this is seriously the last straw

I really am going to have to give up going to see movies made from books I've read. I know I've said this before, but guys, it's getting worse.

The Giver has apparently been made into a movie and is coming out this year. The actor for Jonas is twenty-four. I just...I just can't even... "Aging up" is a term I'm seeing in relation to a lot of recent book-to-movie adaptations, used as an excuse for why the actors cast are so much older than the characters they are supposed to portray. They did this with Ender's Game but I feel like the age gap involved there was much less obvious and jarring. There is no way people are going to believe that this guy is twelve. Just...really. I'm so blown away by this decision that I honestly have no desire to see the movie now which is a shame because I think Jeff Bridges will make an excellent Giver and Meryl Streep will be a fantastic Chief Elder. [Oh, by the way, Taylor Swift has been cast as Rosemary]

I had made it a personal goal to get better about my attitude towards movies made from books and I really thought I could get better in my reception of them, but this casting issue is kind of pushing me over the edge right now. I'm hoping that I will still find some films based on books in the future that I can appreciate more but this is certainly not going to be one of them. I hope other people enjoy it, I really do, but I guess I'm too set in my purist ways to make way for this kind of discrepancy.

In other news, a woman at my work has the most adorable hanging glass terrarium in her office which really struck me as the best way to have a plant in an office. It's also given me the craving to make my own set of hanging terrariums to arrange in a corner of our apartment. Much less messy than potted plants, out of the way - in a beautiful way - and generally hardy so I have a much smaller chance of killing whatever's inside. I miss the green of the east coast so bad my chest aches sometimes so this could also be a fun way to bring that green into my living space.