not bad but cant be compared to the books

Rating: 5/10 (31 August 2012)

well i didn't know anything about either the books or the movie so when i accidentally saw the trailer i thought it must be interesting but fist i read the books and they are amazing Suzann Collins creates a world so unfair and so monstreous and at the same time so believable that you may forget that its just a book. its not just kids killing each other its the fact that violence is not only accepted but also celebrated an while your reading it you may find yourself encouraging the main character to fight harder even to kill as many as she can and thats where you realize you may not be very different from the people of capitol.as for the movie well its not awful and does a mediocre job until katniss finds peeta from then it just becomes so weird they don't have any chemistry between them and half of the time katniss seems to be peetas older sister !peetas love for katniss seems forced and unbelievable...this boy has been in love with her ever since they were 5 but you just cant feel it. the other characters especially the careers are so dumbed down that they remind you of the bullies in playground not the bloodthirsty fighters who long for the fight.they become down wright ridiculous when they start giggling and jogging in the forest as they hunt other tributes.as for the actors ...jeniffer Lawrence is very good actress but she doesn't resemble katniss in any sort of way i mean katniss is small and slim she has dark skin with strait black hair and gray eyes she is shy and because of what she has been through she has detached herself from others the only person she openly loves is prim (at least in the first book ) Jennifer is tall busty well fed over confident and not at all afraid of even the games... the boy who plays peeta is OK but not as lovable as peeta in the books but what i found funny was the girl who played clove :D :D she is so tiny that even rue could have killed her compare her to clove in the books the frightening big and sadistic killer , i don't know what went trough the mind of person in charge of casting to choose her but the casting of this movie is altogether very awful.finally the relationships in the movie are not like the books, Cato and clove are friends ( actually when thresh kills clove and its by smashing her head with a rock Cato rushes to help help her and cries when she dyes ) but in the movie Cato and glimmer are friends and also katniss and gale relationship is not like what it is in the book. overall not a bad movie but cant be compared to the books .