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Originally Posted by Turtle91
...Really..... REALLY ?!?
EVERDEEN
gah!!  |
Yes, really. Sorry, I thought that the movie was pretty darned silly, so I never bothered with the books. Whoever wrote that book has never been in any mission-critical environment, and I actually kept laughing out loud at what were (apparently!) inappropriate moments, like the awkward "pet the dog" scene, in which the heroine takes the time to BURY the smaller dead girl. I mean, hello? Let's see, we're in the middle of a game, TO THE DEATH, and she's already DEAD. It's not like you're trying to nurse a live person.
You (the heroine) know that some pack of other kids are looking for you, to kill YOU, but, sure, you're gonna take the time to build some little mini-monument to this girl, cover it with flowers or whatever it was...
nyah. Not my cuppa, at all. I think that anyone who ever served in the service, or worked in any environment like that, would have found it fairly silly. Not harmful; just silly.
Just my $.02. Just because I didn't like it
doesn't mean that others shouldn't. Same with Twifright; both originally aimed at the same sort of age-group, YA, and apparently had wide appeal.
Hitch