Film Comparison:)

Films and novels generally have many differences. It's almost always true that the movie is not as good as the book. I can say this is true for The Hunger Games. The biggest difference between the book and the text to me is the mockingjay pin. In the text Katniss is given that pin by her friend Madge who is the Mayor's daughter. I think this was a bad thing to leave out of the movie because the interactions between Madge and Katniss help cue into her femininity. Also later threw the books we find out that the pin is a family keepsake that had to deal with the rebellion. I think that the creators of the film left this out because perhaps they thought it meant more as a pin coming from her sister and not a stranger. If they would have put Madge in the film they would have had to give us some more background on her and made the film longer, which face it, some of us wouldn't have minded at all. 

The most similar scene between the book and film to me is the Tracker Jacker scene. Everything in the movie was almost played out to the tee of the book. Except Glimmer didn't appear as gross as I had pictured her from the reading. This scene was also a staple to the Katniss/Rue alliance which was something they had to build up to.

Overall as movies go, I was impressed. Other than the Madge scene the movie stuck pretty good to the book. Even the details of the capital where amazing in the movie. The way it is described in the book is almost hard to imagine and with this image from the movie now I have no question as to how exquisite the capitol is. Horrible place or not I would love to visit Panem and all the districts if they existed someday.