Hunger games: a post peak oil movie

[rangerone314]

Meh. Only movies I'm going to for sure are Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus, and Total Recall.

[pstarr]

Meh. Only movies I'm going to for sure are Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus, and Total Recall.

Ridley Scott and Charlize Theron is a freakishly hot combination. I remember Total Recall is an old Schwartzenberggger/Sharon Stone hotness flick. I believe it came from a Phillip Dick novel? I hate anything to do with the Batman Franchise.

[rangerone314]

Said the heck with it, and took my teenager to see "Hunger Games"; good movie & we both liked it.

[careinke]

Said the heck with it, and took my teenager to see "Hunger Games"; good movie & we both liked it.

Gotta like a person not afraid to change his mind.

[Cog]

I read the three book Hunger Game series a while back and then watched the movie with my daughter. I was not impressed with the movie. I much preferred the dystopian movies of The Road and the Book of Eli.

[SeaGypsy]

As far as prophetic vision goes, the concept of lateral warfare, never ending geurilla warfare; anti state skirmish after transit attack after infrastructure disruption/ these are much more likely to be dominant preoccupations in a post collapse world. Folks making a damn nuisance of themselves, a never ending pain in the behind and cause for lack of sleep. Yeah, you can hunt them like pigs using stealth drones, even in your own country, legally. But realistically how many? Ever watched the history of Laos? We all heard about Vietnam, but Laos was the US first full blown sustained air bombing campaign with not a boot on the ground. Every attempt was made to obliterate the human population over a 9 month period. It didn't work. In a post cheap energy, cheap airflight, explosives and high tech operating sytems, metals, capable individuals to lead the necessary micro civilizations needing to emerge... It still won't work. The world is not somebody's oyster, it is a vast macrocosm of life, capable of regenerating to an unbelievable extent, given time and lack of interference. There are always limits to control and compromises must be made by those wanting loyalty from their subjects. Writing truly solid prophetic vision would be a sure money spinner industry to get into, were there one...

[SeaGypsy]

A bone dry desert for all but 6 of the last hundred years, the entire Diamantina Basin is flooding, for an unprecedented 3rd year running. There are untold millions of breeding birds, a huge recovery for many species struggling for space and food to breed for decades since the last big floods in the mid 1980's. Nature is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsoy6PrkX9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3StZkIixzU
(my point is that, you get down anywhere near those numbers of people across such vast areas, next nice 3 breeding cycles, you are having roast pelican or Swan or pig or crocodile, every night, until it's time to follow the rain, or for a general climate base die off.) The world is not the yuppies farm post oil, it is more like a feralized, hybridized wilderness capable of well screwing us up. As in all of us. Also capable of easily sustaining a lot more of us than the sort of numbers aluded to)

[Pretorian]

I've read about 100 pages of the first book, the story is ok, but I thought it was written for foreign kids that try to learn English. I guess nothing else can be sold to a modern reader. I liked the movie though.

[Serial_Worrier]

Oh I'd definitely be an elite in the Capitol watching the grubby Districteers dying in the arena for my amusement!!!!