Non interesting, lack of detail, lack of character interaction

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2012)

Let me start by saying i am someone who watched the movie who hadn't read the books first. after starting the first book it became blatantly obvious i would have enjoyed the movie much more if i read the book first. in the movie i was very aware of the complete lack of backstory and detail. without having the knowledge of the book i found myself very bored. the character interaction was very mundane and i never found a character that i actually liked.
one thing that really upset me was that katniss did nothing to help herself survive. she tied herself to a tree at the beginning to keep from letting herself fall when she fell asleep. rue had to point out the beehive and the black kid towards the end saved her from the knife girl. either situation made no sense to me in the fact the hunger games is a fight to the death. helping other people is a very very poor choice in that they know you have to kill or be killed. forming alliances with people you know you are going to try and kill later makes no sense to me.
as i said above i have started reading the book and by the end of the first chapter i know i would like the movie 10x more now that i would be able to fill in all the gaping wide wholes in the movie.