Pulling a trigger is like ordering takeout.
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There’s a purity to The Raid that is somehow both frustrating and refreshing, although it’s far more of the latter. We all intellectually admit that an action film can’t be absolutely nothing but men getting shot or disemboweled or kicked in the balls; there has to be something else,…

Saw the movie The Raid last night. Officially in lust with this actor! (via Pictures & Photos of Joe Taslim - IMDb)
I think Jennifer was fabulous as Katniss but the whole hunger games itself wasn’t really… I don’t know, exciting as in the novels. I couldn’t feel the complicated feelings that Katniss felt to Peeta. Somehow they made the introduction to the game itself was too long so they need to rush all the fabulous things that happened on the game.
Perhaps it was just the effect of watched The Raid before The Hunger Games, though. I just can’t see the survivor game the same way after watching the badass fighting on The Raid.