Suzanne Collins and her children.

Rating: 1/10 (2 April 2012)

Suzanne Collins must have a radical hatred for teenagers -- including her own, if any --- to have taken such pleasure in their slaughter; in this poisonous and absurd movie.
"The Hunger Games" fails absolutely as a social commentary, since those of us awake and with functioning minds know Mankind did away with gladiators at the fall of the Roman Empire. Today's imperfect society certainly has its faults, but the society in this film is false and ridiculous. Even science fiction needs an element of truth to make it work.
As bad as this movie is, they still have to cheat at the story. The whole idea of the games is having 24 teenagers killing each other; so why then do the game-masters send in a team of 4 computer generated leopards to help get the killing done?
In contrast, the "Twilight" series is like Little Mary Sunshine. I see teenagers every day. They are not as bad as their parents' generation were as teens. Why then did they flock to this hateful movie to celebrate their own slaughter?