Talk:The Hunger Games (film)/GA3

GA Review
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Reviewer: Kncny11 (talk · contribs) 19:13, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Alright, time to refresh myself on this film series! The last GAN was six years ago, so I'm going to assume that the issues there have been more than addressed and look at this film fresh. As always, a tag means that I haven't finished looking at that part of the article yet, but feel free to start making changes as soon as you see them!  Kncny11  (shoot) 19:13, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Infobox and lede

 * The release dates and gross numbers don't need citations in the lede as long as they appear in the body
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 13:20, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks to films like Endgame coming out, ref [9] no longer shows that THG had the third-largest opening weekend gross at the time of its release. Fortunately, this NYT article says it.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:08, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Shorten parentheticals to last name, as Lawrence and Hutcherson were already introduced
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 * Principal photography began in May 2011 and ended that September
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 * Move comma from after "March 21, 2012" to after "in some European countries"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:08, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Japanese release is never mentioned in the body
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:08, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Plot

 * This section is sitting at 709 words, just over the 400-700 range recommended by MOS:FILMPLOT. Find a few areas to trim.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Pipe Panem to Fictional world of The Hunger Games.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comma after "Careers"
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 * "eleven" "11" per MOS:NUMBERS
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 * "dead from eating what she assumed were edible berries from watching Peeta." "poisoned to death by the nightlock she collected after watching Peeta." (or something of that sort, just to decrease the double "from")
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * snd around "the last three survivors" per MOS:DASH
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * The last two paragraphs both begin with "Crane then", which visually looks repetitive.
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Cast

 * Not necessary to have citations for the cast list unless there's a character description attached
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:13, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * With the way that List of The Hunger Games characters has been restructured, only Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Haymitch, Prim, and Snow need to be linked.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:13, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Period after "Mrs." in "Mrs. Everdeen"
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Production

 * Pipe distribution rights to film distribution
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Sentence structure in the first sentence is confusing atm, as it implies Color Force reportedly bought the rights for $200,000, but the Newsweek citation [27] says Lionsgate spent the money.
 * Removed some citations earlier and I couldn't find one from Newsweek.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Pipe Alli Shearmur to Allison Shearmur
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 * [29] doesn't show anything about the budget being "one of the largest ever"
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL Billy Ray (screenwriter) the first time he's mentioned in the body
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Same with Gary Ross
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Casting

 * strike "coveted" in role, for neutrality
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 * "Lawrence, a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the size of the production." "Lawrence, a fan of the books, was originally intimidated by the size of the production, and took three days to accept the role."
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Commas around "other than Hutcherson"
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 * Write his full name out in its first appearance
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "who was later cast as Cato" needs a citation
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comma after "The following month"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Need a reference for "Both got the role at the time they were promoting Captain America: The First Avenger"
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * It's also unclear who 'both' refers to, as three names are mentioned in the preceding sentence
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Filming

 * List of possible directing candidates needs a citation (EW source doesn't mention them)
 * ✅ Added a source.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL underwriting
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 * Commas around "as part of the underwriting process"
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 * "dyed her naturally blonde hair"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Split sentence after "yoga", make separate sentence about her injury.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Citation needed for that training injury
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 * The sentence about Hutcherson and Hemsworth dying their hair should be placed next to Lawrence dyeing hers, rather than in the middle of a paragraph about her training process
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delink Hutcherson and Hemsworth, who were already mentioned above
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL principal photography
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 * "digital due (in part) to the" "digital, due in part to the"
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 * WL The New York Times
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 * WL DuPont State Forest in the body as well as in the thumbnail
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 * "other scenes also took place and was filmed" "other scenes were filmed"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * The Shelby/Charlotte/Asheville sentence needs a citation
 * ✅ Added sources.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "production team found" "production team used", to reduce repetition of "found" and reduce implication that they somehow discovered the town
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "looked at a lot of photographs"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "the 1950s in the search of a very American feel." "the 1950s, in search of an "American" feel."
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * District should be capitalized
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 * Comma after "every character"
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 * "differentiate strongly" "strongly differentiate"
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 * Missing period before [61]
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Music

 * Safe & Sound only needs to be linked once, when it appears in the first sentence
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Music video release date needs a citation.
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Citation [64] should only appear once, at the end of the sentence.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * The Daily Princetonian is a student paper and not the best source. Hollywood Reporter has the same information.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL the first instance of score to Film score
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL leitmotif
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 * Drop the "important and signature" descriptors, which are non-neutral and do not appear in the cited sources
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "Arcade Fire's Panem national anthem" "The resulting piece"
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 * "Strong reviews" is followed only by one review
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL Star Wars and Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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 * "a rather obscure" "an obscure"
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 * Name the track as "Sediment"
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Move the citation to the end of the paragraph
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Critical reception

 * "Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an "A" grade."
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WL The Hollywood Reporter
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 * Mention in first sentence of second paragraph that it was compared to Harry Potter and Twilight, as many of the reviews in this para talk about that
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Pipe Time to Time (magazine)
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 * Italics and quotes around The Charlotte Observer
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Box office

 * Put this above "critical reception"
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 * "US & Canada" "United States and Canada"
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 * The Box Office Mojo stats don't suggest that it made the "largest worldwide opening weekend for a film not released during the summer or the holiday period", because the non-archived version has several films above that, and the archived version doesn't specify release dates.
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * For that matter, many of the records need to specify "at the time of its release" or "as of", as Black Panther (Feb. 2018), Beauty and the Beast (Mar. 2017), and BvS (Mar. 2016) have since overtaken that.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Mysterious space in the third paragraph with "On its first weekend"
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Drop the "With regard to ticket sales", as the phrase is mentioned later in the sentence
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comma after "On Fandango alone"
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 * Comma after "advance ticket seller ever"
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 * Comma after "according to Fandango"
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Themes

 * Pipe feminist to feminism
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 * "Manohla Dargis of The New York Times"
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 * WL Huffington Post
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 * comma after "published in the Star Tribune"
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 * comma before "while the stories contain no actual religion"
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Battle Royale and other precedents

 * Change first sentence to "Several critics compared The Hunger Games unfavourably to ...", and include specific quotes.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "The Lottery" is mentioned in the second para but formally introduced in the third
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 * Comma after "by Shirley Jackson"
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 * WL The Atlantic
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Controversies

 * This section is a bit long and could probably be split into subsections on race/ethnicity, weight and body image, and violence
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Italicize Jezebel
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 * Comma after "for The New York Times"
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 * Commas around "in certain scenes"
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 * Comma after "Slate states that"
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 * "Anderson concludes that complaints"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Accolades

 * This section is empty except for a main link
 * Any particularly significant accolades should go here with a citation, even if there's a separate page (see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a recent GA). Any award mentioned in the lede is probably a good choice to go here.
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:43, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Home media

 * "and Blu-ray Disc on August 18, 2012"
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * "and in the rest of Europe on September 3, 2012" needs a citation
 * ✅ Removed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Amazon isn't the best source, but the DVD extras are mentioned in this EW article
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Refs [172] and [173] (Three weeks after the release...) are both incomplete
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 * "With 10,336,637 units sold [by the end of the year?]..."
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Pipe 4K UHD to 4K resolution
 * ✅ Linked to Ultra HD Blu-ray.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Italicize Hunter Games series
 * ✅  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Sequels

 * Four citations for Lawrence replacing Ross seems excessive
 *  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

General comments

 * Some scattered vandalism, but no edit warring and overall mostly stable.
 * Photos are CC or free use and all relevant to the article.
 * Earwig has been giving me grief in terms of its loading time, but it looks like the main offenders are mirror sites, and the iffy % matches are due to direct quotes.

Final comments and verdict
Sorry this took a few days to finish up! I had some personal stuff come up. Anyway, I'm going to put this article. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or if anything comes up!  Kncny11  (shoot) 17:19, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I have added comments for most of your suggestions.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:43, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * In which I am super not on top of things -- for "Sediment", all I meant was that the Laurie Spiegel track is called "Sediment". As for the controversies section, I see three distinct categories as potential subheads: "Race and ethnicity", "Appearance (or casting) of Lawrence", and "Violence".  Kncny11  (shoot) 21:02, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Both suggestions have now been addressed.  Some Dude From North Carolina  (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hell yeah! Passing now. :)  Kncny11  (shoot) 21:08, 19 March 2021 (UTC)