God, It's Been Awhile :: My Taste of the Hunger Games

I really don't have a very good intention span when it comes to writing anymore. It's depressing, really. I used to write such interesting things back in the Xanga days... [DON'T YOU DARE GO LOOK FOR MY XANGA...oh, who am I kidding...of course you're looking for it]

WARNING:: Expect this to be a bitchy post. Just letting you know right now.

So I picked up the first of the "Hunger Games" series--the book, that is--and I ended up finishing it in two nights. Now, don't get me wrong...I'm not in LOVE with this book. Seriously, it's not even that awesome...I mean, it has it's moments and all...but I have to give credit where credit is due--it hooked me. I was totally engulfed into the world of Panem along with Effie and her weird hairstyles and Cinna with his contagious generosity and general niceness...even Katniss drew me in here and again. But I have to say it--the movie sucked. And hearing about all of the girls who went to theaters with "Team Peeta" shirts & crooning over every "love" moment in the movie...ugh. It makes me want to hurl. I liked Peeta sooooooooooooo much better in the books. I doubt any of those fangirls even remember the vital moments left out of the movie that were oh-so-needed in the book.

Ignore that this is from 9gag. I do not condone 9gag. 9gag sucks. Reddit wins. The end.

Not to mention that Katniss was SO much more of a badass in the book. Which, okay, fine, I understand...it's hard to portray internal thoughts on-screen...but SOMETHING OTHER THAN HER OBLIVIOUS, HELPLESS/I'M A BADASS ATTITUDE could've been portrayed to help balance her character out. There were plenty of instances in the movie where a change of camera angle or SOME SORT OF EMOTION FROM THE ACTRESSES' FACE could've changed the mood completely. Mind you, I sat on the couch with my boyfriend/significant other/lover/partner-in-life as we watched the movie together. He hasn't read the books--so he doesn't understand my frustration as well as others may--but I don't think he was too impressed either. The entirety of the film was shot in the same "twilight-y" film that, well, "Twilight" was shot in...and no, it wasn't just my pirated copy that looked hazy, I CHECKED THIS SHIT OUT.

Total bitch face. The quiver & bow look photo-shopped in.

I can't help it. I'm always a sucker for strong women roles, and in the book, I loved Katniss. When I saw the actress who played her and the way the movie turned out, I couldn't help but be disappointed. Maybe she's just too inexperienced to portray the Katniss that I wanted in my Hunger Games...or maybe she's just a bad actress. I have no idea. But I'm starting to think maybe all of the "main roles" in the Hunger Games kind of followed the same league. I mean, c'mon. Peeta? For real? When I imagined Peeta while reading the book [yes, I ignored all trailers and ads for the Hunger Games movie and even ignored it's existence until after I read the book], I imagined him to be a LOT less weeny than what he was in this film. He had that constant "oblivious eyebrow" look that I always tell Luscious Peter that he has on a daily basis.
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 --->So basically, he looked like Luscious Peter is what this boils down to...(and that's not DEFINITELY what I wanted[no offense, Peter]).


Peeta was supposed to be this hulking baker's son with humor that went for miles and a smile to beat all the suns--instead we get this kid ::

 

who bears a close resemblance to this kid ::

and we should ALL know why that's wrong. 

I enjoyed the movie to a point...in like a, "hey, Cinna is Lenny Kravitz wearing gold eyelineromgthat'shot" kind of way and I had a deep appreciation of the styling throughout the Capitol in the ways of hair and makeup. But honestly, that's about it.

See? Badass. She NEVER looked like this in the movie.

I've already bought the second book and am ready to start it as soon as I can get over the fact that I really didn't like the Hunger Game movie thing that they put together. I mean, I'm sure it's doing great at the box office and there are new teen heartthrobs for this generation [because, let's face it...ANYTHING is better than sparkly vampires], but overall I was unimpressed.

In other news, Kentucky won it's first National Championship in like, 14 years. WOW. Wait, can't talk about that...just received a phone call to the AMAZING store that I work at about the HUNGER GAMES DISTRICT 19 GAME. What. the. living. fuck. THERE'S A GAME NOW? --but wait, there wasn't even a District 19...It only went to District 12--which he would know if he had read the books. Wait, HE? Goddammit, Hunger Games!

[Let me help you out, here's that link you went searching for and probably didn't find. Go ahead. Read it. I fucking dare you.[[I was a stupid teen]] :: http://brilliantdisguise28.xanga.com/    <---Good luck navigating that]
[[and here's the reason why "that kid" is so bad :: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-problems-with-living-in-game-thrones-universe/]]
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