I think everyone is getting their hopes up too high for this series. Gonna see the movie in a few hours so I'll have a better idea if it's going to hold up. I mean, HP had a really bad first movie, but only the 3rd movie was actually good so I'd be surprised if this first movie isn't that great and somehow the others were good.
100% agree with this. Imo Harry Potter 6 was the worse, because they added so much unnecessary stuff, such as random fires, and they skipped important parts (though that's not to say they never done this with all the films). Funnily enough, the 6th book was my favourite.
Anyway, moving on, I haven't seen or read hunger games. I've heard about it though...seems pretty interesting.