Yup, although I get the feeling I'll be disappointed. I'm a huge Running Man fan and this just sounds (to my ill-informed mind) like a watered-down version of that.
Yepp gonna see it as soon as I can I think, unless it's completly terrible, I'm sure it won't be though, trailer makes it look good atleast
In the middle of reading the second book right now, so far the first one was waaay better. Read the first book as a school assignment but ended up loving it
I am! Read the first book last month, and really enjoyed it, I don't expect much out of it, but all I want is the tracker jacker aftermath scene to be as nuts as it was it in the books. I expect disappointment in that case.
I will be for sure. I'm almost done with the last book right now and I'm excited for the movies. I just hope they don't play up the love triangle storyline to get the Twilight audience. That would suck.
I'm a pretty big fan of the first 2 books but I'm not going to give her anymore of my money, the third book was a piece of utter shit that really burned me on the rest of the series and I do not want to give an author who could write that any more money. In addition to this, I'd rather keep the characters in my head the way they are rather than having them replaced by actors like so many other books that I love. I'll keep the first book safely in my imagination and I'll watch Battle Royale if I ever get tempted.
If you haven't yet try Battle Royale. From what I hear they are pretty similar except battle royale has more gore than the hunger game movie is going to have. Also read the long walk by stephen king if you enjoyed hunger games as it is a listed inspiration for Battle Royale.
I enjoyed the first book. I found most of the characters to be extremely shallow and I honestly didn't give two shits about the world, but the games were a fun read. With that said I will most likely see the movie with my girlfriend at some point, it shouldn't be that bad.
Yup, although I get the feeling I'll be disappointed. I'm a huge Running Man fan and this just sounds (to my ill-informed mind) like a watered-down version of that.
You are correct though. It is not a premise unique to only The Running Man, but it is the best presentation of it. I mean, Arnold Schwarznegger is more believable in this than some chick playing the game of the future. The book itself I think is better than the Hunger Games though. Everyone should check it out.
All my coworkers are going to see it, that being said I'm a librarian so... that says a lot. I got about 10 pages into the book and thought "well, this is a book" and put it down. Definitely wasn't my kind of thing. Might see the movie... but I might not. Does that answer your question?
I will be for sure. I'm almost done with the last book right now and I'm excited for the movies. I just hope they don't play up the love triangle storyline to get the Twilight audience. That would suck.
I'll hopefully be able to see hopefully about mid-week next week (working at a movie theatre does have its advantages). Hopefully it shows up earlier in the week so we can view it before our midnight showings on Thursday night.
Reading the first book now, will probably check out the movie seeing as it is free for me anyway. But Battle Royale is still better in my mind,have the bluray limited edition coming in from amazon on the 24th.
Why is everyone so hyped up about this movie? It just looks like a shitty, toned-down version of Battle Royale.
Because it is an awesome concept for people that have never heard of Battle Royale. Every time someone mentions Hunger Games to me, I strongly suggest they check out Battle Royale the book and/or movie if they wanna miss a lot of good side story, but are too lazy to read..
Yup, although I get the feeling I'll be disappointed. I'm a huge Running Man fan and this just sounds (to my ill-informed mind) like a watered-down version of that.
You are correct though. It is not a premise unique to only The Running Man, but it is the best presentation of it. I mean, Arnold Schwarznegger is more believable in this than some chick playing the game of the future. The book itself I think is better than the Hunger Games though. Everyone should check it out.
I'm a little confused as to why The Running Man is getting brought up. If The Hunger Games is ripping off anything, it's Battle Royal.
That having been said, The Running Man is still a great movie and people should check it out. And I would still like to see The Hunger Games, because who doesn't want to watch kids killing kids. But my girlfriend would never never never want to go with me.
@Shrimpy: I definitely think you should give it a read, I'm not a huge reader, but I had a really hard time putting it down.It's one of those really well-paced books. You get way more backstory on the individual students the movie glosses over, like Shogo Kawada and Kazuo Kiriyama, two of the biggest badasses in BR.
Nope, sounds like Battle Royalle for Twillight fans...
I've had someone actually give this to me as a reason to dislike this movie. My response is that if Battle Royal is the new Twilight I might start believing in a god.
It can't be any worse than The Running Man film. Boy-o, what a spectacularly unexciting and perfunctorily-paced watch that turned out to be. But, I will blithely say that the Running Man novel is incontrovertibly better read than the first Hunger Games book (the only one I have read). The Hunger Games books are perfectly adequate as mature-teen reading material, but the vociferous sycophancy the books receive does continue to leave me a little bemused.
Yup, although I get the feeling I'll be disappointed. I'm a huge Running Man fan and this just sounds (to my ill-informed mind) like a watered-down version of that.
Remember the ending to the running man book... I mean that part is amazing. Remember?
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