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So I saw Catching Fire yesterday. That actually makes 8 films I've seen in the cinema this year (well alright I didn't see Great Expectations in a cinema exactly but it was on a great big screen so I'm counting it!) which is considerably more than I usually manage (well the year I watched the pre-Avengers marathon I saw quite a lot but seeing them all in one go seems like cheating!)
I feel like I had an aim for how many films I wanted to actually go and see but I can't find where I wrote it down. If it was one a month I won't make it but if it was then it was VERY ambitious for me. To be honest I'm going to see The Hobbit 2 and I doubt any others but we'll see I guess.
(speaking of which- I've been looking for 2D showings and it would appear the Tottenham Court Road Odeon has one 2D showing a day from release day and probably I want to go on Sunday 15th because (like a genius) I'm actually busy on Friday and Saturday so, well, anyone interested in a trip to see The Hobbit? I'm totally open to other cinema suggestions and I guess might be willing to see it in 3D if pushed :-P)
ANYWAY.
[The Hunger Games: Catching Fire]The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Ever since the film finished I've been trying to decide if reading the book (not knowing what was coming, hurtling straight into dreadful things I never expected) or seeing the film (literally dreading certain scenes from the moment the film opened and knowing just how bad everything's going to get) is more stressful. I think the answer is probably both.
It's a great film. I liked the first one plenty but this one is even better and they do a great job of translating the book into a real place populated by real people and whoever did their casting is a genius
All the new characters were perfect (imo) especially Finnick who I loved in the books and Sam Claflin did a wonderful job of showing both the preening peacock exterior and the deep well of feelings. When he spoke to Annie through the camera I stopped breathing- o0ne of many moments!
(Incidentally when asked what he had in common with Finnick Sam said that he's only ever loved one woman ♥ he also said he was determined to do Finnick right because people were so awful on the internet after he was cast. Twats.)
But the others were great too. Jena Malone made me absolutely believe Johanna's desperate anger and fury, Philip Seymour Hoffman was having FAR too much fun as Plutarch Heavensbee and Lynn Cohen was perfect as Mags.
The returning cast were great too though. Effie's face during the Reaping has been all over tumblr for months but when Elizabeth Banks cries it's like it all becomes too real.
(incidentally this review will not mention Cinna because I just can't I'm still not over it in the book and Lenny Kravitz IS Cinna)
I liked a lot of the details, the way the Victory Tour came together and that strange moment at the beginning in the District 12 Victory Village with Peeta & Katniss being filmed but nobody really there in person.
I should talk about Peeta and Katniss and Gale and the "love triangle" shouldn't I? I still think, as I will always think, that Katniss and Gale would have been perfect together if they'd run away at the start of the first book. Or the start of the second I guess but they were never going to and it breaks my heart to see the way it slowly becomes more and more impossible. In the films, because Josh Hutcherson is really very very good, I am a lot less anti-Peeta than I was when I read the books but I still think that Katniss has no choice when it comes to him.
I love their friendship, I love that he makes her smile and that she clearly cares for him and I love that they have each other when the whole world is falling down around them but all the rest is too muddled with the image they have to present to be real.
(I will stop ranting now probably)
Incidentally- what happened to Real/Not Real? Surely that's needed for the next films?
Mostly though Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely perfect. The thing I was always worried about with these films was that the books are from Katniss' perspective so we know her thoughts and without that I worried that we'd miss a lot of her reasoning or her thoughts (and especially that the love aspect would become too big when you can't hear her constantly saying she can't deal with this right now) but the thing about Jennifer Lawrence is you do know what she's thinking and there were a lot of shots of her face where I could write the thoughts and emotions straight from her expression. The last minute being the key one but there were many others.
I want to just hold them all tightly though knowing what's coming. I want so much to see more of super competent Prim, rebel Gale, loyal Finnick and broken Katniss but I also really really really don't want to see what I know is coming.
I don't know how this film appear to a non-fan but this fan LOVED it.
I feel like I had an aim for how many films I wanted to actually go and see but I can't find where I wrote it down. If it was one a month I won't make it but if it was then it was VERY ambitious for me. To be honest I'm going to see The Hobbit 2 and I doubt any others but we'll see I guess.
(speaking of which- I've been looking for 2D showings and it would appear the Tottenham Court Road Odeon has one 2D showing a day from release day and probably I want to go on Sunday 15th because (like a genius) I'm actually busy on Friday and Saturday so, well, anyone interested in a trip to see The Hobbit? I'm totally open to other cinema suggestions and I guess might be willing to see it in 3D if pushed :-P)
ANYWAY.
[The Hunger Games: Catching Fire]The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Ever since the film finished I've been trying to decide if reading the book (not knowing what was coming, hurtling straight into dreadful things I never expected) or seeing the film (literally dreading certain scenes from the moment the film opened and knowing just how bad everything's going to get) is more stressful. I think the answer is probably both.
It's a great film. I liked the first one plenty but this one is even better and they do a great job of translating the book into a real place populated by real people and whoever did their casting is a genius
All the new characters were perfect (imo) especially Finnick who I loved in the books and Sam Claflin did a wonderful job of showing both the preening peacock exterior and the deep well of feelings. When he spoke to Annie through the camera I stopped breathing- o0ne of many moments!
(Incidentally when asked what he had in common with Finnick Sam said that he's only ever loved one woman ♥ he also said he was determined to do Finnick right because people were so awful on the internet after he was cast. Twats.)
But the others were great too. Jena Malone made me absolutely believe Johanna's desperate anger and fury, Philip Seymour Hoffman was having FAR too much fun as Plutarch Heavensbee and Lynn Cohen was perfect as Mags.
The returning cast were great too though. Effie's face during the Reaping has been all over tumblr for months but when Elizabeth Banks cries it's like it all becomes too real.
(incidentally this review will not mention Cinna because I just can't I'm still not over it in the book and Lenny Kravitz IS Cinna)
I liked a lot of the details, the way the Victory Tour came together and that strange moment at the beginning in the District 12 Victory Village with Peeta & Katniss being filmed but nobody really there in person.
I should talk about Peeta and Katniss and Gale and the "love triangle" shouldn't I? I still think, as I will always think, that Katniss and Gale would have been perfect together if they'd run away at the start of the first book. Or the start of the second I guess but they were never going to and it breaks my heart to see the way it slowly becomes more and more impossible. In the films, because Josh Hutcherson is really very very good, I am a lot less anti-Peeta than I was when I read the books but I still think that Katniss has no choice when it comes to him.
I love their friendship, I love that he makes her smile and that she clearly cares for him and I love that they have each other when the whole world is falling down around them but all the rest is too muddled with the image they have to present to be real.
(I will stop ranting now probably)
Incidentally- what happened to Real/Not Real? Surely that's needed for the next films?
Mostly though Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely perfect. The thing I was always worried about with these films was that the books are from Katniss' perspective so we know her thoughts and without that I worried that we'd miss a lot of her reasoning or her thoughts (and especially that the love aspect would become too big when you can't hear her constantly saying she can't deal with this right now) but the thing about Jennifer Lawrence is you do know what she's thinking and there were a lot of shots of her face where I could write the thoughts and emotions straight from her expression. The last minute being the key one but there were many others.
I want to just hold them all tightly though knowing what's coming. I want so much to see more of super competent Prim, rebel Gale, loyal Finnick and broken Katniss but I also really really really don't want to see what I know is coming.
I don't know how this film appear to a non-fan but this fan LOVED it.