The Hungry hunger games

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2012)

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The Hunger games is a movie i've been waiting for with very much excitement and now that I have indeed seen it, it almost seems like there's not much left to do.
It didn't let me down, I think it is a faithful adaptation, is has rising tension, it has dramatic moments and it shows the story well, not leaving holes for things that weren't explained, waiting for people to read it from the book like so many adaptations did in the past.
It shows very well the sacrifice and the suffering from those involved in the game and all the scenes added, regarding president snow and head game-maker, as well as all the scenes in the room where the game is made are very smart and well played. i've read some critics saying that is cuts off the action, taking you away from the games, but I think that it is a nice addition, because being faithful and having a life of its own is a rare thing that comes in this movie. Making three apart from each other worlds was actually a winning situation as well, doing the district 12, the capitol and the games, was a hard task, done very gracefully in my opinion. But it ha flops as well, it's not free of bad aspects, but they are not to destroy the movie experience as a whole. First, I have to say that the camera is really to shaky. It has been mentioned and it is true, sometimes you barely can understand what's going on, you just know someone is getting killed as the canon makes its terribly frightening sound. One other thing, the killings are emotionally hard, rue's scene in particular, but I do think that an R rating would help the movie, giving as even more dramatic look to the games, because the careers looked to much like the gang from "mean girls",not really people killing each other. Before they were reduced, they were all too happy and hysterical for what was going on, maybe they should be a little more restrained. The part where katniss gets a bad burn is very simplified.....she almost dies without water in the books, it's much more suffered. Overall, the dramatic part could be even bigger and grander with a R rating. And for the last thing, being outside of Katniss head is a plus for most of the movie, as I said before, even as well as Katniss and Peeta have been cast ( great performances really) this part of the story suffers from leaving her mind.
It's hard to understand her motivations, it's hard to know if she likes Peeta or not. Katniss turns out to look a lot softer than in the book, being all fuzzy about Peeta and looking too honest, never mistrusting him like it happens in the book. It's hard to follow this, and some critics have said that they didn't understand how she went from hitting him to kissing him so much, so I believe this part needed a little more explanation.
Also Peeta turns out to be a little too cheesy about Katniss, not that he is not in the book, he is, but it looks like all his character is in the movie is a crazy lover stalker, and the pacifist,ironic,sensitive Peeta gets a little cut out, because this movie is all about Katniss- centralism, even the part where the score before the games begins is different and makes Katniss stand out in the points more than Peeta and his pacifist drawings get cut out. But apart from that "the hunger games" is a great experience, well- paced, thrilling, touching - it has all that counts to become a great hit, no matter what Hipters non-sense negative propaganda is going on about it, comparing it to Twilight ( yeah, because the love triangle occupies five minutes of the moviemakes sense) or saying it is a rip off from Battle Royale ( a bloody Japanese movie about a secret operation, so secret as a television reality show),go see it with an open mind and take your conclusions ! AND MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR.
8/10