Changes You Did Not Enjoy

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In contrast to the changes you daresay you enjoy thread I figured I would make a thread specifically for people who want to discuss what they did not like that was changed.

The spoiler alert here should speak for itself.


1. Hated every scene where Seneca and Snow were talking. They felt unnecessary and didn't add to anything. Those precious minutes could have been used to have more character development for Katniss and Peeta.
2. Haymitch only appears to be drunk two or three times and it's not very obvious at all.
3. We don't find out Peeta saved Katniss' life with the bread until halfway through which makes no sense.
4. The game makers seemingly controlling the arena like it's a virtual environment when it isn't (making mutts spawn out of no where when they still need coal). I don't care how technologically advanced they are, if they still need coal I don't think they can just push a button and get a fully grown creature out of nothing.
5. District 12 is brushed over completely. The books spend a good deal of time cultivating the culture of district 12 and the movies barely show it for what it is.
6. WHERE IS MADGE.
7. WHY DIDN'T MADGE GIVE HER THE PIN?
8. Katniss and Peeta don't have enough romantic scenes in the arena for their relationship to be believable... at all.
9. Haymitch does not agree to help them because they earn his respect. Instead he agrees because (at least, it's portrayed this way) they are being brats and he wants them to stop bothering him. He shows no faith in them in the film.
10. Katniss doesn't run over to the window to see the capitol with Peeta. This is small, but significant to me. It was a bonding moment in the book, to show where they both came from and how incredible the capitol seems to them.
11. Starvation is a huge theme in the books. In the movie they never touch upon how shocked Katniss is by the instant food in the capitol. It's a huge part of her personality, so it feels weird to not see it.
12. Katniss and Peeta never have a confrontation in the end.
13. Katniss never drugs Peeta.
14. Lack of character development.
15. Peeta does not lose his leg and we do not see the scene after they are brought up from the arena and Katniss freaks out.
16. Movie never gives us a reason to hate the capitol. No starvation of the districts, no showing their disgusting habits, etc.

The first time I saw this movie, these flaws bugged me a little but I was so excited about seeing one of my favorite series on screen that I let it go. Then I brought a friend who hadn't read the books. They hated the movie and said they can't believe a terrible book series like that got so popular. I asked why they would say that and I realized that if they hadn't left so much out this friend wouldn't have formed that opinion. Their complaints were that the movie dragged on and on yet felt like it had no character development, and that there was no reason to hate this oppressive government and it didn't even seem very oppressive.

Another one of my friends who saw the movie without reading the books had the exact same conversation with me. The movies are apparently awful if you haven't read the books, which sucks. An adaptation should stand well on its own.

[GuillermoGage]

We don't find out Peeta saved Katniss' life with the bread until halfway through which makes no sense

Indeed, Gary Ross/the screenwriters have some 'splaining to do with that. At first they woudl just show meaningless shots of Katniss leaning up against the tree in the rain and Peeta standing, and didn't show him actually throw the bread until they repeated the scene, inserted into the film well into their training.

[Jabber jay]

I really wish katniss had told peeta how she felt. Bc that's a huge part of charging fire. Katniss must fake love. Idk what thu will do now. I wish haymitch had Fallen off the stage. I wish haymitch seemed more drunk and that it explained to u why he stopped drinking. I wish thy had actually put the berries in their mouths. I wish there were more cave scenes. I wish peeta had lost his leg so that katniss would bc flipped. And that's about it I think.

[missingllama]

The scenes with the bread throwing seem really stupid because it was like, "Oh lol here's Katniss against a tree derp cut to piggies cut to Peeter with bread in his hands, WAIT BACK TO KATNISS okay lol derp back to the piggies." And it showed this scene so many times and it was so friggin' annoying because you're like, "Okay, I get it, she's sitting against a tree and he has bread, but SO WHAT?"

[Jabber jay]

And she doesn't look like she is starving she looks like she was nappin on a tree

[missingllama]

And she doesn't look like she is starving she looks like she was nappin on a tree

Yeah

She didn't look hungry, she reminded me of a constipated person

[EmberSC]

I liked the scenes with Seneca and Snow. It showed you the world outside of the Arena, how the Capitol worked. In the books, we can get away with knowing things only from Katniss' pov. But for a movie, it's different.

I also wished they had at least showed Katniss crawling for the bread or something. Maybe they should have got lookalike child actors for the parts too, cause Katniss and Peeta were suppose to be much younger.

[Jabber jay]

And she doesn't look like she is starving she looks like she was nappin on a tree

Yeah

She didn't look hungry, she reminded me of a constipated person

[GuillermoGage]

The scenes with the bread throwing seem really stupid because it was like, "Oh lol here's Katniss against a tree derp cut to piggies cut to Peeter with bread in his hands,

Why oh why do you keep calling him Peeter?

[Jabber jay]

The scenes with the bread throwing seem really stupid because it was like, "Oh lol here's Katniss against a tree derp cut to piggies cut to Peeter with bread in his hands,

Why oh why do you keep calling him Peeter?

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