I've read the first book. I liked it I do's.

Claudia Winkleman was raving about the film on Film 2012 this week. Its been getting a lot of good reviews.... can I come with you? I can chat up your daughter at the same time 

I have seen trailers - reminded me of Shwarzznegger The Running Man

We saw the trailer in the cinema - i was underwhelmed

But happy to be surprised

Rawky...   MrD is coming too..   if you sat there chatting up Ickle, he'd be sat there growling at you

Summer...   READ THE BOOKS!!!!   you'll love them 

Summary of plot on wiki  (I can't c&p a link cos works pooter won't let me)..  

Yeah.. I said that initially...     there is more to the books than just the games though...   tis quite political.   

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

We've booked our cinema seats for 1pm tomorrow..    so we're off out to eat Dim Sum beforehand....

Tomorrow is gonna be sooooo good.      Wave the boy off on his school trip to Belgium at 5.45am  (wooohoooo)...    do the chickens...   come home chill for a bit... then Dim Sum, then The Hunger Games!!!!

*excited*

thank you xxx

NICE ONE !!! I love the cinema - sadly my friends don't

Pure escapism - love it!!!

I don't normally like the cinema...  I'm a bit of a fidget & tend to get bored...   so it has to be a film I really really want to see to get me to go there.

LOL my friend says "you never moved" after each movie

Ooooh look - controversial !!!

The Hunger Games has been criticized for its similarities to the 1999 novel Battle Royale. Although Collins maintains that she "had never heard of that book until [her] book was turned in," The New York Times reports that "the parallels are striking enough that Collins’s work has been savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff," but that "there are enough possible sources for the plot line that the two authors might well have hit on the same basic setup independently."^[36] King noted that the reality TV "badlands" were similar to Battle Royale, as well as The Running Man and The Long Walk.^[1] Green also pointed out that the premise of the novel was "nearly identical" to Battle Royale.^[31]

The novel has also been controversial;^[37] it ranked in fifth place on the American Library Association's list of most banned books for 2010, the reasons being it was "sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence."

That's just made me want to read Battle Royale now

When I've read it I will decide how similar they are.

However, even now I really don't think she copied it...   I reckon its just a coincidence...  

And coincidences DO HAPPEN!!

True story: I was thinking years ago "wouldn't it be great to write about a boy wizard and alll the adventures he gets up to at school"

The next day i walked past WHSmiths and saw "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

BUGGER !!!

DITTY!!

Battle Royale, the film, is AMAZING!!!! So good. Its in Japanese, so you need to be open minded and prepared to read subtitles.

I know Hunger Games is getting criticised for being similar, and it is, but going by the book it is very different.

Having said that Battle Royale is up there as one of my favourite films of all time. It really makes you think about what you would do.

ooooooooh!!!!

Now I really want to watch it!

Subtitles don't put me off..     Ickle has made me watch enough weird Korean monster movies...

OK, so I have to admit. I have never heard of it.  

Ursula le Guin was writing about teenage wizards way before J.K Rowling!

I don't bloody care !!!

Sorry about that  

poxy poxy Nokia phone!!!!!

Ickles got the mockingjay call as her text message tone.. cos she has an iphone!!!

I can't get the MP3 download yet...    cos its only for people in the US!!!

*immature sulk*

ta Jen... 

got it 

the link that is

How old are you two?

1 year older than you (maybe 2 since my b'day)

a bit older than that 

Anyways...   got the MP3... ta Jen.

Now just have to find out how to activate the bluetooth on this (Ickles) lappy...    I AM SOOOOO CLOSE!!!!   DAMN YOU TECHNOLOGY!

This is the "mockingjay call"...    that I want & Ickle has as her text tone.. 

I'm 27 !!!

2 then

Honestly JEN i thought you were about 50

No idea why though

Tis cos i'm a boring fekker.

Nah it's cos i used to be called Jenstar50 on C4 when i first joined as that was my yahoo ID Lmao i've got an 18month old

I'm gonna write a book too

Totally original

Its called - Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code of Sudoku

Well..   been to see it.. 

and I bloody loved it! 

Roll on the sequel!! 

Youngest two have just gone to see it.

Hopefully my 14 year old will now stop the high pitched squealing, every time it is mentioned on the telly! 

I don't do going to the cinema in the day time. Its just not right 

hahahahahaha...    we've been squealing too when the ads for it were on... 

Its nice & empty during the day!!    I likes it like that!!