Hunger Games Movie 1 Trailer

[Stella Kreuter]

FarmCredit Mid-America, Rural 1st and Franklin County Fair have partnered together to collect food donations to benefit local food banks as part of a statewide food drive contest for selected counties. Fight the Hunger, Stock the Trailer is a friendly competition that challenges junior fairs to gather food donations for local food banks across Ohio.

County Junior Fair boards are leading this contest and coming up with their own unique and creative ways to raise the most pounds of food. Franklin County Farm Bureau is partnering with the Jr. Fair board to help gather the nonperishable food items. Donations can be accepted before the fair by dropping them off at the Farm Bureau office Monday-Thursday 9 am-4 pm at 4647 Leap Ct. in Hilliard OR the fair office Monday-Friday 9 am-4 pm at 4100 Columbia St. in Hilliard. Monetary donations also are acceptable and will be used to purchase non-perishable items to be added to the trailer during the week of the fair.

Prizes include a $500 award for each county fair that contributes, followed by a $5,000 donation to the fair that raises the most food, followed by $3,500 for second place and $1,500 for third place. All prize money awarded will support local youth activities. The contest is one of many ways Farm Credit Mid-America and Rural 1st give back to rural communities and support local agriculture.

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Let me start by saying that yes - there are a million things related to the election we could talk about. But my last three posts have been about the election, and this isn't a political blog. Gotta talk about other things from time to time.

Belle is, as many of you know, my favorite Disney princess by about a thousand miles. This is my favorite Disney movie of all time. I had a reeeeeeeeally high bar for what the new version should look like, and I wasn't disappointed. Not even a little bit.

My original idea for this post was to do a shot-for-shot comparison of the trailer to the old animated movie, but upon logging into Facebook this morning, I discovered that my friends over at moviepilot.com (we're not friends, I'm just trying to sound cool) had already done that. So here's a tip of my hat to their fine work that I am about to steal and comment on.

Okay I know. It's so good. Everything is perfect. But follow me, nerds, as we take it a step further. The video below will take you through the entire new trailer shot-for-shot with the original movie.

In the new movie, it looks like Maurice gets locked up for picking a rose from the Beast's rosebushes. Great casting here, as this guy 100% looks like he'd wander onto an abandoned, spooky ass property and start messing around with things.

AMAZING. There's something about seeing these things in live-action that gives the the movie new life. Sure, it's easy to imagine talking furniture and appliances when it's animated, much like it's easy to imagine talking animals or talking toys. But when Lumiere and Cogsworth really look like a candlestick and a clock, then they start TALKING?? Enchantment is the only word. I just gave myself goosebumps. I am SO EXCITED.

WHO didn't love this scene in the original?? This is basically every nerdy girl's dream situation. It's the most spectacular. Emma Watson gets all the good parts. Also, in the same way we miss the true magic of talking furniture, we forget that the Beast actually has straight-up horns growing out of his head until we see them on a real life version.

I'm just overwhelmed and SO excited that it looks like they've gotten it so right. Every choice they made in terms of casting, costuming, set design - it's all transporting us to a real-life version of this world we all wish actually existed. This is the epitome of Disney magic.

As promised, this presumably final theatrical trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 that debuted over the weekend at Best Buy is now online for all to see. Anyway, I saw "presumably" because that terrific trailer that premiered at ComicCon in July (and dropped online a week later) was supposed to be the final theatrical trailer. And while it was allegedly the final traditional trailer for the film, we've had two more trailers since then, both of which were basically full-length sales. But this one is totally the final trailer, right?

We got the "Hey fans, remember Prim?!" 2.5-minute nostalgia reel last month which came THIS close to undoing all of the nice things I've had to say about Lionsgate's non-spoiler campaign for the franchise up to this point. I have not read the books, but I have to assume that you put out a teaser like that before the series finale because Prim makes a deal with the Matrix to broker a peace in exchange for killing Agent Smith, takes over for as the keeper of Davy Jones's locker, flings the Emperor into a bottomless bit, uses the great sword of Gryffindor to kill a snake which represents the final Horcrux, dies a hero, or lives long enough to see herself become the villain.

But still, we don't know so it's not a spoiler yet. And now we have this "final" trailer, which runs about 110 seconds long and is very much a "final trailer" to a series finale, which is itself a relatively new phenomenon over the last decade. It's enough of a traditional trailer that should I do a "best series finale final trailers" post in the coming days, I won't have to waffle over which one to include for The Hunger Games franchise.

As for the actual trailer, it's pretty cut-and-dry. We get a brief "Remember Prim?" beat, followed by Katniss's big rally the troops speech intercut with major characters looking glum. And then, in the last thirty seconds, the trailer goes all-out in a somewhat standard action montage. As was the case with the trailer that dropped in July, I have absolutely no idea how much of this action montage material, some of it genuinely fantastical, qualifies as "spoilers" since I have not read the books. That one contained less action clips and presented them in quick-cut montage, but the result is the same. It means I may have to wait until I see the film to do my planned "kudos for a spoiler-free ad campaign" post for the whole franchise. Oh well.

All that really matters at this point is just how big the final "Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss" film will be. Can it become the first modern franchise to have three $400 million+ domestic grossing chapters? Can it use the overseas 3D conversion to soar above the $864.9m worldwide total of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and become the fifth 2015 release to hit $1 billion worldwide? Heck, even if The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2"only" makes $350m+ domestic, it will become the second franchise in history alongside of Star Wars to snag three $350m+ entries, although I will presume our next Star Wars film will make it four and the next Avengers film will allow said franchises to join said 3-peater club. And yes I know adjusted for inflation that every single Star Wars movie would top $400m domestic.

However, this trailer is a remarkable improvement. Even Cinna looks like he might do a good job, and I had low expectations for their portrayal of that character. The locations and music create an atmosphere very true to the books, which is great. Hopefully, the movie will be able to stand up to the excellence of the trailer.

Love your enthusiasm, and I share it. But Hutcherson is the weak link for me, which is cause for serious concern considering the weight of the narrative responsibility that rests on his shoulders. Real or not real?

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