Sydney Smith (Blog #16)

Catching Fire and The Hunger Games are two completely different, but similar movies. They had different directors, but they are in the same genre. They involve the same actors and are about the same series of books. They both very closely follow their respective books, which makes the audience of the movies very happy since a lot of directors don't follow the books very closely, and it ruins them.

They are different because Catching Fire was more emotional. I mean, The Hunger Games is pretty emotional, too. There's an a arena where all these kids have to fight to the death and the main characters almost don't make it and there's teenage romance and junk. But Catching Fire is so much more REAL. It pierces your heart and touches your emotions pretty hard. There's about the same amount of death in this one, but it's a different category of death. You watch an old man shot for standing up to the oppressive government. Katniss screams and fights to get to him as chills go up the audience's spines. The people are starting to stand up for themselves, and they are being heartlessly murdered. Families. Towns. Villages. Children. Mothers. Old people. It's not like The Hunger Games anymore.