How Do you feel about the Hunger Games series and the books?

[MsLisa]

I've read all the books and watched all the movies and my opinion of the series and the books are the same. I really liked the first book and movie, the second book and movie were good but the third book and movie were boring and uninteresting. I will say though that the third movie fared better with me than the book but only by a small margin.

How do you feel about the book and film series?

[lindsaysherlock]

I love all the books and the movies. My favorite one is Catching Fire, both the book and the movie. The Mockingjay Part 1 movie was really boring to me, but I absolutely loved Part 2. I really love Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, he's one of the main reasons I love the movies.

[Artistkent]

Suffice to say I loved the books but disliked the movies. A major reason was no Katniss internal dialog, so that threw away a huge part of the story and reasoning behind some of the actions for me. I couldn't even finish the first movie though, so I have no idea if it got better

[ahmaria]

I feel like, overall, the movie series stripped away a lot of elements that made the book series so profound. The social commentary on poverty, excess, TV culture, government, etc was too often a backdrop in the movie series for me to enjoy it fully the way I did with the books. Way too much screen-time was given to the romance/love triangle. Also, I feel like Katniss, Peeta, and Effie's characters were not translated onto the big screen well. I did still somewhat like the first, second and fourth movies though. The movies did a great job of bringing to life the Capitol, its inhabitants, and the third Quarter Quell in particular.

[bclayton13]

I really liked the movies, but the horrifying aspect of the hunger games is that they're all children. That's what stuck out in the books and when they cast teens, that got lost in translation. Don't get me wrong, the people they chose were great. I just dislike how they missed out on that. Rue was still close to the right age, and absolutely gut wrenching. That still tears me up, book or movie.

[MsLisa]

I really liked the movies, but the horrifying aspect of the hunger games is that they're all children. That's what stuck out in the books and when they cast teens, that got lost in translation. Don't get me wrong, the people they chose were great. I just dislike how they missed out on that. Rue was still close to the right age, and absolutely gut wrenching. That still tears me up, book or movie.

I agree where it comes to the books but personally, my reaction didn't change much when it was teenagers in the movie. The first time I was introduced to the Hunger Games it was the first movie (then I went on to read all the books before the other movies came out) and I had no idea what the movie was about except that it was based on a book and to say that I was shocked when teenagers started killing teenagers and children when I was sitting in the movie theater is an understatement.

[bclayton13]

I really liked the movies, but the horrifying aspect of the hunger games is that they're all children. That's what stuck out in the books and when they cast teens, that got lost in translation. Don't get me wrong, the people they chose were great. I just dislike how they missed out on that. Rue was still close to the right age, and absolutely gut wrenching. That still tears me up, book or movie.

I agree where it comes to the books but personally, my reaction didn't change much when it was teenagers in the movie. The first time I was introduced to the Hunger Games it was the first movie (then I went on to read all the books before the other movies came out) and I had no idea what the movie was about except that it was based on a book and to say that I was shocked when teenagers started killing teenagers and children when I was sitting in the movie theater is an understatement.

That's true, especially if you didn't know what to expect. The idea of anyone having to kill anyone else for someone's entertainment is shocking.

[kramerj19]

The Hunger Games was one of m favorite series when I was in middle school, but the movies came out years later so it was hard for me to judge the accuracy of the movies when compared to the books. For this reason, I do not have any issues with the movies, in fact, I really like them. Because it had been so long since I read the books, I was not judging the movie against them, I was simply enjoying the beautiful story.

[TaaraLynn]

I have read and loved the books, in a moment in time. However, I have only seen the first movie,which was fine. I don't think about the series much anymore, books or movies.

[Mallory Porshnev]

I really liked the first movie. The second was okay, and then it went downhill. I imagine the books would be similar in feeling to me. I haven't read them yet though.

[Riszell]

I really liked the first movie. The second was okay, and then it went downhill. I imagine the books would be similar in feeling to me. I haven't read them yet though.

I'm sharing the same thoughts about the movie and I also haven't read any of the books. Though I have to say I was enjoyably distracted in the Mockingjay Part 1 because I was able to watch it in 4D Cinema, so yeah, that was a fun experience but I was not totally focused on the scenes.

[KatSims92]

Of course, I loved the books more. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were definitely the better films, and in my opinion the Mockingjay films were so disappointing and boring because they stretched it out too much. Books are far better, for sure!

[Jacki Mac Iver Hill]

I feel like, overall, the movie series stripped away a lot of elements that made the book series so profound. The social commentary on poverty, excess, TV culture, government, etc was too often a backdrop in the movie series for me to enjoy it fully the way I did with the books. Way too much screen-time was given to the romance/love triangle. Also, I feel like Katniss, Peeta, and Effie's characters were not translated onto the big screen well. I did still somewhat like the first, second and fourth movies though. The movies did a great job of bringing to life the Capitol, its inhabitants, and the third Quarter Quell in particular.

I totally agree with your perspective on the social commentary lacking in the movie. That and Katnis' thoughts, which were such an integral part of the book, were missing.

I was lucky, I saw the first movie before I read the books and partly because the movie had such a unique storyline I absolutely loved it. I never made it all the way through the other movies though. But I absolutely loved all three books.

[Sparks90]

I found I liked the first book more than the movie, the second book and movie equally and the last movie more than the book. I felt that the first movie didnt give the same depth that the books did. As others have stated, the poverty, Katniss's internal thoughts that showed her characterisation. It was still a brilliant movie, I loved the settings and the future technology was well done. What I love most about movie adaptations is when they show another character and that is why I loved the Mockingjay movies better than the books. That being said, they are not my favourite of the Hunger Games books and movies.

[Ksharmilla]

I was depressed after I read those books and u to now I have not seen the final movie.