When The Hunger Games first came out, it was the second piece of the massive YA trident that was taking over popular culture in the early 2000s. It was the one that people felt slightly less guilty liking because it wasn't Twilight, and the standards were really that low at the time.
However, because The Hunger Games differed from Twilight in many ways, it was similar in others as well. It had a central love triangle that really didn't need to be there and didn't add much to the story; it made an entire generation of men and 'not like other girls' girls dogpile on other women for the sin of liking a thing that they didn't like, and the final film was split into two movies.
Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate There were some benefits in that the extended runtime from both films meant that Lawrence and his team didn't need to cut anything from Mockingjay, and that kind of freedom to not cut large sections of the book is something that most book-to-film adaptations.
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