Anyone see The Giver yet? If so, is it worth seeing in theaters or should I wait for video? It's received bad reviews, but the audience score for it on Rotten Tomatoes is decent.
@Nate I watched it (without reading the book, but luckily one of my friends with me had read it, so it made sense XD). I thought it was fairly interesting, but I didn't really understand a lot of it on my own. The music was good... I kind of enjoyed the movie.
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"My heart is racing even as I write, but I plan to go on as bravely as a heroine in a novel."~The Hired Girl
The Hunger Games and The Giver are very different. Just like Hunger Games and Divergent are different. All are dystopian novels, but differ in content.
But that's another topic for another thread. ^^
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Yeah, The Giver is way different from The Hunger Games. I'm sure the movie tried to cash in on the fad, but that's not the story that's told in the book.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
The trailer for this looks terrible. The Giver is a gentle story about a systematic and ingrained horror, and it deals with it in a gentle but incredibly moving way.
This film trailer indicates a story about insurrection and violence which isn't at all presented in the novel. Also, how white washed can you get.
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@PenguinAttack - actually, there's a passing mention in the book about all other skin tones besides white being eliminated. It's described as a beneficial thing that removed the causes of injustice and inequality when really, but so much like the other things that were changed with sameness, it removed all outlets of individuality, expression and culture that come with our own races. So, while the movie is indeed terrible and I doubt they considered the meaning of this part of the book when casting, it makes sense that all of the actors should be white.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
Okay, my method to watching movies (in theaters) is if I have at least a 'little' bit of interest, I'll watch it. I read The Giver last year, and didn't like it that much. I felt it had good suspense, but fell flat in executing. There's a lot of people who fanboy/girl over it, and will love the movie.
I do have a little bit of interest in it, but it makes me mad that there's a spaceship in it. The trailer has to be one of the most disappointing I've seen this year, but yeah.
I attempt to gather as much interest as I can walking into it so I don't favorite it or not.
"Words say little to the mind compared to space thundering with images and crammed with sounds."
i can't believe the movie is so generic. You would think such a great book would be more than just a hunger games rip off
