Spoiler-free version:
This isn't, in my opinion, the A-grade, hit it out of the park movie that would validate all the effort that went into making it. That said, it is a good movie, I recommend seeing it and the odds are good that it's gonna make enough at the box office that they'll greenlight Stage 2 and start filming sequels/other superhero ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to remember one of the big reasons why unemployment sucks, I have WAY too much free time.
( Book Stuff )

Got Dad to order some more books of Amazon for me, the Hunger Games trilogy and Perry Moore's Hero. They arrived today so I made a start on the Hunger Games, finished the first book. Overall, I liked it about on par with the movie although the narration being first person from Katniss's POV gave me a new perspective on some things, e.g. when the ( Read more... )

Met Hanna in town yesterday. We went to McDonalds first since we were hungry and she had coupons for apple pie, then for lack of anything else to do we headed to the cinema to see what was on. Our choices more or less boiled down to The Hunger Games or Hodgepodge Greek Mythology Action Sequences 2: Return of the Shoddy CGI (In 3D) so we opted for ( Read more... )

I think that's probably the biggest time gap since I joined LiveJournal. So here's a rundown of the past six months:

( Six months of my real life )