This feels like it's 10 years too late. I predict a flop.
sharesorta. i only ever liked the first movie though.
The thing about Hunger Games is it's the GAMES and the dystopian setting that I like, not the characters or the revolution that the story becomes. So getting more content in the prior era appeals to me a great deal. I could watch a dozen movies about kids just suffering through the world the way it was.
It's decently popular right now. Today's high school students were too young to watch these movies when they came out, and many of them are watching it now.
It's on tv most weekends.
given the timeline of the releases of the books and movies, its pretty clear the author had no intention of writing this, and just did it for more money cause the studios wanted to make a movie.
shareProbably only the hardcore fans, and even then, they never had very big numbers to begin with.
I read some of the reviews of those fans when they read the book version of this story. They disliked the fact that it was told from Coriolanus Snow's perspective (I mean, who wants to read anything from the bad guy's perspective, even when he's a teenager and not the big baddie yet?) I think they would have preferred the story from Lucy Gray's perspective, so it would be more in tune with the original books, and told from a District 12 girl's perspective, even if the times were different from Katniss's day.
However, one advantage of reading it from Coriolanus's perspective is, you find out that he was power-hungry and possessive from the beginning, and it was he who made the games as elaborate as they were 60-some years later. In fact, even back then, you found out he would do anything he could to make sure his prized student from District 12 won the games, just to make him look good, beat out his competition, and possibly win her favor. Lucy probably wouldn't have known about the tricks he pulled to keep the animals unleashed into the arena from eating her immediately.
It also appears that he was never the type who could love others. While he developed some feelings for Lucy Gray, they weren't feelings of love, but simply wanting to possess her and own her, like a trophy or a pet. He thought it was love at the start, because he was a teenager, but later on realized they were nothing of the sort, particularly after he broke off things with her. Small wonder he turned into the monster he did over the next six decades. He was bad from the start.
I only know the movies.
The first movie is good. The second movie is actually pretty good and clearly the best of the series.
But then after that from the third movie and further everthing went downhill and the series stopped being really entertaining and it got rather boring and uninteresting.
You really should read the books. It gives you a perspective from inside Katniss's head, and includes details about stuff that wasn't shown in the movies.
shareAre the books very different than the movies?
shareThe books are more detailed, and a few things are different. For one thing, you learn more about why Katniss is protective of her sister, what lengths she goes through on a regular basis to keep her family fed and safe, how people fare in District 12 compared to the other Districts, and stories about past hunger games people had to watch. Some of the stuff that happened in the books was harsher than the films, such as Peeta losing half of his left leg instead of healing it with that balm Katniss had with her in the film. Or the kind of impact losing her sister had on her psychologically in the last book. The books were also more sci-fi than in the films in some ways. There were also characters in the books that were not included in the films.
One of the most interesting stories they didn't include in the films was the one about Haymitch, and what made him the man Katniss knew in her time. In the book "Catching Fire," when she and Peeta were traveling back to the Capital to compete in the Quarter Quell, they watched videos of the games the other champions took part in, and she found the one about Haymitch and watched it. It reveals that he too made the Capital look like fools during his game (he too was part of a quarter quell, oddly enough), and paid for it with the lives of his family after he won that particular game. You'd have to read the book to learn the entire tale.
That sounds pretty good.
However, I hate when they decide to mutilate main members from the main characters..