The Comic-Con trailer for the final chapter of The Hunger Games movie series is out for your enjoyment. – Alex
Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
TwitView: Fans will rejoice! Casual viewers may find the editing patchy. Still, a worthy entry in an excellent series. B+
Seems like forever since we’ve seen Katniss, Peeta, Gayle and the gang fight against the man President Snow in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Heck, I’ve even watched Catching Fire on Netflix a time or two already. But it’s only been a year. Time flies, don’t it? But it seems like the filmmakers have taken their time and crafted a compelling film with Mockingjay Part 1. Screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong (yes, Buffy‘s Jonathan) do an excellent job breaking the novel in two, ending Part 1 with a nice cliffhanger of sorts; the Districts readying for civil war (not a spoiler if you’ve been paying any kind of attention).
If you’ve forgotten, when last we left Katniss, she was being air-lifted out of her second Hunger Games, the 75th Quarter Quell. Rebellion is on the horizon for the Districts, and megalomaniacal President Coin (Donald Sutherland, obviously enjoying his eeeee-vil) bent on her destruction. In Mockingjay Part 1, she wakes up in District 13, the District that was supposedly burned to the ground. But they’ve been waiting for a leader to rise, and Katniss looks like their dream come true. ¡Viva la Revolución! But where’s Peeta…?
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
24 go in. 1 comes out. The Hunger Games is a harsh look at an even harsher post-apocalyptic world where the winner of a civil war uses the lives of children from the losing areas as a yearly reminder that the losers have truly lost everything. Throwing children into a pit to fight it out may seem a harsh topic for Young Adult Fiction — and it is — but it’s a topic that has caused the Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) to skyrocket up the bestseller charts. Fans of all ages love the book, so it’s only natural that there would be a movie in the works. And now the first book of the series gets it’s close-up with The Hunger Games.
I won’t lie; I’m an unabashed fan of the books. I read them all in one weekend, the benefit of being late to the party, and I have my ship all ready (Team Peeta!), my nails painted for “my District” (Agro, for 11!), and my favorite secondary characters (Rue! Cinna! Caesar! Finnick! Oops, jumping ahead a bit….)
This movie is good; real or not real? Most definitely real.
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Tweet your way to The Hunger Games!
The Hunger Games are happening this month. Are you excited? I am! Got my District 11 t-shirt, and my Capitol Colors nail polish will be mine once I figure out where to buy ’em. Okay, I’m a little obsessed. But it’s all in good fun.
You know what else is fun? Advance screenings. And we can win an advance screening if we Tweet loud & clear. Wanna know what to do (and how to score some tickets)? Here’s the dish….
THE HUNGER GAMES Exclusive Footage on GMA November 14th
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Eager for a peek at the new The Hunger Games movie coming next year? Well, you only have to wait until Monday. Good Morning America will have a sneak-peek of exclusive footage from the movie Monday the 14th, and if you’ve seen the teaser posters you know it’ll be pretty darn cool.
Wanna read the press info? Of course you do. Read on!