I agree the first one could have been much better, but I'm really liking the tone of this one.

It seems to be staying close to the masterful root material while going to places we didn't explore in the books. It also has a pretty epic tone.

Yeaht the book, IMO, is tons better than the movie which is like most book to movie adaptations.  Really though if you didn't like it, you didn't like it.  Just not your type of movie.  I personally don't see the "twilight" in the movie.  Twilight was just all love story all the time with weird sparkly vamps.  Different strokes for different folks though.

It seems a bit more epic indeed. I hope this movie is more political then the first one. Though the books give a good hint of what to expect the people who make the movie might change things.

I just feel like I am missing out, but then again I am a harsh critic sometimes.

I thought the first one was just okay. Not bad,but nothing special. It would be interesting to see were the story goes from the last one,just because I've never read the books.

Hunger Games should have ended at the end of the first book. Maybe the movies can salvage things, but I doubt it.

What? Why? Each Hunger Game book got exponentially better than the previous one.

I'm sorry you think that. Book 2 was...OK, I guess. The characters spent a long time talking, Katniss goes from being an empowered survivor to haplessly emoting, but basically it was just a nothing special sequel.

Book 3 was just plain terrible. Katniss has completed the circle and except for two or three decisions in the whole book, she's basically a figurehead of other characters, her narrative presence has long outlived it's charm, and the book as a whole is poorly thought through and even less well researched.

Well; I disagree completely. You're probably one of ten five people in the entire world that thinks each book gets progressively worse. I know there were a bunch of people that loved the third book up until the end then hated it (you either absolutely love the ending, or hate it completely) but most loved the first two books.

I like donald sutherland. He's been around for decades and been in a bunch of stuff. He's a bit under-rated in my opinion. I liked the italian job. See spurgeonryan-I like stuff. lol