A mediocre idea that could have been made into a good film - but this is not it.

Rating: 1/10 (29 August 2012)

A mediocre idea that could have been made into a good film - but this is not it.
Watching 'Hunger Games'. Pity about the Apple-loops excuse for music. Nice to have it all so predictable - perfect watching for Alzheimer's patients.
What a horrifying film, though, far, far, in the future and humanity hasn't evolved beyond 'reality' plebvision....
Isn't it fortunate that, as Yogi Berra pointed out, 'It's difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future'.
Pathetic, really. They don't even know what 'star crossed' means. How sad, they could have made an interesting film, instead of this tosh.
I thought, for a while, that it might be anti-fascism, instead it was a bad modern re-make of 'Triumph of the Will'. Yankland Ãœber alles in der Welt'.
Well, I suppose that you have to accept that it reflects the Zeitgeist. I think that Neitzche, if shorn of all his aesthetic sensibilities, might have liked it.
What is worst about the whole thing, really, is that such a badly made, fascist film is so popular - if it had just gone straight to DVD, where it belongs, it wouldn't be such a sad indictment on popular taste and popular sentiment (sentimentality, really).
I suppose that we have to accept that, like the depression in the 1930s, this depression has, almost inevitably, led to an adoption of fascist mawkishness. Wouldn't it be nice if humanity was capable of something better.