i'm speechless (not in a good way either)

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2012)

The books were amazing!! I loved how it was a mixture of so many Genres that I love so much: dystopian, romance, adventure, etc. Now in terms of liking the movie.....not so much...I was looking forward to this movie like so many other people were and i was really disappointed. I knew it wasn't going to be as good as the book because no matter how great you are at making movies, you are never going to turn a great book with so much depth into a two to two and a half hour movie. It's just not possible. And that's exactly what this movie was lacking, the depth. In the books, you really got to know the character's personalities and some of their background information also, which really made you feel for them with the times they were going through. Another thing was that a lot of good parts were left out and/or changed. Such as: 1) Madge (the mayor's daughter) gave Katniss the mockingjay pin, she didn't buy it from Greasy Sae. 2)Katniss lost her hearing in her left ear after blowing up the food, she didn't just hear ringing for a bit. 3) Peeta's cut is not even that deep, and in the book it says it's to the bone and later on he has to get a whole new leg. 4) It seemed like Katniss was kind of a wimp and hung out in a tree the whole time. I mean she did spend a lot of time in a tree in the book, but other times she was trying to find a place to get water or looking out for the other tributes and venturing farther into the arena. 5)There was a lot more of the need for food and how badly everyone needed it. That wasn't shown very much at all. 6)Peeta really loves Katniss and they didn't show the part where she tells him she was just playing along, listening to Haymitch. Peeta really thought she loved him when actually Katniss didn't know what she felt about him. There are many more that i can go on about but that would take too long.I felt that the movie went way too fast and if you blinked you would have missed it.Many of the characters traits were left out in the movie.Katniss did somewhat show that she was more the mom of her family and some of the stubborness she portrayed in the books.Peeta did work but kind of lost that big/strong comforting guy that Collins described in the book, but he still managed to work, i liked him. I liked how they would show Gale every time something would happen with Katniss or when Katniss and Peeta got romantic,it showed how much it must have hurt him, but they didn't really show much hatred he felt towards the capitol.I think Effie was perfectly played. I thought Haymitch should have been shown as more of a drunk because that's the way he is brought up in the book.I know it's PG-13 but i mean come on. And that's another thing i didn't like. How by trying to keep the PG-13 rate they had to make it less gory, less brutal, and water down many parts.I wish it would have been more adult-ish like the books. More mature and less cheesy in some parts.If I wouldn't have read the books, I probably would have thought it was better because i wouldn't have know what i was missing. I still am looking forward to "Catching Fire" and hoping that it will be much better. And I'm not just one of those teenage girls who read the books and only liked it for the romance. I'm one of the teenage girls who loved the books for all that they were and how much meaning and depth of emotion they had in them. I loved them for all the surprises Collins gave us, and how Katniss is so B.A. I love the rebellion and aggression. They are just amazing!! Books: 10 Movie: 6.5