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‘American Reunion’ (2012) movie review

You know how when you’re in high school and everything seems so great. It seems like you’ll cherish those memories and those friends forever. As time goes on, you miss the people, the parties, the craziness and think, “man, if I could only go back and relive that time”. Then your high school reunion comes along and you think, “hmm. those people aren’t as much fun as I remember”? In fact some of them are kind of on the douche bag side, making you wish you still only had the high school memory because it’s just not fun anymore? That pretty much sums up “American Reunion”.

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Lost in adaptation, ‘Hunger Games’ fails to make the non-fans care

One of the most over-hyped movies of the year, has been ‘Hunger Games’. Of course, if you’ve read the books, you might think it was the greatest movie of the year. However, I haven’t read any of the books and after seeing the movie, I have no plans to. The movie fails on every level to generate any sympathy for the characters or what they are going through. The acting is pretty stiff, especially for both male leads. Continue reading Lost in adaptation, ‘Hunger Games’ fails to make the non-fans care

What did I miss? ‘Hunger Games’ intense but misses mark — movie review

I haven’t read the ‘Hunger Games’ series of novels written by Suzanne Collins. Judging from the movie, the director expects you’ve seen it and doesn’t offer much sympathy to those that haven’t. The books are set in the future where an uprising agains the government has caused the Capitol to take drastic measures to maintain control over the people. Continue reading What did I miss? ‘Hunger Games’ intense but misses mark — movie review