The perfection of the casting for Rue and Thresh took my breath away. It was like I had forgotten actors could actually look like the characters they've been tasked to portray. And the way they're revealing the tributes is really cool too. Hoping to get daily updates on this thing now ( Read more... )

-There are just some things that cause in me a nasty visceral reaction that I cannot put into words right away. Like the whole "But she's talented!" thing had me wincing until I figured it out.And now this whole tanning of Jennifer Lawrence. :-/ I'm sure the photomanip-people aren't being malicious about it, but all it does for me is highlight how ( Read more... )

Jennifer Lawrence is officially the Girl That Was On Fire.

1) Katniss in my head: I am disappointed, to say the least. But I can't say I wasn't expecting them to cast a white girl. While I was reading the books, I saw Katniss as white. I technically knew that Katniss had olive skin and I tried really hard, but she always came out pasty, papery ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking about one of those TLA arguments that show up every now and then: the "why are you getting so worked up over a movie, why don't you work on poverty or global warming, you know, issues that *mean* something, instead?" feint.

I remember my initial gut reaction was, "but! Poverty and global warming are hard to solve! It'd take my ( Read more... )

I'm rather surprised that linkspam has not picked up on the Liar cover racefail. Then again, I don't really understand the criteria of making it onto that page.

Anyway, I've been following John Green on twitter and today I commented on his "Book Covers and the Death of Publishing" blogpost randomly (since I rarely post on author's blogs, period). ( Read more... )