The Hunger Games – Catching Fire: Bigger in Scope

Melanie and Melvin continue their summarization of The Hunger Games franchise following their previous party pleaser on The Hunger Games! This time, Katniss and the Hunger-Games-Gang is pulled into another Hunger Games! Who could have expected that? Melanie and Melvin are ready to pick-apart the political intrigue of Panam and question whether Katniss and Peta will ever stand a chance against President Snow! 

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)23-minutes discussing different ways to engage movies (phone, tv, theater) and hilarious-or-terrible movie theater experiences (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire succeeds in being a sequel that increases the scope of the world, characters, and everything in between. 
• Despite some of the improvements, parts of Catching Fire essentially re-do the material of The Hunger Games which got a little tiresome for Melvin who wanted to see some new experiences in the Hunger Games universe. 
• During the transition between outside life and the beginning of the Hunger Games the aspect ratio becomes much fuller. This likely helped engross audience members into the passive disorientation of going from clinical science-fiction décor to the outside survivalist environment.
• It’s a Young-Adult trope to have the protagonist vie between two romantic partners, but in the world of the Hunger Games it always feels like it’s a matter of whether or not Katniss will end up with Peta, not whether Katniss will end up with Peta or Gale.

Recommendations:

• John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) (Movie)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) (Movie)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language. It features Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, and Sam Claflin. Directed by Francis Lawrence. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is available here.

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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!

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