The Hunger Games, The Bad Games...

In a post-apocalyptic world, the working class are put into 13 districts, slaving away to provide for the wealthy in the capitol, where everything is advanced and lovely.
District number 13 revolted but got destroyed and ever since the other 12 districts have to pay tribute by an annual lottery selecting 2 kids of different gender aged between 12 and 18, to battle it out till the death! as a reality show. This happened for the next 74 years...
And that's the starting point of "The Hunger Games!!!"
Intresting... for those of you that have watched Battle Royale, don't worry its nothing like Battle Royale, since its just a stupid movie. It pales in comparison to that piece of art.
SO I will not compare the two movies since it would be an insult to Battle Royale to compare such a crappy movie to it.
I also won't compare THG(The Hunger Games) to the book , since I didn't read the book.
I shall review it as is.
I went to watch the movie with great anticipation. I was looking forward to it A LOT!
the film started with the introduction of the main character 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen who is from District 12, she was hunting a deer, her friend Gale comes on screen and makes her miss the shot... Later they are seen talking about The Hunger Games. You later understand that District 12 is especially poor and Katniss is actually very poor. The problem is that all the District is supposed to be a poor starving district... really?
I found that hard to believe since this is Katniss and Gale
<----- They are very healthy, beautiful and energetic! where as you would expect some one like this person down here!

This person looks much more convincing.. now apart from that the movie started off Very nice I have to say.

The director did an excellent job and the story was compelling.
The movie then takes you to the Reaping scene where they are picking out the contestants. Katniss's sister, called Prim was picked. Her sister volunteered instead, then Peeta Mellark was picked afterwards... Peeta is the worst supporting character to ever go on-screen!
He's weak, stupid and an opportunist! oh and he has a crush on Katniss...
Some scenes are amazing where Prim tucks in her shirt (If you've watched the movie you'll understand)
Basically the movie was amazing up until the hunger games began....

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I AM ABOUT TO BASH THE FILM!!! BY DOING SO, I WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT THE STORY AND THE VARIOUS SHIT FILM MOMENTS! SO BEWARE!!!

Okay, So Let's begin, the film takes a drastic turn the minute The Hunger Games begin. You see the games have been going on for 74 years now and the two heroes, Katniss and Peeta have been warned not to go to the tent at the begning of the game, "it's a bloodbath" he said...
You'd think that after 74 years the contestants would know not to fall for that mistake, but NO!
The scene starts with Katniss going into the forest like arena through a tunnel and there she is looking at a big tent that has the things she may need for survival! One of them being a bow since she's excellent with a bow and arrow.
I can understand the stronger contestants running to the tent to get weapons and food... but a 12 year old boy and other weaklings going there is a bit stupid...
I was expecting for all the weaklings to run into the forest and to fight from there and maybe 3 or 4 people die, but no! 11 people died out of the 24 ... thats about 50% of the players dead within the first hour! Katniss manages to run and get a back pack that has a rope in the inventory.
Anyway the story gets even stupider! Katniss starts tieing her self up to branches of tree, she spots a girl lighting up a fire only to get caught by an evil alliance and Peeta... we then discover that Peeta is kept alive because he is the only one that can get them to Katniss ... THAT HORRIBLE PERSON!!!! ... and he wasn't leading them on, he actually was getting them to her as you can see since they walk right underneath her, so it's not like he was leading them on to survive, he was actually showing them to where she is... Personally I wouldn't have expected more from a weakling that threw her a loaf of burnt bread when she was starving! (that flash back she keeps getting) She then treads along and is about to reach the edge when ! ! !
The presenter with the weird funny looking beard starts throwing balls of fire at her!!! which end up in her injury... she kept running and she stumbles right into an ambush!!!!
Now here is the bit that sends the movie into the land of the stupid for good!!!!
She starts running away from the evil group that have PEETA!!! running after her too!! she climbs up a tree, they now have her surrounded! and then the stupidest moment of all time occurred. A Guy goes after her, she manages to kick him down and then a girl tried to shoot her with an arrow and she misses ... and guess what... they stopped trying...upon an advice from Peeta, they thought they'll wait until she is tired and come down...
BUT THEY DIDN"T JUST STOP TRYING!!!! they also went to sleep ...
Wait a minute!!! Stop right there ... Let me get this straight! So this is a game till the death. Some how a group of people decided to make an alliance and hunt down everyone else, they are using Peeta to get to Katniss, they found her and then do nothing!?
The first thought was why didn't they kill Peeta? They mentioned before that the only reason he's alive is because he's their best chance to find her... well now they did, why isn't Peeta dead? Makes no sense ... okay fine, maybe they liked him and wanted to leave him for last... now, why on earth, would you not be able to kill a person on a tree? out in the open... being a tree with one branch means you are a sitting target. They could have simply set fire to the tree and that was it ...
Okay fine, they wanted to kill her in person! fine! ... but to actually go to sleep... NOT ONE PERSON ON GUARD!!! NOT ONE!!!!! ... WHY?!!!
:| WHY!!!! It was nappy time and they all had to sleep?!! EVEN KATNISS went to sleep!
All of them! Then their drunken mentor pulls some strings and the sponsers sends her a magical liquid that heals all and she uses it all!!! ( you'd think she'll leave some for later)
That scene was an insult to man kind!
The film carries on downhill from here, a little girl from District 11 wakes Katniss up from her slumber and points out that there are some genetically modified killer bees! She then uses a knife to cut it down, at one point one of the girls (that is meant to kill Katniss) wakes up a bit and instead of thinking, oh wait its time to kill Katniss, she snuggled with her "friend" (that will at one point want to kill her), Katniss gets bitten a few times, she manages to cut the branch and the beehive fell and it managed to kill a girl or two, I didn't know really. Katniss goes down gets the bow (while hallucinating) and she see's Peeta, coming to her and screaming "what are you doing?go! Run!!" or something I honestly think she was hallucinating here.
She runs, only to wake up with Rue having aided her... then the events that followed are even more stupid...
She makes a plan, where Rue the 12 year old makes a diversion, and she destroys the supplies left. Rue makes the diversion and guess what!
The bad guys all leave to find Rue! and they leave one little kid to protect the supplies! and they apparently very intelligently packed every thing up in a nice pile with very badly hidden mines all around it!!! she hits apples that fall on the mines and everything explodes!... I'm no expert on mines , but I'm pretty sure that 1, the mines are made for something heavier than an apple and 2 I'm also pretty sure that they are not made to chain explode like in the film. They are supposed to be anti-personnel mines... but whatever ... a person can argue that we don't know what type of mines they are!...
Fine...
Anyway, she then finds Rue trapped.
She saves her, evil kid comes out of the bushes and throws a spear!!! Katniss kills kid and kid's spear goes into Rue...did anyone notice that there was no canon blast for either Rue or the other kid?
Katniss now is all alone...
Then drunken guy pulls some strings and the rules of the game change and now two people from same district can win together! and Katniss thinks ah! its a sign from drunken mentor to go and sell my soul to have relationship with Peeta... Peeta...
Back stabbing slimy Peeta...
So ... she finds Peeta and he's almost dead. Then Katniss acts as if she likes that son of a #@%@# Peeta and she goes out to get medicine for him, risking her life!
She went to this Feast thing where they have 4 gifts for the members... Katniss goes there and gets attacked by the STUPIDEST GIRL ALIVE! for some reason! for some unknown reason , something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever! that stupid girl manages to over come Katniss and puts a knife to her throat and instead of killing her she then CLAIMS ! LIES and says , that she had something to do with killing Rue... whaaaa?!
WHY?! why would this stupid girl say such a thing it makes no sense at all!!!
Anyway, Thresh kills that stupid girl "Clove" , because she had to do with killing Rue even though she didn't... so you can see how sadly written that part was...
And then the last girl left "Foxface" accidentally kills herself eating highly-poisonous nightlock berries... Lame...
Then! they unleash a pack of FREAK DOGS FROM HELL! I assumed genetically modified dogs that spawn from the ground....
You know... with technology so advanced and an arena that is so versatile and medicine that heals so instantly ... it felt a bit odd that people still had to mine for resources ... or people had to fish, or do any work really ... it just feels that the district's jobs could have been substituted with machines...the way the world was together made no sense even for a fantasy!
In any case, Thresh dies by the dogs from hell and Katniss, Peeta and Cato fight to the death on a platform, resulting in Cato falling and being eaten alive by the dogs, only to be put out of his misery by Katniss...
Then the rules change back to kill every one, Peeta says that it's obvious that she should live (well I bet it is, he can't kill her, BECAUSE HE IS UNABLE TO KILL HER!!!)
Anyway Katniss says no we both die with highly-poisonous nightlock berries...
And the film ends with both of them dead, giving a finger to the game creators and ending the story with an amazing dramatic finale....
BUT NO!!!!! They need to milk the cow!!!
So the game host shouts NO before they kill themselves! And declares them both winners and then it becomes even stupider ... basically opening room for a sequel of this pile of crap...
END!

UnReal

Why not fight back instead of the classical "that's how things are", or the famous "this is Lebanon, what can we do?"
are you not bored of the same problems day in day out?
are you not annoyed by the stupid meaningless honking and screaming of the population?
this arrogant, ignorant, stupid population...
empty in its existence...
You sir are an idiot for being Lebanese
You should be ashamed of yourself
HIDE .... GO HIDE YOURSELF!
let no one know , let no one see
don't you dare speak of other nations before your own is in anyway better
I'm ashamed to be Lebanese myself...

Punishment Of A Free Mind

You may not have heard of Waleed Al Husseini, a Palestinian atheist living in Jerusalem, but many Middle Eastern atheists and Muslims have. I opened the newspaper a couple of days ago to see a story announcing Waleed's capture! Having a sense of duty I felt that I should write about Waleed and tell his story.

Waleed is a 26 year old unemployed computer science graduate. Day to day he would help his father with a one chair barber shop in the West Bank.
Nowadays Waleed (pictured above) is portrayed as a demon. There is a Facebook page dedicated to his vilification. He is facing charges of defaming religion according to a 1960 Jordanian law that is still valid in the west bank. His crimes are the creation of a controversial blog and two Facebook pages.

Here is the blog that Waleed used to post his arguments against Islam: -
http://noor-alaqel.blogspot.com/
What infuriated the Islamic world most is the fact that this blog is written in Arabic; the language of the Koran and in such a logical, reasonable way.
It illustrates mistakes (in his opinion) that enraged Muslims across the land, triggering them to ask for his execution. He went on to make a facebook page that advertised his blog and gave it further recognition. Here he allowed and encouraged people to debate him, but instead they were more interested in cursing him. Waleed then created a facebook page entitled “Allah”, branding himself the Muslim god and writing new verses as additions to the Koran, which were highly poetic and sarcastic. This infuriated Muslims even more.

I had the honour of speaking to Waleed one day on Facebook chat. I told him that I admired his work, but warned him that he’d be hunted down and it wouldn’t be long before they’d put him in jail, even worse kill him. He replied that he was sick and tired of people thinking that all Palestinians were religious and that they must know that there are atheists in the Arab world. He told me that he was trying to put a message out there…
”People are not forced to read my blog, they have to search for it.” He added “People can easily not like my page on Facebook and never hear of it again”
I happen to think that he had a point.
He also said that he was not using the internet from his home and that he was at an internet café. Sadly that’s how he got caught…

The internet cafe owner suspected that Waleed wasn't an ordinary client because he didn't play online billiards and look at pictures of girls. He grew even more suspicious when Waleed wouldn't let anyone come close and see what he was doing. (Statement from the owner of the internet cafe Mr. Ahmad Abu Asab)

So Mr. Asab used software that allowed him to check the websites that his clients were using. Low and behold he found the Facebook page “Allah”. Mr. Asab stated that only he and three other people knew of his finding and that “maybe somebody informed the authorities”
Then of course being the good guy he is, Mr. Asab kept copies of the pages and the Palestinian authorities downloaded the material. The next day they arrested Waleed.

He has been detained by Palestinian authorities since end of October. Palestinian human rights groups have remained silent. The Facebook pages have been deleted, but the blog remains. Atheists around the world should be told. We should defend him with what little we can. His story must reach every corner of the world!

Please help.
Free his free mind.
Free Waleed...

Source: International Herald Tribune: A blasphemous blog enrages Muslims

The Nightingale and the Rose

'Be happy,' cried the Nightingale, 'be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.'


Guy gives girl red rose
Girl says rose will clash with her dress and actually she prefers jewels
Guy curses love and goes back to studying Metaphysics
The End

Caged

Caged birds of the world. I feel for you, I really do.
What do you think would happen if all those doors were opened?
Would the birds remain stood on their perches? Would they stay in their cages and endure, singing or chattering contentedly for the rest of their days?
I think not...

Keeping a bird in a cage for human amusement is fundamentally wrong. This goes for humans too, except humans don't require a physical cage do they?

Why not break free from your emotional and sociological constraints? Walk out into the night, through the gate and embrace the jungle before you, while the full moon stands proud. You have a choice... unlike those truly imprisoned.

Stuck

So here we are, Back to square one...
nothing really changed,
Not much difference... Syria is coming back to conquer again, the people are so worried aboiut pointless things, that the big picture is forgotten...
Lebanon is Stuck, Many are trying to make a difference i agree...
But!
How will they move Such a BIG boulder...
I am pessimistic to be honest... I'm beginning to really Lose hope in this system ...
Completely

Disgusting Politics

It’s amazing what we Lebanese perceive as politics... WE Adore liars, protect them and work for them...
You see, it starts off with a favor, but that favor is never really free, is it...
It wouldn’t be long before you find yourself weak, fragile, and unable to speak your mind, biting your lip for so many...
But in a country that’s based on “wasta” connections... what are we to do?
Lay down and just take it ? ...