The movie was pretty good, and I think with adaptations of books, there's always that thing of it never really being enough, because you know how the story goes and they will have forgotten something (and most of the times, lots of things) and you'll leave the theater thinking of how there should have been so much more in it. Then you also know that a movie that comes from a book isn't necessarily a translation of it into film, and that it needs to appeal to as many people as possible so it does well on the box office, and finally that it can't be ten hours long.
With all that in mind, going to see this movie, as it was with Catching Fire as well, for me, there wasn't so much of that going on in my head, because I read Suzanne Collins's book trilogy back in 2012, about a week before the first movie premiered (that's how I got The Hunger Games fever). So going to see that first movie, I had every scene still fresh in my mind, but not, two and half years and more than two hundred books later, I don't remember everything from the books, especially details.
This is a good thing, because it allowed me to live the story in the movie a lot more intensely, as opposed to knowing everything that would be going down before it happened. Obviously the story as a whole was in my head, but it allowed me to not care about those details the movie makers need to leave behind, like I would've otherwise.
Watching the movie, from a little before the middle onward, my heart was just beating like crazy. I cried, I got scared when a gun shot out of almost complete silence, and there were just so many cool things about the movie, that as a fan of the books and the story, I had to absolutely love it!
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