Movie Night

So, last night was dinner and a movie with Kerrie (my wife) and Grace (my daughter) and our choice was The Hunger Games. In my opinion, this was one of the best film adaptations of a novel I've ever seen. Did they leave some things out? Of course they did, but we can't all sit through a four hour movie. Most of us have what some have come to refer to as a "life." Before venturing from your parent's basement, remember that, while Frodo's encounter with Tom Bombadill was fairly interesting to read, daylong movies just haven't caught on yet. If you think you're going to see your favorite novel on the big screen in all of its glorious entirety, better just stay home and inventory your action figure collection. The minor details they left out detracted from the story hardly at all. Instead of focusing on the mundane, as the Twilight adaptations were want to do, they centered more on the important things like the hardships of those living in poor districts, making it all seem so real. At the start of the actual Hunger Games the plot began to move much more rapidly, but overall, it was well done. Recommend!