The Hunger Games opens really big numbers

[thedeparted]

1. The Hunger Games — $68.3 mil
2. 21 Jump Street — $6.3 mil
3. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax — $3.2 mil
4. John Carter — $1.4 mil
5. Project X — $0.6 mil
6. October Baby — $0.6 mil



Box office update: 'The Hunger Games' scores best opening day ever for non-sequel with $68.3 mil | Inside Movies | EW.com (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/03/24/box-office-the-hunger-games/)

It's on pace for a 130-140 weekend. That'll put it around top 5 ever openings.

Edit: the 68 was the 5th biggest day ever. only getting surpassed by,

Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows part 2 91.07
New Moon 72.70
Breaking Dawn 71.60
Eclipse 68.5

[BobTD]

twilight was such garbage it goes to show that angsty teens are really the majority going to movies now'a days. Surprisingly hunger games was not awful. I'm not a fan of all the close up shaky camera angles but they followed the book pretty close.

Whats really amazing is that they got away with calling it a PG13 movie.

[Trunks]

I watched it premier night, I thought it was okay. I read the book first, it followed it almost exactly. Left out a lot of details, but that always happens. Definitely one of the best books I read. I was also pretty surprised it got away as pg13. Lots of killings, and neck snapping.

[paecmaker]

I watched it premier night, I thought it was okay. I read the book first, it followed it almost exactly. Left out a lot of details, but that always happens. Definitely one of the best books I read. I was also pretty surprised it got away as pg13. Lots of killings, and neck snapping.

I am thinking of watching it cause it looks interesting.

Here the movie minimum age is 11 years old, however there has been quite the debate about that. :p

[Muffincat]

Gonna watch it hopefully tomorrow <3

I'm a big fan of the books so I have been looking forward to this :3

[thedeparted]

It exceeded predictions. 155 first weekend, 3rd best behind The Dark Knight, and the deathly hallows part 2

[norid]

Yea the the Movie was pretty good, I thought it would have been better with the R rating but I know they did for demographic purposes. But the things they changed were not too bad and I could understand why they did those changes.

[LiNuX]

I've heard good things about the movie but I never really planned on going (mostly because I barely have time to watch TV let alone find a couple hours to go the theater). I'll probably wait for the DVD or On Demand release. Never read the book either.

[egg-whites333]

watch the movie first then read the book im normally aginst that as i love to read but the movie wont seem so good till not bad but not as good BUT READ THE BOOK

[supertramp]

if it's worth it, i'll pay. you have to work for my money

[Muffincat]

I'd go against what eggwhites says and read the book first if you're planning on reading it at all oO Otherwise, just watch the movie. But things probably make a lot more sense if you read the book first. You'll have to be a liiiittle disappointed with some changes they made, but that can't be helped in transcribing something from a book to a film.

We just went and saw it, and I thought they did a great job :) The movie will almost always be worse than the book, but I think they handled the task really well. The actress playing Katniss was a great choice. I cried a lot :|

[CraeSC111]

I wish they would make a movie/show that followed a book exactly. Kinda like what they did with Stephen king's the stand. A bunch of 1 hours shows

[egg-whites333]

there is tlk about a prequel after they make catching fire and mocking jay i hope its the 50th hunger games with haymitch because there i some untied end of what really happened wit his *spoiler*
i know he threw somthing at the force feild but he never said why they never show the 50th hunger games re run

[norid]

That would be cool.
In the mid night premiere my friend yelled out

[CraeSC111]

Isn't there a spoiler feature that stops people like me from reading what you just put....

[norid]

I do not know... I would have used it if I knew sorry

[egg-whites333]

wow TBH thats a D move on his part id be pissed if i was only on the 2nd book also there were people infront of u that would clap for stuff like at the begining when they run there like run forest run! everyone was so pissed i hear on guy say SHUT THE CENSORED UP :P i was ready to as well we did yell at them but just telling them to be quite

[CraeSC111]

Woo avoided that one. Can't believe they removed the tag. Best thing ever. My buddy downloaded the trilogy. I'm gonna read it

[BobTD]

wow that spoiler just ruined the books for me. =(

Kind of makes me wonder what it would have been like when learning luke skywalkers father was Darth Vader. Can you believe that was once a spoiler?

[egg-whites333]

wait HE IS oh great thnk :P no jk

[Muffincat]

How about no spoilers in this thread at all, guys. I'm removing all of them. If you want to talk about spoilers, make a thread called "The Hunger Games Discussion (Spoilers inside!)"

Not sure why there's no spoiler tag, but we'll have to work with it for now.

[Dess]

I liked the movie, but it did leave out a lot of details, and there's a kind of important detail that it messed up in the movie. Other that the one thing, it followed the story for the most part.