Reader's Ink discussion

I went to see the movie "Hunger Games" yesterday and really enjoyed it. Was wondering if any of you have, and how would you compare the book to the movie. I felt that they made pretty big changes between book to movie, but thought they did a good job and they worked. Your take???

I would have liked the movie to be more accurate to the book...and let it be rated R to do that. They cleaned up the violence too much and lost me because it wasn't true to the story. And they cut out major story lines. I was actually disapointed overall.

Meghan, which of the story lines bothered you. I agree completely that there were major changes, book to movie...what bugged you...

I actually haven't seen the movies for exactly that reason - way too many people (including Meghan) told me that same thing. Part of why I loved the book was how very disturbing it was, and I can't imagine the story being as powerful cleaned up.

Honestly the fact that they sanitized teh violence to hit that pg 13 rating. The book was overtly and graphically violent and disturbing...the movie it was implied but not overt....it should have been overt and gone for an R rating...but I get they needed the teenage demogrpahic...but I think they lost a lot of adult fans bc they dumbed it down.
They changed the Mockingjay pin story line completly which is important later...she didn't get it at a market, the majors daughter gave it to her.

They also cut out the fact that Peeta got his leg amputated on the train back...which is HUGE.

Sorry for the rant but I am a major proponent of don't mess with a good novel...the movie people messed with it and dumbed it down too much...