'Dirty Girls'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I'm really supposed to buy
Everybody has a different dew-point for their suspension of disbelief. I mostly didn't mind the bad science, but at least with the knee they threw three seconds of explanation at it.
You can't fix a vertebrae that's sticking out of somebody's back by punching it. And they didn't bother to wave their hands at it.
Maybe YOU can't. You just haven't met the right Afghani prison doctor yet.
No, they did more than wave their hands at it. They clearly proposed a solution, it's just not one that really works.
You can fix anything by punching it. Just ask Superboy-Prime.
I think he broke it, let's be honest.
Just saw Snow White and the Huntsman. Good God, Charlize Theron was stunning! And dear lord, could Kristen Stewart please just close her mouth for a while? She looks like she has the IQ of a peanut with her mouth hanging open all the time.
I finally saw Hunger Games. I haven't read the books (got about 50 pages into the first one and then I got bored and never picked it up again), but I did read all the whitefont in Literary when they were A Thing, so I went in feeling like I knew the story pretty well.
I have to say, I was really pleasantly surprised, right up until the actual Games started. I thought the worldbuilding and characterizations up until that point had been really fantastic, but the mechanics of the Games themselves were annoyingly transparent. I could see ALL of the strings and wasn't really watching the movie anymore so much as I was watching the screenplay tie itself into knots to make sure Katniss stayed alive but didn't have to kill anyone except in self-defense (and since that was one of the Really Bad Kids, she's still a hero! WHEW!) It was all very convenient.
In the end I liked it well enough to see the sequels,. but probably not enough to go back and read the books.
Hunger Games: Catching Fire rumors - per IMDB, Tony Shalhoub may have been cast as Beetee
Why is it whitefonted?
Whitefont? What whitefont?
whistles innocently
(sorry - couldn't remember if casting spoilers should be whitefonted or not)