Suzanne Collin’s, Hunger Games franchise carries on strong
Aaryn Kornbau Staff Writer
There’s a love/hate relationship with audience’s favorite trilogies being turned into a movie series.
Some of the more successful books turned into movies are the Harry Potter series, Twilight, The Hobbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
The newest book being turned into a trilogy is the Hunger Games series. The first Hunger Games book came out on Sept. 14, 2008, but grew in popularity last year. The movie later came out in theatres on Nov. 8, 2012.
The next two in the series are, “Catching Fire” and the final book, “Mockingjay”. “Catching Fire” came out in theatres Nov. 22 and made minor improvements from the first movie.
The First Hunger Games movie was much anticipated by fans and didn’t disappoint. The character development executed perfectly.
Some of the action shots were of low quality though, like when Katniss and Peeta, were stung by Tracker Jackers and started hallucinating.
The special effects did do a good job of putting together the arena and the costume design did an excellent job on creating the capitol’s wardrobe.
In Catching Fire the continual character development was not as strong as it was in the first movie. Jennifer Lawrence did a good job at playing the part of an emotionally detached person with post-traumatic stress though.
The Second book carried a more urgent and intense emotion to it. Especially, with all of the government propaganda, the movie portrayed that aspect well.
The only part that “Catching Fire” didn’t do as good of a job on was making the fears that Katniss faced in the second arena more gripping and reeling for the audience, like when Katniss was trapped in a force field with mockingjays that mimicked her sisters cries for help and panicked.
The final scene of the movie was a bit of a teaser for those who hadn’t read the series, but bled into the beginning of “MockingJay.”
While “Catching Fire” did follow the book’s time line exactly, it left little room for longer scenes with character’s complexes and emotions, which the second book did hold. Not every movie based off of a book can please everyone.
Changes have to be made to make it transition from book to movie more smoothly, which can sometimes take away from the story, but this series seems to be going strong.
