‘The Hunger Games’ Holds 100% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes After First Reviews

Hell yea!!!

Hope it can keep a 90%+ on RT, but then again, many critics are just pains, so I’ll be very happy if it keeps a 80%+ rating. Can’t wait to see it!!!

I think it’s going to be around a 94%

i say 100% cany wait!!!!!

oops….cant srry

When did most critics get screener copies? I think this first batch of reviews is from critics who attended the LA & London premieres. Most of the big name reviewers have yet to comment. Fingers crossed!

@Scaper – These reviews are from critics who saw the movie at press pre-screenings, and at the premieres.

March 23…so close..yet so far away!! Only one more week!

Thanks Kimmy. Roger Ebert is the one I’m really looking forward to.

This will soon cut short. Like one of the other comments said I hope it would keep an 80%+ rating.

YES. Keep it up, THG.

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time! I haven’t been worried about whether the movie will be good or not at all because I already know it will be, but I was really hoping other people would like it too so we can get the sequels. When I found out about Rotten Tomatoes I hoped it would stay either in the 80s or 90s section. It would be even better if it was 100%. I am kind of expecting some people to come along and say it was a rip-off of Battle Royale, not thinking about the fact that it was adapted from a book, but I’m hoping that will be the only critisism! :s

This is so awesome!! Hopefully it can stay around 90% after more criticts have watched it

awsome! but is it really that much of a suprise
oh and i cant wait to see it so excited!

The best thing about this (so far) for me is not the percentage who rated it positive, but the average score. To get over an 8 on rotten tomatoes is extremely difficult, so I would pretty suprised if it stayed there. I’d be thrilled with a high 7 and a percentage in the low 90′s.

That is AHmazing

like kbelle mentioned, the average score is a HUGE deal. anything above an eight is amazing, especially for a movie with THG’s target audience. i mean, you have stuff like HP&DH part 2 which holds a 96% freshness and an 8.4 rating, and certainly i would agree it’s a great movie, but it’s such an outlier from the rest of the “teen” movies and book-to-film adaptations (not to mention the rest of the harry potter series) that you just know a lot of it has to do with sentimentality and the fact that it was the last film in a hugely influential franchise. only two out of the 8 HP movies got above a 90% fresh. and only DH part 2 got above an 8 in average score.

THG is just starting. i fully expect both measurements to drop when the movie opens and more “established” (read: not into the hype) reviewers get to see it. and of course, there’s the reviewers that simply don’t like anything unless it’s indie, low-budget and obscure. BUT, if THG can keep a score somewhere in the 80′s with a high rating, that would be truly mindblowing.

i remember i was pretty much stuck to RT 24/7 back when x-men: first class premiered (i’m a huge fan of x-men), and the evolution of the freshness % and average score predictably went from 100% the first day to lower fairly quickly after the premiere. still, i stayed glued to the comments and as far as i’m aware, the film’s freshness rating of 87% and a score of 7.4 puts it as one of the best superhero films of all time. something in the 90′s with an average score of 8+ could only be achieved by truly groundbreaking films like the dark knight. even iron man, which has a freshness rating in the 90′s, has an average score of 7.4. it’s how the two balance out that really marks a truly remarkable film.

from what i’ve heard so far, i think THG has a high chance of reaching the 90% fresh mark, which will be amazing enough. but even if it gets something in the high 80′s, that’s excellent. but i’m really hoping for an average rating above 8. fingers crossed that the political undertones and dark themes can seduce some of the most hardheaded reviewers.

@Carla – very informative analysis, thank you for that. How do they arrive at the average score? Is each critic required to assign the film a number on the ten-point scale along with his or her review?

Actually, a teen oriented film holding a 100% is heard of. Just look at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. 96% overall, 100% top critics. But instill can’t wait to see the movie!!’

@SPM– i believe they’re asked to give their original rating (the one they gave when the review was first published in their respective sources) when they upload their review to RT. it’s easy enough to take that original score in whichever scale they used to a 10 pt scale.

i’m not sure, however, if reviewers who don’t already have an “original” score for the movie are asked to give one, or if they simply don’t count toward the average.

My fear is that some critics won’t see past the “teen frenzy” coverage and will go into it with a snotty, above-it-all attitude. Those kinds of reviews may well put off some (cough, older) people who are on the fence or already hostile to supposed “young adult” films, whereas positive reviews might tip the undecided crowd in the movie’s favor. You can already see that in the comments section of some of the reviews, with entries like “I wasn’t planning on seeing this but now I’m interested.”

It’s nice to see that 100% but you guys have to remember that there has only been 15 reviews so far. There have been many movies who have started out at 100% and then fell down after more reviews started coming in. Eg. 21 Jump Street also had a 100% for a while and now it has a 87%.

the critic that matters: ROGER EBERT

There’s always going to be a sour critic that hates teen movies, but I would say we’ll probably keep in the 90-95%. If we don’t…well, all the watchers will give it a high rating.

While I know it’s a long shot and this is only the beginning….wouldn’t it be so cool if once all the critics saw it and still ended up 95-99%…….I know it’s a long shot but that would be epic! One can dream….I just hope its not labeled just another teen movie!

AHH want to read very badly but told myself- MO SPOILERSSS- no i can’t i just can’t!!! lol its soo hard!!!!

Ya, they already have one of those “snooty” critics on there. From what I recall, she saw the movie’s devotion to the book as a bad thing, saying fans could “check off” all the important scenes (it was said in a snarky tone in the review). She was also upset that Gary didn’t go all creative on the movie and do something drastic. It really makes me mad – not that someone didn’t like the movie, but that she isn’t judging it on it’s own merits.

I honestly don’t care if you don’t like the movie, but at least have some justifiable objections to it. Saying that you don’t like it because it’s too faithful to the book is frankly retarded. It’s an adaptation of a book, what are you expecting? And I feel that there was enormous pressure on the director and production team by the fans (good job guys!) to make this movie faithful to the book. They risk losing fan support (which has become a HUGE driving factor for this movie) and a lot of money if they decided to, I dunno, get rid of Prim and turn Haymitch into a sympathizing, responsible adult.

Those critics who actually decided to judge the movie objectively thought it was pretty awesome.

Sarah, I couldn’t agree more. She’s pulling a Simon Beaufoy and letting her ego run her mouth.