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Podcast: Reel Chums
Episode: The Hunger Games Is Frustrating to Love | Reel Chums
Description: In this episode, we kick off our month of dystopian films with Gary Ross's The Hunger Games.We break down what might be the ultimate "we know it's gonna be good but we don't know it's gonna be good" studio movie — a film with a great first hour that struggles to maintain that energy once the games actually begin. We dig into why the script fails Katniss and Peeta in the arena, what it means for a protagonist to have agency versus just being reactionary, and how the limited budget both helped and hurt the final product....