Should I avoid the movie Hunger Games?

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RE: Should I avoid the movie Hunger Games? 3/25/2012 12:49AM - in reply to trollism

trollism wrote:

They had to tone down the violence in the Hunger Games because they needed to make the film a 12 rating rather than a 15 (don't know the US equivalents). I read somewhere that they thought it was disappointing that they had to do it, but the under 15 market is huge and they couldn't afford to alienate them.

PG-13 and R (17).
I think that's one of the main things that made it only manage a 5.8ish outta 10 for me.
You just can't have a book that attempts to decribe true desperation and brutality in a movie geared towards youngish teens.
This is a story about teenagers killing each other, and the directors decided to basically ignore that part.

Aside from that it was odd because i feel like if you read the book and watched the movie you knew what was going on, but got a bit distracted by parts that didn't exactly follow the book. And if you didnt read the book first then you didn't really understand all of it. Or took it differently.

I was disappointed they didn't have the tracker jackers make the girl like swell up and ooze a lot more, that woulda been some cool effects. And peeta and katniss (the 2 main characters) sustained only 2 vaguely major injuries, while all the others were just small scratches. (in the book, they're in a lot worse shape)

The most epic parts were rushed and awkward. Thresh came and saved katniss, but said like 1 word then ran off. I feel liek they shoudla spent 2x as long with the interaction so you can tell that he was indebted to her and paid off his debt by saving her life.

And the book gives the background of each character, tell you about hwo the Capital oppresses them, etc. The movie is : love story, saves sister, wins fight in cliche ending with lover,

And she never almsot died of thirst. And it was awkward how they portrayed them blowign up the supplies. In the book, katniss figures out that they are mines and then tries to blow them up. She was originally goignto try to dump them in the lake. In the movie, she randomly knwos that there are mines all over. And you don't even really see why Cato got mad and snapped the mine-layer's neck.

And because it's from a first person point of view in the book, the movie tries to tell you waht's going on in katniss' head by having the games director just announce it to the audience that's watching the games, which seems like a real cheap tactic that's blatantly obvious.

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