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thistlechaser) wrote2014-02-16 04:27 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2014-02-16 04:27 pm
Entry tags:
Last Airbender, Ender's Game, Catching Fire, Icons
In semi-reverse order of the subject line:
My new icons are done, yay! Both for awful books. The one used on this post is a cat burying a book in the litterbox, and I also have a smaller version of:
So cute! Both are the result of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
djinni's icon days.
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I've seen two new movies in the last 48 hours. Adding them to Thor yesterday and I think I've seen the most movies I ever have in such a short time.
Ender's Game: I was prepared to hate it. I had heard from a number of people that it was an awful movie (the movie itself, not the problems with the book's author). I saw some issues with it, but mostly it was entertaining. I wish it had ended a few minutes earlier... If the story had ended with the horror of the kids realizing they had really destroyed a planet/whole species, that would have been a great ending. The whole Captain Ender And Alien Queen Go On Space Adventures didn't work for me.
Catching Fire: Wow. Just wow. What an amazing movie. I think I've been more emotional since my hospital stay, but man, I teared up so many times during it. Just the crowds holding up three fingers was enough to get me going. The one small quibble I had was how old the actors playing the "kids" were -- Katniss was supposed to be 17, but she looked like an adult. I know, perils of translating things to the big screen, but it threw me a number of times. Everything else was amazingly great. I had heard how good Lenny Kravitz was as Cinna, but that turned out to be an understatement.
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I know I said I would have no more book reviews for a while, but I had agreed to review this one a while back and it was slow getting to me, so I forgot I had requested it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift Part 1 by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
(Book received free for review from Dark Horse.)
Rating: 5/loved (1-5/hated-loved)
Wow. The art was dead-on perfect. Best art I've seen in all the graphic novels I've reviewed so far. Exactly like the show!
The first part of a trilogy, The Rift tells the story of the damage a refinery jointly owned Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom is doing to a once sacred Airbender land.
Everything from the show was here: Great art, good story, and humor (the gags in the backgrounds were great!). Recommended!
My new icons are done, yay! Both for awful books. The one used on this post is a cat burying a book in the litterbox, and I also have a smaller version of:
So cute! Both are the result of
djinni's icon days. --
I've seen two new movies in the last 48 hours. Adding them to Thor yesterday and I think I've seen the most movies I ever have in such a short time.
Ender's Game: I was prepared to hate it. I had heard from a number of people that it was an awful movie (the movie itself, not the problems with the book's author). I saw some issues with it, but mostly it was entertaining. I wish it had ended a few minutes earlier...
Catching Fire: Wow. Just wow. What an amazing movie. I think I've been more emotional since my hospital stay, but man, I teared up so many times during it. Just the crowds holding up three fingers was enough to get me going. The one small quibble I had was how old the actors playing the "kids" were -- Katniss was supposed to be 17, but she looked like an adult. I know, perils of translating things to the big screen, but it threw me a number of times. Everything else was amazingly great. I had heard how good Lenny Kravitz was as Cinna, but that turned out to be an understatement.
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I know I said I would have no more book reviews for a while, but I had agreed to review this one a while back and it was slow getting to me, so I forgot I had requested it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift Part 1 by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
(Book received free for review from Dark Horse.)
Rating: 5/loved (1-5/hated-loved)
Wow. The art was dead-on perfect. Best art I've seen in all the graphic novels I've reviewed so far. Exactly like the show!
The first part of a trilogy, The Rift tells the story of the damage a refinery jointly owned Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom is doing to a once sacred Airbender land.
Everything from the show was here: Great art, good story, and humor (the gags in the backgrounds were great!). Recommended!