Hello and Happy Hunger Games!!!!
So the other day I had this genius idea of doing a
Hunger Games Movie Review link-up! You can link up here with your posts all about the movie - whether they've just been written or they're a couple of days old! It doesn't really matter -
the goal here is to meet other fans and to create a place where others can easily find reviews of the movie. I, for one, always love finding out what other people think of movies, so
let's share our thoughts here! Grab a button and link on up!
My Thoughts:
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
Characters: I loved the picks for all of the characters! The only person that I didn't really care for was
Prim - I thought she was super annoying. I think the movie actually made me feel for
Gale -
Liam Hemsworth didn't have a very big role in this movie, but the shots of him watching the games and the emotion that he as an actor was able to portray without words (combined with the amazing soundtrack) sent shivers down my spine more than once. I could feel his heart breaking as he watched the "romance" between
Peeta and
Katniss unfold. I
almost went from
Team Peeta to
Team Gale. It's a good thing that
Josh Hutcherson did a fabulous job as
Peeta, or else I just might have made that move.
As far as
Katniss is concerned, I think that
Jennifer Lawrence was an amazing pick. Even without the narrator giving us every thought running through her mind, I was able to feel what
Katniss was feeling. Her emotion almost brought me to tears a few times - especially the scene with
Rue. Speaking of
Rue, let's just take a minute and talk about how perfect
Amandla Stenberg was for that part -
amazeballs.
Am I the only one that thought that
Cato was smokin'? I mean, wow.
Alexander Ludwig is FI-IIIINE.
Likes: I loved the book --> film adaptation. There were only a few small things that I wasn't a fan of, and I'll get to those in a minute. I
really liked how well the characters transitioned from the pages of a book onto the big screen - it was just as easy to identify with the characters in the movie as it was in the book, and that is really important to me. I loved the
reaping scene - I was almost moved to tears - the same with
Rue's death. Shivers went down my spine more than once, but the most memorable time was when
Katniss and
Peeta rode in on the chariot in the
parade. How
awesome was that fire suit?!?!
Dislikes: WHERE THE EFF IS MADGE?! I
hated the fact that they changed the way
Katniss got the
Mockingjay pin. I love the history behind the pin and I love the pin's significance, and I think that that was sort of taken away when
Katniss just stumbles upon it at the market. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO THE DOGS MAULING PEETA'S LEG?! Not that I wanted
Peeta to have to go through that, but isn't his prosthetic leg a pretty important detail? And finally, WHY THE EFF DID I NOT GET THE CHANCE TO LEAVE THE THEATER CURSING KATNISS' NAME?!?!?! You all know how I felt when I finished the first book. I
hated Katniss and wanted to high five her in the face with a chair for breaking poor
Peeta's heart. Now why in the world would they leave out this
very important part of the story? I guess to put it in the next movie. But
seriously?! The
last thing I wanted to do was leave the theater
liking Katniss. Sheesh.
So. I could probably talk about the movie for days, but I want to know what you all thought. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Were your expectations for the movie met? Were you disappointed? Link up and tell all!!
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