RogueBelle

how-clovely:

peetaandcato-inmypants:

• Haymitch stops Peeta with his feet
• THAT IS MAHOGANY 
• Caesar Flickerman’s smile before his interviews
• Katniss trys to choke Peeta and Effie’s like, “MANNERS.”
• Rue pointing to the tracker jackers then at the careers
• “You call that a kiss?”
• I’ll take the bow and arrow then, jkjkjkjkjk.

can we add in Gales reaction to the cave scene?

Bless this fandom. I laughed at all these parts of the movie.

MAHOGANYYYYYY

I would also like to nominate Rue stealing a knife during training to get the Careers all up on each other.

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So, my verdict on the Hunger Games movie is: Yes.

To be non-spoilery about it, what I’ve been telling folk is that it is faithful without being slavish. Yes; there are things they changed or left out from the book. But unlike with, say, the Harry Potter adaptations, with HG, I understand why they made the changes that they did. Every change was in the service of tightening the focus and telling a more emotionally cohesive story. The pacing reflects the book’s very well. And the acting is pretty fabulous. Jennifer Lawrence, however you felt about that casting decision, is a terrific actress. It’s difficult to play a stoic type character without coming off like a statue, but she manages it spectacularly. There’s so much nuance in her performance.

Spoilery thoughts are on LJ

Additionally, I looked freaking gorgeous at the midnight opening (as you all saw). I don’t always think I look good in pics, but man, I was stunning last night. We all dressed up — of course — and the initial idea was to go all Capitol Couture. Except, I realised, I own literally nothing that is flamboyant enough to be Capitol. But I do have a fabulous black-and-gold dress, so I decided to rock that and have ridiculous hair and makeup. Then, me being me, I ended up building a character and a backstory while I was doing said hair and makeup. Consider me Vitellia, District 2 Victor of the 64th Hunger Games. ;) I’ve developed my usual unhealthy fixation with antagonistic minor characters — but seriously, I find the Careers so psychologically fascinating. I mean, seriously! What on earth must those poor children go through to turn them into the murderous beasts they become? We really don’t know much, just that they go to special training schools — but how do they decide who gets to volunteer each year? My assumption is that Career tributes have all killed before, that that’s pretty much their final exam to get to be the volunteer. And then, most of them still die. They’re victims every bit as much as those in the poorer Districts — just in a different way. And I find that so intriguing. #casshasweirdfixations

And I had so much fun. We were some of the only people dressed up, and we definitely had the best costumes — and everyone noticed. The Zeus is a really cool theatre with a great sitting area and, for unknown reasons, a dais with columns and a throne. So we had a mini-photo shoot. (It really is quite satisfying, how easily I can make myself comfortable in a throne). And all these strangers kept wanting to have their pictures taken with us! We felt like celebrities. :D

I swear, I’m so glad I’m a geek; I don’t know what normal people do with their time.

In other news: busy weekend will continue apace, I’m probably going to fall asleep ridiculously early tonight, I get to talk about Antony tomorrow, and inconvenient crush continues to be inconvenient but is also a pleasant distraction. Such are the decorations of my life.

thoros-of-mordor:

nocrowwife replied to your post: “It’s God’s plan.”

i really enjoyed it, i thought it gave really interesting insight, not really into sarah palin as a person but into how frightfully unqualified she was for the job and how hard that team worked to make her seem electable.

Good point. I thought it was interesting how much of it was verbatim from interviews she actually did, but I hadn’t really thought about what it would be like to be an aide and have to work around that lack of foreign policy knowledge. Yeah not so much insight into Palin as a person (or any of the people on the campaign, actually) so much as what it’s like to run a campaign in 24/7 news cycle.

I watched it with my folks last weekend, and what struck me more than anything was how frightening it is to watch someone in that position absolutely refuse to learn. It’s one thing to be ignorant. It’s another thing to willfully, violently remain so. I always thought that her handlers must just have been tearing their hair out all the time, but, yeesh. I don’t think even during 2008 it was apparent just how scarily uninformed she was.

Nicole Wallace was on Rachel Maddow’s show a few nights ago talking about it — pretty good interview.

(Source: father-of-the-year-tywin)

Fuck the haters. I love this movie. ;D

I am cautiously excited but more curious/bewildered. Animated movies take a long time to produce. And we’ve heard almost nothing about pre-production on this one since the last time it got shelved — way less than we heard about Princess in the Frog while it was being made. How is Disney planning to put together a traditionally animated film in under 2 years?

Also side-eyeing the Tangled-esque title change. Can’t have a title with a GIRL CHARACTER featured! Boys might not go to see that!

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likeastairmaster:

“The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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peregrint:

…I got really bored during my tumblr hiatus.

I already posted the ones from FotR…so enjoy the ones from TTT!

It’s been an amazing 10 years!

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