d00d, i am so0o full.

Happy Thanksgiving (aka the worst american holiday)!

I don't like turkey or cranberry sauce, or mashed sweet potatoes, or green bean casserole, but I still ate too much. Maybe I'm just a 'thanksgiving scrooge,' but i think everyone can agree that 'the first thanksgiving' is a bunch of bull, and the 'pilgrims' ended up 'pillaging' the native americans, and bringing them european diseases......thats so not chill.


OH SHIIT. THE HUNGER GAMES.
(sorry for all-caps, i am really excited for this movie...but i am worried it will not be satisfying. like all book-turned-movie movies, it will probably not be nearly as good as the books. but at least the author of the books was the screenwriter for the movie)
They have already announced that the second film will come out in 2012, so I guess the first one is expected to be well received (there are actually some very good actors in it!).

If you haven't seen it yet, here is the first official trailer: 

*I keep trying to watch it again, looking for anything that I missed, but I don't think there is anything else to see, its too short.

The previous sneek-peek:

more books into movies?

I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close this summer (mostly while on the metro in Barcelona). I really enjoyed it, and was very pleased with the ending.
I just found out about the movie, which will star Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. From the trailer (below) it looks pretty good, ever though it is not really how I imagined it in my mind.



Everything is Illuminated (by the same author) was made into a very good movie, so I think this should be good too. However, I hope that it keeps true to the book a little more, while still making sense.

Damn, why are almost all the 'blockbuster' movies, made in the last decade, so unoriginal? It is very disappointing that most million-dollar-movies are either remakes, sequels, or books (turned into screenplays). Maybe its a lack of innovation in the media, or maybe its just laziness, or even greed?
This is why I never go to the movie theaters any more (unless they are showing cheap indie movies or foreign films). damn, that makes me sound like a fucking hipster....