Hunger Games: Mockingjay "The Hanging Tree", The

Decent. There are a few things I would change, but overall, a better watch than the original. I would barley change anything about your part II edit which says a lot given how much was removed. Two of my favorite changes were removing the scene where Prim goes missing in search of the cat and the removal of most of the beginning of part 2.

improvement suggestions
-Remove dam attack as opening: Didn't feel like it worked as an opening.
-Bring back Katniss entering house at district 12: This scene shows that Snow is always around and also reintroduces the cat.
-Cut Snow ordering to bomb hospital: It's better if the hospital bombing is a surprise than knowing it's about to happen.
-Cut district 7 scene: Not necessary to the story and kind of disrupts pace.
-Bring back return to District 12: Initially I would have agreed to remove the return to District 12 because of redundancy, but the story feels incomplete without it.
-Bring back cat flashlight and Finnick conversation: This helps the pace because cutting directly to Katniss and Haymitch conversation felt abrupt.
-Bring back scene of Plutarch talking to Katniss about sending Prim to Peeta: Cutting directly to Prim seeing Peeta was confusing.

Possible suggestions-
-Make Snow and Peeta deleted scene as opening.
-Keep the Snow scene where he executes people (without the scene of him having his beard trimmed).
-Remove Plutark talking to Effie: Story doesn't necessarily need the scene.
-Keep hunting scene: I feel like there should still be some of the love triangle since it was apparent in the first two movies. Keeping this scene keeps the triangle at a minimal and also helps with pace.
-Keep Peeta's second interview: kind of an important scene to keep.
-Remove Snow's toast for time and focus.
-Bring epilogue back: The epilogue ending was bittersweet but conclusive. I would make it stay as a post credit scene or just bring it back to the end.

I'm not going to go into a huge exposition as to what's great and what's not. The editing is top notch, this guy really knows how to keep the energy and narrative flowing through vigorous editing. The video/audio quality is A+, literally like watching the official Blu Ray. This guy is gifted in the art of editing.
Now, my biggest grievance is with the choosing of material he's cut from the film. 80% of what he's edited out is filler and is mostly unnecessary and it makes for a much tighter and cohesive viewing experience. But there are some KEY scenes that were removed from the film and it just didn't work for me at all. It's like he did an excellent job editing out over half the filler in part one, and let the majority of part two play out. He took out some very tense, important scenes and it left the movie lacking. The COMPLETE removal of all scenes involving the taking of Disctict 2 was baffling. Not to mention the removal of the entire rescue mission in part 1. After what appears firstly to be a tightly cut action/sci-fi finale, it just turned out to be disappointing.

The franchise was Always a little love/hate with me. I watched the first film after reading the books and didn't like some of the changes, but I understood why they happened as they did for pacing. When the second film came out I'm not sure if my memory was less hazy because I thought it was a much better adaptation but I decided not to bother with the announced films....until one day you find yourself on an 8 hour flight and what are you gonna do but resort to watching in flight entertainment. That time was Early March of last year.. I watched Mockingjay part 1 and really liked it quite a fair bit... but when part 2 came out it was like seeing THG for the first time all over again. The Hunger games ended and it was with a whimper.

Thankfully Jerick saw what I could not concieve, how to take the weakest entries and strengthen them into one better narrative. It's not perfect you might noticed one or two cuts even if you aren't looking but it's a lot better than what is officially out there.
Admittedly I did watch a downgraded version of the vimeo file since I need to fit on a memory stick (I don't like using my external drives on the WDHD player) but I thought it looked fine on my 40" I probably lost something in the sound but I don't have the best audio set up anyway.

If you were dissatisfied with Mockingjay as I was then I'd like to think The Hanging Tree will be the resolution you were hoping for.

This one gave me the hope that something good could come out of the Hunger Games - and for the first 60 minutes this was true. This was a superb cut of Mockingjay 1. The hanging tree theme in the beginning was a bit odd and off for my taste, as this playful style was never repeated througout the movie.
Then Mockingjay 2 started and boredom started as well for me. No one needed more Hunger Games and I would have loved this one to be sliced and diced just as the first one, but it wasn't. The parts that were cut were all chosen carefully and did indeed tighten the 2nd part and make it a better movie (still far from good). The ending was great and finally insterted the pain, sorrow, silence and emotion that was so needed.
The editing was flawless, sound- and videowise. Great image quality and so easy to get through vimeo (I hope that is not dangerous for you to upload such contents there).
So, to sum it up, I was hoping to watch a version of Mockingjay that I could keep as a good movie, but this has not happened. Again part 2 ruined it for me and the great ending could not save the edit from being a one-time amusement. Thank you, Jerick for a wonderful part 1 edit. This was masterful.