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Ahh ok makes sense, didn't know/remember that's how you guys did it, gotcha.

Someone open Mockingjay stat

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) Would appreciate if it's open by the time I get back :D

US critics are blasting this TDKR/Interstellar style. (Bets on the Mockingjay screening waiver including "please bash SPECTRE" )

Watch the previous three Craig films. This is effectively TDKR.

It's Serra's style though. If you've heard any of his other scoring work you'd get why he did that for GE.

Special Hunger Games preview attached to IMAX shows domestically.

Trailer coming http://www.albertafilmratings.ca/recentclasstrailers.aspx

Rewatch thoughts - better this time round. More rewatchable than SF in any case I feel. Madeleine/Bond relationship still a problem for me..... And really like third act, train scene on. This is where the film IMO really hits its stride tone and pace wise. Wish the first half was not so sterile but this will do for sure. PS. Newman leading his score into WOTW is a brilliant touch.

Watching it again later this afternoon. It doesn't blow away on first go, sure, but I think this will be a grower (plus I won't have the script in the back of my mind so much haha)

I think I need to watch this again. Feel that I'll warm to the changes from the script (idk I had the script in the back of my mind a lot of the time last night annoyingly) more. Maybe I'll go again tonight.

Review/stream of thoughts. It's fun. Very very fun. Craig's amazing in this, Seydoux is great if a bit too underwritten and too polarizing characterisation (thanks script rewrites), too little Monica which is a bit expected tbh, Whishaw and Fiennes are MVPs, Waltz is great. So many laughs and cheers in the audience. This is definitely the 21st century version of classic Bond. First 15 minutes, from the first frame of the MGM logo, are absolutely fantastic. Thing is, it feels like it should've been even longer, like 160 minutes even, between the end of the Mexico sequence and Austria it feels really cut down for time, not to mention that it's played far too straight and breezy sterile (thanks again script rewrites) with exception of a couple of fantastic scenes such as the Rome meeting But pacing improves as we go along, and actually the film gets stronger as it goes on, surprisingly the third act is very strong IMO. Dat cinematography (give Hoyte an Oscar finally please), and the song (which Newman actually does his own arrangement of in a later scene) actually works with the amazing titles from Kleinman. Overall, very fun and enjoyable but not perfect and not Skyfall. It feels a bit too sterile for the sort of thing this really goes for, it should've embraced and been more operatic in both the emotional and the fun sense in some bits, if you see what I mean. Closer to TDKR in that sense - after all, this is indeed TDKR - if you make CR/QoS Begins and SF TDK. Other points: - First minute will make any Bond fan squee - title sequence is mother of all couch gags - dat opening tracking shot - Epic cheers at end of train fight (you'll see why) - a certain line from Fiennes got the biggest laugh and cheers - JAMES BOND WILL RETURN at the end of credits. 8/10 Trailers: The Hateful Eight teaser (no reaction), Dad's Army teaser (no reaction), Mockingjay Part 2 theatrical (some murmurs of "this is the last Hunger Games"), Star Wars TFA final (cheers and applause at opening shot followed by nearly stunned silence) MEGA SPOILER THOUGHTS AND ANALYSIS/SCRIPT-TO-SCREEN BELOW Throw any questions my way.