Are they kidding us?

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2012)

I decided to go and see this movie because, I had a FEW people tell me how good the books were. So I decided why not? Well about 10 minuets into the movie I found my self extremely bored. For some reason I did not feel any connection with the characters. I was not enjoying the movie at all. And some parts in the movie that were supposed to be serious were instead so "cheesy" that half the people watching the movie just laughed.
30 minuets into the movie it hit me, the reason I was finding this movie so unenjoyable was the poor cinematography. 90% of the time the camera was 2" away from the characters faces. So instead of a cool battle scene we simply saw peoples faces scowling. And because all we could see was their face, there was no context for anything to happen in. So normally illogical scenarios seemed logical because there was no context. Stuff could just happen in any way because we could not see anything else.
Jennifer Lawrence did a great job, to bad one persons shining performance can not save an inherently bad movie.