Adapting a wildly popular book series to film is always tricky. Sometimes it fails miserably such as in The Golden Compass. Sometimes, the series has ups and downs like the Harry Potter series. It's easy to make a film feel like a quick summary of the book, to ignore the complexities of the characters you grew to know and love. I suppose the important thing we look for when watching a movie based on a book series is that the spirit of the books makes it to the screen. There are certain emotional connections that need to resonate similarly between the book and the film. With The Hunger Games, that is absolutely the case.
