Die Tribute von Panem - The Hunger Games Reviews & Ratings. Write review. Index. What a bitter disappointment! In order to explain what is missing from. Based on the film The Hunger Games. Panem Run mobile game brings the endless runner genre to new. Wouldn't it be cool to start in 13 and then go through the districts in countdown order to the Capitol. Every year, one boy and one girl ages 12 - 18 from each District are drawn into The Hunger Games. I did NOT copy IxIRenegadeIxI, The Hunger Games is a book series and I'm basing a game off it. In what is now termed the 'Dark Days,' the twelve districts were defeated and a thirteenth district was. GradeSaver, 6 December 2012 Web. I love about the books. Suzanne Collins creates a moving portrayal of a girl living under a. Set against a background of extreme poverty, these. Panem's. society. Those living in the wealthy Capitol have so little in common. Districts that they regard the. District children as entertainment.
The Hunger Games Districts Genre DefinitionThe Hunger Games Districts Genre PostersThe violence in The. Hunger Games is shocking because it is brutal and unnecessary, yet. Capitol residents. As for the. District tributes, they are not enemies but they kill each other all. As the trilogy. progresses, it becomes a compelling commentary on the madness of war. However, these themes are woven into. You become so immersed in Katniss's world that poverty is a. The film follows the basic storyline but lacks emotional depth. The. character development is almost nonexistent and the deaths in the arena. The tributes are little more. Even Rue's. death- heart- wrenching in the book- is little more than a side note in. If I hadn't read the books, I don't think I would have. Katniss and Peeta. Their romance comes. There is no hint of the bond that. Perhaps my biggest criticism of this movie is that no one seems to be. I cannot believe the filmmakers overlooked this important. The Capitol's exploitation of the Districts is supposed to be. When Katniss arrives in the Capitol. Capitol residents fill their time. The majority of her. Most of the. tributes have never had enough to eat and this is a major factor in the. Games. The beginning of the movie seemed promising. The ominous mood in. District 1. 2 was just right. It is apparent that the people who live. When residents appear. This juxtaposition was well- done. However, the. filmmakers lost me when the tributes entered the arena. There was no sense of tension. The tributes make all kinds of noise as. Katniss stands about ten feet away from Cato as he. They should have spent that time on character development! I am astounded this was even possible, given the. I will credit Elizabeth Banks with an excellent portrayal of Effie. Trinket. She adds humor and a sense of the absurdity of Capitol life. Jennifer Lawrence. Katniss but Josh Hutcherson is terrible as Peeta. He's. just not very likable. We see none of his inner strength. Instead, he. comes across and whiny and weak. And Wes Bentley seems to be included. One more thing. What happened to Haymitch?! He's supposed to be a. His cunning is all the more unexpected because. I was thrilled when they. Woody Harrelson and he does well in some parts but it seemed like. This movie had a lot of potential but it fell short in many important. A score of 3/1. 0 is pretty harsh but I felt as though the. Read. the books instead. So, I. sat there with a clear mindset, no expectations, no prejudice, no. First things first: whoever invented the. Twice, in fact, just to be sure.. It is really annoying, and. For me, in many. cases the hectic and jerky camera movement seemed to be only a poor. So. cheap.. and apart from pissing me off, it didn't work at all, but I. I well may be a minority.. The story feels like it is hanging in. Again, I didn't read the books so the scenes may have been. The most. fundamental question remained: what's the point? Sending 2 dozens of. Also, the scale is. The story, well, is very simple and straight. Feels painfully. unfinished, and though I din't know there is a series behind, I told to. Knowing that gives a little excuse. The striking similarities with Battle Royal I'll leave. Acting was OK, considering the absurdity of some of the. I'm sorry, I'm. not a big fan of the lead actress (Jennifer Lawrence), as I didn't even. I saw and really liked First Class. Regardless, she does a good job of. Kudos to Elizabeth Banks as well for. Donald Sutherland. I have a frequent visitor card so it didn't cost me. I've paid almost 1. I would be rather. It was about an awful political system where children faced to. The movie, was an attempt to. Twilight for money, and completely blurred out. PG1. 3. Jennifer Lawerence is an AWESOME actress though, and she. Throughout the movie I was never convinced that she. Oh well, maybe they'll remake a rated R version. Even more less surprising we find out that the. On to 1 hour and 1. Woody Harrelson being not nearly. Hunger Games. actually are or how it came about, and an awful underlying message sent. So, they get thrown out into the Hunger Games, there. The only person you know is out. Katniss and the boy who came with her. The rest of the. contestants you don't know, hardly have a clue as to what they're. Katniss runs away. Then she takes more naps. At. one point out of the blue she finds herself in the middle of fiery. Well, lucky. for her, though we were never told. She gets saved with super healing. She takes more naps. Later, we find out the boy who has a crush on her is teamed up with the. They make some. pathetic attempts to kill her, then give up and sleep. Kat makes a new. friend who seems to be the most resourceful, herbal expert. She tells. her to dump a bunch of insects on them. Then while it takes forever for. She gets stung a few times. Too bad she was stung by these. Wish we would have known that! Well, after a. lot more boring stuff of not getting to know anything about what is. Turns out, they gathered all the supplies and somehow found a bunch of. What's that supposed to do? So, instead of gathering. Katniss blows it all up. Katniss and. her little pal find each other, but get attacked, Kat swiftly dodges a. The attacker dies. But finds out poor little girl was stuck by the big spear. For. some reason untold he's not with the group anymore and he's badly. Okay, they hobble off after way too long, and then. In a game where only one survives, with the perfect. She. goes back, takes a lot more time, and finds out there is only one. Thanks for showing us some of the action.. Kat and her boyfriend OUTRUN all of them to a huge. Instead. the last guy, whoever he is, is bloody and looks like he can barely. How he got by the dogs is. This causes him to fall off and get. But Kat feels sorry for him, and puts him out of his. After this, there is nothing really to note. Nobody says anything. They don't really know anybody. Kat, Donald Sutherland gives some meaningless scornful look, and. But I think it's finally time to wonder what is the. I did not read the book. I know until yesterday that this film is another adaptation. After the first few minutes of the film when you realize you're 2. I've read them countless times and when. I found out they were making a movie of them a little over a year ago I. But I was also worried. The book is. written in first person narrative with very detailed descriptions of. Panem, the future version of the U. S. I couldn't imagine that they would be able to convey every. I had imagined it and make the story believable without an. R- rating or a huge budget. All of my concerns were wiped away when I. I've never seen a more faithful adaption of a book in my life. All of. the costumes, the sets, the locations, the cast (I'll talk more about. And the small things that do differ or are added (such. Collins created and improve the narrative movie- wise. And. the movie is great for people who haven't read the books as well. Not. once did I feel as if something was vague or badly explained. The cast is stellar. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss carries the movie and. She IS Katniss and one can feel the graveness. Josh. Hutcherson as Peeta is also a true breakout performance. The way he. looks at Katniss will makes girls all over the world envy her, just. Other standouts in the cast include Stanley. Tucci as the flamboyant talk- show host Caesar Flickerman, Woody. Harrelson as the sarcastic but caring mentor Haymitch and Wes Bentley. Seneca Crane (his final scene might be the. The child actors Willow Shields and. Amandla Stendberg who portrays Prim and Rue are believable and. Despite the PG- 1. The violence may not be gloriously graphic. People will feel the tributes' pain and despair. The movie also deals with important themes like survival. There is a minor love. In. my opinion I think it rather improves them by showing some light in the. The only complaint I can think of is that the movie feels too short. I will have to see it again to fully pay attention to every. Capitol, which looked. But this is still not me saying that the movie is rushed. I stated the source material is very dense and the. People are expecting this to become the next Twilight- style teen movie. I can't say I think the two stories have anything in common. I hope . But if the first movie is any indication of the quality of. Twilight's league. So before The Truman Show, which is essentially the. The Hunger Games, we have Battle Royale, The Running Man. Rollerball. They all deal with mass entertainment in a. What's really. disappointing about The Hunger Games is that unless you've read the. There's nothing else to help the naive reader make. In fact, that's. something you should take into account when reading many of the reviews. My problem. was a lack of character development, they felt very flat, you don't. Katniss to win. Plot: They are called the HUNGER GAMES. They have to suffer, they have to. They made an R rated book. PG- 1. 3 movie and they expect it to work ? The fight had to be brutal. The political implications you never understood them, you don't get. Development: The movie is freaking slow, I was failing sleep, mind you I finished. There are some useless. Camera: Please kill the director and his stupid shaky camera, it was annoying. Adapted from Suzanne Collins' trilogy of. The Hunger Games looks set to follow in the. Harry Potter and the soon- to- cease Twilight as. GCSE bound masses. This moderately engaging adaptation of Collins' first novel plays like. Battle Royale. Director Gary Ross shoots for a. There's plenty to behold. Despite all efforts, The Hunger Games is starved. A hyped- up, cheesy and dumbed down treatise on human nature, spirit. TV culture, this is a badly- acted, action- crammed movie.
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