{"id":8205,"date":"2012-09-14T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2012-09-15T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T07:19:13","slug":"the-hunger-games-is-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8205","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games is rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There, I said it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say it again.<\/p>\n<p>The Hunger Games is rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Huge tracts of the media industry are cranking out a sickening level of PR-related guff, ramming the release, on DVD, of the film The Hunger Games, down our throats.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is simple,\u00a0to make the DVD-buying public load themselves up with as many Blu-Ray and non-Blu-Ray versions of The Hunger Games as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t fall for it.<\/p>\n<p>The film &#8211; The Hunger Games &#8211; is crashingly mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>Get a copy of the Japanese film Battle Royale from your DVD rentaliser instead.<\/p>\n<p>Leaner, tighter, better scripted, better acted, better directed and all on a fraction of the budget of The Hunger Games.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and both films portray what is basically the same story.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t watch the substandard American film; watch the original &#8211; and so much better &#8211; Japanese film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There, I said it. I&#8217;ll say it again. The Hunger Games is rubbish. Huge tracts of the media industry are cranking out a sickening level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}