A nail polish line that my store carries has come out with a color collection call "The Hunger Games." I had no idea it had anything to do with Twilight (Graphics haven't come yet, launches next month), but it makes sense considering the girls looking for it... I just think it's weird to get nail polish in worship of a movie. Especially such a terrible movie. No matter how stoned I am, I LOATHE the Twilight franchise.
I think the vampire market is full between Twilight and Anne Rice. I think the big untapped market for shitty fiction is religion. Look at all the idiots that thought Tim Tebow was winning games based on divine intervention. Telling me you couldn't make a billion dollars with some modern day prophet romance novel series?
Dune meets Twilight? In a world where religion is wrong...one man dares to be right. Haunted by visions of the future and a forbidden love, he must find a way to save the world from a generic threat. This summer, Keanu Reeves is....THE PROPHET. Edit: N-o-v-e-l does not spell movie. Blame the education system. So there's the movie adaptation, based on a series of book co-authored by Sandra Brown and Tim LaHaye. Now to clear "bestselling romance novels" and "bestselling Christian fiction" from my google history.
Fixed that for you. That thing is as inescapable as a Saturn V (yes, V is 5). Spoiler Arsenal seem to do nothing but fucking lose matches. Half that team just need to get sold, and the manager has to walk away. Seven trophy-less years (bear in mind this includes the League, 2 Cup titles and Champions League to go for per season and they have come close ONCE to the League Cup, and lost in the final) and not even looking like they're starting to recover. This is mostly the manager's fault, since he WILL NOT adapt his tactics, even when losing, and has failed to bring in plays that allow him to change tactics. Wenger has been in charge for sixteen seasons now - he should have learned that adaptability can win matches. Fuck. This week has not been kind. In other news, I need a fucking drink. Oh, Pimptress, you know your avatar is NSFW, right? If only tits were safe for work, there'd be no wars, amiright?
See: Left Behind. Christopher Hitchens had a great line about Left Behind. Said it was an offense to the act of reading.
The Hunger Games has nothing to do with Twilight. It is another book series for teenage girls (And I'm sure a bunch of adults (and people here that will deny reading it after they realize we make fun of it)). The thing I find so troubling about all of the twilight bashing is that none of you have the seen the movies (although I have my suspensions). I think in order to properly bash it you should have seen it at least once. I have seen all four movies. I did not do this on my own. I did it because I have a girlfriend, and you do things with them that you don't enjoy sometimes. As much as I would like to tell you I enjoyed the movies, the movies are in fact very bad. I can't vouch for the books. This is a review I wrote of the 4th one, when someone at work was asking me about it: I'm not quite sure where this post is going. But I hope you enjoyed my ADHD riddled thoughts.
I haven't seen the movie and never will. I have however read the entire book series and it. was. awful. This was years ago and my brain has worked to erase the memory of it as much as possible, so I don't remember too much detail, but it was about what you would expect from a college sophomore whose qualifications consisted of reading too many romance novels and not having enough romantic experiences. Terrible subject material, crappy writing, and an overwhelming sense of "why doesn't anybody love meeeee?????"
The Hunger Games (the first one and the series) is for everyone. The main character spends 90% of the movie being a hardcore bitch and she kills people. There are two male characters that people will try and force into a VS. situation but it these books never go that route. The first book is great, second book is better, third book is sort of a let down due to the main character blacking out, waking up and being told "Oh you miss this huge fight and that huge fight." The books never really give you a warm fuzzy feeling, as feelings aren't the main focus. If I had a daughter, I'd let her read The Hunger Games because the main message is "Kill fuckers, get money, and then maybe get a boy because he's around."
Another offense is people naming their kids after these mouth-breathers. A distant cousin's wife named their little girl Bella. WTF is that? Bella is not the name of someone intelligent or successful. Bella is a fucking dog name. I weep for the Bella's and Edward's of the world.
With due respect to dogs, I take umbrage with that statement as the dogs have more screen presence than that over medicated clod. I've seen schizophrenics doped to the gills on lithium emote more. Also, have you ever met a Bella that didn't look like a dog? You know who has a badass name? Benedict Cumberpatch. You can't screw with that guy. He probably rakes in the vagina... or gay Englishmen. I can't tell.
Using the new magical tools of this modern age, I was able to "uncrop" this picture so we could see what was on top of that: Spoiler
PLenty of guys have their own obsessive, idiotic pop-culture shrine worship as well. Two, in particular: 1) Affliction/Tap-Out gear. JESUS this just won't die, will it? 90% of these handjobs have never, in any way, participated in MMA. We now live in a world where every guy thinks he could kick everybody else's ass and also now everybody thinks they area fight expert. INstead of actually training properly, instead they put on their gloves and beat the piss out of their own best friends in an empty backyard pool and the next thing you know they are throwing shoulders into every dude they pass in a bar. I like MMA. But I don't work out with MMA, so I don't wear the poseur technology. 2) Sons of Anarchy swag. Barely anybody knows of this show up here, and I LOVE it, but in the States dudes are wearing merch gear based on this show EVERYWHERE. Between that and Scarface, people over here LOVE to worship ficticious outlaw murderers, don't they? However, Twilight is worse. Guys don't turn women down because they're "saving themselves" for a person that does not actually exist. I had this same issue going therough puberty-- all you think about is girls, and they will have absolutely NOTHING to do with you because they're carrying out hopes one of that either Joey, Jordan, Danny, Donnie or Jonathan might call them for a date to the MVA's. Ruined my fucking LIFE, people! "The Right Stuff" my black ass.
Just yesterday I saw a bunch of middle aged guys in a suburban Cleveland bar wearing a the SOA vests. They looked like the world's most hardcore IT department.
All this raving about Pinterest and Jeremy Lin is making me feel really out of touch with pop culture.
Too bad he is such a repulsive personality, 100% through and through. Even if Jesus Christ got a tattoo that says "Chosen One", he would still be an asshole. And ditch the stupid fucking headbands, New Wave. You're two leotards away from fronting a 1980's exercise morning show. I love it when people tell me he's better than Michael Jordan. I can't even argue with them. It's like playing poker with Helen Keller- you've already won, why waste oxygen on a waist of oxygen? I'm assuming you have oxygen bubbles in your brain presently or have never watched basketball before 2002. I guess you're younger so you don't realize how much visibly and evidently better of a player than Jordan is than James. Period.