Hunger Games

The first two books were brilliant, they even made me cry in places...third one was kind of 'meh'.

It also broke my golden rule of literature.

Never. EVER. Write a prologue where some of your characters get married. If it wasn't important enough for the actual story, leave it the hell out! Really, REALLY bugs me!

 

I really like the books too!

I also think that the way the films have been made from the books, whilst making it understandable for people who haven't watched the books was very clever and worked well

 

Agreed, loved the first 2, 3rd was eh. I thought it was kinda all over the place compared with the first two. Catching Fire especially which had such a perfect structure and buildup. I'm interested to see what mockingjay as movies will be like even so. Since they've been solid book > movie adaptations with everyone in them giving excellent performances so far I could see myself enjoying it more in movie form on that level.

 

I think the movies are great. I haven't read the books though. Most people tend to think the movies are 'better' though, for those that have read them, do you agree?

 

nope...couldn't stand it...


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They are both better in their own ways, i thought the first one the book was better but that was because the movie wassnt as good as it could have been but cathcing fire is a really tough choice and i personally would say movie as i have little attention span so if i read for long i can forget what happens >_<

Its a matter of what you prefer, i would read the books anyway though as they are amazing ^^

 

I've not seen the films yet, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get through them. None of the characters appear remotely like how I imagined them from the books and it would just be weird...

 

Oh and also one reason for watching the movies, Peeta and Finnick are HOT :3

 

seriously though...yeah I adore Foxface

the movies were good...but of course they lack details. I had a weird setup with this series

I saw the first movie, then read first book, then read the other two books THEN saw Catching Fire...so I was going into this in an awkward fashion

one of my favorite books ever is Catching Fire...even though my beloved Foxface is only in Hunger Games

 

I think the movies are decent, but I LOVE the books. I actually just finished reading "The Hunger Games" for the millionth time the other day, and am about to start re-reading "Catching Fire".

 

Loved the series. Although it felt there wasn't a perfectly good character besides Katniss, Rue, and Prim. The love story was very interesting though. Favorite characters are Johanna Mason and Beetee and Foxface maybe third? I tend to love the smart ones.

 

I fixed that for you lol

 

Lol I will admit she was my favorite in the first book :icon_wink

 

I was actually introduced to the universe through the movies so I'm probably more fair to the movies than the average fan.

I love the books, especially Catching Fire. But I personally don't see anything exceptional with the actual style of the writing. It's certainly not bad, and the plot and characters are fantastic. But there really isn't anything that stylistically sets it apart. That doesn't make it bad by any means and I still overall enjoy the books over the movies. But the movies do have a certain creative charm to them.

 

Love it (Well, the first book anyway, the rest are awful). I like the Satire on Reality TV, and the fact Katniss and Rue are awesome.

 

I loved the books, then I loved the movies. The first book is the best one. My favourite character would be Haymitch who was the best portrayed in the movies. Finnick and Annie come a close second.

 

Loved all three books and so far the movies have been really good adaptions. Jennifer Lawrence is the perfect Katniss. In fact, all the casting is pretty much perfect in my books. Though I did feel the first book was the best, and Mockingjay was the weakest, I still loved all three and I did cry during the last one :lol: It takes a lot to make me cry and I very very rarely cry at books so that was quite an accomplishment.

 

Just.....nah man. Bogus . And the third comes out next week i think .