The Hunger Games was a damn good movie, and what's more it didn't deviate from the book unnecessarily and added characterization where it was needed. I can't wait for the sequels. Now there are movies to look forward to!
Here I admit to being a hypocrite of sorts, because I frequently mock the Twilight Moms who drag their teen and preteen daughters to the movies to gush. On the day THG opened, there I was with my 14 year-old. I looked around and saw nothing but older women with their daughters and thought, “Oh, crap, I'm one of them now.”
But the Hunger Games Trilogy is not a love story, although romance is part of it. It's so much more than that, and I'm glad guys realize it's not just a chick-flick.
Gotta walk the dog, now; she's looking angsty. :)
That’s where tastes vary. Being a long time comic book fan I love the current wave of comic book movies, and not just for existing but for finally moving away from the camp that had dominated earlier attempts. They’re actually just putting it out there and doing it well, really hitting the parts of the stories that are why I’m a fan of comics.
The difference between THG moms and Twilight moms is THG moms are bringing their daughters to really good movies with a really good story and a lot of strong positive roll models for boys and girls (cross gender too, Catniss is a good roll model for any kid); and Twilight moms are bringing their kids to terrible movies with a terrible story filled with lame characters that are mostly crash test dummy victims of life. And WTH is up with a 120 year old vampire hitting on high school chicks, that’s just wrong.