Saw Catching Fire yesterday. Eh...It was acceptable. Not bad, but not exactly exceptional either.
The books, of course, still exceed the movies.

When is the next one coming out?

evillaugh wrote:That bad?

No. Doesn't mean it's bad. I just think it would be great as a series.

Apparently, Part 1 of Mockingjay hits theaters on Nov.21, 2014 and Part 2 hits on Nov.20, 2015.

Sheesh, everybody wants to split the last book of a series <<

Mockingjay needs it less than Breaking Dawn did. Wait, no, no book needs it less than Breaking Dawn did. Got to see more Lee Pace though, so bonus.

Speaking of which HOBBIT NEXT WEEK YOU GUYSSS.

Saw Catching Fire, the screening I went to was showing the Hunger Games beforehand. It works quite well that way, I quite liked it, although during the District 12 scenes I keep thinking "Why is no one wearing weather-appropriate clothing you are all going to die of exposure before anything else happens." It's all downhill from here though folks, enjoy it while you can.

I liked Catching Fire and The Book Thief. And really looking forward to the Hobbit too! And splitting Mockingjay into 2 movies makes no sense!

Some people just want to see us waiting in anticipation

GhostCornflakes wrote:Speaking of which HOBBIT NEXT WEEK YOU GUYSSS.

That's next week already? Yikes. I need to organise going to see that.

GhostCornflakes wrote:It's all downhill from here though folks, enjoy it while you can.

Why does everyone think that Mockingjay is the worst? It is the best book, by far.

Is it really?<<
I found the first book way better, Mockingjay is just a bit over the top. Besides, I prefer Katniss/Gale to Katniss/Peeta.

Nero wrote:Why does everyone think that Mockingjay is the worst? It is the best book, by far.

Ugh, no. It doesn't have the actual Hunger Games in, and those sequences are by far the best bits of the other two books. The battle sequence is nothing like as good. And then that ends and it just trails off into this long, weird and unsatisfying ending. I kinda get what she was going for, but it really doesn't work.

It's been awhile since I've read them, but I remember liking Mockingjay just as much as the others. I say downhill because I think splitting it into two films is a really dumb idea. and am skeptical about it working.

Saw Frozen. Actually pretty good, if a bit overhyped. I have some problems with it (don't even ask), but it was better than Tangled even if it wasn't as good as Wreck-It-Ralph or the Princess and the Frog

Unfortunately none of the animated films from any of the major animation companies in the next several years (with possible exception of HTTYD 2; for the love of god don't look up what they're trying to do with Terry Pratchett's Truckers) seem at all interesting to me until 2018, when we have Moana which actually sounds really cool, so this is basically all I've got for awhile.

I am a happy person generally, I swear. The film industry just frustrates me.

Frozen?
Better that Tangled?
From the trailer, it looked a bit like a rip-off, with very similar mannerisms

I just myself a sweet couple o' galla premiere ticket for The Hobbit.

Sweettttt. Also, I apologize, the Hobbit is out next week.

wrote:Frozen?
Better that Tangled?
From the trailer, it looked a bit like a rip-off, with very similar mannerisms

Well that was one of the big issues people had with the movie. Rapunzel and the two leads of Frozen have pretty much identical facial designs. The lead animator's response to the very legitimate criticism was basically "you don't understanddddd, animating women is really harddddd you have to keep them pretty but still have them go through a wide range of emotion" which was just screwed up on so many levels.

One of the first rules of character design is that if everyone looks the same with a hair and palate swap you are a bad designer. It's part of the reason my drawings for Lockwood and Bartimaeus are taking so long, I want to have some variety. For the company that pretty much invented feature animation it's quite disappointing. Plus it's tied into Hollywood's awful "all women have to fit in a very narrow appearance range for us to care about them" standard.

But Disney's marketing model right now seems to be based on "if it works once, repeat until it stops working" which is why promotionally the film looks so similar to Tangled, and why they pretty much gutted their 2D department (still upset about that). Looking at some of the early concept art people posted, apparently the designs weren't always so similar.

Storywise however I don't see many similarities. Which is good because I actually didn't like Tangled as much as everyone else seems to. And I probably liked the costuming and environment design better than anything else in the movie (there is a back part of my brain that just keeps going "so many colours, so pretty")

(People have also brought up various race and gender issues in regards to the film; I won't go into those because frankly I don't have much expertise on the subject and I don't want to misrepresent anyone.)

Oh look I wrote an essay again. Heh just ignore me.

Ah-ha. *is dazzled by the sheer amout of text*
Well, I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so i can't talk about the plot, but the stereotyping really sucks. Haven't they ever heard of diversity?
You didn't like tangled? *gasps* (just kidding) I liked it quite a lot, but this could have been the 'mother knows best' song, that I torture my mum with at every posible occasion :P I suppose that the story was a bit unrealistic, but hey, the princess saved her man instead of the other way around!

GhostCornflakes wrote:But Disney's marketing model right now seems to be based on "if it works once, repeat until it stops working" which is why promotionally the film looks so similar to Tangled, and why they pretty much gutted their 2D department (still upset about that).

I too miss 2D

Siiiiight
It seems they threw 2D away without a second glance.
So sad...