Really liked the actors played really well the idea of the movie I liked. The only problem I found was that it is really slow

3/4After reading The Hunger Games books, I immeadiately HAD to watch the movies. I knew the odds were in their favor in a subjective sense. While I can't say I liked either the book or the movie better, I'd say the book tells the story in a more complete and emotional manor, while the movie makes the same story more accessible. (The Hunger Games movies pay homage to their source material, unlike some other re-makes).The 12 districts of Panem, who are under a dictatorship that requires a teenaged boy and girl from each district every year. The selected people are put into an arena where they will fight to the death on live TV. The story centers around Katniss Everdeen, (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers for the games in her sister's place. Jennifer Lawrence gives a great Everdeen, and Josh Hutcherson gives a great Peet's, but most of the non-leads (with some exceptions) felt lacking. Example: when a certain highly likable character is killed, it fails to wrench your guts.If I had to pick one thing I was very disappointed about in this film, it would definitely be the CGI. Some of the action (ESPECIALLY a certain scene toward the end of the film....no spoilers) looks incredibly fake to the point where you aren't in the movie anymore. While it's definitely no Battlefield Earth in terms of poor CGI, it should be kicked up a notch considering the high demand for this movie.Despite some flaws, this movie is probably my favorite "YA" movie (if not one of it's sequels) and one definitely worth a watch. It takes great care to give you the same experience you had when yo read the novel, and it's a ton of fun as well.

It is not a series to be understood from the other movie of the series first. I can not say that I like Jennifer Lawrence and I like her acting. But it could be a good athlete. It is quite obvious that the author is inspired by which films, books and ideas. I like the world so much. It was a fluent film that could be watched with excitement. It was a film that had remarkable characters but did not smile at the pros. The stereotypes did not sink. This is a series I like.

The Hunger Games has become a household name in pop-cultural life, and this film is an entertaining introduction to a broadly-appealing yet well done dystopia not too far off the brutality of Battle Royale or The Running Man. It's not Twilight (thank Christ for that) and thankfully it's got a better romantic triangle than any of that vampire hogwash had going for it.This series is like a millennial-appealing take on other sci-fi dystopias ranging from George Orwell's 1984 to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; where those stories explored totalitarianism in more subversive ways this one shows how extreme things can get when violence is thrown into the equation.Considering this came out in 2012 and people are STILL saying whether or not this ripped off Battle Royale I think that those addresses are fair, and that it doesn't suffer from the pre-established derivativeness of something like Divergent (which apparently carbon-copied the story so much the films themselves were distributed by Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment).Anyway, this film is an adaptation of a book that was craving a movie based on it, and it's a good action flick focusing on young men and women trying to survive the worst to-the-death scenario you could possibly imagine.