2012-03-23, 05:14 PM
Kurtle Wrote:You're completely wrong. The movie was bland and dull and lacked direction. It rushed through any chance of you getting to know the characters or understand what life was like for them in District 12. It played up the violence and action more than it should have and that was all they were trying to get to for an hour and a half. Literally nothing happened in the movie until the games started. It was very jolty and disconnected and you feel rushed into understanding a whole complex system and character's emotions and motives with no assistance from the film. Haymitch appeared out of thin air, why Effie assisted them made no sense, you didn't understand why they showed Gale back at home when Katniss is in the cave with Peeta, no evidence of Katniss having any thoughts beyond killing, no real reason to want her to save Prim, nothing. The camera angles were terrible and the cinematography was evidently lacking, remember the nauseating film effect during the fight at the end? The movie was bad. Take off your goggles. The only character we really met was Caesar. They used him to keep you from walking out of the theater in disgust.
Stop stating things as fact, those are your opinions, I respect them and you should respect mine.
I already said this but I'm not sure you're even reading my comments, I didn't consider the point of view of someone who hadn't read the books, I read it before and I knew what was going on, I already knew what the characters thought and what had happened. Yes, if you hadn't read them you wouldn't get as much, but hey guess what, I admitted that already on a previous post!
I honestly didn't feel a rush to get to the action, in fact a thing I appreciated was the silent and calm pace it took at first, there was no background music for quite a while making the focus on the dialogues and the characters. Why they showed Gale during the cave scene was pretty obvious, they had shown them earlier in the forest, they had showed the "let's run away" scene and they portrayed how she asked him to take care of her family.
Katniss not having thoughts beyond killing? Maybe it's the "goggles" you mention again, but how she treated Rue after she died reflects her personality. Same thing when she worried about Peeta when he was ill, or when she heard the cannon in the forest while she was hunting.
I guess you read the books, but I think you're underestimating the abilities of people who watch the movie without reading the book, you're talking like it's an idiot watching the movie who will not understand a thing, but a normal person would get a lot of what's going on.