A Little Dull

Rating: 5/10 (6 December 2013)

The makeup was okay, but my main problem is that this movie just barely represents the first book. It is like putting pictures to the book. You would have to know what happened in the book to see anything valuable in this movie. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins reminds me very much of 1984 by George Orwell. With that being said, this movie has captured emotion but doesn't really elaborate on why fighting in The Hunger Games is such a horrible thing. Jennifer Lawrence portrayed an excellent Katniss Everdeen, but on the downside she looks too old to be Katniss, because the Katniss in the books was very light footed and small. The Peeta in the book was actually bigger than her and very muscular, because he often needed to move around large sacks of flour for his family's bakery. Unfortunately, Josh Hutcherson looks small next to Jennifer Lawrence. So in result, Peeta and Katniss were not represented well physically in the movie. The movie could have been renamed: Katniss Everdeen: The Girl Who Was On Fire, because Katniss is the only main character in the movie. Everyone else seems like background noise. In the book, Katniss tells the story, but the book is called The Hunger Games, not Katniss Everdeen for a reason. The movie doesn't talk about or dwell upon other characters as much as it should.