Hunger Games - The Movie

Yesterday was a great day indeed. I went with my twiin to the movies and we saw Hunger Games, after which we made dinner for her parents (with garlic bread - yum!), and before we went to bed we watched the last Glee episode (finally! And more on that later, this is a Hunger Games centred post).

The movie (based on the first of the three Hunger Games novels) was really good! I know movies based on books never can be exactly the way we imagine them, and all the details can't be there and blahblahblah, and with a very few exceptions I always like the book version better, it was a great movie. Josh Hutcherson (whom I've liked since I saw that movie where his character's name was Laser or whatever, and liked even more after finally getting around to watching Bridge to Terabithia) is absolutely fantastic as Peeta (nothing but love for this character). Even though Gale is not very present in the first story, Liam Hemsworth portrays him really well, and I love that they had little sequences of his reactions after everything between Peeta and Katniss. And without any previous opinions of Jennifer Lawrence, I really loved her as Katniss. Truly a great cast! One thing that surprised me was Cinna. In a complete non-racist way I did not expect him to be black. On the other hand, it took me some time to realise that he was a man too when reading the book.


Three things disturbed me, two of which were really irritating, but otherwise I really cannot complain about their accuracy. It probably helped a lot that Suzanne Collins helped in the script-writing and stuff. Okay, first thing (that wasn't too major): Katniss is supposed to answer "No" when Peeta asks her if she gets that he wants to die without changing, without being a part of their Game, and not "Yes, but I can't afford to think like that". Second thing: The Cornucopia. I always imagined it to be golden, and not iron/silver/metallic. Talk about disturbing! And third: The muttations were not nearly as terrifying as in the book. The entire thing about them "being the dead players" ws not even there and that was the part that was the most freaky in the book. Oh, and a fourth thing! The Mockingjay pin! I kind of liked Madge, but her entire character is removed from the movie..


A thing that I really appreciated though was how they solved things for those in the audience that hadn't read the book by showing the gamemakers' thoughts/ideas etc, and showing how the Districts and the Capitol see the Games. I don't know what more to write about it, except that I really liked it, and truly recommend that you see it (read the books too though).

xoxo
Frida