Talkie Tuesday: Gladiator

 

"Are you not entertained?"

 

Hello everyone!

 

Happy New Year!

 

I hope you said goodbye to the last one in good spirits, and that you're ready to take on all new challenges in this brand sparkly new one.

 

At least, I'm telling myself that. As well as trying to set reachable goals that won't break my spirit if I can't manage to achieve them! I've learned (a little bit the hard way) that I need to set more short-term ones, smaller ones, than try for the big guns all blazing because I'm less likely to be disappointed this way.

 

Or, well, that's my take on it!

 

Anyway, back to the show, which is to say, back to the regular reviews that have nothing to do with the holidays.

 

And I decided to start it off with a right banger.

 

So strap on your armour and hold on to your butts, because we're headed back to Ancient Rome, baby. It's time for Gladiator!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Catching Fire

 

"Nobody ever wins the Games."

 

Hello everyone!

 

With this blog post I will finally have every single movie of this franchise written up and reviewed on the blog. This is an exciting day!

 

Well, exciting in the sense that this is one mission accomplished at least, if nothing else.

 

The one thing that usually bugs me to no end is when I have to sort of hit pause midway through, but I didn't even realize that I only had the last two movies for this one.

 

In any event, we are now headed into the sequel of last week's blog choice.

 

As you may have noticed, I've fallen into the dystopian future reading hole at the moment, as I'm also debating maybe reading Divergent again at some point or other, but for the most part I wanted to see whether or not I would still dislike this trilogy as much as I did back then.

 

Turns out I don't. I actually really like it.

 

That doesn't mean Catching Fire is the best movie ever, but it IS good!

 

Tome Thursday: Catching Fire

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to the insanity that is getting chosen to fight in a gladiator-style arena with 23 other people so that some other people are entertained.

I'm back with part two of the Hunger Games saga this week to check on Katniss Everdeen and what's been going on in her life.

Because you know it'll be insane, simply because if can be.

See when you live in such a dystopian world that children get picked from a crowd and their parents don't really have the moxy to stop it from happening, you know it's a different level of messed up, and by different I mean completely different.

So you thought you'd seen it all in book one? Well I have news for you my friends.

The crazy is only just beginning.

Katniss is back, and while I can't say she's better than ever, at the very least she's here and hasn't succumbed to drink or anything like that.

Catching Fire takes us one step closer to the grand finale, so here we go!

Tome Thursday: The Hunger Games

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm going to be throwing it back, way back, with the book I picked for tonight's blog post.

 

And by back I mean at least 10+ years.

 

Why, you ask?

 

I've no clue.

 

At one point a week ago I woke up and I wanted to go back and read this to see what it was about the book that I disliked the first time around when I picked it up. I distinctly remember saying at one point I prefer the Divergent series to this one, so apparently that's my next stop for comparison.

 

I'm guessing it has to do with the protagonist, but we'll see.

 

For the time being, our book of the night really doesn't need all that much introduction.

 

If you were ever interested in the Romans throwing their gladiator games, only they're organized with children this time, then The Hunger Games is the book for you.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Robin Hood 2010

"Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions."

Hello everyone!

I seem to be doing these backwards.

If you recall, some time ago, I made a post concerning the 2018 version of the Robin Hood movie, which could have very easily not been done and if you don't watch it you're not missing out on anything in terms of actual Robin Hood.

Then this weekend, one of our channels decided to do a re-run of the 2010 version, and I said to myself, you know what? For the heck of it, why not.

There's a bunch of other versions out there after all, and I should note that Prince of Thieves pretty much gets re-runs almost as frequently as a sitcom, so mostly once a week, and that movie should be the next in line if I don't find any other in-between the Robin Hoods.

The there's still at the very least the cartoon AND the parody that was made, so, you know, this is the franchise that never dies. I think only Spider-man got more re-makes!

So Robin Hood, circa 2010, here we go!