The Hunger Games

‘I VOLUNTEER! I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE’ I have heard this sentence about 5 million times in the past few weeks and if I hear it one more time I might throw my TV out of the window. The Hunger Games appeared out of nowhere and caused a global obsession. Suddenly everyone was either talking about The Hunger Games, going to the movie, coming home from the movie or reading the book. I don’t get this whole obsession. I must be the last person on earth who couldn’t care less about it, but I just don’t get why it’s supposed to be so amazing.  The commercial annoys me to death, it’s on TV all the time and it doesn’t give a good insight in the movie at all (that may be just the Dutch commercial though). The commercial kind of ruined the whole movie for me, because it annoys me so much I don’t even want to see it anymore (I know, I should never judge a movie by its commercial but..). Plus the storyline kind of comes across as one of those old gladiator tales to me, not something I would like. And then there’s the name of the characters, I don’t know what the author of the book was thinking when she gave those names to the characters but they’re just plain weird if you ask me.

I might go and see the movie, just because everyone loves it so much and I wanna know what all this hysteria is about. Maybe I should just give it a shot. But if I feel the same way about it as I felt about Twilight (global obsession about a horrible movie) I might feel the need to run away from the cinema after 30 minutes. But who knows, maybe I’ll love it.