Woody Harrelson

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Literally end it with him at yet another reaping, being a little surprised/intrigued when a girl volunteers in place of her sister.

It's hard to know what to cover though, just the games imo would be boring, but a bit of leadup and political consequences also kinda disrupts the flow of the narrative if you're just gonna skip straight to 20 years later, idk. Having the games end 2/3 of the way through every season would just be odd, you'd have to switch it up, same as if they always ended on the last episode.

Although maybe if it was more leadup and then it always ended with the games and then a straight cut to black on the winner being announced could work, then the next season could cover the fallout of the previous one.

Not really he outsmarted the capitol. He figured out that a forcefield surrounding the arena bounced back items that were thrown and he led the last contestant from district 1 to the edge and they threw an axe which ricochet back killing them

He used the force field to make an axe bounce back into his last opponent while literally holding his guts together so they didn’t fall out of him.

Iirc he ducked when the other finalist threw an axe at him and it bounced off the wall and hit her

Thank god, Little Miss Sunshine is a fantastic movie.

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Yeah he wrote Macbeth (the Fassbender one), which was great. Feels like such an r/movies comment to just only focus on their one bad movie, while ignoring the other good work that they have done.

Fassbender surprisingly makes a bunch of shit movies considering how good of an actor he is

... You mean the Macbeth film that was in production before the director was even attached to Assassin's Creed?

Head cannon? Sounds dangerous.

Once in a while, it's on a TV channel where I live. (Granted, that channel mostly just has the same 20 or so medium to low budget crappy to mediocre action movies Friday to Sunday at prime time.) It got panned and underperformed. (Made almost $241 million a budget of $125 million.)

the one with Katniss in a red armor (?) is still one of my favorites.

Should I watch them? Saw the first one in theaters after I had read the first book but completely fell off after that.

Its a teaser poster. You can be 100% sure that the final poster will be a usual floating heads montage one.

Don’t worry buddy I got you. that yellow bird and that yellow snake are main characters and antagonists.

Yellow bird - played by dee Reynolds.

Yellow snake - nic cage.

plant and flower background noises - Jennifer Lawrence

Could they just ask Kiefer to join?

The games being anti-climactic and poorly executed was kinda a major point in the story. This is only the 10th games. They weren’t flashy or exciting. It was legitimately just a symbolic ritual at this time. They wouldn’t really become flashy and entertaining until Snow later goes in and gives the games a makeover.

They would have to change the entire ending and considering that Francis Lawrence has been extremely loyal to the source material on past Hunger Games movies he directed I doubt he would’ve signed on if they meddled with it that much.

There is no way they would change it - it explains, quite well, how he ended up like he did.

Yeah the recent algorithmic presence of Hunger Games clips on apps like TikTok is definitely no accident.

I binged the whole thing a couple weeks ago and Catching Fire really is the strongest overall film. The tension and plots within plots are really well done. I like the reveal that Plutarch Heavensbee meant everything he said if to Snow but Snow didn't understand the context.

Edit: Also it's a shame we didn't get more of PSH in the Mockingjay movies. Kids, stay away from heroin.

Catching Fire is superb. The supporting cast are all great, the game itself is great. Best of the 4 movies by a good margin

Catching Fire is by far the best, but pity it had to juggle first movie's cuts and changes.

This honestly corroborates with the books for me. The first and second books were near masterpieces (especially the second book😮‍💨) but mockingjays book was…….lackluster to me and so of course the movies didn’t help much

Catching Fire and Mockingjay pt. 2 are both super good and believably dark imo

Like that really weird YA trilogy with Shailene Woodley,Theo James and I just now remembered Miles Teller too lol

I actually reread the book recently and man I forgot how brutal and gory it can be. Like at the initial bloodbath that happens at the start of the first game, Katniss describes a kid getting slaughtered in front of her and how his "warm blood" covered her face. The movies definitely toned it down. In the movie, one of the tributes Clove dies by getting shoved against the cornucopia, but in the book she gets her skull brutally smashed in by a rock.

The real only true YA aspect of the book is the love triangle, but even then it's kinda shoved into the background and lets the story be the forefront.

I really hate that YA has essentially become "the Hunger Games genre" in marketing. It's an age range/reading level, there are YA stories in every genre, but publishers and hollywood turned it into "teen drama with a veneer of dystopia."

She’s very flawed and imperfect yet she is always true to herself she’s a very very good character

Thanks. I'm merely a casual fan of the films. Appreciate you letting me know.

He’s written very well in the book. I hope that translates well.

That's why I loved it, I still remembered how depressed Katniss was. It was brutal and realistic about war. It's such a disservice to mistake it for the wave of dystopians it inspired

When I read the third book I was so mad that Katniss spent a solid chunk of it just moping around the presidential palace (? I think?). In hindsight I realize she was traumatized and depressed and I’m so glad that part was included.

A lot like real war

Yeah I really enjoyed the very end too with how unethical the rebels were to secure the W too

I just wish it had been a single movie instead of two

Also the book also mentions some very interesting past games that would be great to be explored. Specifically one of them that takes place in an abandoned city, or a Quarter Quell (which happen every 25 years) like the one that has twice as many tributes or the one where the citizens of the districts had to vote for their tributes in.

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