not worth the hype

Rating: 2/10 (3 April 2012)

I'm going to start by saying I have read the books and they were excellent books so when I heard they were making movies I was even more excited and leading up to the movie my excitement just kept up when all the reviews were saying that the movie followed the books very closely. Well by the time I walked out of the movie I wanted to cry I was so disappointed. The movie was nothing like the books, from little things like the mockingjay pin where in the book she got from the mayors daughter after the reaping while saying bye but in the book she got it at the Seam and gave it to Pam or the suspense of watching katniss figure out what haymitch was trying to say with each parachute where in the movie he was able to write her messages that sent with each parachute. Even the fact that in the books katniss never met president snow until he visited her at her house in the second book. Some of the little things like that I could overlook but there were just as many big things they changed. Anything from the fact that in the book it took katniss like 2 almost 3 day to find water but the movie she got it right away or when peeta was dying and needed the medicine for his leg haymitch sent katniss something to knock peeta out so she could go get the medicine he needed from the cornucopia where as the movie cut the whole parachute out and she just waited till he fell asleep. How about the fact that Carl got armor from the cornucopia but the movie cut the armor out or how when rue was killed district 11 started rebelling where as it wasn't until half way through the second book did any of the rebellions start or even the fact that the movie had 3 or 4 of the dog mutations at the end but the book there were probably around 20 because each one the the eyes of the dead tributes but the movie cut all of that out. It all sucked!!!! The only good thing I do have to say is that I liked how they showed the gamemakers control room and how that's how they explained about the trackerjackets and other things that were narrated from the first person point of view in the book. So of the 2 1/2 hours long the movie was none of it was worth any of it, it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen and have absolutely no intention of seeing the second one!!!!!!!