Feeding Your Soul

Movies show you how. Books show you why.   With any movie adaptation of a widely popular book, the filmmakers will inevitably not please every movie-goer.   But this movie-goer was very impressed and thoroughly enjoyed the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games.   The movie hit 95% of the major points in the book so it flowed very well and kept me watching and wondering what was going to happen next.   Even though I knew what was going to happen next, it was exciting to see it happen on screen and see my imagination come to life. The 5% that did not match with the book I will get into later. For now, let’s dwell on the positive and exciting parts of the movie. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson were wonderful. Lawrence looked as if she had been studying the book intently to before Katniss.   Hutcherson has grown as an actor. In this movie, he was able to change from the boy-next door to the one people should watch out for in the arena in a split second. H...

My next two reviews are both on movies that are harsh and in your face. Breaking Dawn Part 1 puts everything right in front of you no matter what the scene is about, and it isn’t afraid. With the “Twilight” series books so popular among all age groups and facets of life, there were some very hard to imagine and grotesque scenes in the book that to put on screen made them even worse. This blogger was not prepared for the birthing scene – I forgot out painful and bloody it was. Bella deteriorating over time was for lack of a better word grotesque and very hard to watch. The scene where she breaks her back and her knees right before the baby comes was the worst part. I had to look away. But this book isn’t all peachy keen – it is dark and this moment in her life was the darkest it had ever been. It makes sense that the moment right before she is to become this amazing, beautiful being would be dark and mad and gross. The progress was a little slow in places but if you had read the b...