Facebook Timeline Remover revisited

Mark Zuckerberg managed to make my life miserable, once again. For you, good people, who don't stand the "facebook timeline" crap, navigate to www.timelineremove.com and reinstall the add-on. Zuckerberg, you suck, buddy!

Hunger Games (2012)

Long ago there was a war, 13 districts rebelled against the County until nothing remained. And then came the peace; people rose up from the ashes and a new era of freedom was born. But freedom has a cost and the traitors were defeated. So then it was decreed within a Treaty of the treason, that in penance for their uprising each year the various districts of Panam shall, at a public “Reaping” offer up one male and female between the ages of 12 to 18. These tributes shall be delivered to the Capitol and then transferred to a public arena where they will fight in a pageant to the death until only one victor remains. Forevermore this pageant has been known as The Hunger Games, and the lone victor is to serve as a reminder of the Capitols generosity and forgiveness for the uprising.

It’s the morning of the “Reaping” and Prim (Willow Shields) wakes horrified from a nightmare where her name has just been picked. Her older sister, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) comforts her back to sleep by assuring that her name won’t be called, as this will be her first entry into the Games and first timers are never picked. Katniss is a very good hunter so she slips out into the woods to hunt for something to sell to the peacekeepers. But there’ll be no prize today as her best friend Gale shows up and frightens off her prey. He talks of running away together and how life might be if they didn't live there. But Katniss is a realist and she knows it’s time to return to the village to prepare for the Reaping.

A stupid shameless public mockery of drafting innocent children to death! At any rate, a Horn signals the beginning of the ceremony, and children rain in from all around the district. Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) is the host and she reaches in to the girls bowl to draw Primrose Everdeen’s name, Katniss rushes out and volunteers to replace her sister. Then Effie chooses a boy, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), with a shake of hands they are declared this year’s tributes for District 12 in the 74^th Annual Hunger Games. They are allow brief farewells and then whisked off to a luxurious train that will deliver them to the Capitol. While on board they meet their mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), he is a victor from many games ago and will feed them with insight and tips that may help to save their lives. Soon they reach the Capitol. A brilliant city straight out of a fairytale story, where they will spend the next few days training and building public hype; but first they must go through a primping process and then meet Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) he is like their coach. Finally the day comes to be transferred into the arena; an open spot out in the middle of the woods where centerfield is a smorgasbord of weapons and supplies. But these goodies are only for the worthy and several tributes die trying to claim their share. There are hidden cameras everywhere so that the public from all districts can watch the tributes every move and, every kill. There are also thundering booms followed by holograms to signal and identify the fallen tributes. 26 go in but only 1 will be allowed to leave, unless the rules get changed.

For me, there was not a lot of greatness in this movie; mainly because I can’t see being forced to sacrifice your children to death every year as defining the reward of freedom! However, it wasn't all bad in fact the acting was very good; and I would have even enjoyed it had the tributes been equal in maturity.

Immortals (2011)

Visions: Once again an age old question; a blessing or a curse?

For Phaedra (Freida Pinto), they are a gift not subject to query but rather an expected way of life, she is the Sybelline virgin oracle. It’s believed that her dreams, visions, are messages from the gods. The good, seek these messages as a guide toward a divine and fulfilling life. But King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) seeks Phaedra for her knowledge to locate the Epirus bow. With this bow he will have his revenge and the power to conquer the gods, take over the world and rule all of mankind.

You see, way back when the world was still very young, there was a war in the skies and a great weapon, the Epirus bow, was lost in the battle. Immortals had once thought they were above death, but later discovered they did have the power to kill each other. The victors declared themselves Gods and ruled the heavens from Mt. Olympus; while they declared the vanquished as Titans and imprisoned them on Earth deep inside Mt. Tartarus. The gods knew that evil would rise again someday, but Zeus (Luke Evans) had forbid them by law to intervene in the affairs of man, hence rendering all powerless to aid or protect against harm, unless the Titans are released.

Now Hyperion is leading his merciless Heraklion army across the lands killing everyone and destroying everything in a vow to find the bow and unleash the Titans. The people of Greece are defenseless against such evil, but there is one hope; Theseus (Henry Cavill), a strong young peasant chosen by a god and trained by a wise old man (John Hunt). After his village is ordered to evacuate, Theseus gets into a throw down with Lysander (Joseph Morgan) over the safe rite of passage for all. He is offered a spot in the royal army but rejects the invitation to stay behind and protect his mother and the other outcasts; while Lysander gets ousted from the army and later defects to Hyperion. The Heraklions reached Kolpos before the outcasts could retreat, Theseus was forced to watch while his village is destroyed and Hyperion kills his mother. He was then taken to work the salt mines along with several others as slaves. That’s where, near death, he meets Phaedra and her ladies, and is urged to stay alive. Later that night she escapes with him, a monk, Daerios and Stavros (StevenDorff) a thief; while her ladies fulfill their duty by pretending to be her, so she can get away. After a brief discussion Phaedra realizes that Theseus must return to Kolpos to give his mother a proper burial, and while inside the crypt he makes a pledge to his mother that her family will not die with him. He finds something odd about the strange rock beside her vault and breaks it apart, inside, a magnificent magical weapon, the fabled Epirus Bow. But then he gets attacked by Hyperion’s beast. Oh man, Theseus becomes a mighty warrior and decapitates the gruesome brute, meanwhile outside, Daerios falls dead at the hands of heathens. Theseus rears his magical bow and with four true shots, kills the Heraklion soldiers. Later that night while tending to his wounds, Phaedra seduces Theseus with an intimate embrace of her own desire to be touched and loved as a common mortal woman and freed from the burden of her visions. The next morning they all regroup outside and set course to return to the monastery, where with bow in hand, Theseus plans to protect Mt. Tartarus and save his people by vanquishing the evil King Hyperion and his forces.

"It's not living, as such, that's important. It's living rightly!"

Immortals should not be viewed as a young Family Flick. However, with action, drama and fantasy, it is another Must See Movie!