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I read the book a few years ago and I completely forgot about that so I really enjoyed the scene. One of the best from this movie.

Yep. You'd be right I love RotF.

Well, it's the middle of the night here. That's LATE You americans and your clock.

I actually liked that part. Also liked it in the book. Hutcherson's scenes where the best part of the movie imo. You could see two worlds colide: the Capitol and D13. There was way too much focus on Katniss' feelings though. I know that's the book, but this is an adaptation. After a while it became boring to watch.

Anyone cares to resume the last 40 pages? Anything about Sat numbers?

Just saw this and I have quite a few things to say. Before I start, I wanna say that I know I'm not a big HG supporter, but I'll try to keep my review as unbiased as possible. I actually decided to see this out of the blue. I was bored today so I re-watched the first HG the first time since I saw it in theatres. I like it less than then, but it really made me wanna watch MJ1 so I went with the flow. My 9:30 in the evening show was around 70% full. More about audience's reaction to it later. For the most part I enjoyed the movie. It has it's moments. For example, "The Hanging Tree" song scene (the chorus at the end, not Lawrence's version - I said it before: her version doesn't fit at all) + the dam scene was fantastic. Also the scenes after the destruction of the hospital. But there are MANY other moments that (like some people already said) are there just for the sakes of it or they are stretched way too much. The movie is bloated. If feels bloated and the audience felt it (I'll explain why in a sec). From all the movies in the series, this looked the best. You could easily see the budget (one complaint: I would've liked to see the bombing of District 13 from the outside too). Regarding the acting, I have only good things to say. Hemsworth is trying, Lawrence is good as always, Moore is great, but what truly amazed me was how incredibly good Hutcherson was. Literally every single one of his scenes was perfectly acted. They played his change really good up until that fantastic moment at the end with him completely insane. Before I get into my audience and it's response, I just wanna say I hate critics and 90% of the time don't agree with them, but they got one thing right: despite great acting and visuals and some shivering moments, MJ1 feels like the first part, and not in the way DH1 felt for example. That is one of my least favourite Potter movies, but it still had a climax and a lot of tense scenes. MJ1 sorely lacks that. MJ1 is the aftermath of CF and that's it. The story does not move forward almost at all. You can resume the entire movie like this: Katniss decides to help the rebellion and Peeta is saved. Period. There's nothing else. Which brings me to my audience's reaction, and it wasn't a good one. When the title of the movie appeared at the end, after Peeta's insanity scene, someone guy in front of my yelled: "Give us our money back." And everyone started laughing. Now, you can take that as a joke, but then, when I'm almost out of the room, I hear another guy saying: "They saw they hit the jackpot with the first two and now they keep making them. She [Katniss] did nothing the whole movie. She shot down two planes and that was all. Sorry, but that's how it was." The last phrase was directed at one of the girls in his group, probably his gf, and she replied: "No, you're right." Now, I wanted to mention this because I find it understandable from a guy to complain about the lack of action, but my audience was 70% girls and it seems even they are not pleased. It will open under CF here I think and I seriously doubt the legs will be good with this kind of WOM and much more competition than CF had. Uh, long post. In the end, as a stand-alone movie, I'd grade it B, but as part of the THG series, I'd grade it C (with CF being an A- and THG a B+). And that pretty much because it did not feel like a HG movie to me.

Read Panda's post above. It's pretty accurate.

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Well, now I know

Because you didn't like it

Better than. Can I join you? Why would you do that to your kid. Why, Tele?!!

I reached it about an hour ago...

I really like the coffee drunk Kelli.

I don't even particulartly like THG, but I wish MJ1 to win the year just for that excuse for a movie doesn't.

Also, using that OW range (112-133M) and CF's multiplier, we talk about a total between 301-355M. The middle: 328M.

Slightly off-topic , but using the title range (51M low end, 60M high end) and CF's drops, we talk about a weekend in the 112-133M area. The middle would be around 122-123M. That's quite a drop.

Yeah, just like it pulled a 75M OD

If The Hobbit beats this it will make my YEAR.

I fuckin love this weekend. I haven't laughed so much reading a thread in a long time

LOL. If this opens lower than DH1 I'd laugh my ass off.

DH2's 3D share was 43%. A small percentage considering TF 3 had it at 60% a few weeks earlier. I think the OW would be in the 150M area without 3D. As for DH1 potential 3D bump, it would've likely carried it to 140M, give or take 1-2M..

But it's not comparable. The difference between HBP and DH1 was about 6M, where the difference between CF and MJ1 will likely be over 50M.

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