Since you probably didn't watch last night's Video Music Awards on MTV — because of the hurricane or because literally anything else would be a better use of your time — you might not know that the very first footage from the upcoming Hunger Games adaptation premiered during the show.¹ Like most early trailers, this one doesn't give us a lot of new insight; it's basically a minute of star Jennifer Lawrence running from fireballs. But my obsession with these books borders on psychotic, and I had to talk myself out of writing a post about the crappy poster Lionsgate released a few weeks ago, so there was just no way this wasn't going to show up here:

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That's not to say there's nothing to talk about here, though. At least we can confidently say that Jennifer Lawrence can believably handle a bow and arrow! Burning questions we're solving here, folks.

¹ In case you don't know, it's the story of a culture that entertains itself by watching teenagers tear each other apart. Oh, and The Hunger Games is a successful YA novel. 

Commentarium (6 Comments)

Aug 29 11 - 3:19pm
Ryan

I really thought these books were pretty mediocre. I guess they'd be edgy if you're 12-14, but I feel like they sidestepped a couple pristine opportunities to be an amazing novel.

It's like "The girl who owned a city", an amazing premise with fucking terrible execution. Hunger Games' execution wasn't TERRIBLE but it could have been better.

Aug 29 11 - 3:34pm
JamesBradyRyan

I can completely understand why someone would dislike the books, but I thought their readability factor was pretty amazing and [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS] I appreciated the, in my opinion, bleak ending. I also hope, perhaps in vain, that the kids who are reading the series take away some questions about our media -- how it can show the picture it wants, how reality can be designed, etc. And I appreciated the fact that Suzanne Collins didn't reserve such undesirable traits solely for the "bad" side.

Aug 29 11 - 3:46pm
Goebble

I'm just glad it's a movie adaptation of a teenage novel that doesn't center around a vampire. In comparison to Harry Potter, it could of been better. In comparison to Twilight, it's fantastic.

Aug 29 11 - 5:10pm
Hmmm.

I'll skip this and watch "Battle Royale."

Aug 30 11 - 11:52am
Moops

Of course it turns out she is dead all along. Also the villain is her father, but is really a woman. And "rosebud" is the name of her ipod.

Aug 30 11 - 12:17pm
KS

I don't know how jazzed I am at the story, but I'd probably go just to see Jennifer Laurence again. She blew me away in "Winter's Bone"