A fantastic film that should not simply be dismissed.

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2014)

As someone who dislikes following the general populace, I was extremely put off from seeing The Hunger Games. I had never been a fan of books that were turned into movies and found that the biggest turn off from a movie is a huge cult like following. I eventually bit my tongue and went to see it with one of my best friends, expecting a mediocre film that was decent enough, but not worth a second watch. I have to say that after I watched it I knew I was very wrong.
As someone who did not read the book, I went in completely blind. I knew the general idea of the story and that was enough to at least fill in the small parts that the movie misses, which is unavoidable. What I thought would be another Twilight ended up being alternate world with oppression and triumph as some of the main ideas of the film. I feel like everything fit together perfectly and had all of the characteristics needed of a great movie.
Unfortunately, some people did not enjoy it as much as I did because they already read the books and were unhappy of certain parts being left out or felt that they were too high and mighty to watch something that many others were fawning over, as I had been before, to watch a movie and enjoy it for what it is and they really missed out.