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Last Hunger Games movie
Dec. 3rd, 2015 01:30 pmI came upon the franchise pretty late – I didn’t know there were any books, and when I saw the posters of a perfectly looking Katniss with a bow and fire behind her, that effectively killed my desire to watch the films. Then when I got the books for Christmas, I ignored them for half a year (mostly because of “love triangle” and “another Twillight” comments), until I finally gave them a shot in a rare moment of boredom. And then I completely fell in love with the series about quarter into book one, and I had to watch the movies too.
So, this was the first HG movie that I saw in the cinema.
(BTW, I really think that Hunger Games are one of those cases when knowing the books is kind of a requirement if you want to enjoy the movies. The books made me like the movies, the movies made me love the books more, and so on.)
As for this last movie, it probably won’t be my favorite, but I’d say they did quite well with it. They get huge plus points for keeping the action scenes to a reasonable amount (which was my main concern for the movie), and more plus points for sticking close to the book. All in all, I liked most of the “character scenes” there, and for the most part they handled the tone very well. I wish they had skipped the epilogue (which is darker and much less saccharine in the books), but if it had to be there, it was… okay. What also didn’t work quite so well for me was the soundtrack, but I might need another viewing to judge that (I loved the music of the first three Hunger Game movies, so my expectations were rather high on that).
Overall, I wouldn’t call it fantastic or mind-blowing, but it was still pretty good and a worthy conclusion to the whole series.
So, this was the first HG movie that I saw in the cinema.
(BTW, I really think that Hunger Games are one of those cases when knowing the books is kind of a requirement if you want to enjoy the movies. The books made me like the movies, the movies made me love the books more, and so on.)
As for this last movie, it probably won’t be my favorite, but I’d say they did quite well with it. They get huge plus points for keeping the action scenes to a reasonable amount (which was my main concern for the movie), and more plus points for sticking close to the book. All in all, I liked most of the “character scenes” there, and for the most part they handled the tone very well. I wish they had skipped the epilogue (which is darker and much less saccharine in the books), but if it had to be there, it was… okay. What also didn’t work quite so well for me was the soundtrack, but I might need another viewing to judge that (I loved the music of the first three Hunger Game movies, so my expectations were rather high on that).
Overall, I wouldn’t call it fantastic or mind-blowing, but it was still pretty good and a worthy conclusion to the whole series.
