@deanduncan63Saw #CatchingFire. Telegraphed, over-emphatic, pretty flabby. Bet we’d be cautious too though, just starting out. Must be hard to be a franchise film.
#CatchingFire. Would it be helpful if young people had a tad fewer stories featuring protagonists who are the Chosen One? Things don’t work that way, usually.
Hey! #CatchingFire kinda resembles Fritz Lang’s #Metropolis in its conflict patterns & its blithe, perilous ideology. Cf., slightly, S. Kracauer, 1947.
#CatchingFire, intertexts: Oppression opposed, for entertainment’s sake? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011439/ Really taking it on? http://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers …
… And most importantly, most impossibly, real life: http://icarusfilms.com/new98/boc.html