The book movie syndrome

Rating: 7/10 (11 April 2012)

I wasn't really surprised after I watched the movie when I learned that it is actually based on the first of a trilogy of books. It felt that way.
Don't get me wrong, the movie itself is quite entertaining, but there's missing a part. When a story takes place in a dystopic world I'd like to know more about that world because it is vital to understand the different characters and their motives. I obviously haven't read the books and from that perspective I found that the movie gave me very little information about the world's history. I think it wasn't even mentioned that there was a revolution during which district 13 was annihalated. I actually had to look that up on wikipedia. I know it's a difficult task to make a movie out of a book because you can only make a movie so long but I think there have been other movies which did this way better than Hunger Games (Harry Potter would come to my mind).
To sum my impressions up: Good movie, but it could have been better if it focused a little less on everything around the hunger games and a little bit more on the people and the world they're living in because that's what the whole trilogy is about.