The hunger games “the movie” has the third best in “most attended movie” in its first week of showing. The book also is one of the top selling books in history. Written by Susan Collins the Hunger games is the first book in its trilogy. The book takes place in a green lush, hilly area, with twenty-four tributes, two from each district. The book is almost always going to be the better of the two for example the lighting thief book was great the movie was ok. Unlike Narnia I thought the movies were better than the books. The book I thought did a great job explaining the relationships between the characters, and the movie did not explain this very well. I also think the movie was horrible explaining the second meaning of the book. The best character relationship I thought the movie did well was the relationship between gale and Katness until later in the movie. I thought they did this very well they made it look like they were friend’s good old friends. However they sort of screwed that up when Peeta and Katness kissed and they showed gale sad back home. I thought that they were just good friends not lovers but they movie sort of made gale and her out to be later in the movie. The Katness, Peeta relationship was ok in the movie. The relationship that I thought was worst in fact, I think totally missed was the Cinna, Katness relationship. In the book it makes him her best friend during the prepping of the games. I think also missed was the relationship with his side kick makeup artist in the movie they did not even get names and they were only in a 30 second seen. I thought that the movie made Effie trinket a more important than Cinna. I think they could have made these relationships better by more talking on the roof with Peeta and longer makeup time with Cinna. Don’t get me wrong I understand it is a movie and they have time limits and stuff like that I just wish there was more bonding. Another way I thought the movie needed improvement on was with the second meaning the part of how Katness was used, and how she was just a symbol for the new rebels under district thirteen. In the book when Katness went to the dance with the people from the capital when he meets the young man from district thirteen. He sees her pin and shows her his own pin then walks away sort of sleekly and confidently. Another part that was left out in the movie was the part about Cinna choosing to be the dresser for district twelve instead of choosing one of the lower districts. I also I thought that Susan Collins also could have added a few more hints about the rebels in the first book. There was not that much of it until the second book. So I guess there is no real way the movie could have showed this better. Although the movie had a lot of problems with it, it also had a lot of great parts to the movie too. For example the part with the hacker jackers when Katness cuts the nest from the tree and kills Fiona from the bees, I thought this was played out perfectly like I thought it was in my mind when I read the book. Just like the movie Alex rider Strormbreaker when the training house part where, wolf pushes then kicks Alex into the stun grenade. Rarely ever do I watch a movie where it is exactly like what I imagined in my mind. My favorite part of the movie was probably when she shot the apples and blew up the mines. I liked this part because I thought it really played a major part in the games, because it made the main killer group actually hunt for their food. In the book I did not there was a person guarding the food. So the movie added some parts to the book that I thought were needed. Even though this movie had a lot of good parts in it the movie also had it downs. The producers of this movie had high expectations for this movie and I thought that they did pretty good job on it though. But it is nothing compared to the book just because of time wise, already at 2hr and 22 min. I am very excited for the next movie, and I hope they give more character building and show more of the second meaning to the story in the next movie. With time budgets and money cost I thought the movie portrayed the book well.