re: Just watched "The Hunger Games" ---- wow

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What an abysmally stupid movie, and I'm guessing it's because the source material is stupid. Somebody please tell me there's a better story within the books than the crap that I just witnessed. No sense, whatsoever, of any social desperation or fear or hysteria or dementia that would allow such an event... no sense of history that would lead to such a point... no sense of outrage or protest, as one would expect, from at least a small segment of the population... a story with no sense, whatsoever.

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Yeah, the book actually explains all that. The movie is just completely rushed all the way through and removes some key elements. It was very disappointing to me.

This is a pretty spot on review of what is wrong with the movie: LINK