Week 14: Green, not Black

Week 14: Green, not Black Read more

Week 13: A wind has blown the rain away

Week 13: A wind has blown the rain away Read more

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games | Amazon.comJust under a year ago, a friend intro­duced my wife and I to the Hunger Games. I started read­ing the books and in just 4 days had read all 3 books. I loved them, inter­est­ing char­ac­ters (good and bad), intense sit­u­a­tions and plenty of sen­ti­men­tal­ity 1 So when I heard a movie was being made of the first book, I was a bit excited but mostly con­cerned that Hol­ly­wood was going to screw it up 2 When some early promo pic­tures were released, I was even more doubt­ful regard­ing the movie’s chances as the actors just didn’t fit the images I had in my head for the char­ac­ters. When we finally got a trailer and my hopes were raised slightly. While in still images the actors didn’t match what I had envisioned; they seemed to be work­ing well on screen. Read more

Notes:

  1. What can I say? I’m a sappy kind of guy.
  2. Lord knows they’ve screwed up plenty of other adap­tions.

Week 12: No Flowers

Week 12: No Flowers Read more

Week 11: So Blue, Whoa, Whoa

Week 11: So Blue, Whoa, Whoa