Dear Suzanne Collins

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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Avatar Extended Edition

There was a lot I didn’t like about Avatar when I first saw it.  That whole going native story take straight from A Man Called Horse and Dances With Wolves.  That whole ecological story lifted from Fern Gully and Battle for Terra.  Those damned robot suits stolen from Mech Warrior that look just as fake here as they did in Matrix Revolutions.  And the worst name for a mineral EVER-unobtainium. But for all its countless faults, Avatar is still a damned good movie.  Watching it, you forget the hokey special effects and goofy movements of the CGI giant cat people…

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