Virag's Movie Reviews: The Hunger Games (2012)

Did I read the book?  Of course not.  Still, I can't help but be underwhelmed by the entire production of The Hunger Games.  It didn't look much like a huge, Hollywood movie; much of the content and presentation was cable TV at best.  Jennifer Lawrence seems to be another one of the endless parade of unremarkable young actresses who are chosen for stardom for no apparent reason.  She was certainly not up to transcending this material and making it something memorable.  She also didn't look too too hungry in the movie.  Nobody did really.  And some of the technology was oddly, inappropriately advanced.  Were those demon dog things supposed to be real?  Did they create them right there?  Unfreeze them?  Were they not real, just a hologram or some shit?  Did I miss something?  I mean, if they could do that kinda shit then they certainly could have been way more advanced in other ways.  Who cares?  It was just a not-great TV movie, hamstrung by its source material.  A novel for teenagers would have to be completely unbelievable and unrealistic given the subject matter.  Teenagers caught in the predicament of Katniss and the others would certainly not behave like children.  They would be acting to the best of their abilities as the greatest hedonists they could possibly imagine, and any realistic or believable movie would probably look more like an especially graphic Jess Franco film and nothing at all like The Hunger Games.