Some people really need to read the books before commenting. It's like the movie and the book people are seeing completely different stories.
That is an interesting take, they really played up the capital and the President in the movie and he was barely in the book. DD
This is what I dislike about these movie series' based on books. It should be a movie for people that haven't read the books too. Why should some people have to read the book before going to see a movie about the book to fill in the blanks the movie left out? Lord of the Rings did a very good job making the movies accessible to the people that had no idea the books existed. Harry potter, although a great set of movies, was a franchise for people that read the books. Twilight is nonsensical garbage so it didn't matter.
The thing is that any series in which there is a new world with new countries, politics, maps, places, etc. is extremely difficult to condense into a few movies. HP was set in England and really at most, only 1 new location was truly essential to the plot in most of the movies, so it was easy to explains. Most of my friends who had/have not read LOTR really had no idea what is going except that Frodo needs to destroy the ring, Smeagol is trying to stop him, Orcs are bad, and white humans/elves are good. Everything else was just cool graphics that made up for what they didn't understand. Even most of my friends who read the books despise the theatrical versions for the extended editions. Things like Hunger Games, Eragon, Game of Thrones, etc. essentially have such a huge backstory and history that "have to be learned" along with all the main action and movement of the main character that it is virtually impossible. They need a miniseries format to truly grapple with the content and expand on the story appropriately. Even HP does in reality, but so far the money was never in it. Game of Thrones may finally change that thinking but as it is aimed at a more adult audience than Hunger Games/HP/Eragon/etc., it was able to take the risk.
Yeah I'm not really buying that Hunger Games would be better as a miniseries. By that logic, HP, LotR and pretty much any franchise should be one. Movies are never gonna fully flesh out all the details that you find in a book. But they don't need to and shouldn't. The film should stand on it's own merit and Hunger Games most certainly does.
I agree. I think a GOOD MOVIE can be made without getting caught up in the details of the book. If I have to read 3 books to understand a movie . . .well it is not that good a movie. In fact, If I read the books. . .why would I watch the inferior movie? Rocket River
