And May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor!

I bit the bullet yesterday. I bought the Blu-ray copy of The Hunger Games. I will not compare it to the book as the book will forever be superior, however, I will rate the movie and say I did shed a tear during one scene.

For those of you that have been living in a whole for well over a year, The Hunger Games is a movie based off of a trilogy of books written by Suzanne Collins. Basically set in the future  where 74 years ago, our ancestors from the 13 districts, rose up in rebellion of the Capitol. As a result, every year the Capitol hosts a "Reaping" where one boy and one girl between the ages of 11 and 18 are chose at random to enter The Hunger Games. This movie is like a less violent version of Battle Royale. Anyway, to cut to the chase--my overall opinion of the movie is this: good acting (great acting from Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, and Lenny Kravitz), the way the movie was shot overall could've have been done differently IMO, and it could've spent LESS time in the training area and more time focusing on the relationships that Katniss had built with other characters. It almost seemed like they thought it would be an epic fail until it didn't. I would've been happier seeing this movie in two-parts rather than it being cut dramatically short as the Harry Potter Films seemed to do. Important parts should not be left out to make way for "pretty shots" etc.

Overall, The Hunger Games receives a meager 6/10.

Come away to the slaughter

I've heard so many good things about The Hunger Games so before seeing the movie I picked up the first book in the trilogy. While I have heard amazing things and was not let down by the storyline and content of the book, the grammatical errors and overuse of stuffy paragraph fillers that crept in and out page after page started to piss me off after a while.
Other than those little errors that could be overlooked once the story itself picked up, I loved the storyline even though it became a bit predictable at times. I am looking forward to picking up the two final installments to the series: Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Once I see the movie I'll give my actual review on that, expect it to suck seeing as movies never live up to the book.