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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 feel its $90 million on the screen, yet we’re overwhelmed by the gold rush of its revenue."”

- David Thomson, Why I Hate ‘The Hunger Games’

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Exactly. So glad to see a critic actually, you know, critique.

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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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    Wonder what he thought of the Twilight movies.

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    Normally, I wouldn’t recommend an article entitled “Why I Hate [Popular Thing X],” but David Thomson is one of the...

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