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Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2014)

First off let me say that this movie review is meant for the people that have read the books and watched the movie after reading the books or vise versa. The Hunger Games is a televised death match that came about when thirteen districts rebelled against the Capitol. The absolute best way to describe a district to you would have to be saying that a district in this time frame is like what a state would be to the United States of America in our time frame. The Hunger Games came about when the districts lost and District 13 was destroyed. The punishment from the Capitol was to destroy District 13 and also every year host a televised death match. This death match consisted of pulling out 2 random names of children from the ages of twelve to eighteen. There would be two drawn out from each district. One of the tributes would be a boy and one would be a girl. There would be twenty-four total tributes drawn and they are immediately taken in the hands of the Capitol guards.
In the 74th Hunger Games, Primrose Everdeen was drawn as tribute in District 12. Her sister, Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the movie, volunteered as tribute for her. She is immediately taken into the hands of the Capitol moments after the boy, Peeta Mallark, was drawn as tribute. They are given a couple of minutes to say goodbye to their family and friends and then they are taken to the Capitol to prep for the Hunger Games.
Let me get it off my chest that not one movie ever will ever do its book justice. This is because there is so much detail that goes into a book to make it make you see the scenes and play them out in your mind and movies show that for you. You don't have to think of the scenes they are right in front of you so your attention to detail will not be that great when watching the movie. Saying that I will say that this movie did do the book justice in the detail parts of let's say the cornucopia. This was one thing in my head that I could not wrap my mind around what it could look like and the movie showed that very well. If you don't know what the cornucopia is then it is the beginning of the hunger games where all of the supplies are stacked up and all twenty-four tributes are put into a circle around this pile of supplies. Every tribute is an equal distance away from the cornucopia.
My absolute favorite part of the movie that matched up with the book had to have been when one tribute died. This very tribute had grown extremely close to Katniss and the death of this person threw Katniss through an emotional loop. Saying that she held somewhat of a funeral there in the arena and gave a sign to the district of the fallen tribute holding up three fingers. This later caused a fight to breakout in that district because everyone got on board to rebel against the capitol in that district. That being said, that sign from Katniss could have been the turning point in the whole series on the topic of rebelling because that is what caused it.
One thing that I did not like with the movie that I know they could have done better and a lot of other reviews agree with my views is that it did not seem like the two tributes from district twelve were "starving" or fighting hunger like it said they were in the book. They both looked healthy as horses in the movie and that is just one of many small things that do not match up with the book.
All and all I really do not have any bad things to say about the movie. This is because like I said before it is really hard to make a movie play out exactly how the book wants it to because there is so much detail that goes into a book. This is an overall great watch and if you do watch it, I strongly recommend reading all of the books that way when all of the movies come out you can compare them like I am doing so right now. Overall I give this movie a nine out of ten stars.