I gather that in the book Katniss is 16, but here she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who is Lawrence has great ability, and the publicity says she got in shape for this adventurous role. Still, she looks as well-fed or un-hungry as a star player on the UCLA water-polo team, and as placid or chlorinated. This could be a great role: a kid fighting for her life, meeting her first love, and trying to survive in the woods they shot in North Carolina.
The film should have suspense, fear, and desperation, all focused on Katniss, but Lawrence seems reserved and biding her time—she has signed on for all four films in the series, and her rewards must be stupendous. The handicaps reach further. The forest is the essential setting for The Hunger Games and there is a lot of tracking through the trees.
But the greatest shortcoming is in the matter of combat. Whether the filmmakers like it or not, this is a story about kids killing other kids with knives, bows and arrows, and anything else they can get their hands on.
This is an understandable and relatable action, but it still put her family and friends who went back for her at risk. When Peeta was captured by the Capitol, he was subject to torture and some mental process called a Hijacking.
He was brainwashed into hating Katniss. The worst thing Peeta ever did was shove a member of District 13 into a deadly trap in an attempt to get at Katniss. It was a shocking death, but the fault cannot be laid solely at Peeta's feet. Due to the Capitol meddling in his mind, he was not entirely responsible for this action.
Sadly, none of the characters who participated in the Hunger Games can escape the fact that they murdered people. Of all the things that Finnick Odair has done, participating in the slaughter of fellow children and Tributes was the worst.
He was an efficient and practiced killer, but the true culprit of Finnick's actions is the society that built him. Finnick would not have had to murder anyone if the Capitol had not created the Hunger Games.
All things considered, Finnick turned out to be a good person nonetheless. Katniss Everdeen found herself in a difficult position. Even though the survival of herself and her family was of primary importance to her, she became a symbol of freedom from the Capitol. This role forced responsibilities on her, responsibilities which she frequently shirked. Unless injustices were personally placed upon her, Katniss was more than willing to keep her head down and ignore them.
It is only when things directly affected her that she chose to act. Tributes who win the Hunger Games get to return to their own district.
Once there, they become mentors for future Tributes. Mentors are critical in assisting in the survival of a district's Tributes. Have these teenagers somehow forgotten that only one person can survive? That at any moment the people they are next to have every reason to murder them in order to save themselves? One of them has no problems taking a nap while the others wait for Katniss to come down off the tree. And they laugh and flirt and play like school just got let out.
And time after time the kids let others escape, sometimes for no reason at all. One large Black teen kills a young girl, as she is fighting with Katniss, then looks at Katniss and says something to the effect of "I'll let you go this time", for no reason.
Has he forgotten that one way or another he will have to kill her to survive? Why wait to kill her too? Especially in the midst of bloodlust after killing someone else? This is his own life which is at stake, but you'd never guess from how he behaves. They just didn't take the premise seriously enough for me to take it seriously as an audience member. For a movie with this kind of budget and marketing machine, there is no excuse for such laziness.
This made me want to watch Blade Runner, a Sci-Fi movie in which the director took care of the details. MikefromAngus Aug 16, Lets mix "the running man" with the tv show "Survivor" target the audience for "teenagers" but lets make it as violent as possible.
Thats the end result for this movie. The movie is not orginal, boring, NOT real, the characters act as if Lets mix "the running man" with the tv show "Survivor" target the audience for "teenagers" but lets make it as violent as possible.
The movie is not orginal, boring, NOT real, the characters act as if they were on a tv show and their lives werent not in danger. They formed "Alliances" when the whole idea was the strongest person survives? AVOID this movie at all costs! It borrows age-old tricks from video games and does them poorly. Absolutely nothing to see here. However this was based on the idea that this was a genuine story, which it is not.
This book and film are both completely based on Battle Royal and this film brings absolutely nothing new to this type of storyline. Also, Battle Royal actually had gore while simultaneously making a good film in every way this movie failed it succeeded. If Battle Royal was in English, I bet he could sue on copy right in this day and age but that's another story FabbioDornellas Jan 22, This film is just a copy of Battle Royale, it's plagiarism.
There's nothing new here, there's nothing stunning or amazing it's just a film to take your money and is a big hollywood fail. MovieCricket Apr 10, I'm wondering: how original is the premise? An post-apocalyptic world where live televised fights-to-the-death keep the populous' blood lust satisfied? Series 7: The Contenders did it way before, but not with Hunger Games' budget. Plus I'm wondering: how original is the premise? Plus there's Running Man, the Road Warrior, and earlier, If the world ever becomes a world like the Hunger Games, I'd protest in the streets and risk dying in a Tiananmen square movement.
Orwell wrote a better satire on society's need for bloodlust and authoritarianism, because he details a lot of what happened in the world before it got fragmented into superstates. There's no such luck with Suzanne Collins. I don't think Suzanne Collins or the film-makers have enough imagination or storytelling skills to give us the big picture of Panem or the characters should have.
They're just waving their fingers at us tsk-tsking us for watching too much reality TV, that one day will lead to televised murder. Does Collins give her characters enough depth that they rebel against an insane society that has degraded to televised murder? Why do they go along with it? Like I said, I'd stand my ground and risk my life for freedom and autonomy before I'd let what happened in Pan Em happen to us.
Scamp Oct 9, I really do not get all of the appeal behind The Hunger Games. This is similar to The Twilight Saga, not that both franchises are the exact same, but they're both highly overrated franchises that are geared mostly towards teenagers. The only I really do not get all of the appeal behind The Hunger Games. The only difference is that The Hunger Games tries to appeal to all demographics, but just ends up being REALLY obnoxious once you see the poster for this movie times.
The one with Katniss on it. It's everywhere, even when the second movie is about to be released. It's just another adult-novel-turned-to-movie-aimed-for-teenagers. Nostalgic9tails Jul 16, First off, I neither liked this film nor the books. The entire concept was taken directly from Battle Royale and has just interjected elements from The Lord of The Flies. There are several ways that the character of Katniss is just a bland, First off, I neither liked this film nor the books.
There are several ways that the character of Katniss is just a bland, sociopathic male-stand-in who does everything wrong and seems to get out alive. Peeta is creepy. No question. How he tries to make Katniss act like she's in love with him for the better of the viewers and how he admitted to nearly stalking her in both the film and book.
Gale and Prim are useless characters who, if they were removed, the story would still be the same. Haymich isn't alcoholic at all, he's an occasional drunk, and I'm ready to stand up to that point with anyone who wants to protest.
I don't want this review to run long with everything that's wrong with this, because there aren't enough characters here to rightly explain. There are other alternatives out there that do it so much better than this. Just because millions of people like something doesn't make it as good as everyone praises it to be. MarkMusic Mar 19, Not worth it. Please, I read the book for school and decided to check out the movie. My God that was terrible almost as terrible as Avatar.
I fell asleep 3 times. The book was filled with action but this movie wasn't. Acting was good that's Not worth it. Acting was good that's why I gave it a three. If you want to be entertained you would have a better chance watching the book cover then this.
The book cover was more interesting then the movie. Avoid movies like this and you will be happy. You want my advice, watch Spring Breakers. Dyliebar Aug 3, Either way, I don't understand the hype about this movie. It wasn't good at all, it was terrible. Terrible actors, terrible everything.
I don't recommend this for anyone to watch. The only reason I'm rating it 3, is to be fair. But seriously though, it was awful. Simochi May 2, I should talk about other series prior to talking about "The Hunger Game".
I kept thinking about "Battle Royal", manga Japanese comic book. Manga version was the I should talk about other series prior to talking about "The Hunger Game". Manga version was the best, and the movie version sucked so bad. If you know both version of "Battle Royal", then you already got my point of this review.
Honestly I did not read novel version of "The Hunger Game", but it was easy to feel something is missing on the story plot. Design and background of the movie or the story is awesome, but what is the point of nice looking movie without a nice story plot? Every boy and girl in the survival is not really attractive except the girl in the movie poster because story does not support characters well individually.
There are 24 kids in the survival, and I only remember 5 or 6 of them Now back to "Battle Royal", the main goal of the base storyline is a copy of "Battle Royal". This sounds like the main reason of this review. I gave low user score because "Battle Royal" is still better by comparing just movie versions. Don't blame my review with comparison on both unless you watched or read "Battle Royal". After all the hype I finally saw it, and, well, don't beleive the hype.
First of all it absolutely drags on, scene after scene, developing very slowly. To it's credit, it is spending time on character development, which can sometimes be rare in movies today.
But, there's so many un-necessarry shots and long cuts that one can easily see how the films 2 and a half hour length could be shortened. All this build up finally leads to the actual "games" and then the film starts to pick up a bit.
The main problem I had with the film though, is that it seems to always be hinting at a deeper, more devious plot-line, that simply never manifests. For example, there are 3 or 4 bizarrely out of place "flashbacks" to previous scenes. This devices suggests that "hey, that scene was important, remember it, because you will need to when we tie in the sub-plot.
It's all just meat and potatoes action move schlock, dumbed down and amped up for the American movie viewing masses. Those flashbacks? It's like the director is saying "Hey, stay with us, Stay awake! I know this film is long and boring, but try to remember what's happening!
Finally, in the end, you succumb to the fact that the film is mostly a love story, but, you may be holding out hope for a big "stick it to the man" moment where the tyrants of the film get their come-uppance, And also delivering a sub-text on the American government and politics , but nope, we are robbed of that as well.
They just go home. This is a film engineered for the teenage Twilight crowd, not adults, and definitely not lovers of intellectual fiction or science fiction.
The hype these days Duskspark Apr 15, The Hunger Games tells a story that is either told too fast or too stretched. The actors do either a great job or a horrible one like the actor playing Peeta who always looks like he shat his pants. It could have been good, but it's dragged The Hunger Games tells a story that is either told too fast or too stretched.
It could have been good, but it's dragged down by flaws that could have easily been prevented. Shift Nov 19, Poor movie. It should have been more than one part per book. There was no character development at all and bad casting.
There were numerous mistakes in the movie aswell as taking one idea from the book and basing the entire population of the Poor movie. There were numerous mistakes in the movie aswell as taking one idea from the book and basing the entire population of the capitol on it.
Not only that, but it's being completely marketed for the crowd, with action figures and card games. The cast was horrible. The 17 year old gale was played by 22 year old Liam Hemsworth, and 16 year old Katniss by 22 year old Jennifer Lawrence. You know a high hyped movie was bad when it's already on netflix. Hopefully they don't screw up Catching fire, and the casting looks not that bad.
LinusBeagle Mar 8, The acting was stilted and wooden; Jennifer Lawrence is creepy looking and unattractive. Honestly the whole thing was a mess from start to finish. Save your money and opt out of the remaining movies now; doubtful they will get any better. This movie was absolutely horrible. No story, plot, character depth or development.
Most of the actors looked as though they already knew the movie was bad and just phoned in their performances. Gary Ross should never be allowed to direct This movie was absolutely horrible. Gary Ross should never be allowed to direct anything ever again.
The camera work was so horrible I suffered dizziness and nausea through the entire film. Barely anything was explained in the movie, so if you never read the book, you were kept completely in the dark about what was supposed to be going on.
Gary Ross only knows how to do 2 shots. Extreme unfocused closeup, and extreme focused closeup. All of the backdrops and costumes were completely wasted since you could never see a whole person. You were only allowed to see someone's eye here, or mouth there. The most baffling thing about this movie are all of the good reviews I see from the critics. But that just goes to show you that they are never right when it comes to judging a movie.
This was the second movie I have ever walked out on the first being Battlefield Earth and demanded my money back. As long as teenage girls dominate the box office, we will be forced to see shallow, superficial, emotionless drivel.
The movie was very superficial. Glossed over the backstory and pretty much all of the relationships in a rush to get to the games. Then much of the tension of the games was missing, too. Not sure I would have been able to follow if I hadn't The movie was very superficial. Not sure I would have been able to follow if I hadn't read the book.
Add the "Blair Witch" camera work, and the whole experience was disappointing. DenebKaitos Mar 30, The story: brutal story about teens killing each other. This was not the problem I had with the movie. The problem I had with the movie was the cinematography, or lack of it.
I could not stand the very poor camera work. The director was constantly zooming in, panning up, zooming out, it became annoying. The "fight" scenes were a blur. You could not tell who was fighting what. They even had to resort to a cannon sounding to make sense of who died and who lived. Then there is the whole problem with the arena itself. The way the movie ended involved a Deus Ex Machina that ruined the entire premise. I will not go into detail beyond saying that if the cities had this technology available to them, why are they resorting to killing kids to keep the peace.
I would avoid this movie, the plot is predictable, and the cinemtography is terrible. While I sat watching the film, I wondered how the director, or maybe its the author, would handle "good" kids killing "bad" kids, and it ended up turning out how I thought it would.
As far as racist viewers worried about casting, I do not know why people complain about that crap. The issue I had is that the author, or director, chose the black community to be the ones rioting. That seems very racist to me, but I guess people are somehow comforted over that. One of the worst movies I have ever seen.. The only reason I watched it was because we got to the movie theater late and it was the only thing playing..
Out-dated special effects, a story that left a lot to be desired and a weak ending.. Don't waste your money on this garbage … Expand. The Battle Royale. And for 'Hunger Games' summary 'the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete'. Is it a remake, or just a rip off?
Machine2music May 8, Hot garbage. Thought this movie was gonna be the PG version of "Battle Royale". Instead it's just another dumb twilight esc movie. No thanks Hollywood, you can keep your tweenie movies to yourself. Jesrin Mar 23, Unfortunately, this movie didn't cut it for me. The characters were bland and two-dimensional, the cinematography left something to be desired, and the plot moved by so quickly that nothing was given adequate time.
Like Katniss's relationships with Peeta and Gale. Or her time spent with Rue. Quite honestly, I needed these relationships to be formed and dwelt upon at length in the film in order to give the Games the meaning that they needed.
Unless the characters and the viewer have something to lose, a movie can never achieve true emotional involvement and suspense. All in all, this was an unfortunate disappointment. If you are a teenage girl, you will love this movie. Everyone else over 25 you might as well wait for the 3rd installment to see if they make it better. The main actress is great but the plot is so thin and predictabile. I can't believe I was If you are a teenage girl, you will love this movie.
I can't believe I was taken in by all the hype. A big disappointment. Digitalkid Aug 14, Dumbest and senseless movie ever! Some people, dressed like a gay freak show, taking some lowlifes's children for a gladiator's fights to make them lowlifes calm?! Only a tiny example of stupidity. LJHayes Apr 4, It is awful. I'm not going into detail because it would take hours for me to go over everything that makes this thing unwatchable.
Suffice to say it's just a senseless story driven by insufferably irritating characters and a string of convenient plot devices that sporadically fade in and out of relevance.
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