Books Vs. Movies - Part 3 (update)

I've finished the 2nd book, Catching Fire and halfway through Mockingjay, the 3rd book and past where the 3rd movie ends and the 4th movie begins.  The books are really good, with lots of action but really sappy, which makes them hard to put down to write my reviews so I guess I'll do them all when I've finished the book series.  I get compulsive and just keep going sometimes and don't want to stop what I'm doing to do what I should be doing.  But it's really not like anybody is really reading this.  If anybody does, then thank you.

Book vs. Movies, Part 3 (2nd in a Series of 6)

The Hunger Games

There's not much to say about a book that has been reviewed, probably many on the two main sites Like to go and research and rate books, BookLikes, and Goodreads, that hasn't already been said. I'm mostly reading them and comparing the movies to the books and Suzanne Collins must have worked hard to get the movie really close to the book. It's been years since I've read the book and a week since I've watched the movie.

The Hunger Games is not my favorite YA series, that belongs to the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.  The Hunger Games is probably 3rd after Artemis Fowl and then Harry Potter.  As for book series with movies, I think this will be 2nd behind the Harry Potter movies.  As for the Hunger Games as a whole, the only thing I didn't care for was Katniss's inner struggle of her love between Gale and Peeta.  But what's a YA without some first love interests.

Like I said reviews for all three Hunger Games books have been done many times and in many languages.  The Hunger Games book sold 4.3 million books in 2010 and jumped to 9.3 million in 2011.  In 2012 the sales tripled and now it's listed as 29 million in the U.S. alone.  The first movie in the series mad $694 million dollars, 2nd in the franchise.

Sometimes there are no comparisons between books.  The audio-book for Huber Games is just over 11 hours and the movie is just over 2 hours.  While the book has a lot more conversation, background and the things going through Katniss's head, the movie screams vibrant colors, future tech, and CGI.  Probably the biggest difference is the muttations towards the end of the time in the arena.  The movie just shows them as a canine type animal but the book has these critters as canines that resemble the other 21 dead players killed in the games.  The book says that when standing on their back legs they resemble the humans, blondes being blondes and the eyes are the same, or at least Katniss questions this.  There are still a lot of small changes but this movie ran pretty true with the book.

All in all, I enjoyed both the movie and the book, Rating the book 8 stars  So now I move forward to the 2nd book, Catching Fire.