Comments on: Steven Soderbergh Is Doing Second Unit Shooting On ‘Hunger Games’

By: zozo

zozo — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Stephen King is right; \”young adult\” is right up there with airplane food and jumbo shrimp in the oxy moron hall of fame. It\’s a sily marketing term.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

crazy.

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Soderbergh.maybe the best living director. this is cool.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Love the picture. You\’d think a director/DOP would know better than to be standing right in the shot.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

@Stephen The Playlist photoshopped him into the picture.

By: Catherine Scott

Catherine Scott — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

This is awesome.

By: Ray H

Ray H — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Also, Soderbergh is on the Seabiscuit commentary with Ross.

By: danTriBeCa

danTriBeCa — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

i\’ve never gotten when people dump on him..no other director is operating on his level..action/drama/comedy/musical/tentpole/documentary all within 2 years…?
proof again he\’s awesome..
what other oscar winning director just does that for a friend?

–crickets—

By: hank

hank — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

he\’s not retiring, guys. c\’mon.

By: Finnick

Finnick — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

And yeah, we realize second unit work is not the kind of stuff that bears an auteur signature but at it least gives us something to pay attention to other than the Peeta/Gale/Katniss trifecta of swoony teen heartache or whatever

Haha fuck you. That\’s not what this book series is about. There\’s this thing called a library card. Get one, use it.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Soderbergh also shot second unit on Pleasantville. Gary Ross discusses this on the commentary… I think (listened to it about 12 years ago).

By: Raix

Raix — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

\”Swoony teen heartache\”? e_e No. Just… no. *laughs** Didn\’t Do The Research. (Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary! :D) It\’s a dystopia, like The Giver, 1984, Divergent, etc…

By: jm

jm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

I love how dismissive Indie Wire is about ANYTHING out of the YA section (because you know, if it isn\’t written for their age group 25 to 30 and up then it must be drivel)So I guess The Catcher in the Rye (about a teen) To Kill A Mockingbird (about young kids ) are crap as well?. The Hunger Games does NOT focus on a love triangle it focuses on war and it\’s affect on kids. The thing is you guys have not even read the books and you make assumptions about the quality and all that does is make you look like uninformed assholes. Essentially, until you read the books your opinions regarding the quality are meaningless.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

If \”Hunger Games\” turns out to be as great as \”To Kill A Mockingbird\” we\’ll eat our shoes.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

\”Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem,
a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts.
Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy
and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate
in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying ﬁght to the death – televised
for all of Panem to see. \”

I don\’t see romance mentioned anywhere.

By: zozo

zozo — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Btw, that\’s silly not sily.

By: jm

jm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

The point is maybe you should read the books before you dismiss them as YA nonsense.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

I absolutely love Soderbergh. Even his \”failure\” films are brave and creative in certain ways. He\’s one of the best working today and certainly the hardest working.

There\’s going to be this terribly odd vacuum when he retires. . .But he\’s such restless creative, I\’m hoping he\’s only away for 4-5 years and then comes roaring back. That\’s my guess anyway.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

I got a call to day from the set that they urgently need PA\’s. Too bad they didn\’t leave a phone number…

By: Dim

Dim — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

The Love Triangle is NON-EXISTENT in the first book and has some of it in the second book and by the third book, the romance is second to the war and the action. It\’s not another Twilight and it certainly will NOT be a movie with swoony teen heartache. As a fan of The Hunger Games, I say read the books before making judgments that are so incredulously stupid and uninformed, that anyone can tell you\’ve never read the books. It was never intended to be firstly about romance. Just read the synopsis.

But concerning the article, I\’m very excited.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Major lol at the person who thought Soderbergh was standing in that shot, heh.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Anon — I know. It was a joke.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Ed — Twas a joke. The photoshop job is hilarious.

By: Really?

Really? — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Fuck you assholes! This book is hardly about romance. Do some damn research you morons.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:40 +0000

Question for the touchy Hunger Games fans: are you teens defending a favorite book or adults feeling defensive about reading something from the YA section?

Genuine question considering how violent some of these reactions are.