Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Michael Ledo I rate films on how well I enjoy them and not on their quality. There were scenes which admittedly had me ROFL. The film does not only satire "The Hunger Games" but also satires other films as well as modern society, an aspect which I liked. The humor was indeed stupid and even crude at times. One line from the film about a past game:"No one could anticipate Oprah would eat all the other contestants."The speech given at the end by the Samuel L. Jackson character actor had me in tears. Maiara Walsh who played the star Kantmiss Evershot reminded me of Zooey Deschanel more than Jennifer Lawrence. The actual film is short as it has a sad 10 minute blooper reel at the end.I enjoyed the film, it reminded me of "Your Highness" minus some of the crudeness. Other films spoofed include, Oz, Potter, LOTR, Avatar, Avengers, Expendables, plus more.Parental Guide: No F-bombs, but does have a lot of adult language. Censored sex scene. Male streaker with rear nudity.

elshikh4 With a career of all horrible comedies, how come that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are still in business to this day ?! It could be the most confusing mystery in the modern history ! While The Starving Games (2013) is a parody of a weak movie named The Hunger Games (2012), it's weaker than it. Rather, it hit the bottom of "weakness", whether as a comedy, or as a movie !Saying that it has laughs is like saying that there are birds in space. There is no fun to be seen. It's like a horror of weird stuff, shown successively, with the least talents. Actually there is something creepy about poor movie that enjoys mixing blood, farts, bad jokes, terrible bore, and cinematic primitiveness ! While making a comedy needs vitality and sharpness, this one is ruled by laziness and dullness. For little example, look how the heroine runs haphazardly into The Expendables, The Avengers, and The Lord of The Ring's leads. It's a pathetic way to mock at these movies, especially when the result is always dry micro-sketches that have no smart line, no stars as cameos, and no criticism for any ironic fault in these very movies !At one moment, the heroine's colleague has a deep wound in his back, which the movie oddly focuses on its sticky repulsive sight. And at another no less repulsive moment, the heroine spits heavy blood. Then, the movie loves the 2 moments to the extent of showing them AGAIN in the blooper reel. Let alone that there is more than one scene for human and animalistic excretion. Well, in my book, when a movie succeeds in making you nauseated; then it's not a comedy at all ! And while it pocks fun of an action, how come that it's more violent than it ?! Seriously, the original movie doesn't have half of this parody's violence where many killings, by arrows or spears, are shown shockingly and bluntly. You can argue that this is a black comedy. But according to the movie's lQ; it's color blind !It even ends abruptly, like it's a sudden death !But still one matter that kills me. Why repeating the shots ?? I mean, the catatonic mother, the sequence of beating the competitors by different weapons, the copious unchangeable cadres of President Snowballs, his assistants, and the stage's wealthy viewers while they're watching the games… Why to repeat all of this FOR ALL THE TIME ??!! It's an agony before being another source of stupidity !Trying to be objective here, and find any positive points to talk about, needs superpower, but I'll try : Maiara Walsh and Diedrich Bader have charisma, and delivered something close to good performance. The first scene of President Snowballs, with the goofy introduction and speech, was the only time where I smelled "effort". Bringing up matters like the degeneration of some reality TV shows, and begging sequels by simply adding a lesbian love story in other shows, was into the point satire. Else that, and with all the superpowers in the world, you won't find an extra iota of positiveness in this ! The Starving Games is ugly and sanguinary comedy that has no comedy in the first place. So how come that Friedberg & Seltzer are paid money for making comedies with nothing funny like that, while – notice well – others have to pay for watching that itself ?!! As for my title's question, the answer is : "It's my fate". And as for the rest of my questions concerning Friedberg & Seltzer.. I have no answer whatsoever !

Charles Stauffer In the style of "Airplane" The starving games is a broad parody which throws every joke they can at the screen and hopes that at least a few of them work.....and for the most part they do. This is a laugh a minute movie which actually stays fairly honest to it's original source material. It is not for everybody, but if you enjoy goofy parodies of movies then this one is worth seeing. The cast is strong, the dialog while a bit crude at times fits the scenes, and it is paced well and builds to a worthwhile , ( and expected,), conclusion.You could make a movie far worse than " The Starving Games", but it would take some real effort to make a low budget flick better than this little gem. Forget the negative reviews and add this flick to your weekly rental list...you will be surprised and glad that you did.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I hate The Hunger Games for various reasons; I've read the books, seen the movies and have had many bonfires afterwards (the only things those books and movies are good for is landfill bait and kindling). It's an extremely overrated and frankly stupid waste of time to pay attention to, set up for the sheep to follow, so sooner or later a parody was bound to pop up. The Starving Games is one such parody, and don't get me wrong, it started out as hilarious, making fun of every bad part of the Hunger Games series (which was 99% of it). There was some swearing at first but nothing too crude, and I was laughing a hell of a lot throughout the first few minutes.Soon though, the sex jokes and fart jokes came up, and I'm not a prude but I hate crude humor. It's disgusting, vulgar, degrading and only appeals to the idiots in society, the people who find those "fail videos" on youtube with fat people falling over to be funny. As the movie went on the fart jokes just kept getting more and more frequent and a bunch of pervy sex jokes followed. A majority of the movie was spent with scenes such as cheerleaders dancing around wearing plastic funnels in their shirts, the two main parody characters having sex behind a picture of the president's face (only to have Gandalf and Hagrid from Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter show up like perverts), people getting kicked in the crotch and a girl hallucinating about being a character from Avatar (another popular movie) and having sex. It just wasn't funny. I hate The Hunger Games but all those nasty jokes was going WAY too far.That being said, I liked how it made fun of a few other overrated trendy movies and internet videos in the background (someone should have done that a long time ago) and this parody had potential. I think if the production company tried again with some other movie and held back on the crude humor they could create something very funny if they tried.