if you're into fanvids where people take footage from other movies to make a fake trailer for another movie, you should watch this Hunger Games fanvid. [link]
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 5:33:42 am PST #12897 of 28287
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2010 6:55:22 am PST #12898 of 28287
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Seriously. Mockingjay is dark dark darkity dark with a side of despair. Mockingjay makes the first 2 books look like laugh riots.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:06:53 am PST #12899 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh, yikes. I knew Mockingjay was bleaker than the others, but man. I just cannot imagine Katniss's life getting a whole lot worse at this point. I am envisioning a very high death toll her. I just passed the part where the jabberjays are screaming in Prim and Gale and everyone else's voices and I shudder to think what the Capitol is doing to them =( I am going to need some happy books after this!
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 7:09:41 am PST #12900 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
zuisa, whatever you do, DON'T START WATCHING BSG RIGHT NOW. Pace yourself.
eta: I didn't have audio, but the visuals of that trailer were great. Was that RDJ as Haymitch?
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:11:54 am PST #12901 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Hah. That's probably sound advice. Something happy is definitely in order, seeing as how I'm probably going to need to be scraped off the ground in my sadness-induced stupor when I'm done with Mockingjay.
Laga - Nov 12, 2010 7:19:09 am PST #12902 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've moved up to #37 in the holds queue for Mockingjay.
megan walker - Nov 12, 2010 7:39:32 am PST #12903 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yes, Mockingjay is the most bleak, but, if it helps, it's also the least believable.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 8:11:06 am PST #12904 of 28287
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Was that RDJ as Haymitch?
it was, indeed! he seems to be the most popular choice from fandom. i'm not on board the Kaya train. i think Lyndsy Fonseca would make a better Katniss. i really wish they'd go the unknown route with most of the characters though.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 8:14:54 am PST #12905 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Welp. Catching Fire done.
Not sure if I want to even attempt Mockingjay yet. I'm emotionally distressed!!
I would love them to cast unknown kids in the movie. Although, I can't imagine that movie being anything but upsetting. There is SO much violence.
Strix - Nov 12, 2010 8:19:31 am PST #12906 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
For a cleansing of the palate, I highly recommend "Lost in Austen" a really charming and funny miniseries starring Jemima Rooper (who I fell in love with as the lesbian ghost in "Hex".)
Basically, it's time travel back into Pride & Prejudice, and it's funny and lovely. It's streaming on Netflix.