Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2012)

If you are a true fan of The Hunger Games trilogy, like myself, then you will see the flaws in this movie and dislike it. If you are a true fan of the series and you liked the movie, shame on you. There is barely any aspects of the book in the movie. Why was no one hungry? They come from poverty rarely having a day that there hunger is satisfied. That was not evident in the movie, AT ALL. Katniss is supposed to be surprised at how easily food comes to the citizens of Panem and they are all supposed to devour there food. The mocking jay pin was supposed to be from Madge. At first I didn't see how it was relevant so I understood why they took it out. That was until I read the 2nd book again and realized that, the pin was given to Madge by her mother and given to her mother by her twin, maisley who died in Haymitches hunger games. Haymitch was not nearly as drunk as he should of been. There was no "blood bath". I'm sorry, not, but having a shaky camera, horrible angles and no real battle was waged. You saw nothing. It looked like they splattered paint on the screen. The movie is about kids killing each other for gods sake. It's supposed to be violent to convey the message the author wanted to portray. Katniss and peeta were a couple that was so unbelievable. They lacked chemistry. There relationship also lacked explanation. You should know why katniss acts the way she does, that she's doing it because she needs to keep up appearances and get sponsors. Plus, he's shorter then her. In the book he towers over her making her feel protected. The main leads were cast horribly. Katniss is supposed to be small, bony and with no curves. Jennifer Lawrence curvaceous and tall. Why was the cornucopia black? It's supposed to be gold. Why wasn't Cato wearing body armor in the last scene? That's what he was supposed to be getting! Rue's character was so under developed. When she died, I only cried because I knew the relationship she had with katniss because I read the book. In the movie, you didn't really get that katniss was reminded of her sister when she looked at rue. The scene where Peeta gives her the bread actually made me laugh, she's supposed to be 12 and since Lawrence is 21, it was laughable to say the least. One thing that I had wondered when I had heard that they were making the movie was how they were going to portray katniss's thoughts because most of the book is in her head. They could of done a voice over in silent scenes which they didn't. It was horrible because so much was missing. My mom was very confused about most parts because everything was so under developed. You would have had to read the books to understand what was going on. Lastly, I am going to see the 2nd one because the book series was fantastic and since there will be a new director, I have faith that the franchise can redeem itself from that horrible disappointment.