8/10

Rating: 8/10 (9 May 2012)

First of haters are going to hate. I was reading through the reviews and couldn't help but feel slightly angry especially since majority of the haters hadn't even read the books, so who are they to judge possibly the biggest young adult movie of our generation. So I was writing this to give the general public a reliable source.
The movie was definitely not as good as the book, but then again a movie never is. Considering the book and a lot of the hype the movie had to stand up to it did excellent. An annoying thing was that it was rated PG. I can understand and all but Hunger Games did/still has a lot of older fans (18+) I myself am only 15, but an M rating would have given the movie a little more justice with a little more violence. Though considering this was a PG movie I was actually fairly pleased with the violence.
Another great thing was that they fitted in almost all of the storyline and all the major one. There were a few things I did miss was a lot of the emotional impact. I found the movie to be silent a little. I found that there wasn't as much dialogue as you would expect in them movie. Majority of the book is the main character, Katniss thinking and ellaborating things which made the book in my mind a lot more realistic. And because this was majority of the book when it was cut it made it seem... weird? One thing that really, really annoyed me was that they had such a great soundtrack yet failed to use it correctly in the movie. A lot of the songs were perfect for the movie but they didn't put the music in. In fact the only music they had was instrumental pieces, which I think I can speak for the general public when I say that instrumental doesn't exactly interest us, especially young adults, the target audience. The only time when you hear music with words in the movie was when Lawrence sung "Rue's Lullaby" and in the end credits. THE END CREDITS? Why on earth would you put songs on the end credits? Let me guess to give it that emotional impact, because it is so emotional seeing a few hundred strangers names flying upwards with music.
Overall though I really did enjoy the movie and somehow it only got better when I saw it the third time in movies. Maybe my mind was more relaxed and exposed to the movie. Anyways I would highly recommend this movie to anyone and everyone.