Hunger Games - had it on in the background while I read some articles, played some games.  No idea how it got 155 million in one weekend, no idea.  Must have been some superb marketing.  First half is nothing, probably building up characters and the situation. Wasn't paying attention.  2nd half is the actual game part, so I thought that'd be interesting.. hahaha. I guess 24 kids gotta fight with whatever means necessary until only one is left, they come 1 female and 1 male per district of which there are 12.  Imoprtant only 'cause i"m gonna ruin the ending for you.  What's the only way to make a story better? Put some love into it.  Well, conventionally.  So no one winner, they make it two winners.  Guess who wins?  Well, since they only show the female lead character the whole way through the movie, it's her and her district mate.  No chemistry between them on-screen.  Not that it really matters.  The death scenes are null for the most part.  No originality in getting out of thick situations.  "The Most Dangerous Game in The World" - now THAT'S a short story.   http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html  I know you read it, we read it in 9th grade I believe.  I re-read it about a year ago, doesn't take long.   Has more originality than this piece of shite.  

There's no justification for the movie.  No grand philosophy.  No moral subtext.  No social dilemma.  No cultural phenomenon.. well, maybe in their culture, but it doesn't translate to ours.  I'm sure more than a few people are gonna write novels breaking down how this movie relates to Christianity/religion/civilization/human nature/entertainment/moral theory/ethics/individualism/collectivism/blahblahblah, but they'd only be wastin' their time and anybody that reads it.  Maybe the book was a good read, but the movie is awful.  I'm gonna watch another movie, it's only 220 am and I gotta stay awake until at least 5.  Too tired to think, so no more reading.  

Speaking of reading, I gotta find some books worth reading with some philosophizing, idea thinking, none of these stupid fiction books unless it's either a Classic or should be considered an instant Classic (Fight Club, anybody?).  

That David Foster Wallace - that guy was extremely intelligent.  I was watching a video in which he was discussing the future of art and how literature will play a part. The basic gist of his thoughts were that 1) his generation was really the first to see TV as the primary art form in the world, 2) this has created deep changes in the psyches of the Western world and people in general which is probably correct, 3) he got into writing because he used to love reading mainly because it's a communication between people that never/can't take place in a social setting (He even said that the discussion they were having would never happen in a real-life situation, at least that's what he implied which is definitely true. people never talk about anything deep).  

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words  Definitely a good read.  I haven't gotten too far into it yet, but you can tell this dude thinks about a lot of different ideas and obviously can't really share them with the world, especially if you take into account that he previously stated that people donj't talk about these ideas.  His philosophy probably does't hold much weight with professional philosophy, but it has such a human element that pretty much anybody can relate to, and it's written with concrete examples.