{"id":1452,"date":"2012-04-05T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2012-04-08T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:11:20","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffd500;\">\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002657\/\">Gary Ross<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 2012<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to call this a rip-off of <a href=\"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1033\">Battle Royale<\/a>, since it&#8217;s based upon a successful book trilogy, but it&#8217;s definitely a rip-off. Granted, it&#8217;s entertaining and visually, they did a great job capturing the desolate future\/bright, cheesy metropolis. It&#8217;s so fantastical and the part of the film I enjoyed most was the training and showmanship of the events in the city. The actual <em>Games<\/em> themselves were better represented in Battle Royale because it demonstrated the Lord of the Flies moment of cliques and groups being created.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s difficult to resist watching one of the highest grossing films of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1392170\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605 Director: Gary Ross Year: 2012 It&#8217;s difficult to call this a rip-off of Battle Royale, since it&#8217;s based upon a successful book trilogy, but it&#8217;s definitely a rip-off. Granted, it&#8217;s entertaining and visually, they did a great job capturing the desolate future\/bright, cheesy metropolis. It&#8217;s so fantastical and the part of the film I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,10,12],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}