As Star Wars (ep 4-6) and lord of the rings? I'm completely comfortable with doing that, hunger games is just that good. I'm a late comer to those films but I'm glad I did

Ps. Did anyone think the Blk guy in mockingjay pt 1 was Brandon Marshall at first lol. I was like wtf is Brandon Marshall doing in this film

i was dragged to see the second one and was blown away, lol. been all-in since.

outside of some of the performances.

Let's see if if finishes strong (book readers point out that the ending is the weakest part of the series).

It's fun, interesting, good plot, and has some great scenes.

it's strong...but maybe a tier below imho and i'm a big fan...

it's a top tier dystopia to me though but i think it's falling slightly short as far as the great trilogies...it has epic moments though so i think it's pretty easily argued up

First movie was corny IMO, 2nd one was better... haven't see the third one yet.

The story is great but that first one was cheesy as hell to me.

Original Star Wars
LOTR

and then what?

I can't come up with another universally acclaimed trilogy. They either have mixed reviews or they add a 4th sequel that drags the series down

The 4th film never happened *fingers in ears*

"There was no 4th film."

The Linklaters Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight triology.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_sunrise/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_sunset/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_midnight_2013/

If not, id argue the Back to the Futures, the Indy's (skipping anything afterwards) and of course the original LOTR

stop acting like the 3rd one ain't the shit, ppl. it's not as good as the 1st 2 but that's b/c the 1st 2 are some of the best movies ever made.

if the 1st 2 are 10 then the 3rd is no worse than 7.5. i give it an 8.

i haven't seen none of that but the fanboys like them, i think.

Are the only two on that level IMO

Original Star Wars and lord of the rings

Then te prequel Star Wars, matrix, twilight and all the rest are just all the rest.

I think hunger games should be put with the top 2

Three of the greatest films ever made:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Trilogy

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are EPIC
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The third matrix was not really good

so I can't put HG on it's level.

The first Hunger Games was just as bad as the 3rd Matrix movie IMO.

Tier Three: Entertaining but not uber-classic
Pirates of the Carib
El MAriachi
Mad Max

Tier Two:
Near-Classics (IMHO)
Star Wars Prequels (eff ya'll I like them joints)
Hunger Games
"Dollars Trilogy" (Fist Full of Dollars; A Few Dollars more and The Good, The Bad The Ugly)

Tier One:
Staw Wars
LOR
Matrix (who cares ya'lls opinion hahahahaha)
The Godfather (Three was the weakest, but finalizes the story).

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but it's not "quite" Tier One but extremely close.

good shit tho

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>Tier Three: Entertaining but not uber-classic
>Pirates of the Carib
>El MAriachi
>Mad Max
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>Tier Two:
>Near-Classics (IMHO)
>Star Wars Prequels (eff ya'll I like them joints)
>Hunger Games
>"Dollars Trilogy" (Fist Full of Dollars; A Few Dollars more
>and The Good, The Bad The Ugly)
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>Tier One:
>Staw Wars
>LOR
>Matrix (who cares ya'lls opinion hahahahaha)
>The Godfather (Three was the weakest, but finalizes the
>story).

That's pretty spot on for me. Matrix is a matter of taste. I liked it more than most though. Glad to see El Mariachi getting some love.

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My girl made me watch the "Twilight" series with her and those movies were awful (although the big fight scene in the last one was straight).

"Hunger Games" is better than that but they're nowhere near epic status, IMO. They're fine but they didn't knock me out.

And I'd put "The Matrix" series up there with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.

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Was or what twilight ever will be considered.

splitting the last movie in 2 for $$ doesn't make this less of a trilogy.

and i refuse to acknowledge The Hobbit as a trilogy for the same reason.

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Those movies are awful.
Great performances by several the actors but overall the movies are weak as hell.

I don't agree that they are awful obviously but I think it's weird when ppl say stuff like that

they all serve the same purpose, psychologically speaking...
and are all equally good.

as I am sure Mockingjay will be...Splitting that particular book in two is just...greedy. It was a horrible ending to an actually ok start. It's average to me. What Star Wars and Lord of the Rings achieved was Way Bigger, IMO. Like, I know folk that HATE anything fantasy related but have seen every LOtR...Feel like the Hunger Games is huge for those under forty...that dont read....

I just wanted to point that out. We just saw a dude get shot in a bar by a criminal and a thug get his arm chopped off for talking shit. That Universe felt so real and mysterious it immediately pulled you along for the ride. It was like watching a western, a sci fi, and a fantasy film for the first time at the same time. You weren't quite sure what the rules were but it felt just familiar enough to keep you enthralled.

Tweens going Lord of the Flies for TV ratings says something poignant about today, but for some reason it doesn't feel timeless.

Fantasy movies have changed a lot is all I'm saying.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

Fantasy movies had much higher stakes for even young kids and were waaaay darker.

30s plus will be considered that great becuz of the attitude that anything current is less than

Also this is okp where ppl will be dismissive and belittling of differing opinions

it gets harder and harder to be amazed and blown away when you know the cultural antecedents of a particular work.

I've already seen Vampires in a bunch of shit, and as such I'm going to be more critical of Twilight and Trueblood than some 15 year old girl who has never seen the Lost Boys or something.

With those films at all when they dropped and they weren't considered upper echelon until after it all had been considered, beyond the immediate commercial success which hunger games can also claim

I didn't bother when hunger games or twilight or Harry potter at all becuz I considered then for kids/teens or pll who were already connected to the respective books

I've since check all the twilights and enjoyed them, but I would never call them great

I'm caught up on hunger games and I would call them great

I think they have a lot of elements that just make them great not to mention the history making for blockbuster epics with a female lead

Hunger games has to be in the convo IMO

nostalgia is a bitch man


i could always appreciate ebert man
he was never as cynical as many of the folks who claim to appreciate movies
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no.

if this were the case then none of us would revere LOTR b/c we'd be too caught up in reverence for the original Star Wars - which we all saw and loved as children.

it's okay to hold an opinion that doesn't get lots of cosigns here or elsewhere. there are definitely corners of the Internet where folks dig those movies more than OKPs.

like:

http://www.fanforum.com/f362/
http://www.hungergamestrilogy.com/phpbb3/
http://www.happy-hg.com/forum/index.php

...and on. lots of kindred spirits there.

fuk what yal talking about

when Rue died a nygga was in tears

the only time I had cried before while watching a movie was Hotel Rwanda




these films have been epic


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I'm just imagining you crying in a theatre while watching this.

man I lost it





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These are quite common on okp tho

I love these movies btw, they are epic to me.

If we take first 3 movies of a series that maybe shoulda stopped at trilogy but didn't, there are a lot that would son these HGs

Bourne
Indiana Jones
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Rocky
Alien
Godfather


I think those are all arguably on par or better, few of them have weaker 3rd links but I can't argue any HG as a top 50 all time movie, maybe not Bourne or LW as well but the rest for sure

It made me care about a sequel, the 1st one didn't tho'.

I read the first book and watched the movies and thought it was pretty dumb. Didn't recognize the world as bearing any resemblance to reality at all. I also saw an anti-government angle that I thought was too tea partier to me.

But I saw the next two movies and have been reconsidering.

I think our next war media will play a much larger role just like in the Hunger games.

The way this Trump Reality Show is playing out, wikileaks.

I see it now.


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Which is still kind of hokey. Once they got into using media to control and government people then it started to click for me.


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felt like an after school special

they made four films based off the source material.....just cause a person doesn't choose to acknowledge that 2+1=3 doesn't mean that 2+1=2