User blog:COKEMAN11/Cokeman Reviews a Piece of Media 2 - The Hunger Games (Movie)

I've seen it.

And it's funny, because all of these attention-hungry girls in my class haven't read the books at all, and now obsess over Peeta. The ones who have actually read the books went on their own accord. The Peeta/Katniss/etc. lovers went in hordes. If you couldn't tell already. I'm the former.

The Hunger Games, in short, is a punishment that the 12 districts of some post-apocalyptic North America are given by the Capitol. They send 24 teens, a boy and a girl from each district, to kill each other until there's one left. And Katniss is from District 12. She breaks the law. Gale's her friend. Peeta's this other dude who competes in the Games with her. Now read this.

Let's begin. By the way, this is more like a commentary. But it's still a review.

So we start off with some text about the history of The Hunger Games. You get this by reading the book, too, and it's not like Jennifer Lawrence is going to voice over the Katniss monologues. And then my heart stopped. Prim is having nightmares and screaming. Katniss sings a lullaby, blah blah blah, sleep. And in the morning, Katniss goes to the forest. Without the goat cheese from the book. Gale brings bread. They discuss running away, the usual stuff. Somewhere in there, Katniess goes to the Hob and gets her mockingjay pin. Yeah. She gives it to Prim. Reaping happens, and we get this overdramatic "I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE" moment that leaves you with this feeling of awkwardness. Peeta gets reaped subsequently, Prim re-gifts the pin, and we get roughly 5 minutes worth of the train ride. Oh well, 2 hour movie. Can't get all of the content.

Spoiler Alert: Level One
Then, we arrive in Lady Gaga feat. Nicki Minaj land, where everyone wears random wigs and funky outfits. Thanks to her kind stylist Cinna, Katniss becomes the girl on fire, and burns with Peeta while she enters some stadium where thousands of Nickis and Gagas are cheering. Somewhere in here, Katniss goes into her apartment... without the redhead Avox feature. That was like, a secondary plot element. Guess you have to keep strictly to the main plot when going from book to movie. Anyway, the President greets them. Later on, they go into training. Peeta throws a giant weight and paints himself like a tree while Katniss pretty much observes everything. Then, we see Katniss get angry at the Gamemaker people (featuring fire beard man Seneca Crane) and attack the apple in the pig's mouth. "Thank you for your consideration."

Spoiler Alert: Level Two
Well, the true Gaga/Minaj, Effie, who I'm just mentioning now out of laziness, is freaking out. This other dude, a previous victor of the Games, Haymitch (drunkenness toned down from the book), who I haven't mentioned yet, congratulates her. Katniss is rated 11/11 by Fire Beard Man and his associates. Peeta just looks on jealously. Then, we skip Effie's interview prep scene and Katniss burns again. Peeta, however, burns with passion. The "I wuv Katniss" is apparently real and is never mentioned as being fake throughout the entire film. Eventually, we get to the actual games. Peeta doesn't delay Katniss, but she still only gets a backpack. She falls down hills A LOT. Then, she goes to tree A. The next day, here's something we didn't see in the book. FBM and his associates plan the attacks in the Games. Like we're breaking the fourth wall here, or something. Either way, it's funny, because he's like, "Can we get a tree to fall here?" And we see the real reason behind the wall of fire. She was getting close to the edge of the arena. So, then the fire attacks her at Tree B. At Tree C, we have the tracker jacker scene! The bees swarm Glimmer, Marvel, Cato, Peeta, and these two other dudes. Katniss is repeatedly stung by these bees as Glimmer, and some other dude dies. She gets a bow.

Spoiler Alert: Level Three
FBM likes this. He gets it all on camera. Either wat, Katniss meets Rue, a little girl who saved her, and "changed her leaves". No comment. They plan to take out the alliance (that Katniss swarmed earlier)'s food supply. Katniss does this, and the other unnamed dude from before is killed because Cato thinks he's responsible. Rude. Continuing on, Rue gets stabbed by Marvel, who Katniss shoots in the chest. Apparently, this causes riots in Rue's district. Then, FBM announces how 2 tributes from the same district can co-win. Katniss flares with passion and finds Peeta on a near-deathbed. They have some love, and Haymitch criticizes their kissing skills. Highlight of the movie. Either way, Katniss gets medicine for Peeta's bleeding legs (did I mention that?) from a re-installment of the Cornucopia bloodbath (did I mention that?). Whoop-de-doo.

Spoiler Alert: Level Four
I'm just going to skip to the end.


 * Thresh kills Clove. (Didn't mention her.)
 * Peeta kills Foxface. (Didn't mention her.)
 * Cato kills Thresh. (Didn't mention Thresh until two bullet points ago.)
 * FBM and his associates summon mutts that kill Cato.
 * FBM goes back on his word. Only one can win.
 * Unlike the book, Peeta does not try and kill Katniss.
 * Katniss and Peeta attempt suicide.
 * FBM realizes the severity of his job status ratings situation here and goes back on the going back of his word (denial-ception?).  They won.
 * The prez kills FBM.

Review Time!
It was good. Good visuals. Bit gory. Eliminated interchangeable plot elements (but this will make the next two movies suffer because most of those become crucial later). Added some behind the scenes. Pretty cool.

Now go see it.

CK out. -- It's CK11  Setting Fire to the Rain   Riding in his Starships 23:31, March 25, 2012 (UTC)