The cinematography looks breathtaking!!! And the capitol looks greater than the first film, more detailed and even more real! My goodness I just can´t imagine how visually incredible the arena action is going to be! The action there alone has more VFX this time from what happens in the book!! Ahhh!!
If there was one of the high points I could describe from the trailer, is this one. Actually, in the books, if there was a character I could call completely one-dimensional, was Effie. She felt more like a "Capitol doll", Mockingjay showed to me exactly that, and even in Catching Fire I don't remember such a reaction.
Having said that, I'm enjoying very much the modifications on the character for the movies so far. Not only Elizabeth Banks fought hard for the role, but she is a talented actress, and they should use that to "humanize" the character and turn her into a more relatable one.
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Whoa. The power of different interpretations. Effie? The most one-dimensional character? For me it is actually the opposite. I always thought that she was, no only one of the best developed characters, but one of the most interesting ones.
My late response to the trailer. I am stunned. For me, it just made the first look like shit. I love the design of everything, Capitol looks superb and a lot more developed this time. I love the cinematography so much, it looks beyond what I could have imagined. You can definitely see the bigger budget being effectively used for this, everything looks so real and grand. The performances look terrific as well. It's the best trailer that I have seen in a long long time. Francis Lawrence was the perfect replacement. I am so excited now.
Effie cries in CF. And in the end of Mockingjay, she doesn't have that 'bubbly' personality.
It wasn't about being bubbly, it just felt she didn't empathize with all the situation. Katniss was totally mind-broken, and all she could worry was her agenda, of being ready and stuff for the "execution". That scene kinda got to me as if she was something like a "Capitol doll", too much obliviousness all the time, even when Katniss said she had this "vacant look in her eyes". Besides having a good instinct, I never saw much more on her character, overall.
And it's been a LONG time since I've read Catching Fire, so I might be missing this part, but didn't just Flavius (of the District 12 team) cried? I don't remember any passage of her crying.
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The Hunger Games Summer Camp is a Terrible Idea Florida-based summer camp latches onto worst theme ever.
What self-respecting parent would knowingly send their kid to a summer camp based on The Hunger Games, I don't know, but apparently that camp now exists (though probably not for long).
Inspired by the popular book series-turned-movie franchise, the Country Day School in Largo, Florida recently established a Hunger Games summer camp in which kids competed in a series of trials (think less "swarms of tracker jackers" and more "flag football") as they collected flags from other kids, thus signifying a "kill." Naturally, that rhetoric didn't sit too well with concerned parents, and the terms was then softened to "collecting lives."
However, that didn't stop campers from attempting some of the violent acts depicted in the source material. As the camp week progressed, counselors had to keep reminding the kids that there would be no actual violence or fights to the death. The camp's head counselor, Lindsey Gilette, told the Tampa Bay Times that "the violence the kids had expressed was off-putting."
Halfway through the week, the counselors decided to rethink the program and gear it more towards team-building exercises. Of course, given the inherent violent nature of the books and movies, the odds were probably never in their favor to begin with. (Ba-zing!)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s cast and crew have confirmed three big changes coming to the film that are very different from the book.
The news was passed along by Entertainment Weekly in their Fall Movie Preview, on newsstands Friday.
For one, Peeta is not paralyzed at the start of The Hunger Games tournament. “We manned him up a little,” said director Francis Lawrence. “And by the way it didn’t take a lot, just little choices to make here and there. The story doesn’t really change, his relationship with Katniss doesn’t change, he’s just a different kind of character.”
Added Josh Hutcherson who plays the character, “The option is for either me drowning or sitting there like a cat batting my paw into the water. Either way the visual is horrible.”
Change number two: Bonnie and Twill, the District 8 escapees who tell Katniss about District 13 have been removed. Producers had to come up with a new way to introduce District 13, but the article does not reveal how they accomplished it.
The third and final change (in this article, anyway) is the removal of the character Darius who intervenes during Gale’s whipping. No details were provided concerning how the scene plays out.
Said producer Nina Jacobson about the changes, “It’s as agonizing for us to lose things from the book as it is for a fan. I want every single thing in there. But you know what? If you have to give up something in order to give more time to Katniss and Gale or to Effie as she starts to feel a conscience, you make the sacrifices in order to serve the characters and themes that are more essential.”
Jacobson brings up a good point: There are already many important characters in The Hunger Games series, and introducing several more can make it difficult for the audience to follow. They may also feel underwhelmed.
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My goodness I just can´t imagine how visually incredible the arena action is going to be! The action there alone has more VFX this time from what happens in the book!! Ahhh!!
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This is very promising
Having said that, I'm enjoying very much the modifications on the character for the movies so far. Not only Elizabeth Banks fought hard for the role, but she is a talented actress, and they should use that to "humanize" the character and turn her into a more relatable one.
Quaalude fight: because drunk fight is too mainstream.
I love Banks she´s nailing it!
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And it's been a LONG time since I've read Catching Fire, so I might be missing this part, but didn't just Flavius (of the District 12 team) cried? I don't remember any passage of her crying.
Quaalude fight: because drunk fight is too mainstream.
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The Hunger Games Summer Camp is a Terrible Idea
Florida-based summer camp latches onto worst theme ever.
What self-respecting parent would knowingly send their kid to a summer camp based on The Hunger Games, I don't know, but apparently that camp now exists (though probably not for long).
Inspired by the popular book series-turned-movie franchise, the Country Day School in Largo, Florida recently established a Hunger Games summer camp in which kids competed in a series of trials (think less "swarms of tracker jackers" and more "flag football") as they collected flags from other kids, thus signifying a "kill." Naturally, that rhetoric didn't sit too well with concerned parents, and the terms was then softened to "collecting lives."
However, that didn't stop campers from attempting some of the violent acts depicted in the source material. As the camp week progressed, counselors had to keep reminding the kids that there would be no actual violence or fights to the death. The camp's head counselor, Lindsey Gilette, told the Tampa Bay Times that "the violence the kids had expressed was off-putting."
Halfway through the week, the counselors decided to rethink the program and gear it more towards team-building exercises. Of course, given the inherent violent nature of the books and movies, the odds were probably never in their favor to begin with. (Ba-zing!)
The news was passed along by Entertainment Weekly in their Fall Movie Preview, on newsstands Friday.
For one, Peeta is not paralyzed at the start of The Hunger Games tournament. “We manned him up a little,” said director Francis Lawrence. “And by the way it didn’t take a lot, just little choices to make here and there. The story doesn’t really change, his relationship with Katniss doesn’t change, he’s just a different kind of character.”
Added Josh Hutcherson who plays the character, “The option is for either me drowning or sitting there like a cat batting my paw into the water. Either way the visual is horrible.”
Change number two: Bonnie and Twill, the District 8 escapees who tell Katniss about District 13 have been removed. Producers had to come up with a new way to introduce District 13, but the article does not reveal how they accomplished it.
The third and final change (in this article, anyway) is the removal of the character Darius who intervenes during Gale’s whipping. No details were provided concerning how the scene plays out.
Said producer Nina Jacobson about the changes, “It’s as agonizing for us to lose things from the book as it is for a fan. I want every single thing in there. But you know what? If you have to give up something in order to give more time to Katniss and Gale or to Effie as she starts to feel a conscience, you make the sacrifices in order to serve the characters and themes that are more essential.”
Jacobson brings up a good point: There are already many important characters in The Hunger Games series, and introducing several more can make it difficult for the audience to follow. They may also feel underwhelmed.
From what they say, the first part of the book was trimmed, and it's good because it was the weakest part of the book.