Thoughts on The Hunger Games (Movie)
I've just watched The Hunger Games movie at the cinema and got some opinions as reader of the book.
But for overall evaluation, I think the filmmaker did a very nice job to re-tell the story with only 2 hours given.
This review will contain spoilers so I'll put it under this LJ cut. :)
First Impression:
The opening is quite good, the way that they didn't use any background music at the reaping scene made me nervous and I like that. The visual of the characters and environments (the districts, capitol, and game arena) really suited my imagination. Two thumbs up for that! :D
I don't mind some changes with the Mockingjay pin background story since it will take a long time to explain the whole novel version one. And the scene when Peeta secretly cried in the car is kind of cute. Josh Hutcherson did a good job there.
As the story went on, there are plus and minus in the movie. And here they are:
The Plus:
The Game-makers.
I really appreciated these scenes of the game-makers since they helped me so much to imagine the way the hunger games were managed. The hi-tech tools, the arena-making, now I understand how can they just created some impossible things to show up in the arena, such as the mute-dogs and the sudden fire.
The Minus:
1. Hunger in the Hunger Games.
This is one of my main concerns as I watched the whole movie. There are not enough scenes that show that the main character had suffered a lack-of-food life. That was one of the story generator and the movie didn't give me that. Hunger and thirst nearly killed her in the game. And she used hunger to weaken the Careers when she blew the food pyramid in the Corcunopia. With this lack of show in 'hunger' there are some scenes that lost its importance in the movie.
2. Peeta.
All I could see from the movie is that Peeta was just cooperating in the star-crossed lover things so people will love them district 12 tributes and be their sponsors. At the interview scene with Caesar when he confessed his long-awaited love for Katniss, I can't see his 'true-feeling'. :< That saddened me since I hoped the scene to be bizarre and it just went on like nothing important.
And my biggest NOOOO! moment of this movie is when it looks like he had already knew about the fake love and just played with it all along. I mean, the not-knowing and the pain it caused was one of the most important issues in the 2nd book. With the movie reducing it, people who don't read the novel won't understand the complexity (between guilt and longing) that Katniss feels about Peeta. D:
There are still a lot more in my mind, but I think these are the major things that concerns me a lot. Have you watched The Hunger Games movie and what do you think? :)
P.S : Please forgive me if you find some mistakes in the grammar.
But for overall evaluation, I think the filmmaker did a very nice job to re-tell the story with only 2 hours given.
This review will contain spoilers so I'll put it under this LJ cut. :)
First Impression:
The opening is quite good, the way that they didn't use any background music at the reaping scene made me nervous and I like that. The visual of the characters and environments (the districts, capitol, and game arena) really suited my imagination. Two thumbs up for that! :D
I don't mind some changes with the Mockingjay pin background story since it will take a long time to explain the whole novel version one. And the scene when Peeta secretly cried in the car is kind of cute. Josh Hutcherson did a good job there.
As the story went on, there are plus and minus in the movie. And here they are:
The Plus:
The Game-makers.
I really appreciated these scenes of the game-makers since they helped me so much to imagine the way the hunger games were managed. The hi-tech tools, the arena-making, now I understand how can they just created some impossible things to show up in the arena, such as the mute-dogs and the sudden fire.
The Minus:
1. Hunger in the Hunger Games.
This is one of my main concerns as I watched the whole movie. There are not enough scenes that show that the main character had suffered a lack-of-food life. That was one of the story generator and the movie didn't give me that. Hunger and thirst nearly killed her in the game. And she used hunger to weaken the Careers when she blew the food pyramid in the Corcunopia. With this lack of show in 'hunger' there are some scenes that lost its importance in the movie.
2. Peeta.
All I could see from the movie is that Peeta was just cooperating in the star-crossed lover things so people will love them district 12 tributes and be their sponsors. At the interview scene with Caesar when he confessed his long-awaited love for Katniss, I can't see his 'true-feeling'. :< That saddened me since I hoped the scene to be bizarre and it just went on like nothing important.
And my biggest NOOOO! moment of this movie is when it looks like he had already knew about the fake love and just played with it all along. I mean, the not-knowing and the pain it caused was one of the most important issues in the 2nd book. With the movie reducing it, people who don't read the novel won't understand the complexity (between guilt and longing) that Katniss feels about Peeta. D:
There are still a lot more in my mind, but I think these are the major things that concerns me a lot. Have you watched The Hunger Games movie and what do you think? :)
P.S : Please forgive me if you find some mistakes in the grammar.