Reasons why The Hunger Games was an insult to the novel

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2012)

The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins where in the country of Panem every year one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is chosen to fight against each other until only one is left alive. The book has some dark themes (teenage violence, famine, and an oppressive government), but it also has a love story that creep up throughout the series. The characters are genuine, the tone serious, and the message powerful. Unfortunately the screenplay translated none of these to the big screen. This is how The Hunger Games completely missed the mark.
mocumentary style filming randomly.to make us feel like we are there..?
Katniss finds the Mockingjay pin at the trading area, completely eliminating the scene with Madge which would have showed the extreme wealth difference in the country.
Haymitch's drinking problem is non-existent
Little references to food and the lack there of, I thought it was supposed to be The Hunger Games..
The way Haymitch explains every detail about the games to Peeta and Katniss makes it seem like they have no idea what the games involve.
The flashbacks to Peeta giving Katniss bread looks like it could have been a week before the reaping
The male careers did not look like they had been training all their lives for a death tournament
Blurring out all the opening kills just to keep the pg-13 rating
Katniss finding water almost immediately, not bothering to purify it, made her look more lucky than intelligent
The careers found Katniss while SKIPPING and GIGGLING through the woods
Rue being the one to initiate the alliance with Katniss
Foxface
Katniss remained completely hidden next to the Cornucopia by one branch with barely any leaves
The Careers not seeing Katniss from twenty feet away after the food explosion
Peeta appeared to be acting in love and Katniss appeared to actually be in love (Reverse from the book)
Thresh's kill
Thresh getting killed by the dogs
The dogs
Peeta not getting hurt and losing his leg
Not revealing anything that the other tributes got in their special packs
When the announcement for one winner was made, both of them just standing there and immediately choosing the berries instead of the suspicion of one of them perhaps killing the other.
These are just a few of the things that I thought were complete misses on the big screen. Jennifer Lawrence did the best acting job she could with the screenplay she was given, but it was ruined by the poor acting of Josh Hutcherson completely failing to act the only was his character was written to act. In love. Katniss' character came off as a quiet unintelligent girl, who happened to know how to shoot a bow. Snow's additions helped strengthen his character and will definitely make him a formidable villain in the next movies. Overall though The Hunger Games missed the mark, obviously Katniss wasn't the one doing the shooting.