Last night,
I went to my local theater to see the Hunger Games double feature. The Hunger
Games was one of my favorite movies of last year and I love the books. The
double feature was fun – it was great to see The Hunger Games on the big screen
again. Plus I got to see the new Hobbit trailer twice. After the first movie,
some of the theater staff came in and gave us all lanyards which was cool too.
Finally it
was time for Catching Fire. The movie was great and I really enjoyed it. But I
have some comments that are spoilers – for both the book and the movie. So if
you want to read the spoilers scroll down past the movie poster.
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The casting
for this movie was really brilliant. I especially thought that Johanna Mason
and Finnick were spot on. I wasn’t very happy that Mags was silent. It’s been a
while since I read the book but I could have sworn that Mags did talk. It was
just really distracting that she was mute.
The only
other thing that didn’t seem to make sense to me was the spinning cornucopia.
The spinning was fine but the comment that Plutarch Heavensbee makes about the
tributes not being able to tell time now didn’t make any sense. The tributes
didn’t seem to have any issues telling the time in the arena because the
lightening tree didn’t move. It just felt off to me.
Otherwise,
it was great, and very true to the books. I’m still curious on how the 3rd
film will be because Katniss spends most of that book in the throes of PTSD. I’m
sure they will focus a lot on the action stuff that happens later in the book.
All in all,
Catching Fire was a great movie. I think I liked The Hunger Games a little
better, but that’s probably because I liked the first book better than the 2nd
too.
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