The Hunger Games Movie

Rating: 3/10 (23 March 2012)

I read The Hunger Games trilogy and I was very excited for the movie to come out, but I was very disappointed when I saw it today. A lot of the characters weren't developed very much. Also the movie didn't stay true to the book and a lot of my favorite parts were eliminated. Katniss and Rue's relationship was barely developed at all which really disappointing for me because that was one of my favorite part of the books. I thought it was very clever how the author, Suzanne Collins, used Rue and Katniss' relationship to symbolize Prim and Katniss' relationship. Another thing that was missing was the avoxes. I thought they were extremely interesting in the book. It was proved that the capitol was pretty evil when they introduced the games but the avoxes showed another thing they did that was absolutely despicable, but they almost completely skipped over them in the movie. Other thing they skipped over include the whole character of Madge, the district 12 mayor's daughter and sort of katniss' friend who gave her the mockingjay pin, Katniss nearly dying of dehydration, that Katniss used sleep syrup to drug Peeta so she could go to get his medicine, the fact that the mutts that attacked them near the end resembled the tributes, Katniss and Rue's conversation about how their districts were very different, Katniss losing her hearing, Peeta losing his leg, Katniss freaking out on the hovercraft while they operated on Peeta, District 4 being a career district, etc. However, the acting was good, and the way they portrayed the gamemakers was very good.