It’s been fairly quiet on the front of the Hunger Games over the past couple of weeks. That all ends now. For those of you still chomping at the bit to get a first look at this movie in motion, allow me to give you an opportunity to indulge as the movie premiered its first trailer over the weekend.
I can’t get off the fence with this movie. My problem with the movie is that they’re not marketing or promoting it in a way to excite or capture the attention of anyone but fans of the novels. I want to be excited due to friends who are fans of the novels and highly recommend that I give the franchise a shot, but I just haven’t seen anthing “exceptional” about this movie yet. The premise is intriguing because of the idea of youngsters being lottery selected to participate in an olympic-like event for survival. I get that and that does truly does seem a unique film for today but I have yet to see something from this movie that seems “exceptional”. I’ll admit that I may have set expectations high due to the hype, but that’s hasn’t been easy for me to avoid with this movie.
I like movies based on books but I hate movies based on books that make me feel “left out” for not reading the book. I dont think I should have to read a book to understand a movie and a movie should have strong enough legs to stand on its own. I’m hoping that I finally get what it is I need from the marketing of this movie in order to hold this movie higher on my ‘radar’ but that has not yet happened.
