Total Film Hunger Games Review

Is it the new Twilight? Is it faithful to the book? How violent is it? What’s up with Woody Harrelson’s hair? No, yes, pretty violent and Lord only knows.
 
Now we’ve got the big questions out the way, a quick catch-up for those wondering if The Hunger Games is ITV’s follow-up to The Biggest Loser. No. It’s the feverishly anticipated adap of the first in Suzanne Collins’ teen-book trilogy, set in a post-apocalyptic US (now called Panem) where the problems of maintaining civil order, keeping the youth in line and what to watch on TV all have the same solution: The Hunger Games, a yearly gladiatorial contest where two dozen randomly selected 12-to-18-year-old ‘Tributes’ are forced to fight to the death until only one remains. And it’s on freeview!
 
Gary Ross’ film kicks in like a futuristic redux of Winter’s Bone, with Jennifer Lawrence again being the glue holding together a fatherless, near-penniless household. Already there’s portent in the air, even before a government hovercraft thunders overhead.

And there’s a gut-wrench right around the corner, when 16-year-old Katniss’ (Lawrence) baby sis Prim (Willow Shield) is plucked from the hat for the 74th Games. A horrified Katniss volunteers to take her place, and it’s off to the Capitol, flanked by her fellow Tribute, baker boy Peeta (Josh Hutcherson)…

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The Telegraph Hunger Games Review

The Hunger Games, a vision of human life in all its nasty, brutish brevity demands to be devoured. That Bella Swan; she’s no Katniss Everdeen. Both teenage heroines journey deep into the woods at dusk, but while Twilight’s Bella returns flanked by bickering supernatural beefcake, Katniss emerges alone, smeared in blood and muck and gnawing on the charred remains of a spatchcocked squirrel. In The Hunger Games, the characters don’t fall straightforwardly into one team or the other. There are no vampires vs werewolves here, just Katniss on one side and the rest of the world on the other, although you wouldn’t fancy the rest of the world’s chances. The Hunger Games is an adaptation of the first in a set of three fantasy books aimed at younger readers by Suzanne Collins, in which teenagers culled from the 12 districts of a post-Apocalyptic nation called Panem are pitted against each other in an annual, state-sponsored fight to the death. Collins’s work has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels (primarily because both centre on young women and have been phenomenally successful) but the concept owes more to the Japanese author Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, itself adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. There are also borrowings from Stephen King’s The Running Man, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and, of course, real life: it wasn’t so long ago, geologically speaking, when panem et circenses [bread and circuses] was the state’s preferred method of keeping the rabble in order. But despite its well-worn ideas and themes, Gary Ross’s provocative, pulse-surgingly tense adaptation couldn’t feel fresher, or timelier.

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30 day HG challenge

Day 20: Your least favorite pairing: Peeta and tracker jackers. I don’t think that counts but I couldn’t think of one. 

My boyfriend just got 10 times more awesome

One thing I love about the HG cast

All the young actors/actresses are so fresh. They aren’t huge names. They weren’t super famous. So many of these kids were unknowns and have a better chance at getting more jobs because of the Hunger Games. I hope they do the same when it comes to casting for the next movies. Especially with people like Johanna and Finnick. 

30 day HG challenge

**Contains Mockingjay spoilers

Day 19: Your favorite pairing: I have to say it, Katniss and Peeta. But not until

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Rights to Air The Hunger Games Bought by ABC Family

According to The Wrap, ABC Family has bought the rights to air the Hunger Games 30 months after its release. 

I can’t wait until all the movies come out and we have a Hunger Games marathon weekend like the Harry Potter one!