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Hunger Games

The only Catching Fire review you need.

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OMG QUACKY YOU NEED TO SHUT IT I ALREADY MADE 15 TUMBLRS ABOUT PEETA OKAY? MY LOVE IS THE ONE TRUE LOVE AND I WILL STAB YOU IN THE BIG TOE IF YOU DON'T BACK OFF BIATCH!!
 
LOL U THINK YOUR KATNISS BUT YOUR NOT EVEN EFFY YOU FREAK YOU PROBABLY COUDLNT EVEN GET HAMISH TO SUCK YOUR TITS OKAY I COULD HAVE PEETA AND GALE AT THE SAME TIME ONE IN EACH ORIFICE GIRLFRIEND!
 
I've only seen the first movie, but I've read all the books. That looks pretty good.
 
DEAR GOD WILL THEY EVER BE DONE WITH THOSE?

Aww I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman for a second in there, I guess he filmed some scenes before...
 
I finally watched Catching Fire today. I liked it. I mean a lot of it is kind of repeating stuff from the first movie, but bigger and with fancier dresses. Or maybe tha'ts because I read the books and now I can't remember which parts I saw in the first movie and which parts I saw in my head. Also it doesn't have a proper ending, really, and the hero Katniss doesn't do anything all that heroic (however that is very much part of the story and I respect Suzanne Collins for the way she wrote Katniss okay.) But I did like it! The acting was good and the girl playing Joanna was very good and trident guy was cool. SO THERE.
 
I watched Mockingjay Part 1 at last (because it's on Netflix now.) I liked it but it does suffer a bit from splitting the book into two movies, when the book was the same length as the first two. I mean I probably wanted them to go more indepth in the first two movies, but here there were bits where I thought "they probably wouldn't have included that if it was just one movie." The acting is all very good and I like the look of it all and it's a convincing fictional world. The most effective part is where Katniss sings the hanging tree song and it goes to a montage of the rebels singing as they run into a suicide mission. That was great. Some other bits though I can see people who aren't big fans getting bored. But it was good, I liked it.
 
I watched it the other day too, not really expecting to enjoy it that much. But I think I'm hooked now. It was really good. It's got quite a naturalistic feel, for what it is, and I like the pacing. It's not just action sequences strung together by tiny dialogue scenes, it's pretty much all characterisation. I'll try to watch the next one in cinemas.
 
I remeber you hated the first one (did you ever watch the second) so that's quite the surprise! I think splitting it into two movies did allow them more time to do the characters justice. I would say the biggest problem with the split was that they didn't have a natural endpoint so it just ends with Peeta thrashing about in bed which is a bit meh. And the second part will have a lot more action...
 
Yes, I found the first one really boring and hated all the stuff with Peeta (Josh Hutcherson doesn't have enough facial expressions for me to empathise with him).

I did watch the second one, but can't remember much about it, even after trying to refresh my memory with the trailer.

But this one was really good. The social media/public relations side of the story was really interesting and quite timely, considering how conscious a lot of people are with their public image. And when there were action scenes they were quite limited and didn't involve loads of superhuman gymnastics.
 
I thinkk the first two books had the wartime propganda element too but it maybe didn't come across as well in the films.
 
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