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Movie Review: The Hunger Games
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Written by Oksana Carlier, Writer
In the theatre at The Hunger Games midnight showing, my friends and I were all slightly worried while we waited for the black screen to light up and play the movie. Our worry did not stem from the girl with a real bow and arrows dressed up as Katniss who happened to sit in the same theatre as us, but from the fear that movie would turn out to be another dreadful book-to-movie rendition like Eragon, Percy Jackson, and Ink-heart. Fortunately, I would argue that The Hunger Games movie is not in the dreadful category of book-to-movie renditions. The movie kept me engrossed the whole time; and I was sad to leave the theatre. When I had to get up after a short four hours of sleep, knowing the day would be torture, I was still glad I went to the midnight showing. Even when I struggled to stay awake until seven p.m. the next day so I could sleep through the night, I did not regret going to the movie. It was worth it.
The general plotline was quite similar, and the actors did a splendid job of playing the characters and looking really good while doing it. The action and romance balanced well, and the moviemakers did an excel-lent job of transferring the first person point of view writing by Suzanne Collins to a movie screen without having Katniss narrating her thoughts during the movie. One thing I disliked was that the mayor’s family is not included, and their removal messes up the origination of the mockingjay pin which is from Madge (the mayor’s daughter) in the books. Another critique is that some of the romance got a bit cheesy, although it was funny to hear the audience in the theatre to react to the romantic scenes. In addition, the time it takes to get to the Capitol seems to be lengthened while the time in the arena seems to be shortened in comparison to the book. Besides those few things, I really liked the movie and applaud the moviemakers who made the movie enhance the book rather than ruin it like many have done before. I highly encourage others to read the book and then see the movie; it is worth the money.
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