I promise all my readers, this is the last time I'll blog about anything Hunger Games related until November 2013 when the Catching Fire movie comes out. So you know the plot by now so I'll just plow right into it.
Jennifer Lawrence played Katniss and she did a great job. I believe she will be nominated for Best Actress this year. The other actors I really liked where Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. Haymitch is Katniss and Peeta's mentor. He was a drunk slob which Harrelson played well, and he had some humorous lines. Donald Sutherland as President Snow, who is the President of Panem, he has a smaller role. But he was very good in the scenes he was in.
I'll start out with what I didn't like about the movie. I didn't like the long countdown before The Games started, I thought that was longer than it needed to be. When The Games first started, I thought the camera work was kind of lackluster. The scene when Katniss and Peeta are in the cave healing from their wounds, I thought the writing for that scene could have been better. Because that's a pivitol scene, thats the scene when the romance between them is supposed to start. But I was not convinced that they were in love until the end.
However the movie has its good points as well. The movie kept true with the book for the most part. I hate it when a movie based off a book deviates from the book. And the action scenes were good. As mentioned before the acting was good.
The movie didn't quite live up to the hype, but I still was able to enjoy it. I'll give it 3.5 stars out of five. It's not as good as the book, but it totally holds up.
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