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Watch: Jennifer Lawrence runs for her life in "The Hunger Games" trailer
By James Brady RyanAugust 29th, 2011, 12:00 pmComments (6)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:
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)
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.
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.
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.
I'll skip this and watch "Battle Royale."
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.
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"