There was a lot of tip-toeing around from Bob, and he finally let it out.
His politics has got in the way. He doesn't like the urbanites (tremendously appearance obsessed with some clearly gay to our eyes) being the bad guys, and the salt of the earth being more decent and more human.
Rurals can be crude, prejudiced and prone to brawling, but for me the urbanites of a totalitarian system actually fit as bad guys. Hoarding all the resources, playing up the Roman death games, obsessed with fashion and appearance. There is a critique of effete culture in there and an association with evil, but as a rural who headed to the city the simplification strikes me as possible in storytelling. The upper classes in the hunger games are not nice, they are vain, petty enthusiasts of reality tv and watching the suffering of the less fortunate. The urbanites as the bad guys does not feel like such a stretch. That is the setup, but Bob has a problem with the world building.
Bob is really torn with these movies and votes them down here I think because of the critical tone towards urbanites and stereotyped garish LGBT groups. There have been points made by others that the effete urbans are implied to be homosexual and it is wrong that they are cast as the bad guys. This restricts Bob's thinking here, he can't get away from what he has read and he doesn't like this idea at all.
The cities are meant to be the sight of progress (for progressive groups, in contrast to more traditional rural areas), and Bob does not like a different narrative to this being conveyed in film.
His politics has got in the way. He doesn't like the urbanites (tremendously appearance obsessed with some clearly gay to our eyes) being the bad guys, and the salt of the earth being more decent and more human.
Rurals can be crude, prejudiced and prone to brawling, but for me the urbanites of a totalitarian system actually fit as bad guys. Hoarding all the resources, playing up the Roman death games, obsessed with fashion and appearance. There is a critique of effete culture in there and an association with evil, but as a rural who headed to the city the simplification strikes me as possible in storytelling. The upper classes in the hunger games are not nice, they are vain, petty enthusiasts of reality tv and watching the suffering of the less fortunate. The urbanites as the bad guys does not feel like such a stretch. That is the setup, but Bob has a problem with the world building.
Bob is really torn with these movies and votes them down here I think because of the critical tone towards urbanites and stereotyped garish LGBT groups. There have been points made by others that the effete urbans are implied to be homosexual and it is wrong that they are cast as the bad guys. This restricts Bob's thinking here, he can't get away from what he has read and he doesn't like this idea at all.
The cities are meant to be the sight of progress (for progressive groups, in contrast to more traditional rural areas), and Bob does not like a different narrative to this being conveyed in film.