Hunger Games Review

I think I mentioned that I watched The Hunger Games (THG) a while ago, but that night I was too pissed about something else and could only think about wanting to violently murder someone. So anyway, let's talk about THG, and I'll see if I can catch up to the "one post a day" average this month.

I've tried reading THG before, but the book bored me to no end. I don't know why, but it just wasn't very exciting. The struggles, the poverty, the oppression- none of it seemed real, and didn't feel very real. I liked the whole design concept of a survival game, but I didn't really understand why teenagers were the focus. Like- I guess it's a teenage novel- actually, I've got it figured. Remember how I said John Green's books were overrated and it wasn't that great? This is pretty much the same thing. I think I just have a thing against books which are meant for "young adults", but try to stuff in as many deep themes as possible. See in my mind a good book should either be like The Three Doors  and stay on the kiddy themes like overthrowing evil, friendship and trust, OR it should be like The Night Angel Trilogy and be as grim, dark and horrifying as possible. That's what makes it real, despite being set in a different world. Books like The Fault in Our Stars and THG feel like they're targeted towards a young audience, but it just gets intertwined with themes which are too deep for the story itself to encompass. Like, what kind of oppressive government would want to sacrifice children in a reality TV show. You'd think it'd have better things to do, better things to spend money on. And even if it was to quell all rebellion through fear- that is such a dumb way to do it. It's like a half-assed attempt at terror. If anything, you'd think that targeting the weak (children, in this case) would only cause disturbance and uprising.

The movie itself was actually okay- like the acting was good and the special effects were good--- except I just thought the plot itself was an absolute disaster. I guess the characters were real enough- I just hated the concept that the focus was on teenagers in a reality TV show. I think I only feel this way because I played Devil Survivor way too many times, and that game was kinda brutal, so when I compare it to THG I'm all "this isn't even real survival". I guess my thoughts were just that "if the world had an oppressive government, things would never play out this way". I'm a little stubborn in that way.

Okay so my review of THG isn't even much of a review, I'm just blatantly telling you that the story is terrible. Except I don't even understand why people over the age of 12 like it. Maybe I'm just...really, really bitter.