Hunger games overrated

I also think that the fans are going too overboard. I enjoyed it but it had the potential to be better. Mar 02, PM. Neither: it's a good book that deserves success, but not the best ever, c'mon! May 28, PM. This is the most unnecessary question ever. How can any bestseller be over rated? People like to trash anything that is popular, even if it's well done. Tiny people who have small senses of self like to bring things down to their level. As Taylor Swift says in a current hit, people like to throw stones at things that shine.

May 29, AM. Jul 03, PM. It was a clever but gory idea. And I liked it. But it wasn't very well written. Jan 06, PM. I think it's overhyped, at the very least. It's blandly written, and feels very dumbed down, in my opininon.

The concept isn't very original, and for a book where so many people die, it's extremely underwhelming. The only aspect that interested me was the Capitol, really.

Mar 16, AM. It has a very hackneyed premise. I'm pretty sure Orwell beat this one to death decades ago. Present tense writing tends to give the impression of being simplistic and indicative of lower writing abilities- even if it was intended to make a point. I'm also not a fan of this extreme violence writing disease that's been going around recently.

It's really nothing more than fulfillments of a mysterious mass boredom with first-world life that's cropped up in the last decade or so. In short, it's simply violence porn. Simplistic writing and storytelling skills that appeal to wider audiences combined with this kind of violence leaves a bad taste in my mouth- especially when I begin to consider there are plenty of children and young adults in hundreds of war-torn corners of the world who know that violence and murder is nothing to idealize- let alone make enjoyable.

I understand that the book tried to satirize and warn of the dangers of the modern obsession with violence, but the purpose is completely defeated when the book itself falls into the same trap. Of course there's no denying that it obviously has some redeeming quality with its target audience I am truly, non-facetiously baffled as to what it could be , but comparing it to books like Harry Potter is surely just a joke.

The Careers are notorious for being bloodthirsty and vicious opponents in the Hunger Games, and the first two films drive that point home with characters like Cato and Enobaria. However, one Reddit user makes the point that the Careers don't deserve the level of disgust they get. After all, they're just kids who have been brainwashed and desensitized by the society they live in -- and their sacrifice certainly saves their younger peers a lot of trauma.

This argument may not be enough for fans to root for the Careers, but perhaps they can at least empathize with them a little more. The only reason Katniss and Peeta survive the 74th Hunger Games is because they threaten to eat poisonous berries, leaving the Capitol with no real victor.

Instead, both are allowed to live, something President Snow spends multiple films attempting to rectify -- but one Reddit user doesn't understand why the Gamemakers didn't simply kill them both on the spot. Such an act would be in line with the Capitol's brutal nature, and the Gamemakers definitely do have the technology to determine who died last and then declare them the winner posthumously. One of the biggest twists of Mockingjay - Part 2 is when Katniss assassinates President Coin rather than delivering justice to President Snow.

It's meant to make a statement about power and tyranny, but it's a development that some fans could have done without.

One Reddit user believes Suzanne Collins ruined the ending of her trilogy by having both sides be equally cruel. Another user agreed with that sentiment , calling Coin's "child-killing plot" out of left field and "sloppy. The Hunger Games debate surrounding whether Katniss should have ended up with Gale or Peeta has gone on for years, but one Reddit user posits that the series' main character shouldn't have wound up with either of them in the end.

They argue that she's not the type of person who'd want to be in a relationship, and the fact that she has children after explicitly stating she doesn't want to makes it even more cringe-worthy.

To be fair, it's possible Katniss changed her mind about kids and relationships after the Capitol -- and the Hunger Games -- was removed from the picture. Still, the point that Katniss could easily have ended the series independently stands.

It would certainly make for fewer arguments about which fans are on which team. The Hunger Games has a lot going on politically, so the books and films don't always have time to focus on specific Districts or to delve too deeply into the world-building. That's something one Reddit user would have liked to see, however.

And with the circumstances of Panem being so relevant to the revolution, it would have made sense to give some more insight into the other Districts, as well as lives outside of the main characters'. It does not make dramatic sense to take what should be the first 30 to 60 minutes of a three hour film and stretch it into one, big, two hour film of its own. While all the positive aspects are true, the movies, taken on their own, have all come off as half measures. The first film, The Hunger Games, was marred by looking shockingly cheap.

Whatever potentially interesting setups it had were ruined by sparse ugly sets, overly familiar production design, generic outdoor locations, obnoxious cinematography, god-awful action scenes, head scathingly low-quality special effects especially on a budget of upwards to million dollars and an ongoing poor choice of robbing Katniss of her vital interior monologues from the books. The sequel, Catching Fire, was better, but squanders a fresh take on the premise in favor of sitting around re-establishing character business we already knew.

It starts off with all the pieces that, if they added them up correctly, would have been an effective checklist to fix what was wrong with the first movie. Unlike the first film, directed by Gary Ross, the following films had a new director Francis Lawrence who could direct action well and use a tripod.

They pretty much did the first movie again right down to the magic dresses, the chariots, the pageants, the training and just opted out of the North American forest for a South American tropical island for the game environment. The biggest problem overall with these movies is that they all seem like buildup for the next one until the final one where everything wraps up most likely in an anti-climax manner just like the last three.