SPOILERS. My take on: The Mockingjay Part 1

Okay, so we allllll know I'm a huge fan of the books written by Suzanne Collins. I can say I've easily read them a dozen times in the last three years. I love them. I've seen everyone in theater, either on opening night, or the night after. I am obsessed, and I am okay with that.
So, my mom and I watched the movies in the Epic! theater, my aunt and uncle had a date in a showing half an hour after ours started.
My aunt says: It was AWESOME! ! Lish n Britt got to watch 30 min before me n Jimmy but I LOVED IT! It was true to the book and I LOVE KATNISS!! "If WE burn, you BURN WITH US!!"

to which I obviously responded:I disagree with a portion of that statement but I will not disclose which portion. I will be posting a blog about my feelings and opinions on the movie, filled with "spoilers." Read it after you watch the movie and see if you agree with me

She then said that every party has a pooper.
I don't believe I'm a party pooper. I think I'm an obsessed fangirl. So the part I disagreed with was actually the "true to the book part."
I've been saying "you will definitely experience some intense feelings" for everyone asking me if it's good.
Which, in and  of itself is actually a compliment. If you think a movie is terrible, you won't have any feelings. I mean, maybe you'd be upset, like I was with the Twilight movies vs Twilight Books. But even then, I didn't have feelings. I just said the acting was terrible. (And it was!)


My final ruling of the Mockingjay (now that I've had time to cool down and stop hating everything) is that it was really quite good.
I do this with all the movies.
Like, in The Hunger Games I was pissed that they omitted the goat story and the fact that Peeta's leg gets amputated. Oh, and that they made Katniss's personality dry - she was way more funny in the books.
And in Catching Fire, that they didn't have Darius the peacekeeper in there at all. 
So, here's what I didn't like about The Mockingjay (part 1)

1. Effie Trinket was in District 13.
why is this a problem with me?
In the books she was arrested and stayed captive in the capitol. The only time we are supposed to see her in the Mockingjay is in the end, when Katniss is getting ready to execute Snow, 

2. There was no naked Finnick.
why is this a problem with me?
In the book: Finnick is supposed to be super depressed and a little loony.
this is a conversation that is supposed to happen:
“Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell” 
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.

which then leads to Boggs saying:
“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” 
But really, Boggs was just a minor character in the movie. There was no laughter or fun stuff, no feelings.

3. They didn't do the District Propos
I don't know why this upset me so much. But they didn't do any "we remember" assaults.

4. There was no Katniss + Finnick super melt down.
After the bombing, Katniss is supposed to say "District 13 is alive and well, and so am I." but she starts freaking out and having a panic attack and they have to sedate her, which causes Finnick to start freaking out, and they're supposed to like, crazy besties. That didn't happen.
Katniss just was like "I can't do this." and everyone was like, "oh, okay."
Katniss is supposed to be seven kinds of crazy in the beginning. She isn't. There is only a little hint of crazy Katniss. Boo.

5. The friendship between Finnick and Katniss isn't anywhere nearly as heartbreaking...
This whole scene was picked over, they used the line in passing.
“How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.”
“The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.”

and there was no
“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.”
I seriously believe they just didn't want Katniss to smile at all the whole movie. 

6. The earpiece conversation never happened.
This was literally one of my favorite parts in the books. They didn't even have Haymitch go to district 8. 
"This is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it,"—Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day."

7. There was some really weird webcam convo between Katniss and President Snow at the end and I just wanted to slap the screen directors because that was totally just pulled out of thin air. That didn't happen. Plus, Katniss was in the dark about the entire operation, there was no magic camera feed. No. We don't know anything about Gale and Boggs and how they're doing when they leave until they come back to the compound.

Other than that, I totally support the movie.
Coin was just like I imagined her, though a little more supportive than I would have thought.
Plutarch was on point. So were "The Insects." The scene from district 8 was on point, as was the entire filming part in district 12. The story line basically stayed the same, just with a few emotional bits omitted. I do think they ended it a little oddly, I would have chosen a different point. But they definitely did just throw me off a cliff. I'm just hanging here. For 364 more days, until Part 2 is released. 

anyway.
that's what I think.
What do you think?