Y'all over 18! You agree on severe over-rating? (SPOILERS)

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2015)

Spoiler alert! From someone who have not read the books. Relevant: I'm 37, love movies, and consume them en masse.
I have avoided this series for years but now a good friend really wanted us to see the series so I took one for the team. Of course I realized the target audience has an average age of about 13,2 years. But not even that notion could save me. I've seen the Harry Potters and the Twilight Sagas and such, and I think I managed to put on a "teen filter" and could appreciate those products for what they were. But this. This is something else... What I thought of the characters? Were there characters in this movie? I only saw faces that spoke. I think some of them died. I'm not certain because nothing in this movie evoked any feelings in me except all over-the-top illogical things that made me doubt myself, thinking, "That was so stupid I must be seeing things! I probably missed something here so I better shut up, because what just happened was so stupid it couldn't have happened". The only "character" I could see on screen was delivered by Stanley Tucci. The Effie character had glimpses of actually being something of a person you could connect anything at all to. I actually think Mr Sutherland performed well (as always) but the movie just pooped on his performance, smothering it completely. The same goes for Mr Harrelson. Mr Kravitz!!?? No comment. Love his music though.
The whole art design and atmosphere had some sort of TV- production/documentary touch I couldn't really grasp. I guess I feel like it was presented to me like by a five year old presenting his/her drawings: "Here is the poor, here is the rich, here is a forest, here is the city, here's a police man, here comes another one". Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence. She may be a lot of things, but she's NOT on fire in this movie (or the next one). This role is just not coming out right. Maybee it's even so that it's not in her pocket to play this kind of roles...
All stupidities that happened... Well I haven't read the book. Maybee it's all explained there. But it's not a pre-requisite to have read the book. There are so many things... But the major ones: It's never really explained how this gory TV-show is to hold a whole nation under control. Yes, they explain it by talking of fear and hope of different degrees and how to manipulate it and maintain control. But they fail to create a feeling of the situation and why this TV-show is needed. What's confusing is when you see the resources the upper class and government have, in the form of superior forces, technology and food and energy. Teaming up in a sole-survivor-kill-em-all competition is a good idea all of a sudden? This isn't some reality TV-show... you kill one and other here... I understand that the ones that doesn't want to murder team up by instinct. But the trained killers - why would they ever want to stay within proximity of the other trained killers??? Dog- monsters (this is actually part of the "superior resources" point) that are created out of thin air, becomes solid creatures that can tear humans apart. Isn't this a more efficient way to control the poor labour in the outer districts than some TV-show?
Final point is on the subject of how to point with a bow and arrow... I had to Google her technique because I got a funny feeling every time she was aiming at something. Modern bows with all the tech-stuff on them, you hold the way she does. With traditional ones, like the one in THG, you need to have the end of the arrow further up, closer to the eye, because the only thing to aim with is the arrow... Silly detail really. But if you ask me I say it's such a central detail it's mandatory to get right.