I can see rearranging, but adding a whole extra movie? There's a lot in the beginning of Catching Fire you could (and probably should) zip over, when you're telling it visually.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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Amy - Jun 01, 2011 1:02:21 pm PDT #14626 of 30000
Because books.
-t - Jun 01, 2011 1:21:02 pm PDT #14627 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't know, I read them all in a rush and all three kind of blur together, cutting them up a little differently seems like it could work.
DawnK - Jun 01, 2011 1:53:58 pm PDT #14628 of 30000
giraffe mode
It might work, Suzanne Collins wrote the script so they could move some things around a bit, it might work. I worry that we will get one whole movie of just backstory - that would be sorta boring as you can show a lot of it in snippets or they will spend a whole movie on just the first 1/3 of Mockingjay.
Polter-Cow - Jun 01, 2011 2:31:42 pm PDT #14629 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Jun 01, 2011 2:50:07 pm PDT #14630 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, the main reason it seems to me, to make 4 movies is if they wanted to keep in as much action as possible. There's a lot of action (potentially, quite a bit written away in a paragraph) in the 3rd book, so if you wanted to keep those sequences - which may or may not feature Katniss - I'm all for it. They need to punch up the 3rd book anyway (until the finale) because some of it dragged.
tommyrot - Jun 01, 2011 5:17:36 pm PDT #14631 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
le nubian - Jun 02, 2011 6:58:34 am PDT #14632 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an imposter has been making movies using his name:
Funny shit.
Sad.
But funny shit.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2011 5:21:34 pm PDT #14633 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, so Beau was really excited about X-Men and we both just got home from the movie. In case you need to understand my taste: I liked the first movie; I liked the second one better: I did not like the 3rd movie. The Wolverine movie is not spoken of in our home.
This is an enjoyable movie. I was entertained throughout. With regard to quality, I don't think it is as good as X2, probably on par with X1, but more entertaining than X1.
The acting is pretty good and the movie is well-cast. There are a lot of clichés in the movie and a couple of them made me laugh out loud in the movie theater. There is a scene set in a covert building in the CIA. The line of text underneath the building literally said "A Covert Building of the CIA."
There is a lot of repetition with regard to Mystique and accepting the way she is. I wish the audience was hit over the head with this theme.
I didn't realize Kevin Bacon was in the movie, but I found his character to be a bit mu-ha-ha-ha evil and lacking in depth and subtlety.
I'd watch the movie again though.
Is it canon for there to be subtext in the relationship between Charles Xavier and Magneto, because damn. It's text in this movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 03, 2011 5:36:51 pm PDT #14634 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't think it's ever been more than an old friendship prior to their animosity in the comics, but Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen played them pretty much like exes who had a falling out in the movies. Bless them.
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2011 7:23:35 pm PDT #14635 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an imposter has been making movies using his name:
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Funny shit.
Sad.
But funny shit.
Unexpected Oldboy reference is unexpected!