As I was watching a pre-roll ad for Subway’s Catching Fire-branded Fiery Footlong Collection I remembered why I’d been nervously anticipating the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel since I first read it almost three years ago. The Hunger Games trilogy focuses on a dystopian land called Panem, where every year 12 adolescents are plucked from the population to take place in a televised deathmatch called, yes, The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is one of the dozen, and over the course of the battle finds herself (maybe) falling in love with fellow combatant Peeta, played by Josh Hutcherson.
The sequel Catching Fire was by far my favorite book of the trilogy, and I had a lot at stake in its transition to...
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