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IT’S HERE! THE HUNGER GAMES TRAILER IS HEEERRRRREEEEEE! Well, it’s been out since Monday. But rules are rules. Someone Tweeted at us on Monday asking about our thoughts on the trailer and we said that The Hunger Games trailer can wait for Friday just like all the other trailers. It’s not so special. Oh, it thinks it is, but it ain’t. There’s also a new Robert DeNiro movie and a trailer for Titanic 3D which is basically just a trailer for Titanic but with a lot more boring talking at the beginning. Oh, and wait until you see the trailer for a movie directed by Vincent D’Onofrio. Whoops, Vincent D’Onofrio, that’s the movie you directed! You’ll see. You’ll see.
The Hunger Games
I don’t know, this looks kind of shitty? Am I in trouble now? Is the Youth Army going to imprison me for crimes against youthmanity? It just looks kind of boring and I hate all of the outfits and I guess the makeup and ugly faces do kind of fit the book, but those were more fun to imagine than to actually see, and they don’t even show ONE child murder. How are people supposed to get on board if we don’t even get to see one child murder in the trailer?
Mirror, Mirror
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA. Great. Yup. (Nope.) This trailer makes me REALLY curious what Julia Roberts is like when she’s just home by herself. I bet it’s almost exactly like this.
The Iron Lady
Yes. We’re all on board with this, right? Next trailer, please.
Being Flynn
Oh brother. If we give this movie an Oscar now does that mean no one actually has to see it?
Catch .44
I already hated the movie Grindhouse when it was called Grindhouse. Like, this looks fun enough, I guess, but it also seems like the biggest heist of all is how many movies they had to rip off to make this movie. And what’s going on with Forest Whitaker? Is he OK? Is he sick? Is his voice sick?
Titanic 3D
“Thank you for staying true to Titanic“? What the hell does that even mean?! You mean there are courageous men and women out there (just kidding, women only) who have refused to join the popular Anti-Titanic movement that currently controls the government and all media outlets? Stay strong, ladies. And go see Rose fall into the ocean in exciting 3D on January 1st 2014 (I wasn’t paying attention to anything about this).
Don’t Go Into The Woods
Uhhhhhhhhhhh……whuuuuuuuuuuuuut?! I don’t even. Uhhhhhhhhh. First of all, who lets their friend chop up their cell phone with a hatchet just because they’re going camping for the weekend? That is even more insane than going into the woods when clearly there is a sign that says not to go in the woods. Have you guys ever been in the woods? It’s fucking terrifying. Never go in there. Bad stuff happens there. That’s where Laura Palmer dies FOR A REASON. And if you do go in the woods, don’t go in the woods. These kids deserve it. Stop playing that terrible music. SOMEONE CHOP HIS GUITAR OFF!
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“I’m so tired of these hunger games!” –line from “The Hunger Games” probably
“Today you became… the iron lady.” –line from “The Iron Lady” DEFINITELY.
“We have to go back to The Hunger Games” #linesfromthehungergames
Some folks call it a hunger game, I call it a Kaiser blade.
another “it’s OUR TIME!” in a movie for tweens. in the trailer. do they even need to be reminded anymore? yup, it’s yours. take it. i give up.
“These games are making me so hungry!” – The Hunger Games
“These pretzels are making me thirsty!”
-line from Sub-Saharan Africa, most certainly
Oh wow. That Julia Roberts Snow White movie looks really, really terrible.
it’s like michael patrick king made a live action shrek.
Seriously. It was a (pleasant?) surprise to find that the Snow White trailer with Bella Swan looks to be the much more promising of the two Snow White movies coming out.
Don’t worry, Bella can still ruin the actual movie the second she opens her mouth.
the. terriblest. at first i was all like, “it can’t be that bad!” but it is. it is that bad and worse. Julia Roberts was even in some garbage magazine where she’s like, “WELL, our movie is coming out first..so it will do better!” (logic!) …but this is like some ABC Family shit. just…awful.
I’m sorry, but what in the hell is going on with Robert DeNiro’s body in that still? That is even more terrifying than the robot snake, which is something I did not think was possible.
Based on the title, I was hoping Being Flynn was an Errol Flynn biopic. Then I saw the still of DeNiro. A very strange still indeed, Superglue.
Hunger Games trailer looks pretty good! Then again, I thought the Golden Compass trailer looked pretty good! Don’t get me started on the Where the Wild Things Are trailer. I think the trailer for Brick is cool, too. And A Clockwork Orange is certainly a classic.
The Social Network trailer is about 80 times better than the film thanks to limited dialogue about how Aaron Sorkin thinks the internet works; The Departed trailer is also a minor classic.
that was good
So, two Snow White movies coming out soon? And two fairy tale related TV shows in prime time right now? Can we just get a grim and gritty version of Pinocchio out of the way now so I don’t have to think about that too? Because I’m sure that’s something someone is seriously thinking about at this very moment.
the seven dwarves are each making their own adaptation.
There are several Wizard of Ozes (Wizards of Oz?) in the works too — at least one is a grim and gritty take on the story. Remakes, reboots, and the public domain…. easy money for Hollywood.
Get ready to downvote me now. I found snarky Julia Roberts kind of amusing. Granted, the entire movie looks AWFUL, but there was something about her that made me laugh.
You’re right, if by “thinking about” you mean “creating two competing versions from the ‘Pushing Daisies’ guy and the ‘Night at the Museum’ guy”:
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/popwrap/pinocchio_like_you_ve_never_seen_E32sqD5Lt5v4mZt3tn7EmL
http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/fox-buys-pinocchio-prequel-for-shawn-levy/
WE CAME HERE TO WRITE NOT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME
Oh man, Henry wanted that Lincoln part SO BAD, and he died that much more inside having to say his famous line and still not get the part. Party Down is SO GOOD!
“Someone tweeted about the Hunger Games trailer”
No way of knowing who.
Actually, I could predict what your thoughts were, so that’s not actually what I asked. I just wanted a post about it so that I could discuss with other commenters.
Alright Baby Friday, go. THOUGHTS? FEELINGS? PEETA? I require videogum disscussion on this finally shutup and continue on with my life as a human adult.
I would like to start and say: I think it looks great, except for Haymitch’s barbie wig.
I am digging the casting of Gale and Peeta, although I know that’s not necessarily the consensus. And, damn, JLaw is an excellent Katniss. I don’t even like Katniss that much (I’m always like, shut UP Katniss), but she makes the character watchable, at least in the trailer.
Also, Effie looks BAD as HELL. I think she might be my spirit animal. Not enough Haymitch for me to assess.
Exactly. Katniss was always the worst in my head and she evolved into a complete shithead by book 3, but i think Jennifer Lawrence has greatly improved the character. She’s such a fantastic actress for how few movies she’s done.
I pretty much think JoshHUTCHO is just real life Peeta. Perfect casting. Effie was also great, that accent? The voice? Elizabeth Banks is the best. I’m also liking the soundtrack. Most of all i enjoyed that they didn’t mention the Katniss-Peeta romantic story line because it would be a nice little surprise for wider audiences.
Yeah, I agree about JHutch. Cute and affable.
Looks like Cinna is the most controversial casting. The voice is exactly how I imagined it, but I actually weirdly pictured him Asian. Not sure why. But Asian and super short.
Ummm SPOILER ALERT?!
Haha just kidding! I’ve totally read the books. But the trailer looks awesome and I am surprisingly ok with all of the casting except Haymitch…jury is still out on him I guess. I actually think this will be a really enjoyable book to movie adaption. I will be crossing my fingers now and hoping that it isn’t just a decieving trailer.
I thought Cinna would be more Jay Manuel-esque.
I have to reply to myself to reply to you guys, but yeah Cinna. She (susanne collins) was very ambiguous about his race, oddly i thought he would look like a sort of Middle Eastern ‘model’ who was neutrally gay. Neither flamboyant or masculine, but just strong as a human being.
Hmmm, Lenny Kravitz was intially a LULZ casting, but after the trailer i think i get it.
I’m super excited about Woody Harrelson, but I love him and he’s the best, so he could be a crappy Haymitch and I’ll probably still doodle Mrs. Baby Friday Haymitch-Harrelson on my Trapper Keeper.
Sorry to be late to the game, guys! I love all of it, but Haymitch’s hair is really weird in the trailer. Like he’s supposed to be on a 5-day drunk at all times and he has a blown out bob that looks nicer than mine after I get out of the salon? No fucking way. My friend said he looked like Little Lord Fauntleroy, which I don’t think is far off. Woody Harrelson as himself in a day-to-day life situation looks more like Haymitch than he does in the trailer.
Everything else is perfect.
HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and I love Kravitz as Cinna, but does he look too normal to you? I know he was the most normal of the stylists, but he looks… like Lenny Kravitz with gold eyeliner.
And holy shit, Effie looks amazing. I’m going to give Elizabeth Banks an Oscar based on her performance in that trailer. I no longer secretly wish it was Kristen Chenowith.
To add to my point about Harrelson: <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-10/entertainment/woody.harrelson.zombie_1_woody-harrelson-camera-zombie?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ" this.
But he can actually act so maybe it was just a weird angle on that bob and who knows? Maybe he can pull it off. I’d think he’d have long scraggly blonde Whitesnake hair but maybe that’s just me.
I was a little worried about Josh Hutcherson, because all of the stills were of him brooding and I haven’t seen The Kids are Alright yet. So, I felt like he didn’t seem like enough of a sweet puppy dog. But I just watched an interview he did with George Lopez (yikes), and he is very affable. Now I feel relieved that the adaptation of a book written for people half my age will not be disappointing.
I am glad to see other people excited about this, because I feel so ashamed for being so very excited about this movie (and for re-reading the books after seeing the trailer on Monday).
Not worried about Josh because he can do the “aw shucks” really well.
I AM VERY VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS MOVIE, YOU GUYS!!
right??! I think the review was wwwaaayyy too harsh!
#luvit
#seriously,excited
Hey, Tom, we kind of started our own mini-discussion of the trailer in another thread this week! Occupy Videogum! We are the Hunger Games fans percent!
Now i am super pumped. I live in Korea, and so i posted what i did (a short, hardly serious comment) because i figured with the time change, no one would read it…but i am SUUUUUUUUUURIOUSLY pumped for the movie… when i get really excited, the letter “u” takes over my vernacular–like the hunger games (and game of thrones and a heartbreaking work of staggering genius) has taken over my life. I really, given the trailer, have no SERIOUS complaints. really excited. i feel a separate medium should be created to further discuss the movie? You have my FB name….
“You’re creepy”–Monsters.
HungerGums?
I have nothing new to add to this discussion except that I agree with everything and Woody Harrelson in real life *is* Haymitch..
I kniw how you feel. I rarely comment cause I live in Korea too, it’s like what’s the point? OccupyKorea, we are the comments that only 1% will read.
Aaaaactually, Laura Palmer died in a train car. Or possibly in the Black Lodge. But it definitely was not in the woods.
It was an abandoned train car on an old set of railroad tracks deep in the woods. her body was then disposed of by wrapping it in plastic and setting it adrift in a lake (as seen in Fire Walk With Me).
Yep, but it was not in the actual woods. The train car is a separate entity from the woods entirely. Just happens to be situated there.
Th train car is in the woods just as the cabin she was abducted from was in the woods. Laura Palmer was killed in the train car in the woods, and she definitely was not killed in the Black Lodge.
Kelly’s reasoning for Laura Palmer’s death being she went in the woods stands, as Laura Palmer did in fact go into the woods and came back out DEAD.
Have you seen my avatar? Trust me on this.
I would take your word for it if we were talking about faces and tacos.
“That’s where Laura Palmer dies FOR A REASON.” – Kelly
Fair enough, I will bow to your superior knowledge of Twin Peaks. I actually only saw Fire Walk With Me once. I was 15, and had never seen anything else David Lynch had done, and my immediate reaction was “What the crap is going on, and why do I love this movie without even understanding it?”
Nobody didn’t see the Brave full trailer, but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHWDA_6e3M
And in other animation news, here is your Hugh Grant/Jeremy Piven fix (I’m actually looking forward to this one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzIxECXjW1I
AHHH! The Brave trailer makes it look so good. I know, rare for a Pixar movie, but I think that scrappy little picture is going to be pretty good.
Brave! it looks like pretty typical stuff, but i’m trusting Pixar to knock my socks off as usual. As long as this isn’t Mulan meets How to Train Your Dragon I’ll be happy*
*I’d still be happy if it was Mulan meets How To Train Your Dragon.
i enjoyed the Hunger Games trailer, but the lack of actually battles/killing makes me worried. I mean, that’s most of the book. Needs more horrifying, gory deaths.
i think you must misunderstand the meaning of the word “trailer”
also, IT’S NOT MOST OF THE BOOK. “Battles/killing” is actually a small fraction of the book. HA HA.
Yeah, that trailer really really made me wan to watch it. ‘It’ being Battle Royale, man that movie is great. Chock full of horrifying, gory teen deaths.
You destroy your cell phones but allow this douche to bring a fucking BASS on a camping trip? ALL OF YOU DIE!
(And the killer looks like the guy from the show The Equalizer, only wearing a bowler hat?)
It’s great to see that Hollywood is finally giving a voice to the brilliant but tortured and misanthropic artists out there. Now if only the pesky, but lovable kids and their curmudgeonly neighbors and inspiring but controversial teachers would get their due.
Also, did you know this was originally titled “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” based on Flynn’s memoir? And, apparently, based on the memoirs of everyone’s fourteen-year-old son?
I hold the proud distinction of being a 30 year old woman who purposely shunned seeing “Titanic”. I’ve never had any interest in it…and I will continue to shun it in all of its 3-dimensional glory. Spoiler: The boat STILL sinks.
And Meryl Streep is just a very, very, very, very good actress. Like, unbelievably good. Just the best.
‘Mirror Mirror’ should have stuck with its working title, ‘Snow White’s Unibrow’.
Forest is doing a helluva Denzel/DeNiro impression in that movie.
Wow. I really want to see that film with all those whiny kids getting killed because OH MY GOD I WANT TO KILL ALL THOSE WHINY FUCKING KIDS.
Iron Lady trailer, you make me so angry with rage!! This is normally the kind of movie I eat up with a spoon, but there is no way I feel comfortable with this. I am not okay with putting a heroic face on Maggie Thatcher. As a woman who aspires to go into politics in some form, I absolutely get that becoming the female leader of a G8 country is a huge deal. However, even before she left office, she became utterly despised in her country for plenty of legitimate reasons! She is terrible! She has no respect for people she governed. Those references to her attempted assassination in Brighton and her “the medicine is harsh but the patient deserves it!” lines are not enough to overshadow the “tale of an extraordinary woman” and attempts at pulling my heartstrings to sympathize with her ambition to succeed in a male world. I won’t have feelings of sympathy for Thatcher, ug gross, so very gross.
Also, I think the Hunger Games trailer looks great~! I haven’t even read those books because I’m not normally into stories about dystopian worlds, but now I want to give them another chance.
makes total sense that you’d not be into dystopian worlds if you find thatcherite britain repugnant.
I tip my hat to you for this perfect comment.
I feel exactly the same. Really, you’re going to paint Thatcher the misunderstood feminist hero brush? The people that will be going to see a movie about Margaret Thatcher are the people that understand who Margaret Thatcher was as a leader. This is very off-putting (and kind of insulting?).
Try the books again. They are the best and they read really quickly so if you’re not into it after the first one, you’ve lost, like, 4 hours. But you will be into it after the first one.
“A filme by Vincent D’Onofrio?” That last part is intriguing.
Wait, so The Hunger Games is just white Battle Royale with flamboyant costumes and ridiculous facial hair?
NOPE
While I use comparisons to Battle Royale and Running Man when compelling people to read the books, it is unfair to state that it is “just” white Battle Royale. It has elements of The Lottery and other great stuff all mish-moshed together into a fun, fast read.
Hunger Games is like Running Man right down to the multi-colored body suits. Please let there be some good one liners.
Looks like it.
welp, that was the Snow White movie I was hoping would be good, so I’ve lit a lantern and am now descending the steps to the Shame Cellar.
So, in a fight between a mass murderer and a bunch of emo kids, I’m supposed to root for the mass murderer, right? Because that’s who I’m rooting for.
Yes, Katniss is definitely the protagonist.
I know we’re all anti-Titanic in 3D because DUH, but I think we’re forgetting one very important thing: Kate Winslet’s boobs.
And the Overacting Oscar goes to…. Paul Dano, for every movie!
But seriously, I’m nervous about HG, you guys. I want so badly for it to be good, but it’s really hard not to dwell on Woody Harrelson’s huh? wig and Peeta’s bad dye job. Bad hair/makeup accounts for, like, 50% of the Twilight movies’ awfulness, after all.