The Hunger Games [HD]

Dont hate the Movie But WARNING ULTRAVIOLET code EXPIRED!!
This review is for AMAZON.COM and future customers that purchase The Hunger Games (2-Disc Blu-Ray + Ultra-Violet Digital Copy)

If you are going to charge for the blu-ray and Ultra-Violet the code shouldn't be expired prior to receiving it.

Order Date of 12/6/2013

opened 12/25/2013

I contacted Amazon and they just sent me a second copy with a code that expired. 8/18/2013 even says it on the out side of the case. the slip of paper inside states
1)go to thehungergamesmovie.com/redeem
2)follow the instructions to get your ultraviolet copy
3)when prompted, enter the authorization code above

I followed the steps, entered the code and code is invalid.

on the bottom of the slip of paper it states Lionsgate is not responsible for maintaining ultraviolet service. Code may not be valid after 8/18/2013

I contacted Amazon again and was placed on hold I was fed up of fighting and decided if i need the...

A masterpiece! An excellent film about courage, hope and human dignity facing the all powerful totalitarian tyranny!
"Hunger Games" is certainly the best film I have seen since many many months, and it is a very successful adaptation of an excellent book.

In my personal opinion, both the book and the film are much deeper and much more ambitious, than what most critics and reviewers would make us believe. After reading the reviews in "New York Times", "Le Monde" and on "Msn.com" (to cite only few) I was surprised that they mostly missed everything that is important in this film. With a kind of amused superiority, which people from Capitol in this movie would immediately recognize, the "professional" reviewers pointed at the obvious allusions to gladiator fights, the reality shows, the importance of trashy entertainment in today's TV, the search for a new franchise able to replace "Twilight", etc., etc.

But they almost entirely failed to see, that this film is first and above all about much more important things: how to keep hope, not lose the courage and preserve humanity and...

Too pretty, too santized -- the film has none of the emotional impact of the novel
Director Gary Ross's version of Suzanne Collins's HUNGER GAMES manages to sanitize the entire concept of kids-killing-kids in order to produce a PG-13 blockbuster that's sure to rake in the big bucks. But what was devastating and heart-wrenching in the novel is glossed over and prettified here, leaving me feeling none of the emotional impact I experienced in reading the book.

[**SPOILER WARNING** I'm assuming readers are familiar with the novel, so some plot elements will be discussed in this review.]

Don't get me wrong, this is a slick and well-made film, with plenty of action and a sensational performance from Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen. The settings are well done, especially the Capitol in all its crazy-colored chic-ness and over-the-top luxury. District 12, the poorest district in Panem, is believably presented as well, complete with starving people dressed in rags and walking like zombies to their depressing jobs. The scene of the...

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