Hunger Games

mrswall84

I know this series was brought up in the past couple of weeks and I need to talk so someone about it because I finished the last book (Mockingjay) last night and it was SO GOOD! I highly recommend this series. It's a pretty fast read because once you start reading you can't put it down (at least I couldn't put it down!). I can't wait to see how it will translate into film. I think I will be Team Katniss lol.

vivemote

Loved them! Except the last one was SO dark, I can't imagine it as a movie!

Angiesmommy

LOVED this series. I think the entire series was dark and have a hard time with them making anything but a R-rated movie. It would take so much out of it if it was anything  less.   Totally Team Katniss. I have to say, by the end of the series I was not much of a fan of Gale.

mrswall84

I know. Gale kind of turned out to be a douche. It really is a darker series. I describe the series as 1984 meets Lord of the Flies. I read on wikipedia that the author is adapting the screen play and that it will probably be PG-13. It should be rated R because of the violence but it would alienate the target audience. Just like I thought the Twilight movies Eclipse and Breaking Dawn should be rated R but Eclipse wasn't and Breaking Dawn won't be. 

Passanie

Ha. I just now finished Mockingjay. I read the first few replies to this post when it was first posted. I picked up a definite anti-Gale sentiment, thought it was a spoiler and stopped reading. So of course I kept waiting for Gale to do something horrible in the book, but he didn't.

My goodness, the last book was violent! Surely, they'll tone that down for a movie. But how can you tone down the Hunger Games themselves? You can't. Sounds twisted, but I'm glad they gave the characters emotional repercussions of all that violence. Too often movies and books don't and it's just not real and desensitizes the audience. That has got to be one screwed up family.