I cried. Did you?

Oh, not much at all really. The movie starts with a shot of a beautiful blue sky with white clouds and then pans in on a little girl daydreaming outside in Australia, 1906 and you hear her father's voice narrate the famous words, "Winds from the East, mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. etc."

The sound of a house buzzer interrupts the peaceful shot and then we are cut to mordern day 1961 England of Travers in her office. She opens the door for her agent and then their argument commences about her needing to go to California.

My Catching Fire Movie Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyT6o99zgVg

Wrlord2001,

First off, a question: what does 'pap' mean? Is it an abbreviation for something? I looked it up on urbandictionary.com and non of the results that popped up seem to match what you're trying to say about the movie.

I firmly, but respectfully disagree with your view of the movie. Of course, if you dislike it, that's fine. You probably have good reason for it. Everyone has different taste and all. :)

Thank you for insulting the movie going public and all the nice people who had honest reactions to this movie with your shallow, calculating comment. Any movie that makes you cry, get angry, jump out of your seat, scream, or roll over laughing is manipulating you - and it is NEVER easy!

Ric

I cried at the end when Emma's character starts crying at the end. But then I am a sympathetic crier. Thought it was an excellent movie that didn't rely on CGI and tons of violent action. It was just a sweet story beautifully told.

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"Let's not ask for the moon, we have the stars".

A few times.

The first time--and I'm surprised no one's mentioned this--is when Pamela as a little girl saves her mom from the river. Disney films seem so afraid of death scenes now (I grew up with The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc) that I wasn't expecting that scene at all. As her mom was walking to the river, I was like, "No, they're not gonna go there. No way would Disney even hint at a suicide attempt, let alone . . . Holy sh!t, they're going there." And when Pamela swam after her and said, "Mother, it's time to go home now," and her mother turned around and swam back to her, sobbing, unable to leave her children, I bawled.

I also cried during the premiere scene when Pamela was watching the film. It hit so many notes for me. As a writer myself, I know what it's like to care about characters so deeply until they become flesh and blood in my mind, and it was quite effective to see the film we all grew up with as children cut between her memories. As someone else said, it's strange to see a film that brought many of us countless childhood memories come from someone's tragic life.

Nevermore!

The scene with the kite song almost caught me but the premiere was my cue for the waterfalls to begin.

As a person who lost her father shortly after my 18th birthday after a prolonged illness, the bedridden Travis hit so close to home and the ending was exactly how I'd have reacted if was the author. Losing a loved one is so hard but as a girl losing her father is alike losing your compass. A mother will always be your ship but if you lose your compass early you will need lots of time to find your way afterwards.

The premiere, Colin's bank speech and the attempted suicide were all the parts I cried.