Saw Hunger Games

I didn't think I was going to go and see that movie, but over the break last week, I took my little son and wife to the neighborhood theater on their Terrific Tuesday discount night. I figured what the heck. (My older son didn't go. He chose instead to work out in the gym, because he's training for the upcoming football season.)

Anyway, I don't get what the hullaballoo is all about. I didn't think it was a very good story at all. I liked the costumes. For a futuristic society the fashions were pretty cool. But the premise, and the plot and the "game" itself? To use today's vernacular... it all sucked.

For me, the first 30 minutes dragged. Talk about BORING. It really was. I just told myself that when the game began it was sure to pick up. But no. All the game turned out to be was turning 24 kids loose into a countryside arena to kill each other until only one remained. That was it. (And the contestants were as young as 12.) And if the kids didn't kill each other fast enough, the controllers behind the scenes would conjure up forest fires and giant pit bulls to get it done.

And then they change the rule so that two partners can survive, but then they change their mind, and then they change their mind again. It was a horrible story-line, imo. But what do I know? I didn't like Harry Potter, either. Or Twilight.