The highly anticipated release of the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, scheduled to be released Nov. 21, has been heightened by the release of a trailer and two teaser trailers. The regular trailer shows the standard shots that summarize the movie, while the teaser trailers feature messages from President Snow to reassure the citizens of Panem that they have everything under control.

I liked the first two books and movies very much. I was highly intrigued by the books and satisfied that the movies had followed them so closely. But I personally wasn’t very fond of the third book, compared to the previous two. I thought the beginning was too boring, and that the love interest between Katniss, Peeta and Gale became a little too intense.

I was also upset with all the people who died in the third book. Too many people died in the revolution, and these deaths completely diminished Katniss’s purpose of entering The Hunger Games.

I don’t think that the third film will be as exciting as the previous two films. I sense that there won’t be a lot of action in this film. It seems like it will be more of a buildup for the fourth movie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, which will bring an end to the book and movie franchise.

The first message from the Capitol shows Peeta, alive and well, standing alongside President Snow, who addresses Panem with a message about “unity, prosperity, and sacrifice.”

The second clip from The Capitol shows President Snow with Peeta once again, along with a large number of Peacekeepers. Just as President Snow starts to speak of “Panem today, Panem tomorrow, Panem forever,” the video is interrupted by a hacker, suspected to be from the infamous District 13, who interrupts the video to inform the citizens of Panem that “the Mockingjay lives.”

In the full trailer, the focus is placed more on Katniss. It shows glimpses of her arrival in District 13, her reunion with her friend Gale, her reaction to finding out that Peeta is still alive, and the preparation to battle the Capitol.

Having read the book Mockingjay, I have a general idea of how the film is going to turn out, as do most other people who have read the book. However, I think that the trailers give away too much. The clips of the movie that were shown reveal the whole story in two minutes. Still, I’m excited to see how the film will portray the details that make up the rest of the film.