It's Official...

I'm OLD and CRANKY...

It's true.

I've been trying to deny it, but really it's probably been coming on for a while now.

What brought me to this realization? No, my birthday wasn't this week. That was way back in December, and it wasn't even one of the BIG decade birthdays. I've got a couple more years before that. (Of course if my older sister keeps turning 39 I may never hit 40 either. I mean, who wants to be older than their older sister.)

So what brought me to this realization was...

Friday night Doug and I went to see Hunger Games. We were excited to see it. I mean we LOVED the book and its sequels. Plus everyone kept saying how closely it follows the book. That's always good, right? It was even supposed to be better than Harry Potter, which is good. I really stopped liking those movies at about #3 and haven't even seen the last few of them.

But Hunger Games was different... That's what "everyone" said, right? So in prep I even read the book this week before we went.

So excited and yet so disappointed...

I found myself calculating all the differences from the book while watching the movie. I won't even attempt to outline them, but seriously they threw in the riot in that doesn't actually show up until the 2nd book? We can't just have District 11 send Katniss a loaf of bread??? I really liked that part in the book. I could go on and on, but I'll spare you.

Worse still... I spent most of the movie feeling nauseated and dizzy. Nope, it wasn't the stomach flu. It wasn't food poisoning from the meal we'd enjoyed at Subway before the movie...

I find myself wondering if Hollywood only hires camera men/women who have ADD or if the editors just have ADD themselves. If not ADD, are they all just suffering from a bad sugar high??? Seriously, can't the camera just sit still once in a while? Does it really have to jump to a new point of view every 2 seconds?? Before my eyes can even adjust they're moving on again. Wait, did I say moving on? That makes it sound like it could potentially be a smooth transition. Really it's more like the camera was mounted on the back of a kangaroo.

However, it seems I'm the only person with these complaints. Everyone else talks about how great the movie was, which leads me to believe...

I'm just OLD and CRANKY... Sigh...