Hunger Games and Supernatural
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ericadawn16I finally read Hunger Games
So, I can tell why people liked it. The main characters are very believable and empathetic. However, I still don't like Dystopian literature. It reminds me too much of what I see on the news and how close we are at times...
I admit that my reading probably would have been very different before the movie was cast and/or I hadn't seen Winter's Bone. I highly recommend Winter's Bone, by the way. I saw it about a year ago and have been a fan of Jennifer Lawrence ever since. Here's the thing though about Winter's Bone and Jennifer's character, Ree Dolly Ree's a smart seventeen year old who has to look after her younger siblings and a mother who can't function after their dad left. She spends her time, when not in school, shooting squirrels and trying to teach her siblings how to survive. Living in the Ozarks, the area is poor and unforgiving with lots of secrets it keeps from the government.
You can see how I thought...hmm, Lawrence was practically type-casted...
However, there is one crucial difference; In Winter's Bone, it was Ree's devotion to her family that made her unwanted by the government and in Hunger Games, that's precisely why they want her.
Yes, I'm totally amused about casting two blondes as brunettes and the brunette as a blond...and also picturing movie Katniss meeting Hawkeye...
I don't have any plans at the moment to read the other books.
Supernatural
I had some trepidation. I watched Supernatural early on, then had scheduling conflicts so I dropped it. When I tried it again a few years later, I was totally lost. However, I can't turn down Charisma Carpenter and James Marster together. Actually, that part was even better than I thought because they played a married couple! They both could do awesome magic and so when they were upset with each other, it was very bad. I loved when the brothers interrupted their argument so they both would be like, Shut up! and throw them across the room. They were both living at the end, too, woohoo!
Now, they were the Starks but I didn't catch this at first so when they showed her fancy sports car and the license plate was Stark 2, I couldn't helping thinking...did you steal that from Tony?
So, I can tell why people liked it. The main characters are very believable and empathetic. However, I still don't like Dystopian literature. It reminds me too much of what I see on the news and how close we are at times...
I admit that my reading probably would have been very different before the movie was cast and/or I hadn't seen Winter's Bone. I highly recommend Winter's Bone, by the way. I saw it about a year ago and have been a fan of Jennifer Lawrence ever since. Here's the thing though about Winter's Bone and Jennifer's character, Ree Dolly Ree's a smart seventeen year old who has to look after her younger siblings and a mother who can't function after their dad left. She spends her time, when not in school, shooting squirrels and trying to teach her siblings how to survive. Living in the Ozarks, the area is poor and unforgiving with lots of secrets it keeps from the government.
You can see how I thought...hmm, Lawrence was practically type-casted...
However, there is one crucial difference; In Winter's Bone, it was Ree's devotion to her family that made her unwanted by the government and in Hunger Games, that's precisely why they want her.
Yes, I'm totally amused about casting two blondes as brunettes and the brunette as a blond...and also picturing movie Katniss meeting Hawkeye...
I don't have any plans at the moment to read the other books.
Supernatural
I had some trepidation. I watched Supernatural early on, then had scheduling conflicts so I dropped it. When I tried it again a few years later, I was totally lost. However, I can't turn down Charisma Carpenter and James Marster together. Actually, that part was even better than I thought because they played a married couple! They both could do awesome magic and so when they were upset with each other, it was very bad. I loved when the brothers interrupted their argument so they both would be like, Shut up! and throw them across the room. They were both living at the end, too, woohoo!
Now, they were the Starks but I didn't catch this at first so when they showed her fancy sports car and the license plate was Stark 2, I couldn't helping thinking...did you steal that from Tony?
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Date: 2011-10-26 03:59 am (UTC)I've only seen her in X-Men:First Class, but I really liked her in that. I'll try to remember to look for it.
I loved when the brothers interrupted their argument so they both would be like, Shut up! and throw them across the room.
It was excellent!