The Hunger Games: Catching Fire- So my wife is obsessed with the books, adores them and loves the characters, as she usually obliges watching violent flicks for me i oblige watching bad flick for her. We saw the first one a when it was released and whilst it wasn't awful, it also wasn't good, naturally i had my reservations, especially given she also loved the twilight books (don't worry she hated the movies).
Anyway, i really, really enjoyed this. I get the appeal of it now and actually turned to my wife afterwards and said "i get this, i will never get the appeal of twilight but i get this". J-Law is really good and carries the film well, not to mention she is gorgeous, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson give a better love triangle to Katniss than T-Lau and R-Patz ever could in twilight and the overall themes of the film and the political messages are really well done, if a little heavy handed (they are young adult books so we shouldn't be too harsh).
The addition of Philip Seymour Hoffman was an awesome surprise as well.
Anyway, for the skeptics give this a go, it wont disappoint. 8/10