Day 84: The Hunger Games

Directed By- Gary Ross

Writer(s)- Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray; Based on the book "The Hunger Games" By Suzanne Collins

Starring- Jennifer Lawernce, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrleson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravtiz, Stanely Tucci, Donald Sutherland

Critics Review-"The games have begun, and so far they're pretty gripping."- Michael Phillips "Chicago Tribune"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 87% Audience- 95%

Out a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars

My Review-

First lets get one thing straight, this is nothing like Twilight. I do not understand why people are comparing it to the that horrible atrocious movie, when they are nothing a like now that I got that out of the way let me start off by saying that this movie had me wanting to watch it as soon as I watched the first trailer when it was released. Not having read the books I went in only knowing a little bit about the movie, but the movie from start to finish has me hooked. For me the drama was done really well and the acting was really good especially from Tucci even though his role was not that big in the film, he was really charismatic in the role has the television host sort of a Ryan Seacrest or Jeff Probst time person has the audience hanging on every word that he said. Now with Jennifer Lawrence I believe she did an amazing job in this movie, her character can be someone girls can look up to, and not that twilight chick who shows no emotion. She made you feel what she felt or question the games at times or feel the intensity of when she was trying to stay a live. I think that's what really surprised me was the acting, and the storyline of the book that for me intrigued into the movie, and how people would watch kids and teenagers kill each other as a sport and how Harrleson's character saw it for what it really was. The only problem I had with this movie is I wish that they had gone more into the back story of how The Hunger Games began, and why there was an Uprising in the first place, I believe that it would have cleared that up a little more in the story of why each year the 12 Districts chose a boy and girl to fight to the death. However as soon as the "games" officially started that is where you got really hooked to see how brutal these people became it was kind of sad even though it was only one left standing. Even the behind the scenes of how they showed the games to the Districts was kind of an aw moment to see of how to them it is just entertainment and nothing more. Lastly in no way shape or form was this like the Twilight movies, this movie and series will be 100x better than Twilight, even though I did not get to read the books before the movie came out I would like to read it now. I am looking forward to reading the books as the rest of the films that will be released on the future. All in all I really enjoyed this movie and I could see what all the hype was about, the movie was gripping when it kicked into full gear 5 mins into the movie, and it never slowed down. All the actors in the movie deserve to recognized for this movie, and I will be shocked if not one of them gets a nomination especially Tucci for Best Supporting Actor and along with Harrelson, and Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, these are the types of movies that should get recognized at the Awards, because it is something quite different and to even have the acting and emotional scenes to back it up alone is worth a nomination.