A couple of us decided that we would attend the midnight premier of the Hunger Games. It came out a full day earlier which equates into me seeing it 38 hours earlier than I would be able to see it in Calgary.
The movie was out in Garden City - a two hour bus trip which only was 30 km away from the university. The bus system here drives me insane. It is very inefficient and runs only until midnight. We got there and were surrounded by 15 year old females and their parents. It is completely understandable as the book is written for that demographic.
The movie is pretty good - not going to be one of my top ten movies. The book was actually enthralling and entertaining. The movie attempted to cover too many of the little subplots and missed out on one of the major plots. The digital animation could have taken this movie to an epic but it didn't. I was not that impressed with it. I personally like the book better.
The movie finished at 2:15 am which we had pre-booked a taxi for this reason. The taxi didn't show up within 20 minutes of the designated time so we called the company again to send another taxi. It took six phone calls, over two hours of waiting, and one irate phone call to the police to get a cab to come pick us up. We finally got home at 4:30 am - a brutal hour of the morning. However, I didn't have class the next day.
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