Dragging It Out

Dish Network gave me a free premium channel the other week, and so I watchedThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I. Which was a kind of masterpiece, because in a film over two hours long nothing really happened. What’s going on is that the success of theTwilight films, in which the final volume of the trilogy was broken up into two separate films, has created a new paradigm— Two movies! Twice the money! I haven’t read the book on which the film was based, and so I don’t know how closely the act...