i don't get the hype, it was OK but... IDK

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2012)

first of all shaky cam does not need to be in ever single scene! i came to see a movie not get sick from one.
i didn't understand the crowd of movie goers seeing this movie... i'd reckon that 60% were twilight, twihard teen girls who scream and clap at everything! I'm sure the books are better, but the movie was anti climatic, I didn't see a good enough established connection between the hero and her little sister, or her best bud - the uglified guy from "the last song" OK so the next thing i didn't understand was the rainy flashback between the hero and her 'love interest'??? he threw bread at her when she was hungry, but he was rude about it, so she hated him?? huh? OK and later on he professes a crush on her but it seems like he is saying it to play up the crowd, the tension between them suggests that there is some attraction, but then the interaction the two characters have alone suggests that they are little more than strangers close knitted by a common circumstance.
Peeta, the love interest, is a crowd loving manipulator who knows how to go with the flow whether that is on stage in front of a mob of an audience, or in a small group of killers in the woods he knows who the strong one is and he makes sure he is on their team. he comes across as a spineless worm who can lift heavy things and throw them very far suggesting that he has strength, but then they never showcase that in the movie...??? OK, and he is really good at painting himself to look like the background (rocks, trees, etc) but where is he getting the tools needed to do all of this intricate painting?? OK, so moving on when the story progresses why would the hero trust her love interest when he was accompanying a group of teens who were tracking her down to kill her? also, while we are on that topic, why would the less stronger players gravitate towards the stronger player when they know only one will survive? it seems that they would have killed the strongest player when they could cause they all have to die...
so, i liked the movie enough, but i guess i didn't understand the hype... OK like when peeta and katniss kissed in the cave the entire movie audience screamed and hollered and cheered and clapped and i was like "huh?" at the end of the movie when the cato fell off the structure below to a pack of rabid dog like beasts the audience roared to life with claps and cheering... i actually got creeped out at that point and turned to my husband and gave him a look... i could only imagine that that audience would be the crowd of people in portrayed in the movie that would watch with excitement the hunger games.
so the audience was creepy and annoying, and the love thing between the two heroes was really weird... also the shaky cam was over done in the beginning of the movie.