Yeah I did

goo boy, did you finish your vegetables too?

Personally, I think they didn't butcher it as much as the Harry Potterr movies where a LOT was left out but Cato's speech was different and they didn't give a lot of emphasis on Peeta. Also, both district 11's tributes were black but in the riot scene, most of the district was white . Otherwise it was okay.

on a scale of 1-10 how butchered was it?

2 for butcheredness

It depends, the first half of the movie was amazing, it was perfect.

The second half was butchered, on a scale of 1-10, probably butchered to around 4-7 for me. Leaning more on a 7, 10 being more butchered.

im going to go watch it at the drive In

Time for my 2 cents
Unlike how numair put it, I felt the 2nd half did better justice than the 1st half did...

The thing that makes these movies so hard to depict is mostly because it's written from the protagonists view and maybe 30% of the words is her talking to herself/giving description... That kind of thing is hard to reflect without making numerous numerous silent moments, which even though it's more descriptive, it's quite boring on screen. What I wanna figure out is how they're gonna give the mockingjay more meaning in the 2nd movie since they pretty much reduced it to smolders in this one.

When the games actually started going to a 3rd person take on the games rather than 1st person make the movie feel more alive an quick than how it could have been done. I don't promote the choice but for what it's worth it was adequate. The thing I'm critical of there is the cornucopia... That thing looked like total fail... It wasn't done justice.

Overall, I wud give it a 7/10 for deviating a lil too hard on some points but still making it understandable to the people who don't read to a good extent.

HAI SOI! Long time no speak.

Fair post, I think I preferred the first half to the second due to the fact that I LIKE SPECIFICS. The first half was perfect, it had the right feel, the right lines, the characters were playing their parts. Everything happened the way it did in the book.

Its just that when the actual Games started, I disliked the fact that many specifics were taken out. Probably because I expected too much of the movie. I wanted to hear Peeta talk to Katniss in the cave about how his dad said that he would have married Katniss' mother and she was wearing the dress etc. I wanted to see Peeta suffer from blood poisoning and hear the line "My mom may not be a nurse, but I know what blood poisoning is". I just really wanted the specifics and certain parts to be in there.

Such as the points I made earlier, Cato's speech at the end, Peeta's leg not getting amputated. I just didn't like it, maybe because I expected too much of it.

Another example, the cave scene in the book had a lot more going on in it than those 5 minutes that they showed Katniss and Peeta in the movie. I wanted to see the talking, the emotion, a perfect re-enactment of the book, which I didn't get.

I know directors nowadays are stricter on movie lenghts, but I honestly would have preferred a 3-hour LoTR style movie which would keep me entertained to a 2 hour 20 minute movie leaving me unsatisfied.

Thoughts?

Guys the Co-Dirrector of the movie wrote the books

Most likely wanted to change some of the parts idk

I liked the movie . Didnt untill I read that fact