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.

I ordered this.

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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