Hunger Games movie, TV

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I finally made time to watch it, and wow! SO GOOD. There were small differences in how I pictured the characters (for some reason I thought Snow was a younger man), but of course that's to be expected, and I had no issues at all with them. In fact, I really, really liked all the changes they made from the book. The movie so totally worked. (How come more movies based on books aren't done this well?)

I really like that the romance was played down (I seem to recall whole chapters about it in the book), I loved seeing things from the control room and all the tech.

All the actors really worked in the roles. Who would have thought that Woody Harrelson could pull off Haymitch? Or Lenny Kravitz Cinna?

I hear that some folks complained that Rue was played by a black girl, but I loved her dearly.

I can't remember the last time that I had zero issues with a movie. Not even one minor complaint. True to the book and yet totally worked as a movie. Lightning struck.

On TV, I'm sadly out of shows to watch. I gave up on M*A*S*H. The humor ("humor") wasn't in the least bit funny to me. It's the most dated thing I've seen in ages. One of the characters was nicknamed Spearchucker (a black one, of course), that was the final strike for the show. Maybe it got better later in the series, but in the beginning it was all jokes about sexual harassment and racist humor. It seriously turned me off.

I tried watching The Vampire Diaries. I gave it more of a chance than I usually would (five eps), but it just didn't work for me. Oddly it had a storyline and plot twists very much like Teen Wolf (which I loved), but the romance killed it for me. That and I like werewolves but don't much like vampires anymore.

So now I have no show to watch (in an ep-a-day sort of way). Blah.

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[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I had Netflix, but I let it lapse. Now I BT everything, which is better in some ways and worse in others.

I tried out Sons of Anarchy on TV, but it didn't work for me, sadly. It's too bad, because otherwise bikers in leather would make me all YAY.

I've heard good things about Breaking Bad, but I know nothing about it. I'll put it on my list! :)

And huh! I watched the first two seasons of the UK version of Being Human and really liked them. I should catch up!

Agreed on the romance in the book. I recall it slowing the whole thing down to a grinding halt.

Also, since you appear to like British TV, I have a rec for you! Have you watched Misfits before? I love it so much! It's like the show Heroes, but much much better -- more mature and darker and wonderful!

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

I recently found Being Human and am on the third season of it. Really, really like it, reminds me of Misfits (gee, I wonder why). Almost done with it now, so I've slowed down, but yeah. On the same note, however, I saw the US remake of Being Human and it made me very sad inside (they just... made everything so generic and gave it a seriously Twilight-y feel, which I suppose makes sense considering). So now I'm really worried about what they're going to do with the US remake of Misfits. Ugh. As Alex pointed out, we already have a US Misfits, it's called Heroes! Can't we just leave it at that?!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes, to all of this. I hate the US remake of it, and I worry so much about how they'll remake Misfits. Seriously, how? It's all sex and cursing and killing. It works because British TV allows so much more than American TV does...