Why is it called the Hunger Games?

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2012)

I went with several people that never read the books and none of them understood why it was called the Hunger Games. Didn't the creators kinda miss this major point or did they plan on only fans watching the movie? I suppose no movie is going to meet up to the expectations of the fans of the book, but this was a pretty big oversight.
Filming at the beginning was horrible. It's that shaky type of filming they do in TV police dramas. You know the kind, where you get dizzy and have to look away. I'm not sure what they were thinking, but thankfully they stopped this about 1/3 of the way through. Maybe the shakiness was supposed to represent hunger?
The acting was good and what special effects there were turned out nice as well. The quintessential moment of fire was thankfully not a disappointment.
I think the problem is that they needed the movie to be 3 hours to really convey more of the book's essence. Still everyone that read the books will have to see this. If you didn't read the books, judging by the people that went with me that didn't, you probably can wait till it comes out on DVD.