My take about this story.

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2013)

My son found this movie on Netflix and got me to watch it, I enjoyed the movie. When I spoke to my best friend he was disappointed by the movie saying "It lacked the fullness of the book" He sent me the audio books and I listened to them all. He was right a lot of details are missing, but I'm grateful I saw the movie first. Seeing a movie before reading the book is in my opinion a good thing to do. In this case the movie gave me a very different image of the capitol city than I woulda from the book, also some of the characters looks than I got from the book. My best example is Rue, if I had the books first she woulda looked very different, an I freely admit I felt more for the character after the book. In short watch the movie first than get the book and get the whole feel. Sad part is there are still today place where people live in such poor conditions as district 12.I also like to mention that Jennifer Lawrence was perfect as Katniss Everdeen,I often wonder how much of herself is in that character,and no one but Woody Harrelson coulda pulled off Haymitch Abernathy. In closing watch this movie with an open mind, try to enjoy the fun, get angry at the cruel, and have a great time.