Hunger Games: Catching Fire

[Aliantha]

Have you read the books adak?

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Have you read the books adak?

I have not, but I realize the difficulty of taking a successful book series like "Hunger Games", into a set of movies.

My review above is really generous. They paid Jennifer something like 1,000 times as much to replay her role - fine, but they must have gotten the director out of a dime store special.

No, I did not like this movie. Doesn't hold a candle with the first Hunger Games, movie. I understand that you need to "move the story forward", in some movies, and they won't be great, on their own, because of it. Deathly Hallows Part I was like that, as was the next to last movie in the Twilight series.

But THIS, is much worse than that. It does move the story line ahead, but it's much worse than it needed to be.

Go see it, and tell me what you think. I nearly laughed aloud when "Tick Tock" was explained!

Just as a counter example, I will hold up the Bourne Trilogy. I read each of the Bourne books, and really, the books were mostly junk from Robert Ludlum, but there was a core story was that great.

So the director had the entire book story re-written for the first Bourne movie, and it was a GEM - magnificent!! Subsequent movies continued that great theme from The Bourne Identity, and every single movie was SENSATIONAL!

If you want to see how a great book series can be turned into a great movie series, watch the Bourne, Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum, and you will be in SHOCK at how well it can be done.

And left to groan at this Hunger Games: Catching Fire.