So I finished watching all 4 Hunger Game movies and my overall impressions of them are very negative. Like any typical teen oriented story it has an evil government, and pretty looking teenagers who are constantly victimized for cheap feels.
It gets worse by having a setting that makes no sense in the way it is run. Why do the rich need the poor when they have technology that can materialize anything they like? And don’t give me that crap about, it’s a plot device and you should accept it as it is. It’s a legit reason of why this whole thing shouldn’t exist.
Although they try to make it seem like the capital is keeping the districts under control through the hunger games, so its citizens can keep living in luxury, it ends up being more like they are torturing innocent people because they have all their needs covered and are bored out of their minds.
Why are they even randomly selecting the participants when someone can simply volunteer to take part in the damn tournament? He can be preparing all year for it, thus maximizing the chances of success while making the games more exiting, instead of being some worthless crybaby.
Most of the second movie was a complete waste of time. The next hunger games was a troll, since despite the buildup regarding previous winners facing each other, almost everybody died out of screen before the whole thing is interrupted and rebellion breaks out. They could have skipped it entirely and nothing would have changed.
The third movie tries to make things grey by presenting both sides equally devastated by the civil war. Using the main heroine for propaganda while making her doubt the sacrifices that need to be made for a future that might not be better without the capital was actually a good concept.
And a good concept is all it was since eventually the bad guys are still clearly bad. They bomb a hospital full of civilians, they mind control innocents to be their agents, and their leader is laughing satanically when everything is going according to his evil masterplan.
Also, the last specs of realism went to hell, when the heroine destroys two airplane bombers with a simple bow. Something hundreds of others couldn’t do with machineguns. And don’t give me crap that just because we see it happening means we should accept it as possible. There is no logical explanation behind all this besides a lazy attempt at making it cool.
Besides the last 15 minutes, the final movie was again a waste of time filled with magical booby traps and elementary politics. It left me bored and angry, it’s a pile of horseshit, and just like Harry Potter yet another example of why casuals have no critical thinking at all for loving such ridiculous books. But then again all it takes to call something mature and deep, is to have pretty children being tortured and killed by evil adults. Hooray for quality in writing.
