I recently watched Hunger Games and today followed up with Catching Fire. Really an excellent series, I can't forgive myself for missing it out when it first started.
Truly fantastic characters (it's already rare enough to find a genuine female lead, but it did a particularly good job at avoiding and even subverting sexist tropes), and a very well-thought premise (one of most creative ideas in recent times for an apocalyptic future with disturbing elements from modern society). If these are adaptations, I can only imagine how good the original books were.
The awful thing is that I'll have to wait for a while to see the conclusion. 
I did like the movies and books, but got to object to it being called "one of most creative ideas in recent times".
Two Words:
Battle Royale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale
