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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Have You Seen THE HUNGER GAMES Yet?

Overall, I find that movies rarely live up to the book *glares at Twilight*, though I loved the cinematic version of The Help. Along with most everyone else, I devoured THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy by Suzanne Collins and couldn't wait for the movie. I saw it last night with my nephew (who also loved the trilogy) and my sister-in-law (who didn't read the books and was hesitant about a story filled with teens killing each other.)

Did the movie live up to the hype? I thought the movie rocked. The casting was great--Katniss and Peeta were perfect, and Rue couldn't have been more adorable. And Lenny Kravitz as Cinna? One word: yum. Of course, a movie can't capture all the nuances of character and setting the way a book can (I wanted more of Haymitch in the movie), so if you haven't read the book, I highly recommend reading it before going to the movie. My nephew gave it a huge thumbs up as well. As for my non-YA reading sister-in-law, she was surprised by how much she liked it and said there wasn't nearly as much graphic killing as she thought there would be. We also voted on the method of death we would least prefer and "the evil mechanical dogs" was the unanimous winner.


Have you seen THE HUNGER GAMES yet? What did you think?

6 comments:

  1. I have not seen it yet. But I want to.

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  2. Ladonna--Hope you see it and like it as much as I did!

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  3. I loved it!! I was hesitant to put out my hard earned $ ford a butchered sorry but like you. I was pleasantly surprised!!

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  4. *for not ford and *story not sorry! Wrote that on the bus on a touch screen phone! UGH!

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  5. Totally agree. Lenny Kravitz was perfect!
    Read the book then saw the film15 hrs later - won't be doing that again any time soon (had Katniss's thoughts as a monologue in my heard while watching the film), but great film anyway.

    Louise

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  6. didn't get to the end, tobe honest, found it a tad dull - but then i'm not their target demographic!!

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