Movie review: The Hunger Games
Mar. 25th, 2012 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2Saw this movie with friends today and we unanimously agreed that
that this movie was ..... adequate. Don't get me wrong, the Capitol scenes are great, there are some well-acted parts (Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Elizabeth Banks are all standouts) and the combat is well done but the whole setting seems lost. The Districts are supposed to be starving, this is supposed the ritualised class warfare and yet all that angle is lost. It is not too much of a loss in this movie but it is going to be noticeable in the next two because that's what takes this story from just another "fights in the arena" to a full-blown civil war by the end.
Overall, if I hadn't read the books, I would have thought that this was quite good but so much of the tension that is in the books is lost here so the movie was ..... adequate.
that this movie was ..... adequate. Don't get me wrong, the Capitol scenes are great, there are some well-acted parts (Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Elizabeth Banks are all standouts) and the combat is well done but the whole setting seems lost. The Districts are supposed to be starving, this is supposed the ritualised class warfare and yet all that angle is lost. It is not too much of a loss in this movie but it is going to be noticeable in the next two because that's what takes this story from just another "fights in the arena" to a full-blown civil war by the end.
Overall, if I hadn't read the books, I would have thought that this was quite good but so much of the tension that is in the books is lost here so the movie was ..... adequate.
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Date: 2012-03-25 05:34 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/#!/tomlenk/status/183653339031019520
and although I found the 'hand held' jumpy camera and constant cutting into scenes to be irritating (and not creating the kind of tension that 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' did so well), learned that it worked beautifully for Felicia Day:
https://twitter.com/#!/feliciaday/status/183935590197239808
"@tomlenk I kind of loved the movie even more than the book. The cinematography was just everything I've wanted in a movie. &Acting=amazing!"