The Hunger Games(2012)- User Reviews

People are so hungry in a post war era that they will resort to cooking their house pets. Two teens are cast out into an Olympic style game and must compete with 22 others as part of a ritual. The game is set in a wilderness and is monitored by computer …more»

Not having read the books, I thought the story told on screen was extremely boring. Besides an interesting concept, the movie did not offer anything in terms of story progression or thought provoking dialouge (it had a 5th grade level dialogue). None …more»

A script that takes you on a wonderful ride. Young actors that make every line believable. Where is the sequal? It is fun to see a well directed movie. The cinematography adds to the great set designs. Every character had a reason for being in the …more»

Hunger Games is a movie that is an arrow that is fired directly through your heart. The movie based on the best-selling book by Suzanne Collins takes place in a dystopian North America Panem. The Hunger Games is an annual event where the children of the …more»

I felt the book was decent. Frustrating to read at times, certainly, because it seemed to go out of its way to explain itself, not to mention the ridiculous, contrived plot lines that seemed to take whatever opportunity they could to worm their way in.

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Nice production, obviously spent a lot of money making what turns out to be a shallow and quite silly attempt at Grrl Power movie. I do not know who thinks Jennifer Lawrence can act, but her flat, cardboard performance is quite dreadful.

It is a complete …more»

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THG is a reflection of our times, past times and hallucinated futuristic times. It's a disjunct concoction of regurgitated story lines of movies past, and projected into a dystopian future.

I'm reminded of Logan's Run, Joan of Arc, The Running Man and …more»

So I was really trying to stay away from these since I heard the story line was about kids being thrown into an arena to kill each other. I gave in and watched the movie and then had to read the books. The books are much more detailed and also for those …more»

awesome awesome awesome...

granted that the depiction of kids getting killed have gotten a lot of our reviewers' granny panties in a tight bundle, this movie is a pointed criticism of the reality culture fetish of our society....

a must see film...can't …more»