I, like the rest of the Internet, have seen the THG trailer.

[puella_nerdii]

So there's a Hunger Games trailer now.

I'm not going to embed it because I think everyone who cares (and a lot of people who don't) has seen the thing, but I have thoughts on it! Some of these thoughts I've already sorta-expounded-upon on Twitter and in various comment threads, but I might as well gather them here.

Overall, I like it a lot, and I

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[fragilesymphony]

I am so so glad you (and most people I've seen) had that sort of reaction to "I volunteer!" because I have been bursting for people to see that since June--I love Jennifer Lawrence usually, but that's what really sold me on her as Katniss. It's this perfect blend of desperate and brave, and the gravity of what she's actually doing is so clear there.

I've been optimistic to an admittedly obnoxious point, because I do really want to see them do this well, and what they chose to show--particularly how they chose to show Peeta and Gale, and that so much of it was focused on the "this is a terrifying dystopia"-- makes me feel pretty good about it, so far. And besides a few nitpicky things (....and Haymitch's hair, lol), it hit way closer to the book than I've come to expect from adaptations, so hopefully that's true of the movie itself.

[carcharias1130]

I've just been disappointed by movie interpretations so often (M. Night Shyamalan, why?) that I don't want to let myself get excited but I can't help it

The entire selection sequence! I don't know if it's the way they cut the trailer but they made it seem like the desperate, sudden, tragic moment it was in the books and I got shivers. And then the Capitol...so sleek! So impersonal! And so far, the casting is selling me. I know you have reservations on the music, but Elfman sells me on pretty much everything he does, and Rue's whistle was just so...haunting and lovely. I do have apprehensions about Kravitz' Cinna, if only because it looks like they took everything (sets! colors! positioning!) from my headcanon except him. His voice is too...husky? Eh, I'm just being silly I think.

Haymitch is too shiny. Needs more filth.

I shouldn't be this excited. It will only hurt me, but I can't stop being excited.

[windy_lea]

This is the trailer that actually shows people, right? I feel like there are two on youtube, and one of them is more of a hinter-trailer, where anyone who doesn't know the story really won't know what the fuck is going on; the other was short, but more detailed and did have the right... feeling to it? Overall, it did give me hope for the movie interpretation--I had been sort of dreading it up until now, honestly.

At the same time, my brain couldn't stop pointing out that this is Hollywood trying to sell a story that is at least partly about humanity's sick obsession with ~spectacle~. LOL