Nit-Picking The Hunger Games Movie

by Brian Phelps

http://nitpickcritic.blogspot.com

I recently caught the Hunger Games movie with my wife a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it was a pretty good movie. I didn't read the books, but my wife has read all three. There was one thing I noticed that really made me chuckle about the Hunger Games movie because it just didn't add up to me. Did anyone else notice that Katniss had like 5 or 6 arrows in her quiver, yet she shot like 50 arrows (exaggerating) during the movie? When I brought it up to my wife she told me that in the book they explain it because she retrieves the arrows. The way the movie did it didn't make sense though because there were many times where there was absolutely no way to get her arrows back.

There were SEVERAL situations where her arrows were unable to be retrieved. For instance, when she blew up the supply stand. In that scene I believe she shot at least 3 arrows in that scene alone (two to blow up the stand and one in the fight with the girl), and wouldn't have been able to retrieve them because she blew up the stand and then she got into a fight with that girl and had to run away before it was too late. 

Another instance is when she shot an arrow through that dogs head, and the several instances where she was shooting arrows on the run and would not have been able to back track to retrieve them because she would've been caught by the main gang of kids. Also, the grass and forest was so dense that there would be no way she would even be able to find some of the arrows after she shot them. 

Don't get me wrong. I thought the movie was pretty good. I just thought it was funny because it didn't quite add up.