The Hunger Games movie toughts...

Well, I just got home from The Hunger Games and I am still dumbfounded.  Taking a well loved book and making it into a movie has proved to be a very difficult task (see the flops that were the Twilight movies.) I was very nervous going into this movie, because I loved The Hunger Games so very much and I didn't want to see it get butchered like so many books before it.  Let me say, that I was not disappointed in the slightest.  I can honestly say that I have no complaints about this movie at all!

The actors became the characters, I believed that they were who they were portraying.  Jennifer Lawrence gets a freaking standing O from me.  She didn't even have to talk to be Katniss Everdeen, I could just look into her eyes and see the emotion.  Peeta and Gale were very well portrayed as well (even though Gale didn't really have that much to do, he looked sad very well!)  Lenny Kravitz as Cinna was just as great as I had thought he was going to be.  Woody Harrelson pulled off a blubbering drunk perfectly (was he really acting all that much?) and Donald Sutherland as President Snow was so fitting.

The scenery in the movie was spot on as well.  It really was exactly how I had envisioned it, from the ruins of District 12 to the eccentric Capitol.  The arena was also pulled straight from my mind, the lush greenery and the open space around the cornucopia.  The emotions that were played out in these scenes felt as if I was simply reading the book again.  I loved the eerie silence the day of the reaping and I absolutely adored the scene of Rues death, during both of these I cried my eyes out.  I also feel that the movie ended on the perfect note, an epic shot of a clearly unhappy president Snow that leaves you with the perfect unsettled emotion for Catching Fire.

If you are a lover of the book, I promise you that you will be a lover of the movie.  I think this movie was even so well done that you don't even have to have read the books to enjoy it.  You can tell that the people behind this movie were true fans of the book and they wanted to stay as true to it as possible, and they did not fail at that task at all.  This is by far the best book to movie that I have seen. So what are you waiting for? GO SEE IT!

If you have seen it, what do you think? What were your favorite scenes? Favorite actors? Is there anything you think could have been done better? 

The Hunger Games clip #2

I seriously feel like a little girl! Here is a clip from The Hunger Games that was featured on Ellen when Lenny Kravitz was there to promote the movie. I personally think that he is a PERFECT Cinna and I can't wait to see what he does with the character! What do you guys think of the clip? What do you think of Lenny playing Cinna??

The Hunger Games CapitolTV Exclusive Clip

It's almost upon us folks so there should be lots of little goodies like this coming our way in the next little while.  Here is the first official exclusive clip from The Hunger Games from CapitolTV.  Let the games begin!

Eeeeek! This is going to be AMAZING!  Such tension, I love every second of it! What do you think of the clip? Do you think Hollywood will get it right with this one??

The Hunger Games Superbowl Spot

The Hunger Games Update

March is coming fast and my excitement for The Hunger Games is growing just as fast. There was a great new trailer for the movie during the SuperBowl on Sunday.  I really think that this is going to be a great movie interpretation of a book that I absolutely loved (unlike those Twilight movies).  Jennifer Lawrence looks as if she is the perfect Katniss Everdeen and I can't even express how excited I am to see Lenny Kravitz as Cinna! Oh, and how perfectly "Capitol" does Effie Trinket look. Lionsgate usually makes some great movies and I think this will be no different ;)