EEEEEFFFFFFFF the hunger games.
im sorry but what. the. hell.
seriously? all this hype and commotion over the books and movie so i finally watch the movie with a group of friends in the bahamas last week and i think ive been boiling ever since. every facebook status that mentions its makes me want to throw someone off a cliff (or use a bow and arrow on them)
okay first i will say... yes. it was entertaining. and thats the idea right? we watch movies for entertainment. we all sit on a couch with blankets and popcorn and put movies in the VCR, DVD player, Blu Ray, whatever the hell and you sit and stare at a screen for 2 hours for entertainment. its great. i love movies.
but what. the. hell.
and how do we know when that entertainment becomes violence? wheres the line? who shouldnt watch movies for entertainment? who might get crazy ideas and just run with them?
first...lets back up. if you live on planet earth you probably heard about the "Batman Massacre" and for any of you that hide from the news better than me ((not likely))...
click here
I'll just touch this topic briefly... I am pissed at James Holmes. What a dick. He freakin sucks. I refused to go see The Dark Knight Rises because of him. I wont see it in the theater. I know it sounds silly. it already happened. what are the odds if i go see it today someone is going to copycat james holmes? not likely right?? but Im terrified. I'm not a scared person. I am not afraid of death. but i am afraid of james holmes. I look forward to going to Heaven when my time comes and being with my daddy again. but what the hell bro? who does that? this crazy thing called life... its supposed to be precious. and then there are lunatics like james holmes out there just walking into movie theaters and calling themselves the JOKER??? whatttttt??? was that really "their time". i dont think i can really say that i think ya...thats life. and those 12 people were supposed to die that night in that midnight viewing of batman. i cant even begin to really get across how this makes me feel.
but to connect the batman massacre to the hunger games bullshit for you...
we have people loading up with hundreds of rounds of amo walking into theaters and temples just killing people for the hell of it... our life... our world. its crazy, Life is fleeting. people get sick with cancer and die. and there isnt anything we can do about it. but what about the people that are going to do those terrible things to others... is there really anything we can do? God gave us all free will right?
HOW ABOUT START BY NOT WRITING BOOKS AND MOVIES ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE FOR FUN? what a concept right???
honestly i was DISGUSTED by hunger games. parts in the movie where they are cheering the kids on to kill other kids. its insane. and sure you might say "its just a movie" or "just a story" but when does it become NOT just a movie? when someone walks into a theater guns a' blazing saying hes the "joker" after dying his hair red???????
i used to laugh when our parents and teachers would say that our video games and tv shows and movies made us have violent thoughts and bla bla bla. its not the first time and wont be the last that ill look back and say "okay mom, you were probably pretty dead on. i now know why you didnt want me playing mortal combat 4 and knocking peoples heads off for hours on end"
didnt you hear about the 16 year old who KILLED HIS MOM and shot his dad? after they took away his halo 3???
I dont know what to do to make this shit stop. but we should. there are kids in... forget africa... in your town right now starving to death or wishing they had a mother to tuck them in at night or hug them or send them to school or give them shoes to wear but the rest of us are worrying about hunger games and halo 3. eeeeeef that.
woo saa world wide web. woo saaa.
venting valerie. over n out.
