Ladies and gentleman, I present to you: The romantic screwup of yet another action movie

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2014)

Don't get me wrong, I like romance movies very much. I just can't stand romance movies that were supposed to be action movies. I don't want to use 'inappropriate' language, so I'll say they screw action movies up by toning the action element down for the sake of female audience and lower age restrictions, and you'll understand what I meant to say.
Hunger Games is yet another example of that happening. I haven't read the book, I don't know how it is, but I assume it's at least as romantic as the movie. But I can say that they missed lots of opportunities to make the movie more harshly realistic. I'm talking about Game of Thrones type of realism: Have you ever said "That's nowhere near as bloody as it should be." while watching GoT? No. I have during Hunger Games. Seriously, how does a spear not be able to penetrate more than 3 cm into a human body? Why don't soldiers of such an authoritarian state use firearms against dissidents? Why does a character so devoted to victory perform a funeral at the middle of a Hunger Game? Why has the state not let the dissident lovers die? Why does no one exploit others' love for them?
It all ends up with the cliché where the lovers save each other, and the world. It all ends up with the 'horror movie character willingly goes into the room where the weird noise is coming from' type of realism where people like me swear at their screens.
I also just noticed that the movie is labeled as "Sci-fi/Thriller". Nope. Sci-fi elements are limited to holoprojectors and conjuring fireballs via the use of computers, which is in limited use. And if you are thrilled by this movie, you are 12, in which case this may be an appropriate demonstration of the concept of dystopia.