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splitting this into 2 parts was the biggest film mistake of this decade

posted 8 years ago by kalelabud
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the first hunger games was a great movie. i remember watching it with low expectations and loving it at the end. the second one was also great, but not as memorable. this one was so boring and incomplete, i didn't even bother to watch the part 2.
even if a movie is split into 2, it must work as a whole. this movie just work as a prologue to nothing. it has the pacing that reminds me of the worst twd episodes. greed kills good narratives.

EDIT: oh sorry. it was actually the second biggest mistake. the biggest mistake of this decade was iron man 3.

[–] BenignPillows 8 years ago

You judge the split as "the biggest film mistake of this decade" without having even seen one half of it?
Ok..

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[–] nlight-36312 8 years ago

Nah. If you've seen part 1 then you've basically seen part 2 also

[–] electrictroy 7 years ago

False. Mockingjay Part 2 is actually a good movie, wherein they defeat the President and restore freedom.

Part 1 is the mistake... it should have been the first 30-40 minutes of a longer Part 2.

BTW the other biggest mistake was splitting Matrix's finale into two parts Reloaded/Revolution). That was another story that should have been one movie, and less boredom.
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[–] shieldsdraeger 8 years ago

What! Not "The Lone Ranger"?(LOL)

[–] jarol1 8 years ago

I watched all 4 in succession and I think it was a good idea to split the Mockingjay. It would have been strange to fit whole revolution into 2 hour film.

[–] electrictroy 7 years ago

Except 4 hours (total) is boring/stretched. It should have been one 2.5 to 3 hour movie

[–] tb-sch 8 years ago

even if a movie is split into 2, it must work as a whole. this movie just work as a prologue to nothing.

Sums it up perfectly. It is not even that they split it. There would have been enough to tell for two movies. But instead of distributing it in a meaningful way, they crammed everything into the second and left this to fill the same time with half the budget, knowing that few people will be disappointed enough to give up on the franchise in the middle (although boxoffice shows that apparently more people than expected did).