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I didn’t care much for The Hunger Games movie but its sequel, Catching Fire, definitely redeemed the franchise.
Catching Fire comes out tonight at midnight and all the coffee would be worth it enough to see it.
I have a single word to sum up the entire movie of Catching Fire. Magical.
Not the kind of magic found in fairy tales that give their princess happily ever afters. No, this was the kind of magicalness that gives you that natural high.
The adrenaline rush you feel after you get off a rollercoaster. A rollercoaster of emotions and intense drama that keeps you at the edge of your seat during the whole ride.
The graphics were perfect. The plot line was well balanced with action, drama and romance. It had a structure line that every future movie needs to follow.
Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence, was just as beautiful as always. She struggles with her old love with Gale, Liam Hemsworth, and her new growing love for Peeta, Josh Hutcherson. On top of that, threats from President Snow and not to mention reentering the hunger games for the ‘quarter quell’.
Everyone’s acting was flawless, it was easy to forget you were even watching a movie. It was more like watching someone’s actual life play out in front of you.
This movie engages you in a way no other movie has before. When the characters got hurt everyone in the audience cringed at their pain. You became that connected to them that you felt what they felt. When a character died you cried like it was your own mother who died. You became a part of this world that Suzanne Collins created.
It was not a massacre of violence but it wasn’t something you should take your toddler to see. Even though romance played a role in this movie, it was not the main focus like it was in The Hunger Games. Catching Fire was more based on standing up for what you believe in.
Catching Fire was a fantastic movie. Honestly, the best I’ve seen in a really long time. It was the first movie I had to take multiple deep breaths after it was over just to fully digest everything I had just experienced.
The ending left me with hunger cravings. By the time the movie ended, it seemed like the movie was only half way done. I wanted more.
Everything I thought was going to happen, happened in a brilliantly different way. This plot was truly just so well thought out and precisely planned that I just don’t know how I’m going to be able to wait months or years for Mockingjay to come out.
