Does ‘The Hunger Games’ live up to the hype?
“The film shows precious little hunger and no sense of game. It’s a terrible movie, but it grossed $68.25 million on its first Friday. So that’s where your teenage daughters were over the weekend—or what they told you.”
- David Thomson, Why I Hate ‘The Hunger Games’
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This review of Hunger Games, by David Thomson, really pissed me off. It pissed me off because it assumes that for action...
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I agree with many things David Thompson says, although I enjoyed the movie. I thought Jennifer Lawrence’s reserve was...
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Does ‘The Hunger Games’ live up to the hype? “The phenomenon of The Hunger Games is depressing just because you can’t...
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Wonder what he thought of the Twilight movies.
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Normally, I wouldn’t recommend an article entitled “Why...[Popular Thing X],” but David...
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