Am I the only one that is disturbed by this movie?

Rating: 3/10 (3 April 2012)

Let me start by saying that I have never read the book, but I knew that it was very popular. I knew a little about the premise and went to see what all the hype was about. As the movie progressed, I noticed an increasingly uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach. I just felt that there was something inherently wrong with this movie seeing kids killing other kids. It is one thing to read it in a book, but another to graphically display it on screen. It bothered me to see adolescents snapping each others neck, stabbing with knives/swords, closeups of young children lying dead with eyes wide open, all part of a game no less. While it was not over the top graphic violence, there was enough for me to feel uncomfortable given the young age of those being killed. I feel that Hollywood was clearly trying to capitalize on the popularity of the book and I feel they crossed a line by making a movie about kids killing other kids and mass marketing the movie to our kids. I can honestly not fathom a society where the adults would actually be entertained and cheer children hunting down other children. Maybe the acting was good, maybe the cinematography was good, but in the end I left the theater wishing this type of movie had never been made.