When the first Hunger Games movie came out I read a lot about it being a very good movie. So I looked forward to checking it out. After having seen it though I did not get all the praise it received. Sure, the movie looked beautiful with impressive costumes, great special effects and detailed sets, but if you stripped all that away it told a story not unlike Battle Royale. Among my friends many of them felt the same wah, so when the sequel was released and again was getting a lot of positive reviews I was cautious. Maybe this would be one of those franchises which wasn’t for me. Still I felt I had to give it a chance. Continue reading →