I thought they announced at the beginning that it would be a trilogy, which I remember thinking was not a great idea, because there were some laggy parts in Catching Fire, at least in terms of a film.
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Amy - Nov 02, 2011 4:58:14 pm PDT #16620 of 30000
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Nov 02, 2011 5:02:37 pm PDT #16621 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aren't they actually making four movies out of the trilogy?
Amy - Nov 02, 2011 5:03:34 pm PDT #16622 of 30000
Because books.
Seriously? Way to milk it, Hollywood.
DebetEsse - Nov 02, 2011 5:04:54 pm PDT #16623 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The last Twilight book is, I think, going to be in two parts, a la Harry Potter.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 5:35:11 pm PDT #16624 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The ONLY question I have is in which part will that put that birth scene? Because that is the only part of the movie I will see.
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2011 5:43:25 pm PDT #16625 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Nov 02, 2011 7:41:49 pm PDT #16626 of 30000
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The ONLY question I have is in which part will that put that birth scene? Because that is the only part of the movie I will see.
Yeah, same here.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 8:12:46 pm PDT #16627 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am hoping someone puts it on youtube.
Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:32:12 pm PDT #16628 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Isn't Katniss white? I didn't realize her race was in question. I think what threw me is that the photo really is just two blacks and a bunch of white folk, and race in America seems so much more complicated than that. Like I was surprised there were no Hispanics, although now that I think of it none of the characters depicted were overtly written as Hispanic so I shouldn't actually be surprised.
eta none was? none were? damn, I'm tired.
Kate P. - Nov 03, 2011 8:31:24 am PDT #16629 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Burrell, I did read Katniss as basically white, but a little darker than Jennifer Lawrence -- olive-skinned, possibly with some nonwhite heritage. Some Native American blood seemed a strong possibility. But I also read Prim as very fair-skinned, and I think we're meant to assume they have the same father, so it doesn't really bug me that she's cast as white.
It does seem odd, as you point out, that Rue and Thresh might be the only tributes of any race other than white (as far as we've seen, anyway). *That* contradicts my image of the characters and the world of Panem pretty strongly.