Absolutely loved the first film; in fact have watched it several times..didn't enjoy the follow ups as much. To me it's just a vision of a world in which oppressed people can stand up and fight for their rights, and I find Jennifer Lawrence totally captivating in it. After seeing her in Winters Bone, to my mind there was never going to be anyone else who could take the part. Mark Kermode [who loves the films] said the last film is a disappointment but it has stuck to it's ideals and for that reason it succeeds in what it set out to do. I haven't read the books so don't know what to expect in the last film, although I did start the first book and found it well written [I tend to flit from book to book these days]. To be honest, awful as the content of the books is I don't find it too far removed from what is happening around the world now; in fact, having watched some of Catching Fire over the weekend [I'm very taken with the soundtrack, having realised Ch 4 are using the Imagine Dragons song in one of their adverts] I have a vision of Katniss doing her three fingered salute to IS. It's god versus evil and, I'm very much hoping that, when I see the last film, good is going to win.
