Liam Hemsworth in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'. Having Oscar-winning writers penning your script also makes a big difference, and Michael Want to discuss the movie without SPOILING it for others? Go to our Catching Fire Spoilers Discussion.
Of course, the mere existence of a successful girl-powered franchise that does not revolve around potential suitors with supernatural powers is enough to keep. Critic Reviews for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It is heartening to find a teen-oriented movie franchise as gritty as The Hunger Games.
Even so, Catching Fire remains contradictory, caught in some nether world between nightmarish political allegory and adolescent escapism. Catching fire is a really big improvement on the first Hunger Games, no shaky cameras first of all. A decent movie with a sporty touch. A welcome change from the usual. The movie highlights the high and lows of the life of a sportsperson. While the first Hunger Games movie owed a weighty (if unacknowledged) debt to Kinji Fukasaku's controversial Japanese hit Battle Royale (and Koushun Takami's source This theme is clearly echoed in Catching Fire, which concentrates less on the horror of kids killing kids (the returning contestants.
Trailer The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
A scene from movie, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". - Courtesy Photo. By that standard, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - the second film culled from Suzanne Collins' bestselling trilogy - should be a placeholder, stuck between the older kid As Catching Fire begins, Katniss and Peeta are readying for their victory tour, pretending to be a couple, though Katniss' heart. The double, or even triple, meanings behind "Catching Fire" — the subtitle, as if you didn't know, of the second "Hunger Games" movie — burns through this exciting, thoughtful adventure drama like a torch to tinder.
PHOTOS: 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire': Meet the Key Characters. Although Catching Fire had a rushed and tumultuous preproduction period due to the departure of original director Gary Ross and a quick search for a new one that settled on Francis Lawrence (no relation to the star). I actually think The Hunger Games is a pretty awesome film franchise. Yeah, the movies aren't perfect, but they mange to entertain me.