loved the fire dress

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2016)

Learned that this, of all movies, is the first, the very first, movie, since mid-Seventies with THE EXORCIST, that box- office super Ã¼ber-success was achieved with a only a female headlining the cast. Now that was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. You've gotta be wrong, it cannot be. PRETTY WOMAN, I wanted to yell out almost instantly, but that one is Richard as well as Julia.
But this sports thing is the big moneymaker, the big people's choice is this film with the waver-thin plot? There are so many holes in the plot, you could idly coast a Zeppelin through it. But this is the big name? I kept thinking of BAYWATCH. This might be without the beach, and the bikinis, but it's an activity show, with too little characterization, and a weak storyline that serves as an excuse to get on with what it is all about: mortal combat presented as televised sport. All the time we do not really get into the head of the main character, we mainly see her reacting. The movie is thus far more empty than you lot will ever realize. Everything of it is geared to the sequel, with many plot threads hanging loose, clearly they knew it was going to be hellishly popular, so let us do it this way. But why? Why? It isn't really that good, it's very basic, yeah, that's what I am trying to say. A winner it is not, it lacks a whole lot of finishing touches.
I am not just critical. I am not knocking it. I am saying THAT FOR ITS REPUTATION I EXPECTED THERE'D BE MORE THAN THIS.
I loved the fire dress, as impossible a notion as it is.
Noticed all those close-ups. Movie is filled with close-ups. Jennifer Lawrence is young and can fill the screen with her facial features. By MOCKINGJAY, no longer, I surmise. Only while you are young, my dear.
I will be watching CATCHING FIRE pretty soon, I have the 4-in-one boxset, thanks to having won it in a local review competition held by Raru South Africa.