Who's seen the movie yet?
I was pleased with it. Overall it lacked the same intensity of tension the novel has, but it was probably about as good of an adaptation that could be done of this book. Of course, that's with the proviso that the movie has to be PG-13. The violence was certainly sanitized.
Jennifer Lawrence is fantastic as Katniss. With facial expressions, actions, and limited dialogue, she captures the heart-rending emotional and physical whirlwind the character experiences and that Collins conveys in the novel mostly through interior monologue.
The movie portrays District 12, the Capitol, and the residents much as I envisioned. And I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes subplots the movie reveals involving President Snow and Seneca Crane that we don't see in the novel, since the novel is first-person from Katniss's POV.
But the cost of translating a very close, emotionally powerful POV into a multi-POV movie is losing layers and nuance. Rue's
And the movie doesn't quite achieve the level of suspense nor convey Katniss's degree of suspicion and guardedness on the question of whether
Finally there were a few other things that were minor in the book individually, but collectively amplified the reader's experience of vicarious terror, like
Definitely worth seeing, though, whether you've read the books or not.
Not sure how I feel about that, as of course what Hollywood will do is dumb them down and cast someone like Miley Cyrus in the role. Forgive me if anyone likes her. 
I shudder to think how awful they'll be. Well, one can hope. The LoTR movies were pretty damn good adaptations, after all.
