Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) has changed all of that. ![]() It wasn’t so long ago that the world that Katniss lives in would have been nearly impossible to create without relying heavily on artistic license, meaning that what we see on the screen only vaguely resembles what was on the page. I intend to see it Sunday with many of my friends who have read the books. While purists will quibble over the smallest deviation from the books, these movies prove that not only can the story survive, but what’s on the screen can be every bit as captivating as the tomes from which they’ve originated.Īs I said, I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the reviews have been largely positive. The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the still evolving Game of Thrones has shown us what movies based on books can be like. I say, “may,” because I haven’t seen it yet. The thing is that Hunger Games: The Movie may not be that bad. I suppose, like wooded vistas razed to make strip malls, that had to happen eventually. The Hunger Games, like the Harry Potter series before it, offers something that folks from most age groups can understand, relate to, and feel for.Īnd now they’ve gone and made a movie of it. All of us are adults and read a wide variety of books usually aimed at the post college crowd. ![]() Not long afterwards several of us were rooting for Katniss Everdeen and District 12. His daughter was reading them and he picked one up to see if it was appropriate, then got hooked. A friend of mine, Brian, introduced me to The Hunger Games Trilogy a few years ago.
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