[Movie] Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Are those zombies...?

 

I really hate this trend of splitting a single book into multiple movies - I UNDERSTAND why its done but many times most of these stories probably do not have enough content to span two movies so a bunch of scenes are either dragged out or new content is added in.

I read the book i dont plan on seeing this until they release some sort of cut where its one if they do - actually i dont know why I am posting this

back to your day people

 

I cant wait for this movie

 

For a short book like Hobbit, I can see this. However, a lot of books have more content than one movie can show. However, movies typically create a lot of new scenes to replace a lot of elements from different scenes in a book, to simplify the story, and just allow the director to have the story told his way.

 

She's divergent. Oh...my bad.

 

Spoiler

They made a point to show the air drop, isn't that when the little sister and all the others get killed? But based on the general direction of the movie so far, I doubt they'd add the dark twist that it could be the districts engaging in psychological warfare.

I haven't been a fan of the movies in general. Too PG vs what made the book good. The 3rd book is the darkest, I expect it'll be a very different storyline on the big screen.

 

Just watched it.

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Why is Katniss's baby Asian?

 

It was okay, but the I Am Legend zombie ish and catwoman right after it was a little disjarring.

I've forgotten that watching this in the theatres mean you'll have teenage chicken heads sitting behind you spoiling every five minutes of what the book would've been.

 

Probably skip this one until its on HBO. The last one was comically bad. Not hearing good things so far

 

This movie was bad if you watch it without the others. As a conclusion to the story, it was okay. That's the problem with splitting books into two movies is that they don't hold up well as individual movies.

 

I thought that was assumed, but totally agreed.

Better than Spectre, which half assed the connections between the past Craig movies and made everything a flat waste of time.

I mean they ripped off the spirit of the Nolan Batmans, then they should've went all in with the "unofficial" conclusion.

Disappointing holiday blockbuster season so far...

 

Having watched other franchises split the source material into two movies, they did alright as individual movies, but it did help to know the backstory. With Mockingjay Part 2, it felt too disconnected as an individual movie compared to other franchises, if that makes sense.

 

after part 1, i had low expectations when the wife bought tickets.
have to say better than expected, some scenes better than what i imagined in books.

explosions are comically tiny for what their society is supposed to be able to achieve with the hunger games and mutants and all.

 

I enjoyed the first two movies. Didn't enjoy the 3rd too much but figured it was just because of the split nature of it. But this one was pretty bad. So much of it fell flat for me. I really stopped giving a crap about any of the characters somewhere along the way in the 3rd movie and this last installment didn't do anything to get me invested again.

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So I haven't read any of the books, but did it feel weird to anyone else that Catniss would just decide to murder her leader in cold blood after only having a suspicion that she was the one that ordered the bombs be dropped? I mean Snow told her as much but he has been her sworn enemy for several movies now; that she would attribute too much to anything he tells her is ridiculous.

That part really bugged me. And then all the small stuff, like why they would rig all the black oil to recede for no reason at all, or why the Capital would have not immediately known that Catniss and most of her group left the building they were in and entered another (since it was later shown that they had VIDEO of that whole square). Or how in the hell these zombie creatures who seem to have no subtlety whatsoever manage to have like 4 of them sneak up on the squad leader in like a half a second. That was just for the jump scare, I know, but it was one of many things that felt stupid to me.

 

Spoiler

District 13's leader decided to appoint her self interim president for all 12 remaining districts indefinitely as well as wanting to murder of some children of the capital through the use of Hunger Games. Coin was a bigger threat of being a tyrant at that point than Snow.

 

Haven't watched Mockingjay 1 and will watch the last two later... but I'm curious on how they were able to go around Philip Seymour Hoffman's character after his death. Or did they already finish filming before he passed away?

 

They used the scenes he filmed. They made slight alterations to scenes he didn't film.