Yep. We wore these to the movie. I’m super persuasive.
Yesterday I saw the Hunger Games…a few times.
I had devoured all the books, and already had a hard on for Peeta, so I was pretty excited. Not as excited as my ex-boyfriend’s aunt who sat behind me the second showing, picking popcorn out of her teeth and ruining the movie FOR US ALL, but yeah, pretty excited.
On the plus side, they did a really good job with it. The devastation shown in the beginning was way more hardening than it was in the book, the characters were superbly cast (Haymith and Cinna…can we just hang out?), they kept the whole child murdering thing super classy, and the mutant dogs things at the end looked super realistic (see Breaking Dawn Part 1? THAT’S how you do that.).
On the negative side…there was just so much missing. And I know, I know, you couldn’t possibly squeeze an entire book into a 2 hour movie, but truly, it was just entirely too short. It was the sort of thing that, if you hadn’t read the book, you wouldn’t begin to imagine the depth of what you were missing, or even really understand some of it. I don’t think the reaping was explained enough, or Gale’s relationship with Katniss explained enough, or the time at the Capital as sparkly or detailed as it was in the book, or the Mockingjay meaning, and then the games itself, while the effects and feeling was so spot on, I totally missed the depth of the Peeta/Katniss romance. And it’s not just me. I took Andy last night, who had not read the book, and it was a barrage of questions like,
Wait, why do they have to get selected to go to this thing again?
Why does she keeping getting those parachute things?
Why are you biting your lip and ignoring me whenever the Peeta guy is on?
Stuff like that.
Best part of the movie? Haymitch. He was exactly like I pictured him, only way more hilarious.
What you missed
This week, I let you in on a bit of a HUGE secret I’ve been trying to keep for a while now!
I reviewed Book 1 and Book 2 of the 50 Shades of Grey OMG INTERCOURSE books.
And, Andy shares how I got everyone accidentally drunk.
Cool shit I saw online
We’re building a commune. No seriously. You can come.
The tattoo Andy should let me get, but he refuses to let me put his name on me.
I’m doing this with all my friends. So far, it’s hilarious.
Other awesome shit
1. EXCITING NEWS! On May 4th, the adorable, SUPER TALENTED OMG singer, Mikey Wax, will be putting on a concert at my house (I know, right?)!
All are welcome, so if you are in the area, I would love to put you on the guest list, so let me know in the comments, or via email, and I will send out more details this week! Food, drinks and rad music under lanterns along the zombie pond, CAN’T WAIT!
2. If you live in Texas, I’m headed down next week, and my sister Shauna Glenn put together a FANTASTIC (booze) Thursday night get together, so click here for more details, and I hope to see you!
3. I am still selling Voting with my Vagina 2012 shirts like WHOA! Get yours now!
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You should totally get the Andy tattoo! It’s the cutest thing EVER!!
Oh Brittany, you are the one that got me to read the Hunger Games, and then I was all hooked. And then I made my ENTIRE family come out and see it with me and after all their questions we are now reading it together. Family read night. I sit for an hour or two and read them the book.
They are all riveted.
Except Shawn, who is playing cool, but I can tell he likes it.
I wish the movie could have been 5 hours long. Seriously. And I say this as someone who saw the midnight premiere. I did feel like they could not go as deep as I wanted them to go, but overall, I loved it and definitely felt like it did the book justice. Jennifer Lawrence was Katniss. Lenny Kravitz should be in every movie.
I agree!!! Jennifer Lawrence was perfection.
Oh, Jaysus, Brittany. Are you turning into Anastasia/Ms. Steele now with the lip biting thing? Because I don’t approve.
That being said, my hard on for Peeta is ready and waiting for 3pm this afternoon. Can. Not. Wait.
I’ve heard from a few friends that they missed the Katniss/Peeta romance… I don’t think it really ever got too deep in the first book. I got a lot of her playing for the camera and doing what she needed to survive, only to realize during the second book and media tour that she couldn’t bear to be without him. That said, Josh Hutcherson is my new boyfriend.
Where did you get that shirt?!?!! You have to tell me!!
–I wanted to use the “always” as my yet un-inked HP tattoo as soon as I finished the 7th book but I was waiting till the movies were complete so they wouldn’t fuck it up and then I started seeing “always” tattoos fucking everywhere and it broke my hear a little. That shirt would make me feel better.
I saw the movie and really loved it! I did not read the book, though. I was glad to have a friend next to me that did, so she explained the sponsors thing to me, and I was slightly annoyed she didn’t warn me about THE TRACKER JACKETS. Yikes.
Steph
they are so. much. worse. in the book. you totally got off easy. ;-)
I agree. Loved the movie, but I said to my husband that it would be harder for people who didn’t read the book to really get a lot of it. She thought about Gale so much in the book, but they just showed him a few times during the movie (not enough, oh my gosh, how hot was he? Peeta was cute and everything, but he kept making me think of Steve Zahn, who I find it very difficult to achieve a lady-boner over. My friend told me that the actor who played Gale is the brother of the actor who played Thor. So that explains that!). I loved Jennifer Lawrence. I laughed in the beginning because when she was hunting it looked exactly like her trudging through the Appalachians in Winter’s Bone, except that movie was a punishment to watch and this one was really good. Lenny Kravitz was brilliant. The only thing I didn’t really enjoy about this film was the barf-inducing camera work. Why is that in every action movie now? I hate it! Would it kill you to keep the camera still and focus on what you’re shooting? We understand, there’s a lot of action, but I don’t need to feel like I’m running along with the characters.
AND someone just sent me this. Brilliant!
http://www.memestache.com/view/Advice+Peeta/156069
just got back from the movie. it was good, but YEH. the whole time our group just chattered back and forth about all the things that were MISSING. i mean, come on… dances with wolves got three + hours, why not hunger games? WHY THE FUCK NOT???
also, congrats on the lands end thing :-)
I loved the movie, too. Only . . . I just really really wanted Peeta to be older. In my mind he appeared to be about 30, which made me feel slightly less creepy about my feelings towards him.
The biggest miss in my opinion? The tesserae. They address it for about half a second a couple of times (when she asks Gale how many times his name is in this year and when she tells Prim the extra food isn’t worth putting her name in more than once a year) – but without any depth. I feel as though that really helps illustrate the true inequality in District 12 … which then underscores the inequality throughout all of Panem. Also – am I the only one who felt like Rue’s role was diminished?
I really think they should have added in Peeta gettin his leg seriously ouchied in the end and Katniss using her last arrow to stop the blood flow, then later using it to put Cato out of his misery. They needed to have the scene where Peeta is in the hovercraft almost dying and Katniss is screaming his name. For me, thats what sealed the deal in the whole “they did it for love” angle.
I agree that the characters were perfectly cast – except President Snow. I imagined him to be a slicked-back haired, mid-50’s man, very clean shaven in suits. Donald Sutherland is too grampa-ish for me.
Jen – The tesserae comment is SPOT. ON. The imagery of the deathly poor conditions was wonderful, but it still didn’t give the true sense to the complete desperation of the District. They could’ve taken 5 more minutes and built up the beginning, especially with the real story line behind the Mockingjay pin.
Rochelle – I agree with the hovercraft almost dying thing. I think they rushed the end too much instead of taking the adequate time we needed and deserved.
Rochelle– 100% behind you on the hovercraft/dying/seperated thing. In the movie, I never felt like she was actually starting to feel something for him. That scene was the sealer.
Can we discuss how AWESOME Lenny Kravitz was? He was my favorite part of the movie!! I hope he comes back as Cinna! Loved him.
ALSO: Anyone else wanna make shirts with their celebrity-couple name: PEE-NISS? Anyone? You know you do… Team PeeNiss….
I am trying to hold my composure here in my cubicle. Sweet Jesus, I want a t-shirt.
I’m almost done with the first book. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I’m definitely planning on seeing the movie if only because of all the hype. I’m a little creeped out by the children killing children thing. At the end, with the psycho reincarnated dogs, it all seemed a little too much. Not sure what the rest of you think about that.
Hey there,
Just wondering what your tattoo is in reference to? I’m pretty sure I have read your blog in it’s entirety, but I might have missed it.
Thanks!
Sure! Here’s the post. http://barefootfoodie.com/2010/07/12/ink/
Not sure how I missed that post! Thanks for the response!