Was The New HUNGER GAMES Trailer Meant To Look Like The Teen Version Of THE RUNNING MAN?

If so, success!

Here's the thing about the Hunger Games movie: Everything about it so far looks cheap and poorly designed. Here's the other thing: It may not matter.

While I consider it increasingly unlikely that the promotional campaign for The Hunger Games is going to draw anyone to theaters who is not already a fan of the books that was equally true for Twilight. And if The Boy - a ten year old who discovered the Hunger Games book over the past year - is any sort of accurate representation of the book fanbase, everybody who has read them is going to be there in the opening week. Given that there are now 23.5 million copies of books from the trilogy - so about eight million per volume - now in print in the US that's a lot of tickets sold. Especially when you add in the parents - like me - who will be taking their children to see it.

So, there you go. It doesn't really matter if the trailer looks good. Judge for yourself whether it does down below.