Hunger Games Series

     On November 20th, 2015, the last movie of the very popular series, Hunger Games; Mockingjay Part 2 comes out. The first movie of the 4 part series came out on March 23rd, 2012 and from then on everyone was hooked. If you have read the books then you have definitely been hooked before any of the movies came out. For many people this will be a sad day because, it is just like the Harry Potter series (that was a big longer) once the final movie is put out into the world, there is nothing left to look forward to, all you can do know is re-read the books and re-watch the films until you know every single word and can recite it in your sleep. That was a bit overboard.



Phillip Seymour Hoffman

     Over the past three years different directors have come through, different actors, and even one of the characters passed away off set. In Mockingjay part 1, the character Plutarch Heavensbee, known in real life as Phillip Seymour Hoffman died on February 2nd, 2014. His death was ruled as mixing drug intoxication. When it came to the point where people started questioning what would happen with Mockingjay Part 2, his parts had been mostly filmed by then and the parts that were not filmed yet, the play writers re-wrote. Another thing that had caused some trouble was the first director. The director for the first movie wanted to take five years to create the second movie, so the producers of the movie decided they did not want to put that much money and time in, so they found some one new. Thankfully the new director lived up to the first movie and all was swell from then on.  

     The three movies that have been released, in my opinion, have lived up to expectations, yes there were some scenes missing from the movie that were in the book, but the rest of the movie made up for it. Something that I have noticed is that the popularity of the movies has gone down since the first movie was released, but I think the acting and producing is still as good and interesting as the first movie.

     Just like the very popular Harry Potter series, this series has to end as well, and I think by making the last movie into a two part is kind of genius. Instead of cutting out important scenes from the final book, they are splitting it so there is enough time to get all of the amazing details onto the screen without sitting in the movie theater for four hours. This also happened with the Harry Potter series, and I think by making the final movie into two, it makes people want to come back and see the rest, instead of just sitting through one entire movie and maybe nodding off during it. For anyone who is very dedicated to the Hunger Games series, don't be upset it's ending, there will be more book/movie series that will come out and you will move on. 

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