Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Hunger Games




I went to see The Hunger Games yesterday and the film was great. The only complaint I have is that there was not a lot of fighting in it. That probably sounds ridiculous though since about half the film was fighting and trying to survive.

However, before watching the Hunger Games about a year or so ago I watch Battle Royale, which is a Japanese film about a class of 42 students fighting to the death and in that film they spent maybe 25 minutes explaining everything and getting the students ready to fight, the rest of the film (90 minutes) was the students fighting to be the last one standing.



So when you go from that to watching The Hunger Games where the training and introduction is longer (100 minutes or more) and the fighting does not last nearly as long (45 minutes or less) as Battle Royale, it's just different. I guess I expected less intro. and more violence. Overall, the Hunger Games was a good and interesting film however, in my opinion Battle Royale is better. I can't say that I would want to watch the Hunger Games again for a long time, where as I could watch Battle Royale one Friday and want to watch it the next week.
The Hunger Games was a family friendlier and toned down version of Battle Royale. I would definitely watch the Hunger Games again on a sick day or something. However, I wouldn't watch it on a Horror or Scary film night like I would Battle Royale. What do you think: The Hunger Games or Battle Royale?

Monday, March 26, 2012

Gallagher Girls


The latest of the Gallagher Girls books is on the shelves and it's called Out of Sight, Out of Time. After reading the synopsis on Ally Carter's site I just can't wait to get my hands on that book. It'll be done as soon as I get it.
I've been reading the Gallagher Girls series for about a year now and they just keep getting better. Ally Carter is definitely one of my favourite authors. Maybe that's just because she writes about spy schools where the girls kick butt. My friends and I love these books and I'm sure we're not the only ones, especially when the book has an incredible teaser trailer like this:

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Man, I have the biggest love hate relationship with teaser trailers. They make you ask too many questions and give you no answers. It's not fair, but they look so cool that you just have to show them. What do you think?

There's only one thing I know for sure and that's that creating teaser trailers for books is genius.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Is Google God?

There is a religion where Google is God. You may think I'm joking but it's actually true, there's a site called http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/ where it discusses their beliefs, proofs and a holiday known as Google Appreciation Day that is coming up this September 14th. The date of it's creation.
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Bertrand Russell once said "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."

This would be saying that, Google could be God. Couldn't it?