Okay so like many other people I went to see the midnight showing. I caved to the pressure of extended family members to go at midnight instead of at a normal time of day and it was a ton of fun. Even though I was being slightly irresponsible since I have had classes and work all day it was well worth the quality time spent with family (yes, that is my justification :) ) I really liked the show and I thought a lot of it was well done. I appreciated the fact that it was not as gruesome as they could have made it. (they hid a lot of the really violent scenes from the book by different camera angles, that way you know what happened without actually seeing blood and guts.) The two characters that surprised me the most that I really ended up loving who they picked to play them were Cinna and Haymitch. They were awesome. The film was not exactly how I imagined it though. Don't get me wrong it was good, but I didn't get the same wahoo that I did when reading it or after walking out of some other movies, I'm wondering if my expectations were too high-maybe I was way too tired, but I don't know.... What did you think of the show? Give me your opinions!
Cinna and Haymitch were so good! And Effie was hilarious. I absolutely loved it, but I need to watch it again when it's not the middle of the night too. :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVED their choice of Cinna! He was so awesome and not to "femmy" like I imagined him from the book.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was great too!! I am a little squirm when it comes to anything scary or gory so I had to close my eyes in a couple parts, but I agree it wasn't as blood and guts-y as it could've been!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your post. I have been a bit worried about watching this for the same reason of gore and all. I have heard similar things that you said from other people, so they seemed to have done really well with it.
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