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Dec. 11th, 2013 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13In a spur of the moment decision, I watched Catching Fire today. Like the first movie, it was muchly enjoyed. In fact, I couldn`t tell you which one I really favour. The new movie was quite a bit darker - I guess that`s a thing with GOOD middle parts of trilogies? - and this has its own charm to me.
I really enjoyed the new characters, the build-up and the story structure. It wasn`t a complete redo of the first movie insofar as how big a role the Games played. Sure, there was still a sizeable portion of the movie devoted to it but they weren`t the entire point of it like in Hunger Games.
The relationship between Katniss and Peeta was nicely done again. Her growing feelings felt organic, given the givens.
If I have a nitpick, it might sound like a very weird one: the bad guys were at certain points TOO evil for me. Sounds ridiculous, I know. And I`m usually not squeamish. I also don`t mean to say those characters were badly written and/or acted, at a certain point I just felt oversaturated with "and another bottomless pit of dasdardly evol we have sunk to". Not to mention the entire Capitol must be populated by what can only be described as naive sociopaths. They are completely beyond redemption yet have NO awareness of that. Odd.
Still, it in no way killed the movie for me.
Now if all goes well I`ll see the Hobbit 2 on Friday. Busy week, this.
I really enjoyed the new characters, the build-up and the story structure. It wasn`t a complete redo of the first movie insofar as how big a role the Games played. Sure, there was still a sizeable portion of the movie devoted to it but they weren`t the entire point of it like in Hunger Games.
The relationship between Katniss and Peeta was nicely done again. Her growing feelings felt organic, given the givens.
If I have a nitpick, it might sound like a very weird one: the bad guys were at certain points TOO evil for me. Sounds ridiculous, I know. And I`m usually not squeamish. I also don`t mean to say those characters were badly written and/or acted, at a certain point I just felt oversaturated with "and another bottomless pit of dasdardly evol we have sunk to". Not to mention the entire Capitol must be populated by what can only be described as naive sociopaths. They are completely beyond redemption yet have NO awareness of that. Odd.
Still, it in no way killed the movie for me.
Now if all goes well I`ll see the Hobbit 2 on Friday. Busy week, this.
