review on movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2015)

There are films that have plenty of more views than others. I believe that something that can have an immense impact on the amount of views a film has, are the reviews behind the movie. Of coarse every film may have different audiences depending on its genre. I sure have different opinions on movies with different genres. If I am watching a comedy movie, I expect it to make me laugh more than 85% of the time. If I am watching an action movie I expect it to look realistic when the action happens. And if I am watching a horror movie I expect it to make me jump out of my seat. My expectations of movies also have to do with how much I think I know about the film. For example, one thing that might affect how well I enjoyed watching the movie is whether or not it is an original film or a remake. Remakes of movies have a lot more to prove to me than original films because that means that I expect them to be better than the last film. One of the films I expected a lot from before watching it was The Hunger Games. The reason for that is because prior to watching the movie I had been reading the book written by Suzanne Collins.
I actually had really high hopes that the movie would be exactly like the book. However, upon watching the movie I noted that a couple of things were left out. Now I know that there is no way possible that the movie could fit every single detail that was written in the book, but I do feel like some important things were left out. One of those things is that, in the book we are told right away about the districts and what they are known for, basically what each district works on. In the movie we simply see each of the tributes "represent" the things they work with as if each of them were just symbols. One other thing that was left out in the movie was how much district 12 struggled with starvation. We were never really told in the movie how much district 12 lacked food supply, we simply just had to assume and if someone who hadn't read the book watched the movie, we would have to explain how their situation was. We did see it at certain times in the movie when Katniss shares what has made her happy, the food that they have at the capitol which they do not have at home. Most of the details that were important in the book were covered in the movie like I said I know the entire book cannot be played in a movie so I can say they did their best at incorporating what they could. Another thing I expected to be the same as the book was the narration. One of my favorite things about the book was the relationship of Katniss, the main character, and her boyfriend, Gale. The entire time in the book he tried to convince Katniss to run away with him so they could be free from the games and we definitely saw these attempts in the movie.
The Hunger Games falls into the thriller and science fiction genres. That being said I wanted the movie to look as realistic as possible. Having the book as a reference to details, the movie really looked realistic. One of the things I was excited about was Katniss' dress that she would wear to one of her interview in front of an audience. The dress that she wears actually turns into flames and I loved how it came to life in the movie. The fact that we saw her dress turn into flames is important because it is actually how Katniss gets one of her nicknames "The Girl On Fire." The most important thing that I hoped would look realistic was during the actual games. There are so many things that the game makers are capable of doing that some of the things I could not picture while reading the book. One of those things being another scene that also involves fire. About halfway through the movie Katniss tries to find a safe spot and in doing so she wanders off to far. The game makers attempt to kill her by adding fire to forest at the spot where she is camping out. They add flying fireballs, which one actually strikes Katniss and burns her leg. Trees that are on fire appear to fall right in front of Katniss as she attempts to run away and closer to the middle of arena. This particular scene looks very realistic and it is one of the things I was surprised about the movie and satisfied with. It was almost as if I was in her position trying to run away from the fire that the game makers have created. This kind of teaches Katniss to remain close to the arena and not wander off to far. It also shows us how evil the game makers can be and how bad they wanted Katniss dead.
Overall I was satisfied with the movie and I don't feel as if it was exaggerated like some films with the same genres may be. I would recommend this movie to someone else to watch and I definitely look forward to watching the latest film of the trilogy. I hope that the other movies capture the book as much as this one did since it was one of the things that I most looked forward to. Especially since one the movies is split into two parts, I hope that means that close to the entire book will be capture in that film.