decided to derail the thread:  Two questions: 1.) Do you prefer using reference images when you model in Lightwave, or an 3D modeling app for that matter, or not? 2.)  What do you call a Baby born on April 1st?

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Invid wrote:

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

That's part of the history, yeah. District 13 was wiped out (or so we think) as a message to the other districts.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Switch, depends on what I'm modelling. If its something really technical or needs to really accurate (faces are like that for me most of the time) I'll use a bg image. But if it's something that can be a little more freeform then I won't bother.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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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.

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Well Blender is the one I've been using the longest, so feel free to throw questions at me.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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Teague, you just had to mention the Sandlot 4th of July scene! Now I can't stop humming the Ray Charles version of America the Beautiful.

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Re: the Surrogates April Fool's gag — I thought it was hysterically funny. My girlfriend was sitting on the couch with me at the time I accessed the site. When it came to the part where Teague popped on the screen, laughing maniacally, my girlfriend looked over and blithely said, "Yeah, some of those people on YouTube are just plain psychotic..."

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Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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I'M THE QUEEN.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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

Bloggy:  Inf0verload

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Hastings wrote:

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

I WNATED THIS MOVIE WOULD BE ABOUT HUNGARY HUNGARY HIPPOS.

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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.

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Invid wrote:

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.

The outlying districts didn't have the resources that 1 and 2 had, which is why those kids were so well-trained. And because those kids almost always won, those districts continued to have access to superior resources.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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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 smile

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Doctor Submarine wrote:

The outlying districts didn't have the resources that 1 and 2 had, which is why those kids were so well-trained. And because those kids almost always won, those districts continued to have access to superior resources.

Because superior resources are needed to give people basic survival and fighting skills? History teaches us that hard environments breed hard people, and there's little harder than having to scrape a living off the land and hunt down your food with your own hands using rudimentary tools. That Katniss is essentially a master archer despite living only proves how irresponsible most of the districts are when it comes to their own children as her abject poverty is irrelevant.

Maybe the book justifies it better.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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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?

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I'm saying training teens for the Hunger Games would make a great way to train the next generation of revolutionaries, to the point where a more fleshed out story might in fact have said it was illegal for anyone to train for them.

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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.

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Do untrained children fighting each other make good television? Nothing about The Hunger Games makes any goddamn sense.

Just watch The Running Man again. That movie made all the same points, better, 20 years earlier, with dancers in spandex, Richard Dawson in place of Stanley Tucci doing Liberace in drag, and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Conchita Alonzo in place of two talentless, white-bread-dough-faced Kentucky hicks.

Every time I see Jennifer Lawrence trying to smile for a camera, I just want to slap the Barbie-doll stare off her face. Seriously, those eyes are deader than Charo's lounge act. Your whole face has to be involved in the smile, honey, not just your lips.

/still trying to bring back some old-school Dennis Miller

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

Zarban's House of Commentaries

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zarban

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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