Hunger Games - The last part

I've always liked the Hunger Games films. Even before reading the books, but afterwards I always enjoyed the very accurate portrayal of the books. However going into this I had an unpleasant surprise - I no longer remembered that much of the books! Another un-pleasantry was the cinema's projector breaking, while the staff was very nice making sure it got working again I'm still pretty sure I missed a good 10 minutes somewhere.
From what I remembered it was perfectly accurate, from what I asked of friends it was too. I think I missed some of Katniss's inner thoughts from the book most from this. The ending in the movie had a completely different feel to it than the ending in the book for me, even if it was the exact same ending.

I loved the scenes with Peeta explaining the way his mind gets muddled and the others offering him a way to cope with the "true, not true" method. That felt believable. Peeta voicing his thoughts generally felt more believable than Katniss doing it. Maybe because Peeta is the sort of more emotional character from whom you might expected speaking about their emotions like that, with Katniss it just felt like they had no better way of narrating the inner thoughts in the book.

Which brings me to Gale - what the hell happened to Gale? He wasn't this bad in the books, was he? I felt like the only reason they made him kind of mean in the movie was because otherwise it would feel like Katniss was only settling for Peeta, but the thing is - for me it always felt like she did. So that felt like cheating.

Effie is my favorite character and it's always a bit of a shock that she does survive! I love her outfits above all, but I really missed the scene where she is captured for stealing bread. For one I think it was a great way to show that the District 13 was really not that much of a better place than the capitol and two - hey - it had Effie. That's a reason to have any scene.
Those were my thoughts.