Is the Hunger Games movie good?

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YES.

ETA:  except that the guy cast as peeta is SO NOT peeta enough, but he tries.  he's not cute or large enough for me.  i'm passionate about this.  but the actor does give it his best and the acting part is well enough.  and jennifer lawrence is PERFECTION.

[rex]

I thought they did a great job with the movie. Definitely watch it!

[Tacocat]

I liked it a lot. I thought it stayed pretty true to the book.

[walterismydog]

As usual, and per the cliche, the book is way better than the movie IMO.

But Jennifer Lawrence is really good in her role.

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Mar 29, 2013 9:01:48 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Eh. I thought it was just okay.  Jennifer Lawrence is good.  But the rest of the casting abjectly sucks.

how dare you, you debbie downer!

woody harrelson kicks ass like no one's business.

[Jalapeñomel]

I'd watch it. The shaki-cam is awful though, but I am still glad I saw it. I'm so glad they have a new director for the second one.

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I liked it but the book is definitely better.

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i agree with you. but woody and jennifer make up for it for me.

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I really liked it.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 29, 2013 9:10:47 GMT -5 cville said:

i agree with you. but woody and jennifer make up for it for me.

I also loved Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci. 


But Peeta didn't really bother me.  JL's height bothered me, but since she was fantastic, I got over it quickly. 

[janegold]

Yeah, I liked it. I read the books and thought they were way too YA and wannabe-profound for my taste. But I really enjoyed the movie a lot; it didn't give off that "trying too hard" vibe for me, like the books did.

[sillygoosegirl]

I found the movie pretty disappointing. But it's only 2 hours, I would watch it anyway.

I hated the shaky camera, the costumes were very disappointing, and I thought they mangled the ending horribly. And I agree with what others said about Peeta (aside from the cute part, I think he's plenty cute, just not at all how he was described in the book).

[agnes]

I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again.

I didn't like seeing the whiny kid from Bridge to Terabithia as Peeta and wished it had been Liam Hemsworth as Peeta and Kellan Lutz as Gale.

I still enjoyed the movie.

[partiallysunny]

I didn't like the books, but I loved the movie.

[luckyval]

I liked it and I can't wait to see more Donald Sutherland in the next movie

The only thing I missed from the book is that I wish they hadn't trimmed Rue's part

The final scene in the games was more intense in the book though. But I think that's almost always the case with book vs movie

[trafficgirl]

Mar 29, 2013 9:36:05 GMT -5 agnes said:

I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again.

I didn't like seeing the whiny kid from Bridge to Terabithia as Peeta and wished it had been Liam Hemsworth as Peeta and Kellan Lutz as Gale.

I still enjoyed the movie.

Movie is good, books are better.  And ditto everyone's comments about the actor who played Peeta - not a fan.

As for the bold above - that would have been amazeballs.  So much better.

[Wrath0fKuus]

Mar 29, 2013 9:04:14 GMT -5 Tacocat said:

I liked it a lot. I thought it stayed pretty true to the book.

Bwuh?  It changed the whole tone of the way Katniss and Peeta met, and then made them get through the actual hunger games almost completely unscathed.

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I liked it alot. I liked the books alot too.

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Infinitely better than the Twilight movies, not nearly as good as the Harry Potter movies.