But that said, I loved the movie.  I thought the casting was excellent, and for the most part, I’m okay with the changes that were made.  I thought the girls who played both Rue and Prim were perfect (and I am horrified by the race comments that have been made about the casting and can’t believe we live in a world where people think it’s okay to say those sorts of things).  I cried twice during the movie.  I’m not ashamed to admit it.

I thought the violence was very appropriately done, and it’s a very interesting look at society.  I don’t have an issue with violence on tv and in movies (but think parents should use their discretion in deciding what their kids watch).  But it’s not real violence – it’s fake.  The Hunger Games though, that’s real violence (at least to the fictional people watching).  Will we someday look at people fighting to the death as entertainment?  It already happens with dog fighting and cock fighting in many areas.

It’s a bit of a scary thought and hopefully very far fetched.

But the movie was very good.  You should see it.  Read the books first though.  Books are always better than the movie.

What amused me the most, I think, was the second movie and its perception of the future.  The “future” was supposed to be the year 2015, which, in the late 80′s, seemed so incredibly far in the future.  I was going to be so much older by 2015! 

Well, 2015 is not so far away, and I think that technology has a long way to go if we want to be where Back to the Future thought we would be.  Though in some cases, we’re beyond that point already (the presence of pay phones all over the place and the old-school printer styles, for example).   

Some things they got right.  Not every home has a thumbprint lock on the front door, but the technology is available. 

But we still don’t have flying cars.  Or hoverboards.  Or hover anythings.  My house doesn’t greet me when I come home.  I can’t demand fruit from the ceiling.  Food is not dehydrated and then rehydrated in seconds for dinner.    We’re nowhere hear Jaws 19 (thankfully). 

Some things are possible though.  Most people don’t use video phones.  But the technology exists, and is becoming more popular with the use of webcams.  So who knows, in the next seven years, maybe that will be the norm.

I don’t know that we’ll have flying cars in 7 years though.  Sad.