With a prequel movie on its way, io9 revists what made The Hunger Games series a triumph of cinema in the early 2010s.
When The Hunger Games movie came out in 2012, the world was set on fire. Jennifer Lawrence became a superstar, the books stayed on bestseller lists for months, and another three films were quickly announced. The prequel story based on the newly released book of the same name, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is winging its way to theaters this November. But do the original films hold up, over a decade later? Absolutely, they do.
The franchise had the benefit of working from a trilogy that was incredibly smart and well-written, and the movies rarely deviated from the source material. Despite that, the films don’t rest on the laurels of the books, elucidating the themes smartly and effectively. The movies trusted the audience to understand what was going on, and didn’t try to soften the brutal, sharp edges of the series.
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