The Tradition Continues
For the past 3 Novembers without fail, I have seen the latest "Hunger Games" upon its release. Carmike, Regal, and back to Carmike. #1 was viewed off my Charter On Demand. It was not letter-box, HD, or on the big screen. It was on my modest 16" plasma back in my Lake apartment. I'd just quit my job, started volunteering for experience and observation hours at my former lighting client's PT clinic, and I thought "why not?" I hadn't read the books, but I loved the characters. Girl on Fire. Boy with the Bread. Like Katniss, a spark was ignited and I wanted more.
So came the afternoons walking and reading by the lake after a morning of PT work. I buzzed through the series, kicked myself for buying and selling the beautiful hardbound Mockingjay when it came out, then fell in love all over again when I found a paper copy in the musty corner of a local bookstore. I've gotten more than my money's worth from hours rewatching the dvds, driving and home-working to the soundtracks, and even reread the books last year when I was fasting for bloodwork...talk about Hunger games.
Being the romantic I am, I found it fitting to cap off the movie adaptation the way I did the original series: in the afternoon after a morning of PT work. And I was not disappointed; not to mention totally justified in sitting for 2.5 hrs after a good 5 hr half day (which the clinic works every Friday as a scheduled half-day). The movie makes the ultimate climax so subtly delicious, some critics are even missing it. When it all comes together - ohhhh boy. Let your arrow fly true.
And so ends another annual movie tradition...and the wait for the dvd release begins.
So came the afternoons walking and reading by the lake after a morning of PT work. I buzzed through the series, kicked myself for buying and selling the beautiful hardbound Mockingjay when it came out, then fell in love all over again when I found a paper copy in the musty corner of a local bookstore. I've gotten more than my money's worth from hours rewatching the dvds, driving and home-working to the soundtracks, and even reread the books last year when I was fasting for bloodwork...talk about Hunger games.
Being the romantic I am, I found it fitting to cap off the movie adaptation the way I did the original series: in the afternoon after a morning of PT work. And I was not disappointed; not to mention totally justified in sitting for 2.5 hrs after a good 5 hr half day (which the clinic works every Friday as a scheduled half-day). The movie makes the ultimate climax so subtly delicious, some critics are even missing it. When it all comes together - ohhhh boy. Let your arrow fly true.
And so ends another annual movie tradition...and the wait for the dvd release begins.