I've seen too much!

[hermione_vader]

I spent Saturday mostly just watching stuff.  It was 100% intentional, but it yielded interesting results.

First, I took my brother to see The Hunger Games.  BEWARE!  HERE THAR BE SPOILERS!!!

I read the first book last month, and I generally liked the world that it created, but Suzanne Collins' actual prose was pretty weak.  I liked Katniss as a

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[hermione_vader]

Yes, she absolutely was! I think you really hit on the main point---you could tell exactly what she was feeling and when she suppressed her emotions and all that, and it wasn't over the top at all. She felt pretty real, as far as protagonists go. And I completely agree with you about forgoing narration---it would have been really superfluous and annoying onscreen.

Yes, they definitely could have had one or two more scenes.

Oh, yeah, Foxface! She's hard to portray because she never speaks, but I thought that actress really looked the part (though I imagined her hair streaming behind her, not up in Princess Leia-style buns).

I thought the shaky-cam was effective during the Reaping and the train ride after since it's very disorienting for Katniss, but I definitely thought the overuse of it during the initial bloodbath and the Feast was cheating. The Dark Knight showed violence without blood spurting everywhere and got a PG-13 rating, so HG could have done that, too. Oh, well. I thought Katniss's burn looked pretty bad, but I agree about Peeta's wound (though it didn't look like much fun).