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Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
Should have been titled Monsters: in the background
This is the most disappointing movie I have seen in a while. I have no idea why they even had "Monsters" in the title or movie for that matter. They could have saved everyone some time and money by not having monsters at all, seeing as how they only serve as a backdrop for a poor war story, which is really just a 5 minute shoot out and a 3 minute escape. It starts out with a sad story about some "poor kids" growing up in Detroit, so of course they think they are hard. They decide to join the army to fight monsters. They get their wish as they kill 1 shortly after arriving in the middle east. And that is about it, other than a few monsters being bombed there is no reason to have monsters in the movie at all. The monsters are decent looking even though they serve almost no purpose to the story, except to draw attention away from the HORRIBLE story. If you have 2 hours and nothing to do and can't sleep , it might be worth watching. If only to put you to sleep.
The Hunger Games (2012)
Such a huge disappointment
I think the book is great, but this is not the book! It's almost unwatchable, it's such a mess. They changed key factors for the movie, like where the mockingjay pin came from, and the meaning of it. They cut out all of the violence and nudity, as well as key scenes that developed the characters and their relationships, making this movie feel incomplete and jumbled together. I mean there was no back story for Haymitch, Gale,or any of the Tributes, other than a few lines. Imagine reading a book and stopping in the middle of a sentence and skipping every other line, and sometimes entire chapters! The movie feels completely rushed with no direction and horribly edited. The director should be shot. I've seen better direction on an episode of Jersey Shore! Though the actors do a great job with what pieces of the script weren't cut out. The entire movie I kept waiting for commercials to come on, like I was watching network TV. I'm not sure where the $78,000,000 went! If you've never read the book, it might not be too bad.