🍿 The Hunger Games (2012) came out the same year as our first child was born, and now that the child is old enough to participate it was time to finally see it.

The West Virginia aesthetics of District 12 were fine, but the over-the-top style of the capitol city dwellers was jarring. So was the architecture, which looked like what DC would be if all of DC were one large L’Enfant Plaza. Yikes!

I don’t know how much money Jennifer Lawrence earned from being in this franchise, but it really should be all of it — she was the only reason it was watchable, dare I say even enjoyable.