The Hunger Games

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2012)

For Anyone you hasn't read the Hunger Games book, i can see why they would enjoy this, but as a fan of the book i would have to say at best this film was average. There were so many flaws in this film and the directors/screenwriters changed too many bits in this film and the rushed through all the scenes in what i can only describe as an attempt to fit as much in as possible. I can understand that there is a time constraint and that they have to fit a whole book into just over 2 hours, but they should have chosen a scene or part of the film and emphasised that rather than rushing it. Here are some of the parts that they got completely wrong in the film; - Madge gives Katniss the Mockingjay pin, not Prim. - They only introduced Haymitch on the train and not at the reaping. - Katniss isn't visited by Peeta's Father. - Where at the opening ceremony, its Cinna that tells them to hold hands, in the film it is made to believe that Peeta comes up with the idea. - In the film, it only shows Glimmer killed by the tracker jackets, but in the book the girl from district 4 also dies. - When Katniss blows up all the supplies, in the film she only temporarily loses her hearing, whereas in the book she has lost in for the rest of the games. - In the book, in order to get Peeta his medicine she gives him a sleeping pill that haymitch sent in a parachute, but in the film she waits til he falls asleep and then sneaks off. - In the film, in never tells you how Katniss and Peeta think that the mutts resemble the dead tributes. - In the book, Cato is dying very slowly overnight before Katniss finally puts him out of his misery, whereas in the film she shoots her arrow straight away. - Also in the film, it shows once they are leaving the capitol to go back to district 12 that Peeta is fine, whereas in the book he loses his leg.
There are plenty more mistakes and i believe that they changed too much in this film to make it more appealing to people who haven't read the books.