The wife and I just got back from watching it. There were definitely some very intense scenes. What was so upsetting to us were the scenes where the older tributes brutally murdered the younger, at the very beginning of the games. There is something deeply disturbing and affecting about watching an 18 year old hack a 12 or 13 year old to death with a knife or an axe.

I don't know if that's how younger people would have felt, being much closer in age to both the victim and the killer. But it was disturbing to us.

There were two young women sitting to wife's right in the theater, may 16 years old. There were a couple of scenes in which all three of them (ny wife & the two girls sitting next to her) were covering their faces.

I'm inclined to agree. I've seen some pretty brutal stuff in fictional visual forms, none of it will ever hold a candle to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in real life. Something being real makes it far worse, and it being there and all around you as opposed to portrayed on a screen does the same. As such, any comparison to seeing things in real life is inherently invalid.