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Hello,and welcome to the review topic for my Hunger games review topic*Note: I will be doing Catching fire and Mockingjay once i'm done with this oneOkay,so i'm remastering the Hunger Games trilogy to make a BIONICLE version.List of epics:(That's a Nui-Rama,by the way)THE HUNGER GAMES: http://www.bzpower.c...?showtopic=4210Characters:MorbuzahkGrefujahZaruFridaRandom VahkiMorbuzahk's parents(mentioned only)Turaga Dume(mentioned only)Plot:When his brother is chosen to compete in the Hunger Games,Morbuzahk takes his place,not even knowing what he will go through.Of course,silly,this is the thread where you get to review the epics;made for you to review this and for future Epics to be better. I can't improve if you just say "Wow,that was awesome,make more!". It lightens up my spirits,but it doesn't help me to improve.
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Review topic:http://www.bzpower.c...?showtopic=4211THE HUNGER GAMES"The Hunger Games: The perfect example of what can happen when Matoran want to see other Matoran die for enjoyment. Pity,I have not,though. Let them open the gates to the road of their extinction. However,these gates,are not on my road."-AxonnPrologue:I am Morbuzahk. Other Matoran say that I should go to the naming day ceremony;because they say I was named for an ancient plant that almost destroyed the city. In order to change your name,it has to be May 8th. You have to get permission from Turaga Dume himself. That,you must be at least 18 years old to do. I am 16. I live in sector 12;part of an area that used to be called Onu-Metru. Metru-Nui is divided into 13 sectors;but sector 13 was destroyed. Sector 12 is largely devoted to mining. We have also the responsibility to make Graphite,which used to be sector 13's job before they were destroyed. I live with my brother,whom is 12. We live in a hut below the surface,in a suburban city. My farther was killed during a mine explosion,and my mother died after she was infected by a Kraata,and then Vahki took her away because otherwise she might've infected the entire town.Chapter one:I am awakened by my pet light-bug. Immediately,I look at the calendar scratched into the wall,and immediately,it feels as if my brain fell out of my head,a thing that there's a 1/1,000 chance of it happening. It was reaping day. I immediately woke my brother,we ate a loaf of bread,and then we were off. We had to report to the Koro of sector 12. Your name was in there once when you were 12,then,ear by ear,your name is added on more until,when you're 18,your name's in there 6 times. A Ga-Matoran named Frida (whom has been physically altered by the capitol so that she's pink instead of her natural shade of blue) randomly picked names from a bowl. Each sector had their names written on something different. We had our names carved into Pebbles.'Welcome,welcome,to the 74th annual Hunger Games!"She placed her hand into the rock bowl and picked out one name. "Zaroo",although it's actually Zaru. Anyways,Zaru(whom was the town baker) was escorted to the stage by three Vahki. She asked for volunteers. No hand went up. Then,she put her hand back in the bowl and picked out another name."Grefujah."It left like someone had ripped my Kanohi off and put me into 100-degree weather. They had called my brother.
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...and loved it. Film adaptations that match the book are exceedingly rare, and those that surpass the book are rarer still. This film doesn't quite reach that mark, but it was a surprisingly accurate and enjoyable adaptation of an excellent book. One factor in its success, I believe, was that nothing major was left out of the film. Most adaptations end up cutting out huge swaths of the book because there's simply too much detail, but The Hunger Games isn't one of those. It was incredibly faithful to the source material, and as a result it was as thrilling as the book, Jennifer Lawrence does an excellent job of portraying the aloof Katniss, and Josh Hutcherson plays Peeta straight out of the book. The rest of the cast feels as though they were created for the sole purpose of playing their roles, especially Woody Harrelson as Haymitch and Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman. It was almost surreal watching them, because they looked exactly as I had envisioned the characters while reading. That said, it's not perfect. There is some stuff missing; the book is written in first person, after all, so there's no way to truly understand Katniss like you do when reading the book. And yes, there are a few details I would have changed. But anything missing is so small that you'll blink and miss it. Overall, the movie does a great job of staying true to the book and to the characters. I wasn't expecting brilliance, but The Hunger Games blew my expectations out of the water. It was a thrilling, moving, high-paced joyride that, honestly, you have to see, whether you've read the book or not. The book is phenomenal, but the film does it proud. If you go see it, you won't regret it. I saw it, and I didn't regret it. In fact, I'm even thinking of going and seeing it again. Now, I don't like giving scores, because it's difficult to translate all my opinions and emotions into a number. Sciences to humanities, right? But if I had to rate this movie, it wouldn't be anything less than a 9/10, no matter how you look at it. The Hunger Games is an exceptional film. Period.