Did anyone like the movie more than the book? The entire time I was reading The Hunger Games I kept thinking "I would probably be a little more engaged if I were watching it instead of reading this..."

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I kept thinking that, but I think I prefer the book still

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I prefer the book, but I thought it was a pretty good adaptation.

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This is how I feel.

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same here

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yes ia

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This, pretty much

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I was the exact opposite. As I watched the film I thought I was much more engaged in reading it b/c I could go at a much faster pace and it was more thrilling. My imagination did wonders with the visuals in the book, but budget or not, the film did not live up to my imagining.

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I liked Katniss better in the movie (i know, unpopular opinion) but other than that I liked both pretty much equally.



And movie!Gale is cute and all, but the less of him, the happier I am.

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No. I'm not really a fan of Katniss, but I liked how in the book she is clearly trying to survive (for example, the lack of #28) and is stupid stubborn, etc.



I just think there were larger issues that the movie didn't pick up on. The Mockingjay pin, her hesitance with Peeta...



I mean, not that the book was written well to begin with, but the movie isn't long enough to explain these things. :(

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I did. The book lacked details and emotion and the movie did much better with that except with the ending imo.

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it's a tie for me tbh

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I like the movie because it's isn't dragged down by Katniss's 1st person narration, but the movie has the annoying shaky camera. I like more about Cato and President Snow.

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I'm basically reading the book because i liked the trailer.



I have had it sitting there for i think a year or so and didn't engage until i saw the trailer and now want to read it before watching the movie.

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Well, I tend to stop seeing words and just visualize as I read, so it was like I was watching it. I did think that the second two books would be better movies than books.

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I think I prefer the movie.

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me, me, me!



so rare for me to prefer a movie to a book, but the book was just OK for me, but with the movie I got all emotional and shit. I cried or felt like crying at least 3 times and actually CARED about the characters.

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I prefer the book because it has more depth, but I liked how they adapted it to the screen. It was still a complete story, and I didn't have to explain anything to my husband afterwards [like I had to for all the HP movies].

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I really enjoyed it as a movie. I think it cut out a lot of the crap that made the book wishywashy. Mostly katniss' internal monologue.

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I prefer the movie

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I prefer the movie version but I wish they'd mentioned more the 'showmance' side of the Katniss/Peeta relationship - especially at the end of the games. Even something as simple as them letting go of their hands when out of the public eye. Maybe we'll get it in the next movie.

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This book was my favorite part of the series so I enjoyed the book more than the movie (still liked the movie though). However, I think I might end up liking the 2nd and 3rd movie more than the book just because of the way they are set up. Although, its fucking bullshit the last book is split into 2, its gonna blow.

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I think the movie is a fantastic companion to the book, showing us the things that were only implied in the novel because it was only shown from Katniss' POV.



However, I feel like if you haven't read the book, then the movie loses a lot of its meaning. Like, there's stuff we know about (Katniss' mistrust, her playing up the romance angle only for show) that people only watching the movie may not get.

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I really enjoyed the movie much more than the book. I mean the book is good, but the movie took the book, and made it better in a way of emotional impact, and visualization.

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Preferred the book but still loved the film.

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I liked it, I think Katniss comes off as a more sympathetic character in the movie versus the book. In the book I wanted to slap her a few times because she always seemed to be dragging her feet about the advice that people, especially Haymitch were giving her even though most of it was going to save her life.

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Yes and no. I think that the book does a better job at explaining the world they live in, how starving her district is and who she is as a person, and the little details that set up the major plot points for the next book, if that makes sense. Of course it's easier to do that through writing since you're telling and it's hard to show that in the movie. I think the film glossed over a lot of those things and the dialogue was severely lacking.

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Since I didn't really like the books very much, I was hoping the movie would translate better.... and sadly I feel about the same about both mediums.

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idk, i liked my imagined version of it, but there were aspects of the movie that I also liked.

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I thought the chemistry between Peeta and Katniss was better in the movie than in the book, tbh. But overall I prefer the book.



Also, your icon is blowing my mind rn.



Edited at 2012-03-27 06:53 pm (UTC)

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I loved the movie, I spent the whol reading it wishing they would make a ovie cos it work as well as a book.

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man i really tried hard to like the movie but the pacing was SO off. i know they spent about an hour on pre-games and an hour on the games, but the ending was SO rushed. it was like 7 minutes from the cornucopia scene at the end to the credits, the seneca locked in the room with the berries scene was kind of stupid, and it really missed out on that "one more time for the cameras" line =/



also, i know people were saying that having the mutts look like tributes would be cheesy but the generic mutts they used looked really bad. i don't know how they wouldn't pulled it off otherwise, but i really liked that the mutts had an emotional challenge as well as a physical challenge when killing them and that didn't really come across in the film.



jlaw was good, even if i didn't like her acting in what we saw from the trailers, but i felt like there was hardly any character relationship development between anyone. when did haymitch get to influence the gamemakers? why didn't we get to see cinna or effie's reaction to the games? so much lost potential!



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ia about the mutts. that was the scariest part in the book for me.. like random and sci fi like, i was expecting it to be much scarier in the movie

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the mutts in the book was my favorite part, but i understand how that probably wouldn't have worked in the movie.

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ia with everything except the berry scene b/c that was one of the few times i was awake (mostly b/c of the music being much more present and interesting during this part of the film). it was absolutely unfortunate that it took an hour to get to the games and then b/c it was pg-13, most of the shock value and thrill factors of the games themselves were missing.

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I disagree. I like how we got to know District 12 and Katniss, Gale, and how it contrasts with The Capitol. Seneca and the berries was great because it was very subtle and dramatically ironic.



The mutts would have looked very bad on this movie's budget. I wish they would have established that the mutts were already made and ready to be released at any point in the game.



I thought the relationships were well developed. Haymitch is seen talking to Seneca about selling the doomed young love angle. I wish we had seen Cinna's reaction to the games, but not Effie since she's not as important later in the series.

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ia about Seneca and the berries.

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ia i felt like the movie fell flat and tbh didn't really add anything to the books.

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The scene with Seneca was flawless. Political Chinese execution =)



Yeah the mutts could have been cooler, but the budget was very low for the film, all things considered

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I jumped when the mutts came out but then laughed at how cheesy and fake looking they were. I know their budget wasn't very big but I didn't expect them to look so computer generated.

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ia about the jlaw interaction with the other people. she was great as katniss but had like no chemistry with peeta imo.

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peeta still having a leg

the whole pick up from the arena scene doesn't exist

the rehabilitation scene doesn't exist

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I noticed the leg thing. I wonder if they're going to leave it out entirely... I can't remember how much it was used in the story

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i have a feeling they'll mention it at the beginning of the next movie



make it seem like Katniss was so wrapped up in putting on the innocenti'mnottryingtooverthrowthecapito l act that she didn't notice

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It was pretty big in the books. He lost his leg and had to get a prosthetic.

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The leg thing annoyed me. It's like they thought girls couldn't find him as attractive had he lost his leg.

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I'm mad about the leg thing. When they didn't do the reveal I said WHAT really loud in the theater.

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Yeah, I would have liked to see Peeta loose his legs and the ships that picked up the bodies. It would have made Katniss staying with Rue and such much more poignant.

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i really wanted them to show the scene where they're in the hovercraft and she's screaming peeta's name out because they got separated, i thought that was pretty dramatic

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I'm wondering if they had Peeta keep the leg so that they wouldn't have to go do the other two movies with special effects/makeup/whatever to continue with the one legged bandit.

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yeah, i was pretty annoyed that katniss and peeta got out of the arena pretty much unscathed.



i liked that collins had the guts to hurt her characters, and the movie just breezed past it. also, because of the lack of serious injuries, their winning felt too easy.



idk.

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I am so pressed about that fucking leg, you don't even know.

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peeta's leg made me mad because I feel like it made their actions more significant. Peeta was dying anyway from that mutt bite, and they still made it out alive. Also, it shows that as much as the capitol can fix and cover up, they still can't replace limbs

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I would have loved to have seen the rehab scene where Katniss freaks out about Peeta getting taken away. They shouldn't have been fine and uninjured after leaving the arena.

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spoiler alert?



















lmao so I just found out Seneca guy (?) died. wtf, that completely went over my head. haven't read the books, but that scene was not clear at all. when did he eat those berries?

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he was hanged after the games, katniss learns this in the second book (iirc we don't even learn his name until she finds out he's dead)

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the fuck....

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actually, it was never mentioned how he was killed

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This was much better imo. Eating the berries that she used to defy the capitol. Awesome.

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i swear i didn't know anything about Seneca until Catching Fire when they mentioned that he was killed. maybe i just overlooked that in the first book.

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yeah, it's a bummer. we won't be graced by Lenny Kravitz's fine self in this franchise for much longer.

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i'm pretty sure it was implied in the movie that he was forced to eat the poisonous berries, which then woud kill him. he was only hanged in the books, so i appreciated the irony.

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http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gjrphxCW1r7ud9ho1_500.gif



this scene happened sometime after the games

a pleasant little bowl filled with nightlock just for him this scene happened sometime after the gamesa pleasant little bowl filled with nightlock just for him

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He isn't even in the books. At the beginning of the second book, Snow tells Katniss that the head gamemaker that allowed them both to live was executed. That was the extent of Seneca Crane's existence.



And then later Katniss hung a dummy and wrote Seneca Crane on it like an effigy in front of capitol ppl to piss them off.

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Serious question: I haven't read the book but someone was telling me that in the books Jennifer Lawrence's character was a black woman, but then someone else said she wasn't. I'm confused was she black in the book?

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she's racially ambigious

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She's described in the books as being "dark" but her sister is blonde. It says that most people in District 12 are olive skinned, with dark hair, so I assume Katniss is similar. So I don't think she was black, but perhaps more Mediterranean-looking than J-Law is.

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ia, i didnt think she was black or biracial, just mediterranean looking

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I always kind of pictured her like the darker toned girls from the south like my cousins. I don't know what genes or ancestor it comes from but they all have dark chestnut hair that in the summer gets lighter streaks and we all tan very easily and they have the blue/green eyes.

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I thought she was Mexican tbh cause she reminded me of me.

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they describe her as having an olive complexion, dark hair and grey eyes (same with gale), but her mom and Prim are both fair and blonde with blue eyes.



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She's described as having olive skin, if I recall correctly - and grey eyes. Ambiguous enough that she could have easily been cast as a woman of colour, but the casting call specifically called for a white woman.

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she had olive skin and black hair so i pictured her as a native american lol

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She's described as having light eyes, olive skin, and black hair. Basically as though everything about them is darker than it otherwise would be because they're miners. I took that to mean a sort of Mediterranean look. I don't think there's ever been a suggestion in the novels that she's black.

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She has "olive skin and gray eyes" and that's all we get.

I'm with the people who think she looked Mediterranean tbh, maybe Latina.



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No. She's described as having an olive complexion and dark hair, which means she might be mixed, but her sister is blonde and pale, so that's less likely than Katniss just being mediterranean looking.



However, Rue, Cinna and Thresh are clearly described as black.

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An edition of the book had this illustration of Katnis on the cover:

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I think the specific words to describe her skin color are "olive skinned", but Collins has told us before that by that time in the future there'd be a lot of racial mixing. IMO, she's a mix, maybe one of her great grandparents was black, or hispanic, or something.

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she has ~olive~ skin but her sister is blonde. I have a feeling her skin is slightly darker because she is constantly out hunting.

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my biggest problems were the madge/pin stuff (someone in the theatre actually yelled out BULLSHIT when prim gave katniss back the mockingjay pin), not showing enough of the prim/katniss relationship (like giving her the goat's cheese as a special lunch/hunting treat), the intro of cinna - that relationship was not developed enough AT ALL and the intro was awkward as hell and Peeta keeping his leg at the end (WTH?!)



having said all that, I really enjoyed the movie, thought the pacing was great (especially considering the run time of 2.5 hours) and jenlaw was great as katniss.

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iawtc

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I don't understand why they took out peeta hurting his leg, like if they wanted him to keep him leg and not be maimed at least have him be hurt by the hounds and give fans the satisfaction of being able to see katniss go bananas whne they take him away once the games are over

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im so fucking pissed about the madge/pin part. it makes me not want to see the movie :/

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I didn't mind the Madge thing that much simply for the interest of time. I know people raged but idk. It wasn't that important to me in terms of cutting stuff.

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pm, I seriously didn't mind the changes from the books. They weren't ~fine literature~ to start with but the movie really kept the spirit of them intact.

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the only thing that bothered me about the pin was that it is important because it belonged to Maysilee Donner, and that connection to Haymitch and his games. I mean, I guess they could still try and make that connection next book, but IDK how.

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meh,as an HP fan you just get used to changes....well that's not true for everyone,people are still complaining about the burrow burning down.

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that was my reaction



oh look they changed a bunch of stuff



whatevs HP prepared me for this

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one of the people I watched it with was PISSED at ALL the exclusions and changes. I was like, adaptations don't have to be exact replicas jfc.

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I'm one of the people who gets super annoyed with others who don't realize that an adaptation WILL have changes, ugh. Yeah, there are things that would help further explain the story and bring more depth to it, but this movie was 2hrs and 20 minutes long, they'd packed it as much as they could IMO.

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My step sister is one of those people, the entire drive home she was raging to me about all the things that were changed.



I even told her, 'The author co-wrote the script and was a producer, I'm sure everything that she felt was important and needed to be in the movie she made sure was in there' and she replied with, 'Everything she felt was important she wrote in the book'

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Basically. I knew things were going to changed, it's what always happen.

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My husband is a Harry Potter nerd, read all the books a billion times and seen the movies, but never read the Hunger Games before seeing the movie with me.



And when I was complaining about a few of the changes, he was just like, "Welcome to the club".

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but in all honesty: all the HP pissed me off quite a bit with the changes they made (specifically the focus on romance) - I just thought they were done poorly

While THG was pretty great IMO (so was LOTR btw)

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ikr? I looked at my friend and we just shrugged like "We'll take what we can get"

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mte. This is the silliest article.

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Ahah, yes, maybe this is why I am less pressed about it than other people.

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i am still pissed at the burrow burning but i grew to ignore it later on

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Right? After 8 HP movies I was unfazed by the changes. In fact I like most of the ones they made. They worked a lot better than some of the HP shit.

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IKR, and as a whole I felt like it was pretty loyal to the books. A lot more than you can say for any HP movie.

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Yeah. For me there wasn't anything as bad as the marginalizing of Dobby.

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seriously, at least with THG they know what happens in the end and can trim accordingly without causing too much story damage - not like the hot mess in HP where they were leaving shit out only to find that WHOOPS THAT'S PRETTY IMPORTANT YOU GUISE

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I swear when Cato was giving Katniss looks it looked more like he wanted to fuck her than kill her.

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they should have shown more of the avoxes and i think the mockingjay pin part didnt make much sense. and i definitely think people who havent read the books couldnt figure out that katniss was just pretending.. so that wasnt good



most of it was really accurate, but these minor changes are actually somewhat bad for the set up of the rest of the movies

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my bf didn't read the books and saw it with me and he was so lost. he was like "wait- so she was pretending the whole time?"



if you didn't read the book, it seems you missed a lot of the narrative.

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My husband was the same way. He had no idea the feelings weren't genuine.

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you couldn't even tell regular people from avoxes b/c they weren't explained in the movie. i only knew about them b/c of the books.

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I haven't read the books and figured she was pretending, because she didn't want him touching her, and she got mad after he announced his crush, and she said she was willing to play a part to survive, and then she got that, "You call that a kiss?" note. But mostly...lots of people were giggling during the romantic scenes, so I figured her feelings were bogus.

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I have a feeling that some of the things like Katniss doing it for show and the Avoxes might be explained more in the next film. The endings for films and books sometimes have to be different because of the feel of them. You can certainly introduce something out of order if that plays more into a later part of the story. That's what I think might happen.

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I went with my friend and her mom and she thought K/P were totally in love. We had to explain to her that it's one sided.

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Saw it yesterday and I liked it; def was'nt as amazing I was hoping it would be. I have high hopes (and expectations) for Catching Fire tho. J Law slayedt



Liam looked sfm like Darren Criss (to me) in the movie, dnw

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I wish they had left the entire meadow song in. It was so heartbreaking.

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i liked that part. i almost cried =(

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YES

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I think it's on the soundtrack

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That scene was incredible.

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what is this hate for showing the District 11 revolt? That was the best part imo I always felt the books really skimped out on showing us the uprising/revolution

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Yeah,that scene gave me chills.

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i really enjoyed that scene

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there was hate for that part?? it was definitely a great scene imo

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ia. That was one of my favorite parts of the movie.

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I let out this huge sob and had to cover my mouth. The grief and anger they displayed broke me.

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I liked it, but then I got sad they took out the whole district sending katniss the bread :(

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I was already a mess during Rue's death but showing the uprising DESTROYED me.

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That scene made me bawl

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i liked it. i also liked the scene when katniss' dad dies

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def. one of the best parts of the movie. and great foreshadowing, you could say

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I liked it as well. It was an addition, but I do think it added to the fact that what they do to those kids really is wrong and not everyone supports it.

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IA, I loved that scene. It was really powerful, imo.

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agreed! especially because they reason that the President Snow scenes were good...

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That one one of the best sequences in the whole film.

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I thought it was perfect. It didn't ruin anything, imo it was perfectly placed.

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Ia

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Wow, didn't even know there's was hate. That was excellent!

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i hated it but only because it reminded me of the civil rights riots (the water hoses!) and gave me chills

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I thought it was a great addition.

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I was glad they showed it. I like that Rue's dad started it.

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it was flawless

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I actually liked that scene. I think it leads nicely into the next film.



In the book, you have Katniss narrating how rebellious it was of her to dress up Rue in the flowers and stuff, but they aren't shooting the movie from her head so it is a great way to show the affect that Katniss's actions (not just the berries) had with the rebellion.

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i loved that scene. it was so intense and haunting

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that scene had me in tears. loved it

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I really loved all the scenes outside of the arena. I think the revolt was a lot better at putting across the emotions of the districts as opposed to Katniss just recieving bread.

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Yeah I loved that change. It worked really well.

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I liked the scene a lot and I feel like it sets up the idea that other districts will be revolting in Catching Fire.

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Yeah. I loved that scene. The juxtaposition of it with Katniss and Rue was chilling. I cried.

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That was amazing. I loved how raw it felt finally getting a glimpse of what the parents/families of these tributes finally fighting back and fighting for their children.

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At first I was mad that the didn't show D11 sending her the bread, but the revolt really drove the point home for me, so I was pleased with that.

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ia it was flawless

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i thought it was amazing. Favorite scene

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Yeah that was definitely one of the best parts of the movie. Honestly I stopped reading the article when they said that part was bad lol.

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I wanted the scene with Katniss screaming through the glass when she is separated from Peeta and he's about to lose his leg. Favorite scene.



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YES, me too! :)

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Right?



I was telling my husband this, because I'm not even going to pretend I wasn't a Peeta/Katniss shipper from the first book and this scene gave me life.



I was sad it wasn't in the movie.

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I missed this scene too.

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YES. I agree so much! She would have killed that scene too, tbh.

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same. that's the only exclusion i'm actually kinda pressed about (everything else is mostly nit picking on my part), his leg was fine. I mean even if they didn't want him to lose his leg they could have at least let him be maimed by the hounds and given us that scene.

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YES! That is the moment where the audience thinks she might be in love with Peeta but she doesnt know it yet

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Me too. It was underwhelming that it wasn't there.

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Ugh, that scene is so dramatically beautiful in my mind. It was the #1 scene I wanted to see, because it was SO movie-like in my mind! I'm bummed.

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I was really disappointed in the movie :/

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Also, I really have no interest in the book/movie but all the stuff on tumblr is amazing.

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aw i love liam

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hahahaha I reblogged this.

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omg dead

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This has been one of my favorites.

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OMG perfect

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omg i love this so much.

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LOL

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This is so funny!

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lollll wtf

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bless you. perfection.

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I like the gifs!

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lol josh and jen are so cute.

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BAHAHAHA. This cast is kind of fabulous.

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agreed. when i was reading the book, i imagined there to be a riot so i was glad it was actually in the movie.

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I did, too. It was so powerful.

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It was one of my favourite parts just cos it made me cry so, so much.

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same



I teared up a bit during the Rue bit but the uprising made me bawl

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me too



gave me chills

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Agreed

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Same. I thought that was such a good addition.

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I loved that addition, it makes the death scene all the more powerful. The person who wrote the article complains about taking away the mystery in the next film but it would just be confusing as hell to suddenly push the storyline of there being riots because of Katniss.

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i agree. visually it was more dramatic than the bread from district 11, but it conveyed the same thing

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same, its a great set up for the rebellion and that things were boiling over already.

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same, it's the one change that really struck me. i think if they hadn't added it, the audience may not have felt as strongly about rue's death. the addition really emphasizes how horrible and corrupt the capitol is.

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IA. At first I was a little irked that they didn't send her bread, but I thought the riots really drove home the point they were trying to make.

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