May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

"May the odds be ever in your favor,"

-The Hunger Games: Effie Trinket

I went to the midnight premiere of The Hunger Games last night and it did not disappoint! *There will be spoilers coming* Some of my friends did not like what the movie adaption decided to cut, but I found it understandable for some scenes. You need to keep the basic plot line and the director has to make some choices of what to not include. It was already a 2 hr 22min long movie, so any more scenes would have brought it up to 3hours or more. A critic also has to realize that the movie has to be converted from first to third person. I think it was a fine production and I understand the choices that the director had to scrap.

I loved the camera angles, though at times it was a bit confusing and dizzying. They shot it documentary style with a shaking camera and smaller view of the entire scene. I was fine with it since that it made me feel that I was in District 12 or in the Arena and it stayed true to the tone of the books.

The acting was amazing, no actor or actress disappointed me at the slightest. The cast is relatively young and most do not have a lot of experience, yet every emotion was convincing and the lines were well said.

The sound track to the movie is also wonderful -it has a few mainstream artists, but the majority of it is nonmainstream. A huge plus is that The Decemberists are on it, one of my favorite bands. The lyrics all go wonderfully with the movie, though they were not used. I'm glad that they were not though, because I like listening to the score as well.

All in all, I was happy with how it turned out. I wished a few scenes were in it, but I can understand why they were not included. The added scenes with Seneca Crane and President Snow, however, were phenomenal and set up Catching Fire extremely well, along with the scene of District 11.

Only 608 more days until the next movie.