Typical Hollywood Movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 April 2014)

I have read all of the books is what I would like to point out firstly so I AM a fan and I KNOW what it is supposed to be like. Honestly when I went into the movie I was not expecting it to be amazing or anything because I've been let down too many times by movie adaptations of books before but this honestly exceeded my expectations of how terrible it was going to be. Apart from the fact that they missed out and changed A LOT of the book, not to mention leaving out important characters, the acting was terrible and the settings and music were VERY, VERY typical Hollywood over dramatic rubbish. People would like to probably say that I did not enjoy it because of the fact that I have read the books and therefore expected too much from the movie but honestly if I had not read the books I would still have thought it was typical Hollywood garbage. It felt like I had been watching a parody for the actual movie and in some of the really 'serious' scenes I found myself laughing at how bad they were. I can honestly say that the only bits that people thought were funny actually came DIRECTLY FROM THE BOOK. Neil Burger, or whatever his name is, honestly really let down a really good and meaningful series and turned it into typical Hollywood garbage. I honestly don't understand how people thought it was good because I struggled to find anything good about it. Terrible green screening. WHAT DID THEY SPEND THEIR $80,000,000 BUDGET ON?! I hate to say it because I don't like to compare series to other series but they could have really learnt something from the Hunger Games film adaptations, sticking to the book is the best idea. All in all a MAJOR let down.