Are you a fan of The Matrix? I love The Matrix, it’s a near perfect film with it’s classic hero’s story. I loved the characters, I loved the story, and I loved the look of the film. Then the Wachowski Brothers were seduced by all the money that a successful movie gave them and they forgot the story and characters in favor of special effects. The next two films had so little in common with The Matrix that they might as well have been set in another universe. I love The Hunger Games. It was original and amazing and gave…
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The Hunger Game Trilogy
Do something shocking every thousand words. —A.E. van Vogt A few spoilers. The Hunger Games Trilogy is a compelling roller coaster of shocking moments and it also meets the most important standard that any fictive writing can-it elicits emotion in the reader. By the time I got to the last page of Mockingjay I was ready to swallow a handful of poisoned berries myself. Easily the best of the books is The Hunger Games, where our moody hero Katniss chooses to sacrifice herself so that her little sister will not have to die in the…
The Hunger Games
In a world much like our own, something bad happened about 74 years ago and now the most popular reality show in the world has 24 people between the ages of 12 and 18 killing each other. It seems that this contest, called The Hunger Games, is supposed to keep the 12 Districts in line. We only get a real look at District 12, where our hero Kitniss lives. It’s pretty much an 18th century coal mining town, complete with poor white people who dress like the Amish. The Hunger Games was a good movie with a quick pace and…
Trading Almonds for Fritos
Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted. This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him. At one point he mentions how hard this process was hard for him, because everywhere he went, he found that people wanted to kill him. Ok, maybe kill him is a little bit of an overstatement. He found that everywhere he went, people wanted to feed him,…