Horrible film - very disturbing content - pointless concept

Rating: 3/10 (10 April 2012)

I am a married for almost 20 years. I like action films but this was disturbing to me, My wife and I don't have any children but we were shocked at the whole concept of the movie. First of all, it had nothing to do with hunger - it had to do with forced teenage killing. 2nd there was no purpose or point to the killings, 3rd there was no positive conclusion and no one was held accountable. The movie ended with the protagonist winning but the killings continued as the whole Hunger games TV show continued. To what level have we, as humans, not animals, have stooped to? Where we find teenagers killing each other for survival as a good film? Are we getting that desensitized to violence?
Yes, there was not too much gory visible violence but the implied violence was definitely there.
We ban pitbulls fights and cockfights but consider acceptable watching a movie about teenagers fighting in a forced manipulated ring for survival, not by their intelligence or ingenuity but by their ability to force them to use weapons and kill others?
Heres an idea, why not bring back bull fighting, yeah, lets allow that, its entertaining to see an animal slowly die. Better yet, how about bringing back the Roman Coliseum shows that were fought to the death. We could call it Extreme fighting, not ultimate fighting - hows that? We pay to watch this crab on TV, why not real life. I'm sure we could find a moral lesson or a warm fussy message in there somewhere.
This movie does nothing much more than teach teenagers that the only way to solve problems is thru violence.
Show should of been called "Forced teenage slaughter" show.
Next time, we will ensure we read the reviews here at IMDb to make a more informed choice about what we watch, we though it would get better and there was a light at the end of this terrible tunnel.If we knew more about it, we would of never watched it.