Last Sunday (depending when it is that you are reading this) I took a trip to the cinema with a handful of friends to watch a movie no other than the obvious: Mockingjay part 1.
It's in the title duh.
Like the person I am I decided to do nothing else other than have a banter about it. However, I soon came to the realisation that I ran out of people to complain to about it and decided to turn to my trust friend: Letterboxd.
Letterboxd is a bit of a different social media where people who watch a lot of movies come to review movies and rate each one. You can follow me if you want but ya know it's like totally your choice... http://letterboxd.com/peskylena/
So, on letterboxd I wrote a review about Mockingjay, but because it is recent I got no replies yet.
Any body that used to get excited for a new episode of their favourite cartoon only to be disappointed by finding out it was just a filler in episode, will understand what I mean once they watch this movie.
To me, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 was plain boring. You might defend that there was depth to it, that it was story based and that it was as close to the book as it can get. No matter what you say I will stand with my point for one simple reason:
It is as clear to me as it can get, that this movie was just another from the series of "How do we get as much money as we possibly can".
Sitting and watching this movie I was excited for it, especially that I have not read the book and I wanted to find out what happens to the great female protagonist - Katniss Everdeen. However, I was about 20 minutes into the movie and I realised, that this was just too stretched out. Simply minutes lost on silence and staring competition between characters.
So my final statement would be:
If you want to watch it, watch it since most of other people I went to watch the movie with enjoyed it, but if you're seeing this just because you loved the first two movies - don't waste your time. They're not even in the hunger games.
So um yeah...
I don't plan on becoming a professional reviewer any time soon.
Another thing before I finish off that I want to mention is a little mile stone we met the other day.
So my blog has now officially had over 1k views so woo! ^.^
Thanks for that :)
- awesome.lena
