I liked Christina Aguilera in that CandyMan video - you know.... when she used to be fit.

They can keep the song, Sorry Christina :(

lol Xtincta

I get the feeling that films like the Hunger Games want to talk about the issues involved in the source material but don't want to go all the way because the only reason they want to talk about the issues is so lots of people will see the film because they might think it has something interesting or new to say. But that's all they need to do: give people the idea that the film MIGHT be about something relevant, when in fact the big money behind the film speaks to the fact that the studio might not be interested in an anticorporate message, and so the idea is not to make a politically controversial film but to get people to spend lots and lots of cash while thinking they're watching some kind of independent film. The reason these films exist is not because the director somehow wanted to share his beliefs with the world but to make a franchise out of a series of very popular books, as it would be guaranteed to be a success because it has a built-in audience, a big budget (and people know it has), A-list actors (if Jennifer Lawrence is considered an A-list actress after her Oscar win) and it has loads of special effects. I mean, one could have made a great film ABOUT the issue of entertainment consumer culture running rampant and the social/economic inequality and apathy resulting from it but it does not seem that these are the films that go to places we've never seen before. The antagonists are obvious mustache-twirling villains and the "revolution" looks like every tired cliché of an underground rebellion we've seen before that is supposed to make people feel less guilty about the fact that they're watching a movie instead of getting politically engaged in real life. it's like some kind of way to absolve themselves of their apathy because they think that, by watching films about social change somehow things will just change like that in real life or someone else will do it for them. The fact that the studio is putting pop songs over these trailers does not speak to any anti-corporate message that might have been in the books anyway, resulting in a BIG corporate cash in and also a BIG corporate sellout. effectively, corporate "culture" manages to cash in on something that supposedly stands in opposition to the idea of mindless consumption or corporatization of our lives.