i just watched three quarters of the first movie of the hunger games and it’s good! it’s really good! especially the pre-games stuff with Prim and District 12 and the Capitol. They conveyed a lot of information in very little subtle dialogue. Repositioned the Mockingjay pin in the narrative very well. The shaky camera work is really effective NOT on a big screen (especially the violence, tension). I even don’t mind the Capitol-perspective so much anymore - the gamemaker shit is completely unnecessary and detracts from the Games pacing and tension still of course but shit! whatever!
But GODDAMN. why . why???? the generic dogs? Why the FUCK would you soften the painfullest climax of a book ever? WHY?????? it was so effective, to have the tributes’ bodies cannibalised into another horror. Such a powerful gut PUNCH. now it’s a digital???? dogs???? that we can see coming?!!!! Why leave out the way Cato was ripped at for a night?? and the risk to her LIFE that Katniss took to give him a mercy kill. THAT. WAS. INCREDIBLE. especially because the Capitol loved it. THEY LET IT CONTINUE. why soften that? UGH.
and why cut out even a reference to Katniss’ troubles finding water? Why not emphasise why blowing up the supplies was such an important tactic because HUNGER?????? (hunger games)
also why, if Cato was already on the Cornucopia, the fuck did Cato not throw both of them into the mouths of the dogs? Srsly? he was behind them, and he threw them away from the edge?????
such a weak part. He has a baton! he could have crushed Peeta’s skull in one hit! instead he?????? tries to choke Katniss on the edge of the cornucopia while Peeta is only momentarily incapacitated. and Cato’s dialogue???? wtf???? so???? MEH???? follow the fucking books mate! why would he be desperate? he’s not already dead? He can kill Peeta in his hands, throw him at Katniss and tackle her. DONE. what the fuck.
SO WEAK. UGH. WHY CUT OUT PEETA BEING ON THE EDGE OF DEATH???
why make it seem like Katniss is not entirely aware that the Capitol sees her action as unforgivable?
