News: "Hunger Games: Catching Fire devours US box office"

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Having said that, I should warn you of possible inside jokes during this blog post. Oops, a little late I guess. A little hint: the gag in the hyperlink text is true "black" humour...

Have you read The Hunger Games? No? But you've seen the movie, haven't you? Neither? Ok, seriously, you must a be a robot from the NASA constructed for Mars missions because only someone running around on another planet could have missed that one. I mean, please, even I have seen the film! And I even read the first book. And it's rather difficult to get me to read a book, to be honest...

Okay, so the second installment of the saga of The Hunger Games launched last week in cinemas around the world. Catching Fire is the title of the sequel all the fans have been waiting for anxiously. Wait, why anxiously? Basically because, even though it definitely was a decent piece of cinematic work, the ones who had already read the book (and had consequently become really, like really hysteric about the movie... I'm speaking from experience) were disappointed because of the abundant discrepancies between the first film and the novel.

This girl is on fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeeeee! This girl is on fiiiiiiireeeeeeeeee!

But this time they spared neither trouble nor expense (the latter being reflected in the more lavish budget in comparison to the predecessor) so Catching Fire would outperform the first movie. And hell they did a good job. According to the source of this news item, Catching Fire has had the 4th best opening in the United States of all time. Only The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part II surpass the $158 millions of Catching Fire during the opening period.

I went to see the film myself last Saturday, more or less voluntarily. I guess I should explain myself. I was actually going to watch another movie but as I arrived in the cinema I realised two crucial facts:

1. A lot of people live there. More than I thought. I've never seen that much people in that cinema before.

2. The consequence of point 1 is that they spontanously decided to occupy another hall for Catching Fire without informing about that on their website. Guess which film was kicked out of the programme. Exactly, the one I was going to watch. So finally I had no other choice but to... well, catch fire.

The problem is, I planned to read the book first this time (something I never accomplished in my lifetime). I have it at home. Virgin. I mean, I haven't read it yet. No time, other interests, etc. *Sigh*... I'll read it this Christmas I suppose.

But I promise, I'm going to read part 3, Mockingjay, before the films come out! Especially because they'll divide the third movie into 2 parts *giggle*.

My humble opinion about the movie? It was great, way better than the first one. And my trustworthy sources told me that Catching Fire is much closer to the book it's based on. If you haven't seen it yet, it's really worth it, give it a try! Catching Fire really skews the former opinion of the fans on the cinematic realization of novels!

And no, as you've already noticed, I'm not really part of the THG fandom... Though I really appreciate the saga. Anyway, it's part of those fandoms basically teenage girls belong to. And I'm saying that without any trace of sexism, it's just my observation. There's that Internet phenomena of teenage girls addicted to several book sagas with great fandoms, for example about Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Chronicles of Narnia... It's quite interesting in fact! 

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Oh, and I forgot to mention something very important. I love Jennifer Lawrence, the actress playing the role of the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen. She really crushes Hollywood's stereotypes. She is no anorexic Barbie puppet, but a well-built nimble-witted young woman with a great sense of humour. If I hadn't known about her personality I'd probably have said she's not my type, but her attitude makes her too sexy to ignore her. So girls, THAT is what we men seek. Or at least many of us.