Current Events > Watching the Hunger Games

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I'm on Catching Fire.

Katniss Everdeen Is insufferable, my god. Besides her I'm enjoying the movies.

Thoughts?

I recently read the books for the first time. I found them okay but I couldn't get into the movie at all, which is a shame because I thought the look and casting were decent.

Not bad, not great. Fun for what they are, but I feel like a lot of context and character development is missing from the movie when compared to the books.

I say this as someone who has seen the first two movies, but hasn't read any of the books.

They were good, not great. I didn't read the books, wife did so she was real into it and liked the movies. I think the movies suffer from having a lot of unlikable characters.

Kinda sucked that she entered the games in the first place to save Prim, and then Prim died in the end anyway

I still like the books and the films. And I dig that Katniss isn't the most admirable person considering how harsh her world is.

It's elements to the ending which I disliked as it's contrived to get a happier ending for the YA readership/audience. I do wonder if that was the original plan or a publishing choice considering how late in the book this all gets shoehorned in.

Sam Clafin is a weird looking dude but also really handsome at the same time

Peeta's special skill is lifting bags of flour and nobody once mocked him for it.