I finished watching “The Hunger Games.” It wasn’t all that great. There were 2 things that bothered me about the movie:

1. It’s supposed to be the freaking FUTURE, why are they still mining coal?

2. Why is everybody in District 12 dressed in 1930’s period costume?

I haven’t read the books, maybe it’s explained in there, but the only explanation I can come up with is maybe “The Capitol” orders each District to conform to a certain historical period, like a reenactment village. They all dress like the court of 18th-Century France, if Louis and Marie Antoinette were tripping out on shrooms and acid.

You’d think people in District 12, with their sucky lives, would be cooking meth all over the place, like their real life counterparts.