The Hunger Games: An open letter to the director or whoever makes the film look the way it does.

I know you've been waiting. Ha...I know I had been. Then I saw it. Oh lord indeed. First off...let me say, so GLAD I didn't eat before heading into the movie.

With that being said..here goes.

I love love LOVE Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy. As does most of the world according to book sales and movie sales. I've read the trilogy at least 3 times if not more. It's a sickness.

I and my Bestie were so excited for the first movie to come out we were barely able to watch the trailers without losing our shit. Yeah so what? I'm a teenager on the inside.

We planned the time and place almost a month in advance. We had my god daughter/Bestie's kiddo, and a good friend who didn't have any other friends who would see it with HIM, come with us. Yes I said him. He was really excited too. He read the books at my suggestion. And some of his friends told me they were NOT going to see "this movie" with him. So RA came with us.

We got there early. We were going to get our dinner at the theater as well, but the cafe wasn't open. THANK THE LORD.
We got our seats. Sat our asses into the Tempur-pedic like seats and gazed anxiously at the ULTRA screen. Yes I said ULTRA screen. It's a big ass screen.

Then it started.

After the first 5 minutes I thought, oh boy! I'm so excited....and then in the next several 5 minute increments this happened....

Min 10: Wow..I'm so excited I'm getting a little nauseated. No big...this happens. Stupid digestive system.

Min 15: Whoa....is the camera really shaky?

Min 20: Shit...why are they moving around so damn much? *leaning over to RA* Is this moving around a lot?

Min 25: Oh GOD! Deep breaths...deep breaths....movie motion sickness is really kicking in.

Min 30: Fuck this...I'm out.

Yeah. Dear directors/editors/cinematographers or whoever...Stop with the shaky hand held camera work. I get it. You're trying to get me all stressed out and show the tension. I got it after the first 5 minutes. CLEARLY.

But to go the entire movie? Absurd. You WANT people to like the films don't you? And really. I stayed at the movie. Because of my love of the books. I wanted to see the story come to life. I did NOT want to do the following:

1: leave the theater 2 separate occasions for fear of barfing all over the nice new Tempur-pedic like seats. Cause you know that shit costs a ton.

2: keep my eyes closed and my head down for nearly 85% of the movie (strangely when the characters were on the train there was less movement)

3: deep breath throughout the entire fucking thing, most likely annoying poor RA who kept asking me if I needed a bottle of water.

So could you PLEASE consider stabilizers for the next three movies? I swear..I'll be the first person in line if you do. Otherwise I'm fearing you've lost several ticket sales of woman in their mid to late 30's. Cause as my one girlfriend said...We get it. You're running. Now quit with the shaky camera.