May the odds be EVER in your favor…
hey, hey sweet shoppers! laura here today, i know that i’m a little later than usual in posting but, i had to do research for my post today 🙂
if you know me, you know i’ve been SUPER excited for the release of the Hunger Games this weekend. i’ve been listening to the soundtrack since it came out on tuesday and well, i’ve been following the making of it, watched the red carpet hobknobings for the premiere and just basically acting like a teenage girl about it. today, you get to listen to me gush over what i thought was a BRILLIANT book to movie adaptation. the hubster and i went to see it this morning and well, i can’t wait to go and see it again!
when the casting first came out, i was SO excited…minus the dude playing peeta. i didn’t know him and well, he didn’t fit *my* version of peeta. i will admit that i think everyone was cast perfectly. lenny kravits was brilliant as cinna. i mean, he was cinna. no doubt about it. i thought woody harrelson was haymitch…through and through. he was the loving, caring, albeit a jerky drunk and he even looked the part with his longer, stringy hair. wes bentley as seneca crane was another spot on casting call. i thought he was just the right amount of devious, but you could see that he was well, rooting for the underdog. (har har) president snow. oh, president snow. donald sutherland creeps me out anyway, and i thought he was again, perfect.
i obviously have a deep love of these books, i’ve read them 4 times so far…and plan on picking up mockingjay again when i’m done posting this! that being said, my husband had never read them and really didn’t have ANY idea what the movie was about, other than 24 people getting together to fight to the death. he was absolutely appalled with how it ended (LOL) but, he also didn’t realize there were 2 more books in the series. he did however, love the movie nearly as much as i did. there were parts that he was confused about but for the most part, he never felt lost and enjoyed it immensely.
i really enjoyed the ‘behind the scenes’ scenes. there was so much done with the gamemakers and seneca crane and i just really enjoyed seeing that aspect of it as well.
so, tell me, did you love it? did you hate it? could you care less??
i can’t wait to hear!!
Alisa said...
on March 25th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
I haven’t seen the movie yet but I absolutely LOVED the first two books of the series. I couldn’t really get into the last one.
But, I never really pictured Haymitch as Woody and definitely didn’t picture Cinna as Lenny Kravitz. But Donald Sutherland seems spot on for Snow.
I’m hoping to see the movie next week!
MonicaB said...
on March 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
I loved, loved the books! Read them several times. I went on Saturday to see the movie with my DH. I loved the casting and thought they did a good job adapting the movie (but the book is so much better). The thing I didn’t like, which I see in so many movies now, is the jerky camera. I know they do it to add excitement, but to me it takes away because I can not see what is happening and sometimes I start to feel almost sick from the movement. My DH never read the books but he thought the movie was worth seeing. I’m going to see it again in a week with some girlfriends.