Entertaining, But Inconsistent

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2012)

Enjoyable, no doubt. But obviously the depiction of the future was a little... inconsistent. The lifestyle of the people in the districts seemed like the 1850's, the clothes looked like the 1970's, a few aspects seemed futuristic, etc. So throughout the whole movie, I was confused in the temporal sense.
Also, they stressed heavily on the idea that some would die of starvation, dehydration, and so on in the battle. But none did. Only one death was not caused by another participant. They also stressed heavily on the fact that getting sponsorship was important. But no scene explained why sponsorship affected the Hunger games. Only from reading the books afterwords was I able to know why sponsorship was so important.
Although the movie had some flaws, it was very entertaining and didn't leave me bored for a second.