Why do people like the hunger games movies ?

i have no interest in these types of movies and have thus never seen any of them.
you should see “the martian” instead.

I tried the first book, because I’ll give any book a try.
It reads like, well, a teenage girl’s diary. I gave it the 100 pages I’ll give almost anything, and left it at that.

The movie series tried to make it a little more like an action film, but it’s ultimately directed at tweens and teenagers, so there’s not much to be done there.

If you want something sort of along the same lines and less silly, you can watch Battle Royale. It’s on Netflix.

I don’t know that anyone really did. I saw the first one and it was just ok. The second was a couple hours I’ll never get back.

I liked the first book, read it right before the first movie, and liked the movie. It is an interesting premise, an original story line, and the movies were well crafted.

And Jennifer Lawrence is a very good actress. Her performance both in the Hunger Games movies and in other movies has been excellent.

Having said all that, the last movie was good but not great; I would give it a B+.

If it doesn’t attract you with the trailers, you probably won’t like it, so save your money and don’t go.

Hey, everyone has their own tastes in movies. Might not be what you’re into.

I read the books when I was about 14 years old, so I can’t be sure if I’d like them now, a few years later, but I really thought they were quite the page turners back then! The love triangle, the action, the heartbreaking deaths!

I really thought the first two movies were excellent. Mockingjay pt. 1 was alright but kind of a snore. Haven’t seen the final movie yet. Waiting for the Thanksgiving crowd to die down, I don’t like a packed theater.

As for why people like Jennifer Lawrence. Well first off she’s a really good actress, not just in The Hunger Games. She’s got an Oscar under her belt after all! And she’s very pretty, and also entertaining and funny in her interviews. People like relatable celebrities and she is one.

I saw the first two films simply because they were popular and I’m interested in our pop culture in my effort to understand how our society has evolved to what it is. Pop culture is both a symptom of what is, and a driving force of what is to be.

There are many layers of attraction here, I believe, especially for what are called Millennials.

It’s a post-apocalyptic film. I think the attraction of post-apocalyptic stories is rooted in the desperate helplessness people feel to change a society they believe has gone wrong. The corrupt establishment is destroyed or weakened and people are forced to form small, intimate, intentional communities based upon commonalities with a well-defined common enemy—the forces who want to re-establish the old way. There is a place for everyone in the pack whereas there isn’t in today’s society. Even in the most undemocratic tribe, one’s voice can be heard. There is less competition and more opportunities for change and individual heroism. No longer can a large, anonymous, bullying establishment effectively impose it’s rules and morals upon the common people. The people can finally fight back.

Gender roles become burred or non-existent. Each tribe becomes a true meritocracy. The disaffected and disenfranchised finally have a chance. Identities are clearly defined. A successful struggle demands honesty and loyalty from it’s individuals. Honesty and loyalty become rewarded characteristics, whereas, in practice, they aren’t in today’s crowded culture. In this environment, the opportunities to find a suitable heroic, loyal mate is obvious and “Us and our love for each other against an unjust world,” becomes, for a moment, real and attainable.

Say you are young and just about to embark into the world—this world of blurred loyalties, blatant unfairness, anonymous institutions dictating to you how you should live and think. Preparing to enter a future that very likely could be spent in the grey, anonymous corporate world, lost among the masses in a matrix of occupied cubicles. What kind of life is that to look forward to?

Other than the annoying lack of modern comforts, what’s not to like in these highly romanticized. post-apocalyptic tales?

Post apocalyptic tales are romances, heroic sagas that reflect a mass resistance against today’s socio-political environment. It is no wonder at all why these stories appeal to young people. It’s the hippies all over again (the real hippies, not the Rush Limbaugh version). These stories reflect the sentiments of every back-to-the-land movement and urban commune, the history of which can be traced back to the early 1700’s in America. But the intentional communities of the past didn’t stand by a wait for the apocalypse. They just picked up their things and moved off together to a piece of land in order to construct their own, more rational societies.

The hype is due to industrial productness starting with the books which were successfully ubersold to kids, and the kid fantasy appeal it has. When I was in 5th grade (a LONG time ago), I made up fantasies about having to fight people with bow and sword alongside the girl from my class I had a crush on, just out of spontaneous daydreaming (my plot made about as much sense), so I can see how this would appeal.

^^“When I was in 5th grade… ” Yeah, me too. Bigtime.

I loved the Harry Potter books, and I have a relative who loved the too (she was a young teen). We both would discuss the books, and the shortcomings of the movies. We would laugh at how awful the Twilight saga was. She strongly recommended the Hunger Games series, and I was dubious about it, but I have read them. I was amazed how well thought they were.
When the cast the movie, I was unhappy with Jennifer Lawrence getting the Katniss role. I felt she looked to old. When I saw the movies, I was amazed at how good they were, and how well Jlaw captured the character.
Yes, the books read like a young girls diary, because that’s what they intended it to be. You need to read the entire series to understand why.

Oh, I understand the reasoning for the diary thing. It’s just a personal taste issue for me. I didn’t want to be inside a teenage girls head when I was one, much less spend hours there on purpose.

Why does anyone like anything? Oh yeah, personal taste.
I’ve only seen the first film, my daughter practically begged me to watch with her & you know what, for what it is, it ain’t bad.

I saw the first two. I am not into sci fi but since they’re so popular I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I think that some politicians would love it if the world were like it is in the Hunger Games. Rich living in beautiful, colorful cities with banquets and unlimited food and drink, fabulous clothes, beautiful people while the poor scrounge and scrape for a scrap and for survival, wearing rags and suffering endlessly.

I agree that the books are the perfect pitch to angst driven teens consumed since the dawn of time with the eternal question “why don’t I fit in?” To describe the plot as simplistic in its cynicism would be right on the money. But a mere glance at current realities is all that is necessary to assure us that the vision of vacuous yet hardened teenagers as the hope for mankind is probably not as silly as whatever foolishness actually awaits us.

@Seek. Oh, I understand the reasoning for the diary thing.

Don’t be so sure!

I very much enjoyed both the books and the movies for different reasons.
@chinchin31, I recommend that you don’t waste your time or your money. If you have already characterized the films as “silly” and “boring” you will likely find them so.

No idea. I saw 20 minutes and walked out of the room.