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- Cherry_Pie March 2012
- freddy March 2012
- Judar_Spitzer March 2012
- Leland March 2012
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- the_owls March 2012
- YoursTruly March 2012
Hunger Games
Reading it now... Movie comes out on Friday.
Who wants to see it???
It's about this bad ass teen who has to fight to the death
Who wants to see it???
It's about this bad ass teen who has to fight to the death
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Read all three of those in like one sitting
I can't go to the movie until after March 28 but I'll be there with you in spirit
OK ladies- Peeta or Gale?
(No spoilers though- I'm not done with the last book!)
Did you guys and gals see Winter's Bone
That was a good movie
Katniss Everdeen is played by the same chick from that flick
She is typecast as a badass scrappy Appalachian teen bent on survival and defending her family!!!!!
They have that golden domed library. I can see that in the future, these people would obviously turn into materialist dictators.
nowutimean
god those books are fucking heavy. The darkest most pessimistic vision of humanity and civilization, can't believe they are popular YA books. Very legit.
I couldn't even vaguely begin mapping out where in the actual USA all that shit occurred! Wouldn't the fancytown city be on the ocean? They usually are.
After seeing the preview Gary would not stop talking about the elaborate facial hair. "So the point of the story is that everyone has elaborate facial hair." "Well, no, you see, it's symbolic of the luxury class---" "So THEY'RE the ones with the elaborate facial hair???" etc.
I would name a baby Katniss
And the Capitol is fortified because it is in the rocky mountains.
speed reader
Even though I am preemptively dissappointed in what Hollywood does to the nuances of this story!!!!!!!!!
I choose neither Peeta or Gale, she doesn't need them.
:)
Jennifer Whatshername was so SO SO SO SO SO good in Winter's Bone- I thought that movie was amazing. Most favorite movie of recent years. Her appearance doesn't really match my impression of Katniss though- she's too old, too well fed, too pretty!
She'll certainly do it well, I'm sure, I just wish she was more scrappy, physically. You can't dye a babe's hair brown and make her a serf!
I need to see it again.
Dir. Gralnick is married to an old friend of mine. My friend Steve (of The Chapel) recorded a lot of the sound.
Saw it in the bar/cinema in Athens, GA when it came out. Double Dewars rocks and a Rolling Rock. Fucking unreal. Journey through the ghostlands. The lake? Goddamn.
It was something to see a friend's indie movie curve from the arthouse to the oscars. The system works. So they say, right?
Hunger Games, huh? I saw some skinny girl/young lady on the cover of people magazine. I thought it was a reality show. It looked creepy.
Maybe I should read a book.
It is about a reality show!
It's weird and cool because it all plays out in this background of materialism and surface. It's like a parable for young girls to find their character while under the public eye.
no boat dad hands
but definitely a lot of super gory blood-spattering murder scenes
and some fucking disturbing Stephen King-esque murderous reality TV show dystopias
and some very disturbing teen girl fashion appearance bullshit like what RCH says
and all in the goal of being like "LOOK AT THIS SHIT, THERE IS NO WAY OUT"
wait til you guys get to the end, you will die
I have to wait til after payday! I'll see it alone, but hope to have a buddy.. for squealing...