In the books Haymitch won his hunger games without killing anyone. And his best friend died in the games. It's why they don't show reruns much of his game and why they force them away from the edges of the arena. Also Katniss decided on the arena that she wanted Rue to go home because she reminded her of her sister that she volunteered for and hoped Prim would forgive her for her decision and understand.
The highest score is 12 not 11 and also the careers target her because she outshined them twice in the tribute parade and in the scores, the careers, got a score between eight and a 10 but Katniss got an 11. And the higher you score the more the careers are going to kill you. The careers are from District one and two. They’re train killers, waiting for the opportunity to go in arena to kill. And the part where all them go to the cornucopia that is called the blood bash more than half of The tributes died on the first day. Also, the careers can kill a lot of the tribute on a day. in the careers woman alliance on day one training, so they go into the arena has a group of train, killers, and kill a lot of the other tributes
In the books, Rue's district pooled their money and sent katniss bread to thank her for taking care of Rue. It was unheard of for one district to send a gift to another district and was considered the first act of rebellion by the districts.
@@cosas_de_gatos Well I feel like it’s one of those unfortunate changes that have to be made sometimes because it would be harder to convey the significance of the gift and how it was rebellious without having Katniss’s thoughts to explain it like in the books than it was for them to change it to a more straightforward and visual no words or context needed act of rebellion. I think it’s just one of those things like the mutts resembling the dead tributes that wouldn’t have translated as well from page to screen (especially for people who hadn’t read the books first) because the viewer wouldn’t have Katniss’s thoughts to explain what they were seeing.
@@cosas_de_gatos I like to think of it like how you translate a language. Sometimes a direct translation doesn’t actually get the intended meaning or feeling across and it needs to be adjusted to fit the framework of the new language. Things that work in one form of media sometimes don’t work in another and it needs to be adjusted to evoke the same meaning and emotions.
katniss is funny as hell in the books because she keeps insisting she doesn't like peeta and that this is all for show but then she randomly admits he's the only person in school she pays attention too and that she watches him wrestle all the time (she says she hates extra curricular activities too) lmfao she's such a teenager
For sure. She tries with Gale because she thinks she’s supposed to, but she only talks of others being attracted to him, but doesn’t show any herself. With Peeta, she shows desire and attraction.
@@TheHcjfctcyess thank you! The Gale lovers think she was in love with him! And every person who’s read the books knows she isn’t. She makes many comments that she’ll probably end up marrying Gale because that is what everyone expects of her.
Wait if anyone's got them, I would totally appreciate pointers to specific scenes or page numbers, please, in an effort to go back and find this without, you know.. accidentally rereading the entire series. (I mean, no matter where I start from, once I start reading certain passages I'll probably keep going and wind up rereading the entire thing, who are we kidding. But I can at least start with noble intentions, can't I? 😂)
@@mugglesandmadness Not really 😕. I think it could be worth rereading the series and just pay attention to the parts where she mentions Gale and Peeta and see how different they are.
Your hatred towards Gale will only get worse as you watch the movies but your love for Peeta will only get stronger. Also can’t wait for you to see Finnick 😆
I don't get the hate? He literally helps her and her family all throughout the movies and provides a lot of emotional support too. I liked him idk why its an unpopular opinion...
@@amirrhodesve791 MASSIVE SPOILER: His incompetence led to the death of Katniss's sister in the final movie. If the guy weren't an egoist douchebag than that thing can be easily avoided.
@@amirrhodesve791 Gale does not offer emotional support to Katniss at all as the movies go on. In fact, he causes her more stress. He's all worried about her feelings towards him and asks her if she loves him when Katniss is just concerned about surviving. Even when she had to fake a relationship with Peeta to survive he was being whiny about it, despite it saving her life
exactly. I love the moment Gale walked in she went boo and I was like: Wait, i thought she said she knew nothing about this and then she was talking about the actor but a win is a win.
@@fart63 He honestly gives me “nice guy” vibes. Like, he’s probably the type of guy to think he’s entitled to a girl just because she’s nice to him. Based on the context of the story, and how he reacts to Katniss and Peeta’s fake romance.
in the books the mutts (kind of dogs in the movies) were way scarier cause they resembled the fallen tributes, their fur was the hair colour of the tributes and katniss for real thought that their eyes were taken from the bodies of the fallen. they could stand on their hind legs and when cato fell down they didnt finish him off for the entire night, he had to fight and be torn apart for hours on hours until it was morning and katniss finally shot him. in the books its described that he was just a pile of flesh, whimpering for death which is so- yeah anyway🙂
13:40 Quite the opposite. They hate her. They only gave her a high score so she could be a target for the other tributes. You'll notice that throughout the franchise, they put Katniss on a high pedastal, and she hates it. Katniss admits that she isn't a hero. They only see her as one because she wanted to save her sister, and they saw that as rebellious
@@rosaliefarve1427 it’s not about Katniss thoughts though? In catching fire it’s the other peoples reaction around her that let’s her know that’s bad. Haymitch even is disgusted by both Katniss and Peeta and can’t even look at them, after seeing their score. When Katniss gets an 11 here, they are all ecstatic. Every single one of them, and they’re smarter than that. They know the game. They knew that she got a high score because Seneca genuinely liked her spunk. It’s why they added the extra scene of him talking to president snow about it, he actually likes her and loved the romance aspect, which is why he made the decisions he did and ended up getting executed. It wasn’t to target her in a bad way this time.
In the first movie the high score is due to genuinely being impressed, she did something unexpected and showed off both great aim and a fiery spirit. In the second movie/second book, the high scores are an intentional "screw you" by President Snow because he wants the more capable contestants to target and kill Katniss and Peeta.
5:30 Josh Hutcherson was 100% the Tom Holland of the 2010s. Absolute king, love him. Phenomenal actor, even when he was a kid. Haven't watched a movie/show of his where I didn't like his performance.
I know you already figured it out but I wish they did the flashbacks better in the movies because people who didn’t read the books, usually don’t know what’s happening there. And it’s such a profound moment in the books. Katniss’ dad had just died and he was the sole provider for the family. Katniss didn’t really know much about hunting and trading by this point but she was trying to find food regardless. But in this moment, she was about to give up and die of starvation. And Peeta, being the absolute sweetheart he is, burned the bread on purpose so he could throw it out to her. And he did all that knowing he would get mentally and physically abused by his mother. He is such a sweet soul.
Right! The movie makes it look like he's just throwing the bread out in the mud and Katniss just happened to be there, it doesn't at all convey how that moment literally saved her life.
Also Kantinss's mother didn't take care for them because she went through a sever depression. So Kantiss tried to earn money with selling old things and they were already malnorished at that point.
@@Arionthelady That's exatly what I thought until I read livy's comment, this changes things so much when it comes to seeing Peeta's character, I wish I knew this 😭
So backstory on Haymitch his games. 7:10 His games were brutal as it was the second quarter quell the 50th hunger games. For his quarter quell it was announced that double the amount of tributes would be reaped. So 2 girls and 2 boys from each district. Which meant 8 careers. 47 other tributes that needed to die so he could win. To celebrate half a century of Hunger Games, the game maker created a truly beautiful arena. As the pedestals rose the tributes were overwhelmed by the lush surroundings, full of flowers and animals with a stunning snow-capped mountain as the finishing touch. It was all beautiful…but deadly. The flowers were poisonous, the animals aggressive, and the snow-capped mountain erupted on day 4, revealing itself in actuality to be a deadly volcano, killing 12 tributes. Haymitch was not seduced by the allure of the surroundings, quickly securing a bag and a knife from the cornucopia before retreating into the woods. While in the woods, Haymitch runs into three career tributes. He’s outmanned but not outgunned as he quickly kills two of them with his knife. The final tribute manages to disarm him, and as they go in for the kill fellow District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner kills the career with a dart. Much like Katniss and Rue they agree to work together. They steal food from the other dead tributes, and Haymitch leads them to the very edge of the arena. While there, he notices that a forcefield surrounds the arena and that anything thrown at it bounces back. When Haymitch refuses to leave the edge, Maysilee chooses to separate from him and turn back towards the center, only to be killed by a mutt. Haymitch holds her hand as she dies, again mirroring Katniss and Rue's story. That same day two more tributes are killed, leaving just Haymitch and a District 1 career tribute left. A violent and deadly fight ensues between the two. She slashes open his chest with an axe while he cuts out her eye. She throws her axe at him, and he strategically dodges it and allows it to hit the forcefield, where it bounces back and hits her in the face, killing her. Haymitch is pronounced the victor, and he believes the worst will then be over, his life now a tale of riches and glory. However, his battle is not done. President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the films) is not impressed with Haymitch's clever manipulation of the forcefield and two weeks after he returns home, his mother, brother, and girlfriend are all murdered. This is The Hunger Games after all, never one to shy away from the bleakness of war and the cruelty of dictatorships. His warning to Katniss and Peeta at the end of the first film about the Capitol "not taking these things lightly" bears more weight when you understand the heavy toll he paid for his clever win. Snow often did this with any tribute that defied him or the games at all! He is ruthless and cruel. But now you know why Haymitch is the way he is. I’m explaining all of this because they do not talk about it in the movies so it isn’t a spoiler.
Non spoiler, as much as I love these movies as faithful adaptations they fail to really show you how corrupt the reaping is. When you are 12 your name goes in once, 2 at 13, 3 at 14 etc. you can also add your name in an additional time for each family member too young or old to compete in exchange for extra grain, flour, lantern oil ect. They carry over. So if you’re 12 and add your name in once for a parent your name is in twice. At 13 your name is in 3 times automatically and if you put in an extra name again you’re in 4 times that year. The more destitute you are the more likely you are to add your name more times. The rich districts don’t need anyone to put their names in more times. They have their best trained 18 year olds volunteer each year, when they win these already rich districts get even more prosperous . On the off chance a tribute from a poor district wins, those benefits are used up immediately to make people slightly less starving. The whole thing is designed to keep the poor, poor. Keep the rich, rich. AND have them focus on each other instead of the people actually doing this to them.
i do think all of these points are covered in the films, just done in a more subtle way. rather than telling you, they show you or imply it through dialogue. i don’t mind their approach to divulging this info imo
So, just like in real life then. This is what I love about good sci-fi and fantasy: the way it helps us to understand the hidden realities of our own existence through simplified illustration of the same concepts and by cutting through culturally ingrained normalizing BS.
@@jimmiejam508I think it's just unfortunately subtle because truly people only catch it if they are eagle eyed and thorough minded. after watching many reactions, not many people seem to get a grasp on it. A lot of things are so subtle in the movies, leaving it pretty easy to come away with a much flatter view of the series than if they'd read the books. Maybe that is just a consequence of adaptation.
Also in the books Peeta lost HIS LEG. His injury was so fucking worse than they portrayed in the movie. Katniss described that she could even see his bone, and flesh was just hanging from his destroyed leg, the sponsor did help but by the time they picked them up from the arena he had his leg chopped lol
After the game they also wanted to give Katniss plastic surgery and breast implants (at 16) to make her more desireable since capitol citizens will use victors for prostitution.
@@samuel40446 if I remember correctly the medicine helped some but then he either got worse or was reinjured and after they rescinded the dual winners rule he ripped off the bandage or tourniquet to try to bleed out because Katniss refused to kill him and he wanted her to live. So by the time they were pulled out of the arena his leg was too far gone to save so they amputated and gave him an artificial one.
Hi! I know this is an old review,but I loved that you caught on to the human aspects of the animals. In the book, there was a pack of them, and each were given characteristics of the dead tributes. It was ducked up!!
Lol i remember when the film first came out, the Capitol’s outrageous style was so “weird” to us. But now it’s common seeing that kind of style on celebrities at events like the Met gala
Eh...a bunch of Effie's costumes were Alexander McQueen, including the butterfly dress, and Cher at the 1986 Oscars would look right at home in The Capitol. Susan Collins was satirizing the culture she lived in, in 2008. She wasn't warning us, she was showing us who we were/are.
@@thecompendium9607 interesting! that makes so much sense. For me i went into watching the movie in theatres without reading the book or knowing anything about the author, so my first impression was that the Capitol just dresses “weird”. I was young and wasn’t that familiar with celeb culture anyway so I didn’t know ppl dressed like this already 😆 An eye-opener for sure…
@@thecompendium9607 Love seeing some else who recognized the dresses! SPOILER AHEAD: Katniss's wedding dress in Catching Fire also looked very Alexander McQueen to me, although I've never actually confirmed that.
@@thecompendium9607 This. Honestly anything and everything Effie wore just made me think "that looks like a Lady Gaga outfit" back when the movie first came out - the exaggerated colors and silhouettes, the eyemake up. It all screamed LG and Gaga is a big fan of Alexander McQueen.
books peeta has ten times the rizz of movies peeta like he was rizzing up katniss from second one and didn’t stop even when he was half d3ad in the arena, if that’s not commitment
For context the reason Katniss blows up the food instead of stealing it is because in the novel she points out how capitol favourites like district 1 and 2 get so many special privileges. They do not know how to go hungry or survive starvation and because they get the most sponsors they overlook rationing their food. Edit: the reason Katniss has an edge is because people from 12, particularly the poorest area known as the seam, are very malnourished and aren't trained to have survival skills. However because hunting is illegal the better districts do not train the children with live subjects. They can only predict what to do next they have never had to study an animals movement before. Because the fence is broken and the district is too poor to fix it Katniss' father taught her how to forage, identify plants and kill animals. When their dads died her and Gale hunted for years which made them very skilled killers even if it was just hunting.
I really wish the movie addressed why Katniss got her high score in her evaluation (the book did). It wasn't because the judges liked her. They did it to make the District 1 and 2 tributes target her. It was purely retribution.
Girl, Peeta is marriage material, no lie. Lol. I think some people wavered a bit between him and Gale in the books (at least in the beginning), but I was diehard team Peeta from the get-go.
my friend literally said peeta was a bitch boy and she liked gale (until what he did later on) and i was like. ... did we read the same books??? watch the same movies?? 😭
Funny you mention the mutts (the dogs at the end) looking human-y... In the book, it is HEAVILY implied that the mutts are either very close replicas of the other tributes, or that they are literally the other tributes turned into mutts. Here are some telling bits from the Mutt attack: "Each has a thick coat, some with fur that is straight and sleek, others curly, and the colours vary from jet black to what I can only describe as blonde. There's something else about them, something that makes the hair rise up on the back of my neck, but I can't put my finger on it." "...I realise what else unsettled me about the mutts. The green eyes glowering at me are unlike any dog or wolf, any canine I've ever seen. They are unmistakably human. And that revelation has barely registered when I notice the collar with the number 1..." "The blonde hair, the green eyes, the number... It's Glimmer." Katniss then describes a couple of the other mutts before saying "And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. Teeth bared in hatred. Rue..." Peeta and Katniss then discuss if the mutts actually have the tribute's eyes, or if they have their brains, their memories. I do wish they'd made it more obvious in the films, because reading that in the book shook me to my CORE. Thank you for noticing their strangely human features!
OMG thank you for posting this comment!! When she mentioned this in the video I was like if she only knew from the book.... I haven't read them in so long, so this was a great refresher of what was actually said in the books
I think it would have looked silly in the movie. There are some things that books can get away that movies simply can't. One example si Voldemort frol Harry Potter. In the books, Voldemort has red eyes with slit pupils like a snake. Like, the white of his eyes is blood red and he only has two lines of black in the middle. It sounds great, but in a movie it wouldn't work, because it would remove all expressions from Voldemort. It would be hard to convey his cruelty and hatred in such a bizarre animal eyes. Here is the opposite. The mutts are animalistic threats who are on screen for seconds. Making them look like the other tributes would not just require some explanation for the audience (As Katniss does in the book) but also a massive waste of special effects in something so small.
@@luiscalzoncit2820 that is true. I guess I was after something more subtle than the Voldemort look though! Maybe just different coloured fur and eyes. Even the numbered tags round their necks wouldn't have been much extra! And Katniss could say "they're the other tributes!", which I think she does say in the books. I wouldn't want them to look exactly human-like, but a stronger nod to it would have been cool for people who didn't read the books
@@himenyx153 right!? 😭 that part always gives me goosebumps in the books. I honestly think they did a really good job of the films (compared to like Harry Potter for example), but they did downplay a couple of things. The other bits that stick in my mind are that Katniss goes deaf in one ear from blowing up the career's supplies and needs it fixing by the capitol. Peeta's injured leg is also far worse in the books and he ends up losing his leg! He gets a bionic one from the capitol, but it means he's slower in the second and third books because of reduced dexterity!
A cool thing that's only clarified in the books is the real meaning behind the three fingers gesture. It's a district 12 specific gesture meaning a sort of respectful goodbye to someone you love and is most commonly used at funerals. The districts are forced to treat the hunger games as a fun celebration, but when Katniss treats it as a tragedy to protect her sister from, it could be considered a small act of rebellion, so the district responds with their own small act of rebellion by treating the reaping as a funeral rather than a cool opportunity to fight for Panem.
The big board that Foxface was at during training was her learning which plants were safe to eat. Nightlock looks alot like blueberries so it's up in the air as to whether she made a mistake based on Peeta collecting the berries or whether she recognized them and figured a quick death was better.
I think the books imply she ate them BECAUSE Peeta was collecting them and she assumed he knew what he was doing because he's partnered with Katniss who does know what she's doing.
She ate the berries because she assumed that, since Peeta was collecting them, that they were safe to eat. I don't think in the books they ever mentioned her during the training learning what plants were safe to eat. I could be wrong, but I think that's just something that they added for the movie so, really, she may have had absolutely no clue how to tell the difference between safe to eat plants and poisonous ones.
it def wasnt suicide because in the book she was known for stealing food multiple times to survive. plus she didnt only steal the berries she also stole some of their cheese to eat
As the others have said, Foxface’s death in the books wasn’t suicide. Katniss mentioned that nightlock looks exactly like a safe berry and it was only found around the woods of district 12.
In the books the death of Rue is even more tragique from Katniss perspective. She associates and sees her sister in Rue, she even calls her Prim out of mistake one time in her mind and thinks how she couldn t have killed her if it came down to that. Just wait for the other movies is all I ll say. PS: also the people of District 11 send Katniss their gift they have raised money to send Rue. It was the first time another district sends gifts to a tribute that is not their own
Rue dying is pretty important to the narrative because it proves that even if you volunteer for Prim, you'll never truly be able to save her or the other children.
The two winners was the only actual rule change, if I remember correctly in the book Katniss mentions other games and that those also had feasts, it's basically a way to force tributes to go to one place to force conflict. It's more or less the same idea as the finale, it gets dark very quickly to make it more exciting. All for the views. Katniss defied the Capitol, she basically forced them to keep their initial rule change by outsmarting them. They don't like it when that happens. So the person who let it happen, Seneca Crane, is executed. Or, well, he gets to unalive himself instead of being shot to death. And the person who did it, Katniss, is in danger.
I wished they kept Cato and Clove in the movies rather than Cato and Glimmer. In the books, I believe Cato and Clove were together (or at least were close as they were friends from the same district) and when Thresh was killing Clove and she was calling out for Cato, Cato was heard yelling for her back but he was too far away to help. And when Clove died, Cato mourned and screamed over her dead body (he held her in his arms and begged her to stay with him). I don't know, I guess it gives them a bit of humanity too (not that I liked the actions of the district 1 and 2 tributes but they were victims too).
I believe him and Glimmer were still together, but it was the same instance of Katniss caring about Rue. Clove was only 14 and they knew eachother from home, so he was trying to protect her while still playing the game
Little fun facts about behind the scenes of the hunger games, while they were filming wild turkeys kept wandering into the shot so they kept having to reshoot scenes over and over again because ‘food was supposed to be scarce and here were these plump turkeys’ Also Amandla(Rue) and Jackie(the red head girl, in the books she was known as foxface) would steal the boys things and hide them around the trailers and sets to mess with them and leave them little sticky notes.
One of my all time favourite Katniss moments was in the book when Effie complimented her and Peeta's manners while they ate on the train because all the past tributes ate with their hands like savages and it pissed Katniss off so much that she ate with her hands and wiped them on the table cloth. Solidified her as one of my favourite characters ever if I'm being honest. I kinda wish it was in the movie but I can understand why they'd keep that out. I bet Jennifer Lawrence would've loved filming that though.
I find it so intriguing you commented on how snatched Katniss’s waist is because when the movie first came out, people were flaming her actress saying she was fat and not skinny enough to play Katniss Everdeen. Such bullshit she has always looked great in these movies.
i think people were saying that less to say that she wasn’t skinny aesthetically but that the character is supposed to be on the brink of starvation and severely malnourished. (that said, there are def misyognistic undertones & i’d much prefer she look healthy than be encouraged to lose weight unhealthily like actresses too often are)
@@jimmiejam508 those comments are ridiculous anyway, cause yeah katniss is smaller than the girl careers from districts 1,2 and 4 but the whole point is that she’s a lot healthier than most because she can hunt and gets food for herself so she isn’t starving. Like yeah Jennifer probably has more of a career tribute build, but I think it’s not that bad because it shows how katniss has been able to take care of herself with her hunting skills
@@jimmiejam508 Jlaw didn't want to lose too much weight for that accuracy, instead she wanted to be her own body and portray a strong woman in it as a better examle for teenagers.
honestly the hate over the casting when it first came out was so stupid especially with rue. the amount of people complaining abt rue being black, acting as though it made her less innocent, or acting like collins didnt mention her skin color multiple time was ridiculous
I was OBSESSED with the hunger games in middle school but recently with the hype of ballad of songbirds and snakes I've been starting to get back into the series and can say I'm still in love with everything about the hunger games and what's crazy is realizing how much this trilogy reflects alot about the society we live in
It's funny you mention Peeta reminding you of Tom Holland, because Josh Hutcherson campaigned *hard* to get Spider-Man back when Andrew Garfield got the role.
Someone mentioned Peter's leg already so I'll pitch in with the information that Katniss loses her hearing in a blast at some point. The books very much include the physical and mental consequences of such experiences. Both Katniss and Peeta suffer with trauma afterwards. You did see it in the second movie, and in the books it's obviously more delved into. Also! The leg waxing. Tributes (at least female tributes) undergo a reall thorough "beauty routine" once they arrive in the capitol. They get hair removed, their skin scrubbed, blemishes removed etc. It makes Katniss feel really icky and artificial and humiliated.
The amount of times you put your name in for the reaping equates to how much food you are given for that year, if I remember correctly. There is a lot of information that the movies leave out that aren't essential, but they obviously give much more context. :) Already a ton of readers in the comments giving loads of background information - I love it!! I hope you continue the series, my favorite in the movie franchise is Catching Fire.
Amandla is indeed adorable. Perfect casting as Rue. ETA: You said you think the redheaded girl killed herself. She was actually stealing (not very much) from the groups to stay alive. Very smart and stealthy. She stole the berries from Peeta, believing them to be safe if he was collecting them, and ate them. In the books Peeta seems kind of sad and refers to her as "his kill".
Honestly, Foxface was known to be very knowledgeable about plants. It seems unlikely that she didn’t know about, or wasn’t at least familiar with nightlock. She probably did commit suicide.
@@allycat0136 no. This theory has never once been proven. If she was an expert in plants then she would have been healthier. She was literally starving and dehydrated for nearly 3 weeks, immaciated. She was desparate for food. It wasnt as bad at first, not completely, since she could steal from the Cornocopia, but Katniss destroyed her potential food supplies. Rue was knowledgeable in plants, so she could find berries and herbs to sustain her. Foxface tested well at the training center, true, but she may have just had excellent short-term memory skills or perhaps didnt recognize the plants in the arena. Also, one important thing to note. Nightlock only grows around Districts 12 and 13.
Not watching hunger games is way different from not watching divergent. One is so so amazing the other is mid. One was way more impactful and the other was an imitation
Hunger games is king for me. I actually really enjoyed Divergent. I just think releasing it during the hunger games era was not the move. They should have waited.
The saddest thing about haymitch is that snow killed his whole family. They don’t elaborate this in the movies. He won his games after watching a girl he cared for from his district die. After he won, Snow tried to sell his body to citizens of the capitol. Haymitch refused, so snow killed his whole family and his girlfriend. He spent the next 25 drowning himself in alcohol because of the trauma from the games, the fact everyone he loved died, and from watching every tribute from 12 die.
Slight correction, snow didn’t try to sell Haymitch to capitol citzens, snow went after his family members because haymitch discovered that the arena was a forcefield and he used that to his advantage. I think you’re thinking of Johanna, she was the one who refused and in return Snow took away her loved ones. But you’re right that Haymitch is an alcoholic.
Josh Hutcherson deserves to still be the it boy, the guy is SUPER talented, he kills any role he’s in. Definitely reminds me of Tom Holland, he’s also just as kind, kids absolutely adore him. The meme at the end 💀 😅 I’m happy you’re watching these!! They actually have some very similar truths to today society, and it keeps building. When you see that this isn’t just gladiator games, but incredible manipulation and politics - the movies are incredible. Snow is also a respectable villain - more an antihero in a sense. With the new movie hitting theaters in November I’m sure we all will love his story. And we see why he hates but respects Katniss so much.
Miya’s comment about not knowing what was poisonous and what wasn’t reminded me of this. In the books (since they always go into more detail) they explain “quarter quells” which are every 25 years that puts a twist on the games. Haymitch was in the 50th games and the twist for that year was that there were twice as many tributes. His arena was one of the most beautiful that the Capital had ever curated but every single thing in the arena was poisonous. The water and even if you smelled the flowers too closely they would kill you. Also in the books Cato’s death was much more grueling and torturous. He was suffering for 3 days(?) and the final mutts were actually created to mimic the fallen tributes. Their fur resembled each tribute’s hair and even their collars had their respective district numbers.
So I think it was several hours because in the book he had a special suit of armor to help him against Katniss with her bow and arrows. And eventually Katniss does put him out of his misery.
When Hamitch said they don’t take these things lightly he referring to when he won his games. He used the force field to kill the other tribute and they killed his whole family.
The movies aren't perfect but they really embodied the books really well. the other movies are really well made but the first one has a place in my heart
fr i just read them again recently (i havent read them since i was 12) and i was like how tf did i not have nightmares??? CATOS death scene was horrifying to read and im 19 now...
They did a good job of adapting the books to screen, but man does the books really depict how evil and dire things were in district 12, the workd, and in the games.
Miya commenting that she does not understand how the orphan girl looked excited on the flight to the arena. Later, Miya laughed, nervously, when Rue died. Excitement is the base emotion and the immediate release of the nervous energy can come out oddly, like laughing in the face of danger or at times of grief.
Thresh in the books was a monster. You didnt see him hardly at all because in the arena was a tall grass field that Thresh went into and no one else dared too. Not even the team. The tall grass was Threshs domain. Later when Katniss sees him she remarks to herself that while everyone else in the arena are starving and slowly losing weight and strength Thresh has managed to put on muscle and is well fed and doing just fine. Iirc Cato does kill him off screen because Thresh took his supplies during the feast but Cato didnt come out of the figt unscathed and then the Mutts further fucked him real bad
Forgive me if I'm wrong, since I've only read the first book and watched the movie, but didn't the mutts kill Thresh? In the book, they don't specifically state that Cato killed him. Katniss just makes a guess. In the movie, you can hear Thresh's scream, and then the dogs come for Katniss and Peeta. It makes sense that he would scream if he got attacked by the dogs.
No, Cato definitely killed Thresh in the books. The whole point of the thunderstorm, described in the books, was made for the showdown between Cato and Thresh over the span of two days; with Cato tracking him down, then the actual fight. @@bloxworld6593
Gale also held the opinion that everyone should just stop watching the games in the book too… where they made it very clear that viewership was mandatory and failing to watch would result in harsh punishment if caught
@@mochiyeosang1908 Yeah, I know collective action is very effective. Sorry, the point I was trying to get across was that Gale never really cared about how rebellion affected innocent people, it’s just much more prominent later on in the series.
In the book, Cato's death is the one that hits me the hardest. It's just so brutal, especially after reminding you that he's a victim of the games, just as Katniss is. In the book, he doesn't simply die to the mutts. He has armor on, so when the mutts get a hold of him he is mauled for *hours* rather than just a few minutes like in the movie. The armor inhibits their ability to kill him quickly. It isn't until Katniss has finally had enough of listening to his moans of pain and anguish the entire night that she finally leans over the edge. He begs her to kill him, and she does. It was so harrowing to me, the idea of being torn apart, piece by bloody piece, for hours on end. It doesn't help that the mutts are straight up monsters designed to be terrifying. They look like dogs in the movie, but in the books I imagined as them wolfish monsters, akin to werewolves, but not quite human enough to be categorized as werewolves. They're vicious beasts that will tear apart any living thing they can get their claws on. The worst part about them? The eyes. In the books Katniss describes the mutts' eyes as looking like the eyes of the dead tributes. She noticed Rue's eyes among them. The visage of the dead tribute's eyes was repurposed for the sake of creating a terrifying creature that could, and would, strike fear into the hearts of every still living tribute. The fact that they were willing to design such a monster is so evil. Honestly, I feel like the movie adaptation censored a LOT from the original source material. Between the shaky cam, quick cuts and straight up not showing injuries and death blows, it actually kind of annoyed me. I always told people that the book could probably be considered Rated R with how graphic the violence is. The deaths were always so brutal and sad. The descriptions of some of Katniss' injuries (of which there were many) also made me feel physically nauseous. I do not feel nauseous from things I read very often, so that's kind of saying something. Ultimately, it was a very good adaptation, but the censorship urked me. Part of my fascination with the first book had to do with how brutal it could get. To not get that in the movie left me feeling like I was watching a kid's movie. T'was a shame.
First thing u gotta learn, it is ILLEGAL to mention the trash heap Divergent in the same sentence as the absolute masterpiece the Hunger games. I will let it slide because I’m not a rat but u have to be more careful
Perfect timing to start the series, the prequel comes out in September! It’s strictly snows story so it’s a lil hard to like but it explains a lot on how many of these traditions and stuff came about
In the books, Katniss protected Rue so much because she was the same age as her sister, and if she wasn’t there to protect Prim, she wanted to protect someone like her.
Haymich having to watch all his trainees die is a large part of why he drinks in the books. And he wants to avoid any serious attnetion from the capitol. He frames himself as a worthless drunk strategically
Watching this made me realize how hard it is to watch and understand this movie without reading the books first. So many things are explained in the books, but just appear in the movies with no context. It's like they cut out like half the details to condense it into a movie (which I understand), but failed to recognize that the rest of the details no longer made any sense.
foxface eating the berries is implied to be su!cde, with peeta saying she was "too clever." at the beginning, in the training montage, she's quizzing herself on what's poisonous and what isn't. so that's kind of foreshadowing her death. because if she ate the nightlock, then she could go out on her own terms and in a less horrific way
It’s always been interesting they did that in the movies, I don’t think her smarts with plants and stuff is in the books, I always thought she ate it because peeta grabbed them and him being with katniss assumed they were safe to eat because the arena they were in were similar to woods in 12
@@heathern8043they did talk ab her being very good w the wild life stuff in the training centre in the books, however because nightlock doesn’t grow in every district she probably didnt know and just trusted that katniss and peeta knew what was edible since her food survival tactic was to steal from the others. I dont think it was suicide bc it plays an important role for katniss in the books where she learns she should not overestimate ppl
Fox face (what Katness called her in the book, was the girl that ate and died to the berries), she only Survived that long by stealing other people's stuff. so when Peeta was collecting the berries she stole them and ate them. She didn't know they were poisonous.
i don't remember if it's mentioned in the movies or not, but in the books, katniss constantly compares rue with her sister because rue reminds her so much of her. it's part of the reason why she grows attached to rue so quickly, and it makes her death and katniss grieving for her even more painful, because she saw rue as another little sister.
The nice touch that often goes unnoticed is when peeta is in the headlock towards the end while katniss had her bow drawn. If you pay attention to peeta - you see him tapping his finger on cato’s hand, indicating to katniss where to shoot the arrow. I love that tiny little detail in that final action scene!!
Liked the vid when you professed your love for Stanley Tucci, subbed when you were insightful enough to understand WHY Haymitch drinks. Much love, can't wait to see what else you have to offer.
One thing about the reaping is that the number of times your name is in the pot increases each year. When you’re thirteen, it’s only once, and it increases by one each year until you’re eighteen. So Katniss, who is 17, automatically has her name in 15 times. You can also collect tessarae, a form of bread in exchange for putting your name in more. Katniss took this, but didn’t let Prim take any. So despite the fact that Prim’s name was only in ONCE and she still got picked shows just how unlucky she was.
Not sure if someone has commented this, but Glimmers death, is so much more brutal in the books, (correct me if im wrong please) But the stings, pretty much but her in a paralysis, but she could still feel pain of the stings slowly killing her, and when Katniss has to get the bow from her hands, her grip was so strong, along with the swelling, Katniss had to break Glimmers fingers in order to retrieve the bow.
OH MY GOD !!! Every few months i start watching Hunger Games movie reactions because i love the movies (and the books!) so much and I always have so much to say. I rewatched them a few years ago, and I realized that they've aged so well ! They were better than i remembered ! I don't like the other dystopian movies that came out at that time, they really were trying to emulate this franchise's success, but the emotion will never be the same. They're so emotional and beautiful and you're one of my favorite reactors so I am soooo happy right now 😭 I have to preach Peeta everywhere I'm sorry, I knew you'd like him omg i trust your taste on every tv show and movie !! My favorite thing about him is that he is atypical for a male lead, especially in a Young Adult or dystopian story. Usually the male leads are strong, fighters and protectors like Gale is, but Peeta, while still being a protector, is very soft, sensitive and loving. Katniss is the fighter in their relationship, and he accepts that, respects her and lets her take the lead, but he knows that she's actually very emotional, just doesn't show it, so he's always there to comfort her while gale is so annoying tho the entitlement UGH he thinks she should always fight anwyays (btw when peeta gave kat that bread she was basically starving to death :( that's why that memory is important to her i think) ALSO YES JOSH DOES GIVE TOM HOLLAND RFNEGNGIO especially as Peeta here lol he reminds me of tom holland's spidey i can't wait to watch the other movies with you omgggggggggg i just know you'll love the emotional development of the characters
I will say that the genre was just getting super popular, every dystopian series from tht time except for divergent came at the same time or before the hunger games books! ( maze runner, the giver, enders game ect. I include maze runner even tho it was published a year after hunger games bc they were probably still written at the same time. The giver and enders game are old af and the movies r bad lol)
Just so you know cuz I don't remember if the movie talks about it but it's a detail to remember about Haymitch is that not only does he have to see the people he mentors dying every year but all of the mentors are past victors. So he actually went through the hunger games and won
In the books, the dogs that were chasing Katniss and peeta were made out of the dead tributes. They had the same hair texture, color, size, and eyes as the fallen tributes. On each dog was a collar with the number of the fallen tributes district as well. Messed up
Those gamemakers screwing you over would make it almost impossible to win😭 I would hide for as long as possible but those gamemakers would never let you because its ‘boring’. Moral of the story; I’d be dead in like 2 days, if i’m not already dead in 2 minutes lmao
Haymitch was in the 50th Hunger Games which was a special Qusrter Quell where they do something unique, for his they doubled the tributes so there were 48. He won in a very unique way that the capital took offense to, as punishment Snow had Haymitch’s family executed.
"Ewll these creatures have human features" yes! In the books katniss says they look like the death tributes (they even wear a collar with the number of the district of the tribute they are based on) + katniss even states that she isnt sure if the animals have the eyes from the original tribute (harvested) so this leaves a message even after death they are still not being in peace (She also mentioned rue her mud) (the mud is the creature)
Those mutts at the end were so much creepier in the books. You caught on that they looked a little humanoid in the face, but in the movies, they're identical. In the books, they're all different and look like the dead tributes.
This series is such a great commentary on capitalist government + fascism. I think its worth mentioning that Katniss is implied to be half Indigenous in the books and the various districts are a bit racialized too. District 12 is the Midwest/the Appalachian area and District 11 is like the deep South. The level of nuance related to why things are the way they are is SO COMPELLING!! Catching Fire is the best movie/book imo, and really drives home how broken the system is. Loved your reactions!!! can't wait to see more of your videos 💥
Yes, I completely agree! Even as a little kid I always pictured Katniss to be Native American (as stereotypical as it may sound, something about the olive skin, choosing her dark hair to be braided and her being a skilled archer living in future America where she's being screwed over just made me think that) along with Gale and a lot of the others who worked in the mines. Suzanne Collins was really subtle with how she describes her characters but it was clear that District 11 was primarily black, including Rue, and that in District 12, those who worked in the coal mines had "the Seam look" with their olive skin, dair hair, grey eyes. Although you're right it would have to be only half for Katniss, since her mom and sister are white.
I don’t recall her being mentioned as indigenous, I thought it was just that the non rich part of district 12 had become extremely multiracial/mixed in a futuristic society hence them often having brown skin and grey eyes. So much like real life Appalachia Mountain poorer communities being a mix of indigenous, white, and black folks to the point where people couldn’t tell what race they were. IRL some of those communities were one of the things really racist and gross eugenics movement used to justify anti-miscegenation laws, because they blamed people being poor on their genetics and “race mixing” (not the society itself +racism causing poverty)
So glad you lean towards Peeta 🎉. So many other reactors go the other route and I don’t hate Gale but Peeta was being sincere while also playing the game to save her life rather than his which imo made him a better person. I read the books beforehand so I went into the movies with this adoration for Peeta but was surprised that so many reactors leaned towards Gale in the beginning. I felt like he was a friend more than anything 🤷♀️
I’m impressed that you didn’t cry when Rue is mortally wounded and Katniss sings the same lullaby that she sings for her baby sister as Rue dies. That may be the most heart-wrenching scene in the whole series.
the girl who ate the berries meant to eat them, as you could see when they were showing their talents to the sponsors she was crazy smart with incredible memory, she knew exactly what she was doing when she ate the berries.
That is just a theory and has not been proven to be true. Going by the books, it was a complete accident. Katniss even mentions that those berries are very rare and were not on the plant test that Foxface took during training. Very few people know about those berries. Katniss only knows about them from her dad. Foxface just assumed they were safe to eat because Peeta took them. The book makes it clear that it was not suicide.
Sorry for all the cuts and blurs guys had to make sure it wouldn’t get copyrighted ❤
In the books Haymitch won his hunger games without killing anyone. And his best friend died in the games. It's why they don't show reruns much of his game and why they force them away from the edges of the arena.
Also Katniss decided on the arena that she wanted Rue to go home because she reminded her of her sister that she volunteered for and hoped Prim would forgive her for her decision and understand.
Read the books it explains a lot of the things you where confused about
The highest score is 12 not 11 and also the careers target her because she outshined them twice in the tribute parade and in the scores, the careers, got a score between eight and a 10 but Katniss got an 11. And the higher you score the more the careers are going to kill you. The careers are from District one and two. They’re train killers, waiting for the opportunity to go in arena to kill. And the part where all them go to the cornucopia that is called the blood bash more than half of The tributes died on the first day. Also, the careers can kill a lot of the tribute on a day. in the careers woman alliance on day one training, so they go into the arena has a group of train, killers, and kill a lot of the other tributes
i get it 💀😭
Read the books 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
In the books, Rue's district pooled their money and sent katniss bread to thank her for taking care of Rue. It was unheard of for one district to send a gift to another district and was considered the first act of rebellion by the districts.
I FORGOR ABOUT THISSSS
It was actually a pivotal moment in the story and I wished they kept it in
@@cosas_de_gatos Well I feel like it’s one of those unfortunate changes that have to be made sometimes because it would be harder to convey the significance of the gift and how it was rebellious without having Katniss’s thoughts to explain it like in the books than it was for them to change it to a more straightforward and visual no words or context needed act of rebellion. I think it’s just one of those things like the mutts resembling the dead tributes that wouldn’t have translated as well from page to screen (especially for people who hadn’t read the books first) because the viewer wouldn’t have Katniss’s thoughts to explain what they were seeing.
@@cosas_de_gatos I like to think of it like how you translate a language. Sometimes a direct translation doesn’t actually get the intended meaning or feeling across and it needs to be adjusted to fit the framework of the new language. Things that work in one form of media sometimes don’t work in another and it needs to be adjusted to evoke the same meaning and emotions.
@@rustincrocker4049 true
katniss is funny as hell in the books because she keeps insisting she doesn't like peeta and that this is all for show but then she randomly admits he's the only person in school she pays attention too and that she watches him wrestle all the time (she says she hates extra curricular activities too) lmfao she's such a teenager
For sure. She tries with Gale because she thinks she’s supposed to, but she only talks of others being attracted to him, but doesn’t show any herself. With Peeta, she shows desire and attraction.
@@TheHcjfctcyess thank you! The Gale lovers think she was in love with him! And every person who’s read the books knows she isn’t. She makes many comments that she’ll probably end up marrying Gale because that is what everyone expects of her.
Wait if anyone's got them, I would totally appreciate pointers to specific scenes or page numbers, please, in an effort to go back and find this without, you know.. accidentally rereading the entire series.
(I mean, no matter where I start from, once I start reading certain passages I'll probably keep going and wind up rereading the entire thing, who are we kidding. But I can at least start with noble intentions, can't I? 😂)
@@mugglesandmadness Not really 😕. I think it could be worth rereading the series and just pay attention to the parts where she mentions Gale and Peeta and see how different they are.
@@mugglesandmadness there's lots in the first book! i think the moment peeta's name was called for the reaping she was already freaking out lol
Your hatred towards Gale will only get worse as you watch the movies but your love for Peeta will only get stronger. Also can’t wait for you to see Finnick 😆
I don't get the hate? He literally helps her and her family all throughout the movies and provides a lot of emotional support too. I liked him idk why its an unpopular opinion...
It’s most definitely because of how he is in the books. Plus he’s a lot like a young Snow with his suggestions in the 3rd movie and book.
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MASSIVE SPOILER:
His incompetence led to the death of Katniss's sister in the final movie. If the guy weren't an egoist douchebag than that thing can be easily avoided.
@@amirrhodesve791 Gale does not offer emotional support to Katniss at all as the movies go on. In fact, he causes her more stress. He's all worried about her feelings towards him and asks her if she loves him when Katniss is just concerned about surviving. Even when she had to fake a relationship with Peeta to survive he was being whiny about it, despite it saving her life
@@tmm4195 so true.
Already hating Gale AND defending Haymitch?! So excited I can't wait for you to watch the rest of them!
The whole Haymitch story gave me such emotional damage I love him
All my friends were shocked that I hated gale from the get go, but he always came across as weird to me 😅
exactly. I love the moment Gale walked in she went boo and I was like: Wait, i thought she said she knew nothing about this and then she was talking about the actor but a win is a win.
@@fart63 girlll yess!! i just dont like him ever since the second and third book
@@fart63 He honestly gives me “nice guy” vibes. Like, he’s probably the type of guy to think he’s entitled to a girl just because she’s nice to him. Based on the context of the story, and how he reacts to Katniss and Peeta’s fake romance.
in the books the mutts (kind of dogs in the movies) were way scarier cause they resembled the fallen tributes, their fur was the hair colour of the tributes and katniss for real thought that their eyes were taken from the bodies of the fallen. they could stand on their hind legs and when cato fell down they didnt finish him off for the entire night, he had to fight and be torn apart for hours on hours until it was morning and katniss finally shot him. in the books its described that he was just a pile of flesh, whimpering for death which is so-
yeah anyway🙂
Yes scary.
What the … 😦
@@MiyaElizabethReacts The books are something ELSE. These films come extremely close.
didn't she see glimmer than the petite little one that resembled rue
@@savanah8563 it was all of the dead tributes so yes she saw them too
13:40 Quite the opposite. They hate her. They only gave her a high score so she could be a target for the other tributes. You'll notice that throughout the franchise, they put Katniss on a high pedastal, and she hates it. Katniss admits that she isn't a hero. They only see her as one because she wanted to save her sister, and they saw that as rebellious
I’m pretty sure this wasn’t the case for the first book though
@@clover2739 I don't think Katniss puts 2 and 2 together at that point but considering how hard the game masters go after her it can be inferred
@@rosaliefarve1427 it’s not about Katniss thoughts though? In catching fire it’s the other peoples reaction around her that let’s her know that’s bad. Haymitch even is disgusted by both Katniss and Peeta and can’t even look at them, after seeing their score. When Katniss gets an 11 here, they are all ecstatic. Every single one of them, and they’re smarter than that. They know the game. They knew that she got a high score because Seneca genuinely liked her spunk. It’s why they added the extra scene of him talking to president snow about it, he actually likes her and loved the romance aspect, which is why he made the decisions he did and ended up getting executed. It wasn’t to target her in a bad way this time.
Nope, in the first book its because theyre impressed by her, and she has killer aim. Second games? Absolutely, the entire goal was to kill her lol
In the first movie the high score is due to genuinely being impressed, she did something unexpected and showed off both great aim and a fiery spirit. In the second movie/second book, the high scores are an intentional "screw you" by President Snow because he wants the more capable contestants to target and kill Katniss and Peeta.
5:30 Josh Hutcherson was 100% the Tom Holland of the 2010s. Absolute king, love him. Phenomenal actor, even when he was a kid. Haven't watched a movie/show of his where I didn't like his performance.
@@himenyx153 a journey to the center of the earth 💪
Zanthura too
@@himenyx153he was in that movie??? damn never knew
@@bbanglix he’s the boy 😧
and now he’s going to be in the FNAF movie heeheehee, it’s so silly but i love it
I know you already figured it out but I wish they did the flashbacks better in the movies because people who didn’t read the books, usually don’t know what’s happening there. And it’s such a profound moment in the books. Katniss’ dad had just died and he was the sole provider for the family. Katniss didn’t really know much about hunting and trading by this point but she was trying to find food regardless. But in this moment, she was about to give up and die of starvation. And Peeta, being the absolute sweetheart he is, burned the bread on purpose so he could throw it out to her. And he did all that knowing he would get mentally and physically abused by his mother. He is such a sweet soul.
Right! The movie makes it look like he's just throwing the bread out in the mud and Katniss just happened to be there, it doesn't at all convey how that moment literally saved her life.
Also! they were only 11
thanks for that explanation... I didn't read the books yet but love the movies.. they should have explained that
Also Kantinss's mother didn't take care for them because she went through a sever depression. So Kantiss tried to earn money with selling old things and they were already malnorished at that point.
@@Arionthelady That's exatly what I thought until I read livy's comment, this changes things so much when it comes to seeing Peeta's character, I wish I knew this 😭
So backstory on Haymitch his games. 7:10
His games were brutal as it was the second quarter quell the 50th hunger games. For his quarter quell it was announced that double the amount of tributes would be reaped. So 2 girls and 2 boys from each district. Which meant 8 careers. 47 other tributes that needed to die so he could win.
To celebrate half a century of Hunger Games, the game maker created a truly beautiful arena. As the pedestals rose the tributes were overwhelmed by the lush surroundings, full of flowers and animals with a stunning snow-capped mountain as the finishing touch. It was all beautiful…but deadly. The flowers were poisonous, the animals aggressive, and the snow-capped mountain erupted on day 4, revealing itself in actuality to be a deadly volcano, killing 12 tributes.
Haymitch was not seduced by the allure of the surroundings, quickly securing a bag and a knife from the cornucopia before retreating into the woods. While in the woods, Haymitch runs into three career tributes. He’s outmanned but not outgunned as he quickly kills two of them with his knife. The final tribute manages to disarm him, and as they go in for the kill fellow District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner kills the career with a dart. Much like Katniss and Rue they agree to work together.
They steal food from the other dead tributes, and Haymitch leads them to the very edge of the arena. While there, he notices that a forcefield surrounds the arena and that anything thrown at it bounces back.
When Haymitch refuses to leave the edge, Maysilee chooses to separate from him and turn back towards the center, only to be killed by a mutt. Haymitch holds her hand as she dies, again mirroring Katniss and Rue's story. That same day two more tributes are killed, leaving just Haymitch and a District 1 career tribute left.
A violent and deadly fight ensues between the two. She slashes open his chest with an axe while he cuts out her eye. She throws her axe at him, and he strategically dodges it and allows it to hit the forcefield, where it bounces back and hits her in the face, killing her. Haymitch is pronounced the victor, and he believes the worst will then be over, his life now a tale of riches and glory.
However, his battle is not done. President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the films) is not impressed with Haymitch's clever manipulation of the forcefield and two weeks after he returns home, his mother, brother, and girlfriend are all murdered. This is The Hunger Games after all, never one to shy away from the bleakness of war and the cruelty of dictatorships. His warning to Katniss and Peeta at the end of the first film about the Capitol "not taking these things lightly" bears more weight when you understand the heavy toll he paid for his clever win.
Snow often did this with any tribute that defied him or the games at all! He is ruthless and cruel. But now you know why Haymitch is the way he is.
I’m explaining all of this because they do not talk about it in the movies so it isn’t a spoiler.
Thanks for sharing this! I'd never heard Haymitch's story before, though I did assume he lost people, considering how he is now.
@@starry_skies yes his story is very sad. A lot of the victors have similar stories to Haymitch. It explains a lot about them.
@@oliviamiley7543 Absolutely. Finnick and Annie break my heart too.
I read the books and I don't remember this, but it's been a minute. Which book did this part appear in?
@@Adronitis you learn about his backstory in catching fire the second book but the movie doesn’t show it.
Non spoiler, as much as I love these movies as faithful adaptations they fail to really show you how corrupt the reaping is.
When you are 12 your name goes in once, 2 at 13, 3 at 14 etc. you can also add your name in an additional time for each family member too young or old to compete in exchange for extra grain, flour, lantern oil ect. They carry over. So if you’re 12 and add your name in once for a parent your name is in twice. At 13 your name is in 3 times automatically and if you put in an extra name again you’re in 4 times that year. The more destitute you are the more likely you are to add your name more times.
The rich districts don’t need anyone to put their names in more times. They have their best trained 18 year olds volunteer each year, when they win these already rich districts get even more prosperous .
On the off chance a tribute from a poor district wins, those benefits are used up immediately to make people slightly less starving.
The whole thing is designed to keep the poor, poor. Keep the rich, rich. AND have them focus on each other instead of the people actually doing this to them.
truly dytopian
i do think all of these points are covered in the films, just done in a more subtle way. rather than telling you, they show you or imply it through dialogue. i don’t mind their approach to divulging this info imo
it's giving real life…
So, just like in real life then.
This is what I love about good sci-fi and fantasy: the way it helps us to understand the hidden realities of our own existence through simplified illustration of the same concepts and by cutting through culturally ingrained normalizing BS.
@@jimmiejam508I think it's just unfortunately subtle because truly people only catch it if they are eagle eyed and thorough minded. after watching many reactions, not many people seem to get a grasp on it. A lot of things are so subtle in the movies, leaving it pretty easy to come away with a much flatter view of the series than if they'd read the books. Maybe that is just a consequence of adaptation.
Also in the books Peeta lost HIS LEG. His injury was so fucking worse than they portrayed in the movie. Katniss described that she could even see his bone, and flesh was just hanging from his destroyed leg, the sponsor did help but by the time they picked them up from the arena he had his leg chopped lol
After the game they also wanted to give Katniss plastic surgery and breast implants (at 16) to make her more desireable since capitol citizens will use victors for prostitution.
Whohh but how did he ran from the dogs ? Or is it the dogs that took his legs?
@@samuel40446 if I remember correctly the medicine helped some but then he either got worse or was reinjured and after they rescinded the dual winners rule he ripped off the bandage or tourniquet to try to bleed out because Katniss refused to kill him and he wanted her to live. So by the time they were pulled out of the arena his leg was too far gone to save so they amputated and gave him an artificial one.
@@samuel40446 He was reinjured by the dogs when he climbed on the Cornocopio.
Hi! I know this is an old review,but I loved that you caught on to the human aspects of the animals. In the book, there was a pack of them, and each were given characteristics of the dead tributes. It was ducked up!!
Lol i remember when the film first came out, the Capitol’s outrageous style was so “weird” to us. But now it’s common seeing that kind of style on celebrities at events like the Met gala
Eh...a bunch of Effie's costumes were Alexander McQueen, including the butterfly dress, and Cher at the 1986 Oscars would look right at home in The Capitol. Susan Collins was satirizing the culture she lived in, in 2008. She wasn't warning us, she was showing us who we were/are.
@@thecompendium9607 interesting! that makes so much sense. For me i went into watching the movie in theatres without reading the book or knowing anything about the author, so my first impression was that the Capitol just dresses “weird”. I was young and wasn’t that familiar with celeb culture anyway so I didn’t know ppl dressed like this already 😆 An eye-opener for sure…
@@thecompendium9607 Love seeing some else who recognized the dresses!
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Katniss's wedding dress in Catching Fire also looked very Alexander McQueen to me, although I've never actually confirmed that.
@@thecompendium9607 This. Honestly anything and everything Effie wore just made me think "that looks like a Lady Gaga outfit" back when the movie first came out - the exaggerated colors and silhouettes, the eyemake up. It all screamed LG and Gaga is a big fan of Alexander McQueen.
books peeta has ten times the rizz of movies peeta like he was rizzing up katniss from second one and didn’t stop even when he was half d3ad in the arena, if that’s not commitment
YUP i still dont understand why they watered his character down a lil and took away his sassinesss !!!!! :(
For context the reason Katniss blows up the food instead of stealing it is because in the novel she points out how capitol favourites like district 1 and 2 get so many special privileges. They do not know how to go hungry or survive starvation and because they get the most sponsors they overlook rationing their food.
Edit: the reason Katniss has an edge is because people from 12, particularly the poorest area known as the seam, are very malnourished and aren't trained to have survival skills. However because hunting is illegal the better districts do not train the children with live subjects. They can only predict what to do next they have never had to study an animals movement before. Because the fence is broken and the district is too poor to fix it Katniss' father taught her how to forage, identify plants and kill animals. When their dads died her and Gale hunted for years which made them very skilled killers even if it was just hunting.
Also, even the peacekeepers in 12 are starving and they turn a blind eye to katniss because even they rely on her hunts for food
I really wish the movie addressed why Katniss got her high score in her evaluation (the book did). It wasn't because the judges liked her. They did it to make the District 1 and 2 tributes target her. It was purely retribution.
That’s untrue. They only did that in Catching Fire
Everybody likes an underdog ❤❤
You're thinking of the second book.
People keep saying this about the first book when its explicitly only true in catching fire
Definitely couldn't be true, otherwise, Snow wouldn't have been upset that they assigned her an 11
Girl, Peeta is marriage material, no lie. Lol. I think some people wavered a bit between him and Gale in the books (at least in the beginning), but I was diehard team Peeta from the get-go.
Marriage material for real 🫢😋
my friend literally said peeta was a bitch boy and she liked gale (until what he did later on) and i was like. ... did we read the same books??? watch the same movies?? 😭
Girl same
Peeta was a little useless in the first book/movie but still my bread boy ❤️
Funny you mention the mutts (the dogs at the end) looking human-y... In the book, it is HEAVILY implied that the mutts are either very close replicas of the other tributes, or that they are literally the other tributes turned into mutts. Here are some telling bits from the Mutt attack:
"Each has a thick coat, some with fur that is straight and sleek, others curly, and the colours vary from jet black to what I can only describe as blonde. There's something else about them, something that makes the hair rise up on the back of my neck, but I can't put my finger on it."
"...I realise what else unsettled me about the mutts. The green eyes glowering at me are unlike any dog or wolf, any canine I've ever seen. They are unmistakably human. And that revelation has barely registered when I notice the collar with the number 1..."
"The blonde hair, the green eyes, the number... It's Glimmer."
Katniss then describes a couple of the other mutts before saying "And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. Teeth bared in hatred. Rue..."
Peeta and Katniss then discuss if the mutts actually have the tribute's eyes, or if they have their brains, their memories. I do wish they'd made it more obvious in the films, because reading that in the book shook me to my CORE. Thank you for noticing their strangely human features!
OMG thank you for posting this comment!! When she mentioned this in the video I was like if she only knew from the book.... I haven't read them in so long, so this was a great refresher of what was actually said in the books
I think it would have looked silly in the movie. There are some things that books can get away that movies simply can't. One example si Voldemort frol Harry Potter. In the books, Voldemort has red eyes with slit pupils like a snake. Like, the white of his eyes is blood red and he only has two lines of black in the middle. It sounds great, but in a movie it wouldn't work, because it would remove all expressions from Voldemort. It would be hard to convey his cruelty and hatred in such a bizarre animal eyes. Here is the opposite. The mutts are animalistic threats who are on screen for seconds. Making them look like the other tributes would not just require some explanation for the audience (As Katniss does in the book) but also a massive waste of special effects in something so small.
I was gonna say "she guessed right" but your explanation is better 😂
@@luiscalzoncit2820 that is true. I guess I was after something more subtle than the Voldemort look though! Maybe just different coloured fur and eyes. Even the numbered tags round their necks wouldn't have been much extra! And Katniss could say "they're the other tributes!", which I think she does say in the books. I wouldn't want them to look exactly human-like, but a stronger nod to it would have been cool for people who didn't read the books
@@himenyx153 right!? 😭 that part always gives me goosebumps in the books. I honestly think they did a really good job of the films (compared to like Harry Potter for example), but they did downplay a couple of things. The other bits that stick in my mind are that Katniss goes deaf in one ear from blowing up the career's supplies and needs it fixing by the capitol. Peeta's injured leg is also far worse in the books and he ends up losing his leg! He gets a bionic one from the capitol, but it means he's slower in the second and third books because of reduced dexterity!
A cool thing that's only clarified in the books is the real meaning behind the three fingers gesture. It's a district 12 specific gesture meaning a sort of respectful goodbye to someone you love and is most commonly used at funerals. The districts are forced to treat the hunger games as a fun celebration, but when Katniss treats it as a tragedy to protect her sister from, it could be considered a small act of rebellion, so the district responds with their own small act of rebellion by treating the reaping as a funeral rather than a cool opportunity to fight for Panem.
The big board that Foxface was at during training was her learning which plants were safe to eat. Nightlock looks alot like blueberries so it's up in the air as to whether she made a mistake based on Peeta collecting the berries or whether she recognized them and figured a quick death was better.
I think the books imply she ate them BECAUSE Peeta was collecting them and she assumed he knew what he was doing because he's partnered with Katniss who does know what she's doing.
She ate the berries because she assumed that, since Peeta was collecting them, that they were safe to eat. I don't think in the books they ever mentioned her during the training learning what plants were safe to eat. I could be wrong, but I think that's just something that they added for the movie so, really, she may have had absolutely no clue how to tell the difference between safe to eat plants and poisonous ones.
it def wasnt suicide because in the book she was known for stealing food multiple times to survive. plus she didnt only steal the berries she also stole some of their cheese to eat
As the others have said, Foxface’s death in the books wasn’t suicide. Katniss mentioned that nightlock looks exactly like a safe berry and it was only found around the woods of district 12.
It was a just matching game. this has been confirmed by the actress.
In the books the death of Rue is even more tragique from Katniss perspective. She associates and sees her sister in Rue, she even calls her Prim out of mistake one time in her mind and thinks how she couldn t have killed her if it came down to that. Just wait for the other movies is all I ll say.
PS: also the people of District 11 send Katniss their gift they have raised money to send Rue. It was the first time another district sends gifts to a tribute that is not their own
Rue dying is pretty important to the narrative because it proves that even if you volunteer for Prim, you'll never truly be able to save her or the other children.
The two winners was the only actual rule change, if I remember correctly in the book Katniss mentions other games and that those also had feasts, it's basically a way to force tributes to go to one place to force conflict. It's more or less the same idea as the finale, it gets dark very quickly to make it more exciting. All for the views.
Katniss defied the Capitol, she basically forced them to keep their initial rule change by outsmarting them. They don't like it when that happens. So the person who let it happen, Seneca Crane, is executed. Or, well, he gets to unalive himself instead of being shot to death. And the person who did it, Katniss, is in danger.
I wished they kept Cato and Clove in the movies rather than Cato and Glimmer. In the books, I believe Cato and Clove were together (or at least were close as they were friends from the same district) and when Thresh was killing Clove and she was calling out for Cato, Cato was heard yelling for her back but he was too far away to help. And when Clove died, Cato mourned and screamed over her dead body (he held her in his arms and begged her to stay with him). I don't know, I guess it gives them a bit of humanity too (not that I liked the actions of the district 1 and 2 tributes but they were victims too).
I believe him and Glimmer were still together, but it was the same instance of Katniss caring about Rue. Clove was only 14 and they knew eachother from home, so he was trying to protect her while still playing the game
Little fun facts about behind the scenes of the hunger games, while they were filming wild turkeys kept wandering into the shot so they kept having to reshoot scenes over and over again because ‘food was supposed to be scarce and here were these plump turkeys’
Also Amandla(Rue) and Jackie(the red head girl, in the books she was known as foxface) would steal the boys things and hide them around the trailers and sets to mess with them and leave them little sticky notes.
One of my all time favourite Katniss moments was in the book when Effie complimented her and Peeta's manners while they ate on the train because all the past tributes ate with their hands like savages and it pissed Katniss off so much that she ate with her hands and wiped them on the table cloth. Solidified her as one of my favourite characters ever if I'm being honest. I kinda wish it was in the movie but I can understand why they'd keep that out. I bet Jennifer Lawrence would've loved filming that though.
If I remember right she even licks the plate clean.
haha that's petty asfck
18:16 when you said they didn’t even give her any starting water 😭 that’s exactly what katniss thought herself in the book
I find it so intriguing you commented on how snatched Katniss’s waist is because when the movie first came out, people were flaming her actress saying she was fat and not skinny enough to play Katniss Everdeen. Such bullshit she has always looked great in these movies.
i think people were saying that less to say that she wasn’t skinny aesthetically but that the character is supposed to be on the brink of starvation and severely malnourished. (that said, there are def misyognistic undertones & i’d much prefer she look healthy than be encouraged to lose weight unhealthily like actresses too often are)
@@jimmiejam508 yeah I get that but people were calling her fat in stuff just because she wasn’t brittle 😭😭
@@jimmiejam508 those comments are ridiculous anyway, cause yeah katniss is smaller than the girl careers from districts 1,2 and 4 but the whole point is that she’s a lot healthier than most because she can hunt and gets food for herself so she isn’t starving. Like yeah Jennifer probably has more of a career tribute build, but I think it’s not that bad because it shows how katniss has been able to take care of herself with her hunting skills
@@jimmiejam508 Jlaw didn't want to lose too much weight for that accuracy, instead she wanted to be her own body and portray a strong woman in it as a better examle for teenagers.
honestly the hate over the casting when it first came out was so stupid especially with rue. the amount of people complaining abt rue being black, acting as though it made her less innocent, or acting like collins didnt mention her skin color multiple time was ridiculous
I was OBSESSED with the hunger games in middle school but recently with the hype of ballad of songbirds and snakes I've been starting to get back into the series and can say I'm still in love with everything about the hunger games and what's crazy is realizing how much this trilogy reflects alot about the society we live in
It's funny you mention Peeta reminding you of Tom Holland, because Josh Hutcherson campaigned *hard* to get Spider-Man back when Andrew Garfield got the role.
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Someone mentioned Peter's leg already so I'll pitch in with the information that Katniss loses her hearing in a blast at some point. The books very much include the physical and mental consequences of such experiences. Both Katniss and Peeta suffer with trauma afterwards. You did see it in the second movie, and in the books it's obviously more delved into.
Also! The leg waxing. Tributes (at least female tributes) undergo a reall thorough "beauty routine" once they arrive in the capitol. They get hair removed, their skin scrubbed, blemishes removed etc. It makes Katniss feel really icky and artificial and humiliated.
Also both of them and Fox Face are terribly malnorished at that point.
The amount of times you put your name in for the reaping equates to how much food you are given for that year, if I remember correctly. There is a lot of information that the movies leave out that aren't essential, but they obviously give much more context. :) Already a ton of readers in the comments giving loads of background information - I love it!! I hope you continue the series, my favorite in the movie franchise is Catching Fire.
And to answer your question, I have zero survivability. My instinct has always been to turtle and clam up in any sort of stressful situation.
Amandla is indeed adorable. Perfect casting as Rue.
ETA: You said you think the redheaded girl killed herself. She was actually stealing (not very much) from the groups to stay alive. Very smart and stealthy. She stole the berries from Peeta, believing them to be safe if he was collecting them, and ate them. In the books Peeta seems kind of sad and refers to her as "his kill".
Honestly, Foxface was known to be very knowledgeable about plants. It seems unlikely that she didn’t know about, or wasn’t at least familiar with nightlock. She probably did commit suicide.
@@allycat0136 in the book is defenetly an accident, in the movie they made it seems more like a planned thing
@@allycat0136not in the books because she didnt only steal the berries, she also stole other food
@@allycat0136 no. This theory has never once been proven. If she was an expert in plants then she would have been healthier. She was literally starving and dehydrated for nearly 3 weeks, immaciated. She was desparate for food. It wasnt as bad at first, not completely, since she could steal from the Cornocopia, but Katniss destroyed her potential food supplies.
Rue was knowledgeable in plants, so she could find berries and herbs to sustain her. Foxface tested well at the training center, true, but she may have just had excellent short-term memory skills or perhaps didnt recognize the plants in the arena. Also, one important thing to note. Nightlock only grows around Districts 12 and 13.
Not watching hunger games is way different from not watching divergent. One is so so amazing the other is mid. One was way more impactful and the other was an imitation
PERIODDDDDDD hunger games on TOP
Hunger games is king for me. I actually really enjoyed Divergent. I just think releasing it during the hunger games era was not the move. They should have waited.
@@Kajol7 Finally some one else beside me.
The saddest thing about haymitch is that snow killed his whole family. They don’t elaborate this in the movies. He won his games after watching a girl he cared for from his district die. After he won, Snow tried to sell his body to citizens of the capitol. Haymitch refused, so snow killed his whole family and his girlfriend. He spent the next 25 drowning himself in alcohol because of the trauma from the games, the fact everyone he loved died, and from watching every tribute from 12 die.
he watched her get pecked to death and stayed with her until she died... like thats INSANE to experience
@@angel127_ ikrrr
Slight correction, snow didn’t try to sell Haymitch to capitol citzens, snow went after his family members because haymitch discovered that the arena was a forcefield and he used that to his advantage. I think you’re thinking of Johanna, she was the one who refused and in return Snow took away her loved ones. But you’re right that Haymitch is an alcoholic.
Josh Hutcherson deserves to still be the it boy, the guy is SUPER talented, he kills any role he’s in. Definitely reminds me of Tom Holland, he’s also just as kind, kids absolutely adore him. The meme at the end 💀 😅
I’m happy you’re watching these!! They actually have some very similar truths to today society, and it keeps building. When you see that this isn’t just gladiator games, but incredible manipulation and politics - the movies are incredible.
Snow is also a respectable villain - more an antihero in a sense. With the new movie hitting theaters in November I’m sure we all will love his story. And we see why he hates but respects Katniss so much.
Miya’s comment about not knowing what was poisonous and what wasn’t reminded me of this. In the books (since they always go into more detail) they explain “quarter quells” which are every 25 years that puts a twist on the games. Haymitch was in the 50th games and the twist for that year was that there were twice as many tributes. His arena was one of the most beautiful that the Capital had ever curated but every single thing in the arena was poisonous. The water and even if you smelled the flowers too closely they would kill you.
Also in the books Cato’s death was much more grueling and torturous. He was suffering for 3 days(?) and the final mutts were actually created to mimic the fallen tributes. Their fur resembled each tribute’s hair and even their collars had their respective district numbers.
So I think it was several hours because in the book he had a special suit of armor to help him against Katniss with her bow and arrows. And eventually Katniss does put him out of his misery.
"Situationship" is the best expression for these films ever, that is fantastic.
When Hamitch said they don’t take these things lightly he referring to when he won his games. He used the force field to kill the other tribute and they killed his whole family.
also you were spot on about the mutts, in the books they are made out of the dead tributes :(
The movies aren't perfect but they really embodied the books really well. the other movies are really well made but the first one has a place in my heart
The books were way more graphic. I couldn't believe they were for teens.
fr i just read them again recently (i havent read them since i was 12) and i was like how tf did i not have nightmares??? CATOS death scene was horrifying to read and im 19 now...
@@angel127_ Yes and the mutts with the dead tributes faces. The books were scary.
“well your mother’s… kind of an asshole for that” SCREAMING
After hunger games divergent is going to feel like a daytime soap just to warn you lol they’re not on the same level at all
They did a good job of adapting the books to screen, but man does the books really depict how evil and dire things were in district 12, the workd, and in the games.
Miya commenting that she does not understand how the orphan girl looked excited on the flight to the arena. Later, Miya laughed, nervously, when Rue died. Excitement is the base emotion and the immediate release of the nervous energy can come out oddly, like laughing in the face of danger or at times of grief.
Thresh in the books was a monster. You didnt see him hardly at all because in the arena was a tall grass field that Thresh went into and no one else dared too. Not even the team. The tall grass was Threshs domain. Later when Katniss sees him she remarks to herself that while everyone else in the arena are starving and slowly losing weight and strength Thresh has managed to put on muscle and is well fed and doing just fine.
Iirc Cato does kill him off screen because Thresh took his supplies during the feast but Cato didnt come out of the figt unscathed and then the Mutts further fucked him real bad
Forgive me if I'm wrong, since I've only read the first book and watched the movie, but didn't the mutts kill Thresh? In the book, they don't specifically state that Cato killed him. Katniss just makes a guess. In the movie, you can hear Thresh's scream, and then the dogs come for Katniss and Peeta. It makes sense that he would scream if he got attacked by the dogs.
No, Cato definitely killed Thresh in the books. The whole point of the thunderstorm, described in the books, was made for the showdown between Cato and Thresh over the span of two days; with Cato tracking him down, then the actual fight. @@bloxworld6593
Gale also held the opinion that everyone should just stop watching the games in the book too… where they made it very clear that viewership was mandatory and failing to watch would result in harsh punishment if caught
yes, but thats how unions and strikes work. they cannot punish everyone if everyone does it, otherwise they end up with no workers and no supplies.
@@mochiyeosang1908 Yeah, I know collective action is very effective. Sorry, the point I was trying to get across was that Gale never really cared about how rebellion affected innocent people, it’s just much more prominent later on in the series.
When she saluted Rue, she was telling the other districts: "We are not fighting against each other. We are all in this together."
In the book, Cato's death is the one that hits me the hardest. It's just so brutal, especially after reminding you that he's a victim of the games, just as Katniss is. In the book, he doesn't simply die to the mutts. He has armor on, so when the mutts get a hold of him he is mauled for *hours* rather than just a few minutes like in the movie. The armor inhibits their ability to kill him quickly. It isn't until Katniss has finally had enough of listening to his moans of pain and anguish the entire night that she finally leans over the edge. He begs her to kill him, and she does. It was so harrowing to me, the idea of being torn apart, piece by bloody piece, for hours on end.
It doesn't help that the mutts are straight up monsters designed to be terrifying. They look like dogs in the movie, but in the books I imagined as them wolfish monsters, akin to werewolves, but not quite human enough to be categorized as werewolves. They're vicious beasts that will tear apart any living thing they can get their claws on. The worst part about them? The eyes.
In the books Katniss describes the mutts' eyes as looking like the eyes of the dead tributes. She noticed Rue's eyes among them. The visage of the dead tribute's eyes was repurposed for the sake of creating a terrifying creature that could, and would, strike fear into the hearts of every still living tribute. The fact that they were willing to design such a monster is so evil.
Honestly, I feel like the movie adaptation censored a LOT from the original source material. Between the shaky cam, quick cuts and straight up not showing injuries and death blows, it actually kind of annoyed me. I always told people that the book could probably be considered Rated R with how graphic the violence is. The deaths were always so brutal and sad. The descriptions of some of Katniss' injuries (of which there were many) also made me feel physically nauseous. I do not feel nauseous from things I read very often, so that's kind of saying something. Ultimately, it was a very good adaptation, but the censorship urked me. Part of my fascination with the first book had to do with how brutal it could get. To not get that in the movie left me feeling like I was watching a kid's movie. T'was a shame.
First thing u gotta learn, it is ILLEGAL to mention the trash heap Divergent in the same sentence as the absolute masterpiece the Hunger games. I will let it slide because I’m not a rat but u have to be more careful
Haha got it 😂
Perfect timing to start the series, the prequel comes out in September! It’s strictly snows story so it’s a lil hard to like but it explains a lot on how many of these traditions and stuff came about
In the books, Katniss protected Rue so much because she was the same age as her sister, and if she wasn’t there to protect Prim, she wanted to protect someone like her.
Haymich having to watch all his trainees die is a large part of why he drinks in the books. And he wants to avoid any serious attnetion from the capitol. He frames himself as a worthless drunk strategically
Watching this made me realize how hard it is to watch and understand this movie without reading the books first. So many things are explained in the books, but just appear in the movies with no context. It's like they cut out like half the details to condense it into a movie (which I understand), but failed to recognize that the rest of the details no longer made any sense.
foxface eating the berries is implied to be su!cde, with peeta saying she was "too clever." at the beginning, in the training montage, she's quizzing herself on what's poisonous and what isn't. so that's kind of foreshadowing her death. because if she ate the nightlock, then she could go out on her own terms and in a less horrific way
It’s always been interesting they did that in the movies, I don’t think her smarts with plants and stuff is in the books, I always thought she ate it because peeta grabbed them and him being with katniss assumed they were safe to eat because the arena they were in were similar to woods in 12
@@heathern8043they did talk ab her being very good w the wild life stuff in the training centre in the books, however because nightlock doesn’t grow in every district she probably didnt know and just trusted that katniss and peeta knew what was edible since her food survival tactic was to steal from the others. I dont think it was suicide bc it plays an important role for katniss in the books where she learns she should not overestimate ppl
I judge everyone on whether they are team Peeta or team Gale! You’ve chosen well! 😂
Phew 😂
Fox face (what Katness called her in the book, was the girl that ate and died to the berries), she only Survived that long by stealing other people's stuff. so when Peeta was collecting the berries she stole them and ate them. She didn't know they were poisonous.
Haha omg I was literally thinking that Josh could be related to Tom Holland, right before you said it... I never thought about it before. 😂
They both give off that innocent boy next door vibe
i don't remember if it's mentioned in the movies or not, but in the books, katniss constantly compares rue with her sister because rue reminds her so much of her. it's part of the reason why she grows attached to rue so quickly, and it makes her death and katniss grieving for her even more painful, because she saw rue as another little sister.
The nice touch that often goes unnoticed is when peeta is in the headlock towards the end while katniss had her bow drawn. If you pay attention to peeta - you see him tapping his finger on cato’s hand, indicating to katniss where to shoot the arrow. I love that tiny little detail in that final action scene!!
Tom Holland and Josh Hutcherson are like the same genre of man lmao
Liked the vid when you professed your love for Stanley Tucci, subbed when you were insightful enough to understand WHY Haymitch drinks. Much love, can't wait to see what else you have to offer.
One thing about the reaping is that the number of times your name is in the pot increases each year. When you’re thirteen, it’s only once, and it increases by one each year until you’re eighteen. So Katniss, who is 17, automatically has her name in 15 times.
You can also collect tessarae, a form of bread in exchange for putting your name in more. Katniss took this, but didn’t let Prim take any.
So despite the fact that Prim’s name was only in ONCE and she still got picked shows just how unlucky she was.
Your first reaping is at 12 y/o and katniss was 16 in thg but other than that you’re right!
Not sure if someone has commented this, but Glimmers death, is so much more brutal in the books, (correct me if im wrong please) But the stings, pretty much but her in a paralysis, but she could still feel pain of the stings slowly killing her, and when Katniss has to get the bow from her hands, her grip was so strong, along with the swelling, Katniss had to break Glimmers fingers in order to retrieve the bow.
loving the "cato will change for me" energy
The fact that you don’t see rue her dad on the podium when the go to her district at the beginning of the second movie is heartbreaking.
OH MY GOD !!! Every few months i start watching Hunger Games movie reactions because i love the movies (and the books!) so much and I always have so much to say. I rewatched them a few years ago, and I realized that they've aged so well ! They were better than i remembered ! I don't like the other dystopian movies that came out at that time, they really were trying to emulate this franchise's success, but the emotion will never be the same. They're so emotional and beautiful and you're one of my favorite reactors so I am soooo happy right now 😭
I have to preach Peeta everywhere I'm sorry, I knew you'd like him omg i trust your taste on every tv show and movie !! My favorite thing about him is that he is atypical for a male lead, especially in a Young Adult or dystopian story. Usually the male leads are strong, fighters and protectors like Gale is, but Peeta, while still being a protector, is very soft, sensitive and loving. Katniss is the fighter in their relationship, and he accepts that, respects her and lets her take the lead, but he knows that she's actually very emotional, just doesn't show it, so he's always there to comfort her while gale is so annoying tho the entitlement UGH he thinks she should always fight anwyays (btw when peeta gave kat that bread she was basically starving to death :( that's why that memory is important to her i think)
ALSO YES JOSH DOES GIVE TOM HOLLAND RFNEGNGIO especially as Peeta here lol he reminds me of tom holland's spidey
i can't wait to watch the other movies with you omgggggggggg i just know you'll love the emotional development of the characters
I will say that the genre was just getting super popular, every dystopian series from tht time except for divergent came at the same time or before the hunger games books! ( maze runner, the giver, enders game ect. I include maze runner even tho it was published a year after hunger games bc they were probably still written at the same time. The giver and enders game are old af and the movies r bad lol)
“Well we know prim is not gonna die” 💀
the thing about hunger games is that it doesn’t feel like a common YA franchise. it’s a QUALITY series, with QUALITY acting, and QUALITY plot 😂
Just so you know cuz I don't remember if the movie talks about it but it's a detail to remember about Haymitch is that not only does he have to see the people he mentors dying every year but all of the mentors are past victors. So he actually went through the hunger games and won
In the books, the dogs that were chasing Katniss and peeta were made out of the dead tributes. They had the same hair texture, color, size, and eyes as the fallen tributes. On each dog was a collar with the number of the fallen tributes district as well. Messed up
Those gamemakers screwing you over would make it almost impossible to win😭 I would hide for as long as possible but those gamemakers would never let you because its ‘boring’. Moral of the story; I’d be dead in like 2 days, if i’m not already dead in 2 minutes lmao
Haymitch was in the 50th Hunger Games which was a special Qusrter Quell where they do something unique, for his they doubled the tributes so there were 48. He won in a very unique way that the capital took offense to, as punishment Snow had Haymitch’s family executed.
I love that gale was just shown on screen and she already disliked him
"We're tweaking right now, that's what we're doing." Dead. 💀
Finally someone as moist for Peeta as I am. He’s literally the perfect man and Josh is both such a nice guy and a great actor.
This just made me burst out laughing 😂😭
@@MiyaElizabethReacts girl I can’t bear children but if I could I’d use every Wiccan ritual and Harry Potter love potion I could get my hands on lmao
"Ewll these creatures have human features" yes! In the books katniss says they look like the death tributes (they even wear a collar with the number of the district of the tribute they are based on) + katniss even states that she isnt sure if the animals have the eyes from the original tribute (harvested) so this leaves a message even after death they are still not being in peace
(She also mentioned rue her mud) (the mud is the creature)
Those mutts at the end were so much creepier in the books. You caught on that they looked a little humanoid in the face, but in the movies, they're identical. In the books, they're all different and look like the dead tributes.
Her hating gale before even getting to know his name is the best thing!
Peeta was my favorite character. I still simp for him especially because Josh Hutcherson was my first celebrity crush
1:25 if i want? OFC I WANT LIKE!!! .... girl i just love your whole vibe watching you is just so relaxing and comforting to me for some reason
Awww you’re so sweet ☺️💖
THE WAY SHE PREDICTED THE WHOLE MOVIE AHAH
My best friend and I recently binged the Hunger Games franchise in 3 days so the timing of this is perfect ❤❤
This series is such a great commentary on capitalist government + fascism. I think its worth mentioning that Katniss is implied to be half Indigenous in the books and the various districts are a bit racialized too. District 12 is the Midwest/the Appalachian area and District 11 is like the deep South. The level of nuance related to why things are the way they are is SO COMPELLING!! Catching Fire is the best movie/book imo, and really drives home how broken the system is. Loved your reactions!!! can't wait to see more of your videos 💥
Yes, I completely agree! Even as a little kid I always pictured Katniss to be Native American (as stereotypical as it may sound, something about the olive skin, choosing her dark hair to be braided and her being a skilled archer living in future America where she's being screwed over just made me think that) along with Gale and a lot of the others who worked in the mines. Suzanne Collins was really subtle with how she describes her characters but it was clear that District 11 was primarily black, including Rue, and that in District 12, those who worked in the coal mines had "the Seam look" with their olive skin, dair hair, grey eyes. Although you're right it would have to be only half for Katniss, since her mom and sister are white.
I don’t recall her being mentioned as indigenous, I thought it was just that the non rich part of district 12 had become extremely multiracial/mixed in a futuristic society hence them often having brown skin and grey eyes. So much like real life Appalachia Mountain poorer communities being a mix of indigenous, white, and black folks to the point where people couldn’t tell what race they were. IRL some of those communities were one of the things really racist and gross eugenics movement used to justify anti-miscegenation laws, because they blamed people being poor on their genetics and “race mixing” (not the society itself +racism causing poverty)
Well, we know she's not gonna die - famous last words
i was just thinking this omg 😭
So glad you lean towards Peeta 🎉. So many other reactors go the other route and I don’t hate Gale but Peeta was being sincere while also playing the game to save her life rather than his which imo made him a better person. I read the books beforehand so I went into the movies with this adoration for Peeta but was surprised that so many reactors leaned towards Gale in the beginning. I felt like he was a friend more than anything 🤷♀️
No way you are watching my fav movies!!! Miya💜💜 am so excited for your reaction to Catching fire.💜🙂
I love how she calls clove and Cato by other movies she seen them in LOL
I’m impressed that you didn’t cry when Rue is mortally wounded and Katniss sings the same lullaby that she sings for her baby sister as Rue dies. That may be the most heart-wrenching scene in the whole series.
in the movie its theworst for me, but the book defo has to be cato's
I LOVE this series ong I am sooo excited you are watching these 🫶🏽🫶🏽 loved your reaction! can’t wait to see the others
I remember being 11 when I first watched this and started a whole dystopian film obsession as a teenager lol.
I remember watching these as a kid and Rue being my absolute fave and being so sad when she got murdered like she deserved so much better!!
This reaction series gonna be soooooo good!!! Looking forward to all your reaction videos especially to this movie. love lots!!
the part with rue makes me cry every single time without fail.
I love how she boos Gale without even knowing how bad he is 💀💀🤌🏻
When they simulated the fire for katniss to turn around, I ALWAYS thought that was so unfair! Like you can’t stop somebody in the games from walking-
I am so excited for you to watch Catching Fire!! It’s the best one but the whole series is so good
Josh Hutcherson was my childhood crush, still is. It’s wild how little he’s changed
the girl who ate the berries meant to eat them, as you could see when they were showing their talents to the sponsors she was crazy smart with incredible memory, she knew exactly what she was doing when she ate the berries.
That is just a theory and has not been proven to be true. Going by the books, it was a complete accident. Katniss even mentions that those berries are very rare and were not on the plant test that Foxface took during training. Very few people know about those berries. Katniss only knows about them from her dad. Foxface just assumed they were safe to eat because Peeta took them. The book makes it clear that it was not suicide.
the berries r not from her district she had no clue
“Well, we know she’s not gonna die” LOLLLL