on my way...

[frayadjacent]

...to see Catching Fire at the Imax. !!! It's funny, I usually see things, especially movies, 6 months to 10 years after they're released. (I still haven't seen Avatar.) It's a little weird to me that I'll be among the first in the world to see this. For once the international dateline is working for me. :)

Relatedly, last night I rewatched The Hunger Games with some friends and was reminded that I do indeed love this series a bit more than it deserves. More than any other fandom, I love THG as much for what it could be, i.e., what it is in my head, than for what it actually is. But that's a big part of what fannishness is about, I suppose.

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[timetobegin]

yay hope it is awesome!

[frayadjacent]

I loved it!!

[thirdblindmouse]

Woo! I've been trying to see movies on the big screen if they are the kind that really benefit from the big screen, which I believe The Hunger Games is, though I haven't tested it. I still haven't seen Voyage of the Dawn Treader because I missed it in the theater, and I suspect that small screen wouldn't do it justice.

[frayadjacent]

Yeah this was a good one to see in the theater. I'm trying to get in the habit of going to the movies more, because for many years basically all I saw in the theater were Harry Potter and LotT -- the two things everyone in my family could agree on.

I recently saw Gravity in the theater and it is definitely that kind of movie. so much so that I'm not sure I'd even recommend it to rent/buy/netflix/download unless one has a pretty good tv at home.

[thirdblindmouse]

I used to live in an apartment with a projector which allowed us to watch movies in big screen (and to throw things at the screen, which even in a movie theater you can't do). If projectors weren't so expensive and if I had a room with windows it was easy enough to block off I would do that again.

[frayadjacent]

Ooh, projectors are awesome. And throwing things at the screen/wall! A feature I'd never even considered...