I would love to see Mason in the hunger games. He’d have the best fashion in the parade, and once the game starts he would run and trip and fall, rolling down a hill and fulfilling the prophecy of being a pig rolling down a hill
That is him! I'm just going off memory, but he like laughs at someone once in the training room, runs around a tree for a bit, and then is shot with an arrow before the camera even focuses on him. He was a glorified extra for sure lol
Finding the right kinds of poison berries for the end sequence was a real struggle for the crew, since the traditional red berries kept showing up strangely on the film's color grading. Eventually the decision was made to go for a more azure hue of berry, leading to the working title for this nature scouting to be Blue Harvest.
Cause the first one was Battle Royale. It's common criticism, but holds true. Technically, an established concept. Easy to adapt. After Hunger Games, people soon found out these YA novels weren't actually any good. And adapted to film, even worse. You could even see it in Hunger Games 3 & 4 where the "games" premise was abandoned and it really started falling apart narratively.
@@thedarkemissaryI watched Battle Royale. It was a good movie. IMO the Hunger Games took the violent concept of Battle Royale and built a fleshed out world and interesting story around it.
I live where they filmed this first one, and my weird rich classmate and his entire family, got to play weirdo rich people as extras in a party scene. The last thing he ever said to me, is he liked to unroll his mom’s cigarettes and eat the tobacco.
@@li-limandragon9287 that's just not true. That series was trash but there were a lot of reenactment artists from the park "fight" scene that were fanboying over Hawkeye hard
@@7EVEN91Kate Bishop, the second Hawkeye. She's in Matt Fraction's Hawkeye V4, widely regarded as one of the best comic runs of all time. She's also in the MCU Hawkeye series played by Hailee Steinfeld.
Fun fact: they went through HUNDREDS of actresses trying to harvest the "perfect" actress for Rue. Leading to the casting calls nickname of "Rue Harvest".
Fun fact: they originally wanted to change the character's name to Blue, because they thought Rue was a weird name, making the film's very first working title being "Blue Harvest"
@@tanner4280I recall him joking that people used to say he looked like Wes Bentley from hunger games, and never knew why, or what that was about. Now we do. Honestly just presumed he was joking
Mason was right about the simplicity and production values, but I think the cynicism is a big reason why Hunger Games resonated and similar franchises didn't. The burning hatred of the rich, social media, political discourse, the war industry and the news media is palpable. Divergent, Maze Runner, etc didn't have that.
@@talkingedmmaI've read both and I do really like Battle Royale, but I'd reread hunger games before it. I think it just has less fat and better pacing. Battle Royale can really meander at points, and it spends a lot of time on some boring plotlines. A lot of their plotlines feel drawn out and I think that's because we know we're spending a decent amount of time with dead end characters so there's more boredom than tension. It would be the same issue if hunger games had dedicated chapters that left Peeta and Katniss to focus on some district 7 guy
@@talkingedmma I honestly don't think Battle Royale the movie is all that great, especially if you read the book. The first hunger games is solid, but I think it could have truly been great if it wasn't constricted to a PG13 rating.
I think this one feels just a bit more grounded than the other weird YA dystopia stuff. Like everyone is having a bad time the whole movie and has trauma afterwords and it's just not great and that's cool for us the audience
I think it's because this was the first one to come out of the whole Divergent/Mortal Instruments/Maze Runnner etc before Hollywood put everything behind them. This movie also looks and feels a lot more grounded than the sequels, once Catching Fire came along with a boosted budget everything became a bit more CGI reliant and the colour grading made everything brighter and took away some of the character the first movie built up with it's style
Towards the end of the last movie, it legit felt like Katniss has just gone through the worst and it made me question “ dang! what more is this girl going to be put through?!!” She will absolutely experience severe PTSD for the rest of her life.
my biggest gripe was that Battle Royale was introduced to me like the year before this came out and even tho the ending to that is confuckingfusing it was more raw, real, felt like they were all children with an even playing field, not like an 12 year old can get drafted against like all other contestants who're 16-18. This plot made more sense but I think they should've leaned into the gore, added more people OR show things outside of just Katniss happening so we see more of the action, a lot of this is just "BOOM CANON" *this guy who didnt have a line of dialogue died*
@@steverogers7601 Honestly, the best part of Hunger Games is how Collins treats the characters' psychological problems in a fairly realistic manner. Even from the start, Katniss is already emotionally deadened by the death of her father, her mother mentally checking out, and coming one burnt/wet loaf of pity bread away from starving to death in the street and knowing her sister won't be far behind. She's basically got tunnel vision to protect Prim, and doesn't really care about anything else. Most of the winners are basket cases. Haymitch in particular is kinda amazing. He could have been a thoroughly impressive person is he had a chance. The first time we see him, he's playing funny drunk. But in reality, he diffused a dangerous situation when the District 9 crowd did the hand gesture. That was an act of defiance and the Capitol may well have punished them and Haymitch stepped on it to keep everyone safe. It's a very subtle thing that you would have no idea that Haymitch really is capable despite his self-destruction until you know him better and he allows himself to get tunnel vision of his own to protect Katniss. And later you realize just how much of himself he's putting on the line.
These boys keep suggesting they might not be alive to cover the other two and a half films (films films films films, filmy-films films films), but real ones will recall James locked in at the start of the year that neither of them were gonna die this year. I am so hungry.
I think this is one of the good ya dystopian things bc it actually has real social comentary, and a lot of the stuff following this just takes the aesthetics without thinking about how it could apply to the real world
Because of that social commentary, the story makes sense if you analyse it deeply. If you know a bit about what authoritarian governments are like, the actions of the capitol make sense. And that is something other YA dystopias miss.
Fun fact when I first saw the trailer for the Prequel I was thinking: "Damn I hope Caravan of Garbage does the Hunger Games movies before it comes out"
I'm a defender of the mutant dogs, I think when they show up in the book it's chilling when Katniss realises what they are, but also does come across like the book being like "DO YOU GET IT? DO YOU GET THE POINT OF THE BOOK HUNGER GAMES? THE CAPITOL MADE THEM INTO DOGS'
I was one of those. I ignored The Hunger Games when it first came out because I was "Eh, it's just copying Battle Royale." Then a few years later my son was reading the first book and he said, "Hey dad, this is a really good book. It's got some gross kissing and stuff (he was ten at the time) but it's really good and I think You'll like it. And he was right. We then enjoyed all the books and movies together.
Maso running around a field murdering teenagers with half a brick is the real hunger games sequel we need. Edit: brick lore as suggested by @donaldo141194
Here's a fun fact: There was a deleted epilogue which they wanted as a prologue to the next movie which got scrapped anyway, where Peeta started a line of tribute breads made to celebrate Katniss' friend's Rue's spirit. The extended melancholy sequence of kneading, baking and serving pastries fm Peeta was lovingly dubbed in BTS as the Rue Harvest
The dogs are just one of many tools used by the Game Maker and President Snow to try to foil Katniss and Peeta because they were kicking too much ass. They're actually pretty crucial to the plot because Kato is getting slowly chewed to death because the clothing/armor he is wearing is SO durable that the mutant animals are having a hard time tearing into his flesh. He begs for mercy and Katniss finishes him with an arrow.
I would love if you covered The Maze Runner films. Also "I'm the first first of the Maze Runner, I think we should put in some corners" got me so good 😂😂
Katniss faces a tough decision - re killing goodies - when it's only Peeta remaining at the end and they decide to eat the berries. That's literally the climax you silly geese x
I love the hunger games such an engaging society to learn about. It focuses a lot on the trauma aspect and makes it seem impossible anyone could make any decision after that but just keep moving. Maybe not the most uplifting but one of the better uses of class in a YA novel
Circa 2023 it could have a slight air of populist framing, e.g. the 'liberal elite' in their ivory towers needing to torn down. It's unfortunate only they have queer coding, as if queerness was a decadent choice - a vice, a signifier of moral corruption - instead of just sexuality. I assume none of that was intended by the author, or likely the directors and writers, but I think it undermines how the world is presented a little. Its optics, let's say, are a bit clumsy.
THANK YOU JAMES Frankston is on the UP! (apart from the general Train Station area/7-11, North Frankston, Langwarrin and the fact it needs 24/7 police on duty despite being an outer suburb) ... South is nice tho, great beaches and places to eat:)
3:37 Having not read any of the Maze Runner books, and going back to them after “Love and Monsters” came out… I really dig the silly Maze Runner movies and their lead actor. Good stuff!
Talking about the Hunger Games, then James calling The Bible the first book, followed by James getting angry at a random kid's book while Mason just nods along in confusion is *peak* Caravan of Garbage
I appreciate the lore that if Mason was in the Hunger Games, he'd die on day 1 but if he was at Hogwarts, he'd take down more than half the student body and teachers within a few hours.
My favourite bit in The Hunger Games is when President Snow reached the peak of his derangement and looked at the camera and said "I'm going to do The Hunger Games."
You should also add a section called Getting Hardwicke’d (named for Catherine Hardwicke, director of the first Twilight) for offbeat directors who unexpectedly launch massive franchises and are immediately replaced by more big-budget experienced, studio friendly directors.
I was just thinking 'wow this feels like the first Twilight film where it was a bit different and had it's own vibe and then immediately as soon as it proved it could make money became generic as hell'.
I’d like to imagine that when everyone has their weapon of choice in the middle. There’s just one of big art binders with crayons, paints, etc for Peeta. But it’s also weighted with bricks.
I would love to see a young adult book where the youth of America have to fight to survive in Minecraft hunger game mode. If they die in the game, nothing happens to them. They just won't get the chicken dinner prize
@@allenmurallo3730Surely the movies cannot be worse than the book. It feels like a Twilight or 50 Shades situation where the screenwriter and director knew they were working with garbage source material and had to bring actual depth to it... right?
@@versebuchanan512 if you’re like me, who didn’t care for these movies in their 20s but then watched it in my 30s, it’s a pretty solid watch to kill time on a flight or train ride.
That's Peeeeeeta? Yeah, it's a pretty good performance (and Jennifer's excellent). Doesn't manage to make him be a character I give a damn about, though... I feel the story would've been so much stronger and more interesting if the love triangle stuff was just axed. Make it even more personal, and/or political. But I guess that's where it also really shows its YA roots.
@@SabiJDyeah unfortunately these books were popular at a similar time as Twilight. Suzanne Collins was definitely trying to get a “Team Edward/Jacob” thing going
I went to see The Hunger Games opening night in the theater with my friends in high school, and about a third of the way through--as soon as all the kids get to the Hunger Games arena field--the film switched to a handheld shaky camera view that gave me such bad motion sickness that I had to run out of the theater and ended up hurling in an alleyway, true story.
I would love it so much if you did MAZE RUNNER, although it might be more economically viable if you did all three at once because i dont imagine itd be real popular
You make light to my day with these videos! If i want to relax and have a laugh i just watch one of these video’s and im instantly happier and calmer! Keep it up guys!!
First three books and movies? Great. Loved them. I tried reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and could not get midway through. Ended up borrowing the audiobook from the library and could not believe how horrendously not good this book was. I gave up and Wiki’d the final third of the book and it is bonkers bad. Like bad to the level of I cannot WAIT for James and Mason to see this in the theater and talk about it on The Weekly Planet. That episode alone would be worth the price of admission.
Now this is the kinda energy I love in caravan of garbage. I don’t know what it is about YA book adaptations that brings out the creativity in these two, but we’re two for two
Did you know that during the filming of the Hunger Games, the director would snack on the berries being used in the Nightlock scene as they were filming which would of course leave a blue residue around his mouth. This lead to the working title of the film being 'Blue Harvest'
The blame for the increased interest in archery goes three ways. Avengers (Hawkeye), Hunger Games, and Arrow all released the same year. The arrow manufacturing industry was not ready.
You almost had me convinced that Ben and Lawrence do a good job editing but then you overcompensated so much that I now have crippling doubts on how good a job they do.
So in 5 weeks after all these are done, should we expect another video of Maso guessing reviews for all these 4 films? With some Joker sprinkled in of course
Don't be silly. Joker isn't a Hunger Games movie. It would make no sense to put it in there, and it would be very unfair to Mason. I'm sure it wouldn't even occur to James to do something like that, and that he will promise several times that he has indeed not done so.
This whole series is surprisingly good, imho. The prequel feels like a really bad idea though. Are they actually going to attempt making Snow a tragic figure?
Entertained that 50% of this video is them talking about "what if this happened in a hunger game" while laying out circumstances that the books either state outright or imply have happened in the 74 previous games
I remember this movie because the suburban privileged adolescents on Reddit were hyping her up because of her well marketed “relatable personality” and they ate it up as she was the next best thing since sliced bread. Then they saw those risqué pics and they immediately dropped her, acting like she was old news lmao
Hunger games was definitely one of those franchises that started real great with its first film. Just to be killed by the majority of fans. That turned it into another teen book adaptation. The films seemed to really want to go further, but they held themselves back with the Pg-13 and writing.
Honestly, I remember being a fan of the books and hating the movie. To be fair, the book is hard to adapt because of how completely 1st person it is. Everything is through Katniss' perspective and no one else gets any say in that perspective. In book 3, they explored this through her being a drugged up unreliable narrator, but how do you adapt that?
The movies get a bit silly with the cgi and action set pieces in the latter films, but it never lost its soul and its commentary was consistently on point and not contrived.
The amount of shaky cam in the first one always made me a little queezy. I get that it’s a stylistic choice meant to show the disorientation of everything, but I’m glad Francis Lawrence dropped it for the sequels. For me, the step up in quality from the first one to Catching Fire was incredible.
I agree the shaky cam is bad, but I actually think the first film is the only one that really justifies itself. It felt like it had some teeth. Even though there's no blood, the moment the games begin is quite disturbing. It shows how truly barbaric the society and culture is. The subsequent films feel repetitive, but diminished - full of adults as they are. So for me, the first felt more uncomfortably political. The rest just felt mired in plot, and the fairly dull, predictable process of action (of rebellion). Well enough crafted, but I was a little disappointed by the series after the opener. Jennifer Lawrence really holds that series together.
I would love to see Mason in the hunger games. He’d have the best fashion in the parade, and once the game starts he would run and trip and fall, rolling down a hill and fulfilling the prophecy of being a pig rolling down a hill
Unless he finds half a brick
I feel his beard would have to be braided or it’d get stuck on a stick
@@Rayne2013or both
🏹 🥘🏹🥘🏹
Mason will only be saved with his half a brick and call it like Thor
Jack Quade hiding in this cast really is the Peeta covering himself like a cake on a rock of the movie.
Yep! Boimler @7:00
That is him! I'm just going off memory, but he like laughs at someone once in the training room, runs around a tree for a bit, and then is shot with an arrow before the camera even focuses on him. He was a glorified extra for sure lol
I read this right as they started talking about him💀
Finding the right kinds of poison berries for the end sequence was a real struggle for the crew, since the traditional red berries kept showing up strangely on the film's color grading. Eventually the decision was made to go for a more azure hue of berry, leading to the working title for this nature scouting to be Blue Harvest.
Neat! 📸
This got me pretty good 😂
You got me good. First time in a long time.
Well crafted my friend, got me. 😄
Stop this
The two minute preamble where they discussed James and Mason's strategy for the Hungeriest Games is my favorite part already
And then they practically didn't discuss the plot of the movie at all lol
I genuinely think the hunger games was the only decent teen dystopia series we got from that weird teen dystopia phase.
Only one that got to finish on decent legs.
Because it was the first one that the rest of them copied
Cause the first one was Battle Royale. It's common criticism, but holds true. Technically, an established concept. Easy to adapt. After Hunger Games, people soon found out these YA novels weren't actually any good. And adapted to film, even worse. You could even see it in Hunger Games 3 & 4 where the "games" premise was abandoned and it really started falling apart narratively.
@@thedarkemissarymockingjay is really good actually, fight me pls
@@thedarkemissaryI watched Battle Royale. It was a good movie. IMO the Hunger Games took the violent concept of Battle Royale and built a fleshed out world and interesting story around it.
I live where they filmed this first one, and my weird rich classmate and his entire family, got to play weirdo rich people as extras in a party scene. The last thing he ever said to me, is he liked to unroll his mom’s cigarettes and eat the tobacco.
The tobacco and saliva mixture caused some discoloration, this unique tobacco colour led to the name of this family activity to be Blue Harvest.
I think maybe he liked the idea of being a chewing tobacco guy, but didn't understand that what's in cigarettes is not chewing tobacco.
This was the movie that made moistcr1tikal famous worldwide
What the *fuck*
@@LuisSierra42it’s the other way round, he’s the one who made the hunger games famous
I think we can all say that we’re fans of the concept of Maso walloping children in games of competition.
"Battle royale" 2000 did it better and first
I'd def pay to see Maso drop kick a 6 year old.
@@FordFourD-aka-Ford4D a la Jack Black and the dog in Anchorman?
"No one is looking at the Avengers and going that guy."
This is Kate Beeeshop erasure.
My favourite part about Kate is that she’s Clint’s only fan in the MCU.
@@li-limandragon9287 that's just not true. That series was trash but there were a lot of reenactment artists from the park "fight" scene that were fanboying over Hawkeye hard
Who?
@@7EVEN91Kate Bishop, the second Hawkeye. She's in Matt Fraction's Hawkeye V4, widely regarded as one of the best comic runs of all time. She's also in the MCU Hawkeye series played by Hailee Steinfeld.
There are real world people who want to be Hawkeye. Had a guy trying to find a bow like his when I worked in a sporting goods store.
Fun fact: they went through HUNDREDS of actresses trying to harvest the "perfect" actress for Rue. Leading to the casting calls nickname of "Rue Harvest".
This comment is peak comedy.
@@ILoveJamesFeltno. It’s peak murican bs tryna emulate ozzy humour.
@@Burner-td4cuGeez. Who pissed in your Cheerios?
You bloody got us, @forrestdevine2336!
Fun fact: they originally wanted to change the character's name to Blue, because they thought Rue was a weird name, making the film's very first working title being "Blue Harvest"
Those pictures of Mason were a gift we didn't deserve
More like a punishment we didn't deserve...
A thing of beauty
Little did we know Mason had a Wes Bently era
@@tanner4280I recall him joking that people used to say he looked like Wes Bentley from hunger games, and never knew why, or what that was about. Now we do. Honestly just presumed he was joking
Mason was right about the simplicity and production values, but I think the cynicism is a big reason why Hunger Games resonated and similar franchises didn't. The burning hatred of the rich, social media, political discourse, the war industry and the news media is palpable. Divergent, Maze Runner, etc didn't have that.
it didnt resonate lol, anyone over the age of 12 found it to be laughably stupid
Maze Runner didn't need that to be good tho, wtf is this comparison
@@henkhenkste6076I mean, it had a 4 movie franchise that made billions, but drink your haterade
@@talkingedmmaI've read both and I do really like Battle Royale, but I'd reread hunger games before it. I think it just has less fat and better pacing. Battle Royale can really meander at points, and it spends a lot of time on some boring plotlines. A lot of their plotlines feel drawn out and I think that's because we know we're spending a decent amount of time with dead end characters so there's more boredom than tension. It would be the same issue if hunger games had dedicated chapters that left Peeta and Katniss to focus on some district 7 guy
@@talkingedmma I honestly don't think Battle Royale the movie is all that great, especially if you read the book. The first hunger games is solid, but I think it could have truly been great if it wasn't constricted to a PG13 rating.
I think this one feels just a bit more grounded than the other weird YA dystopia stuff. Like everyone is having a bad time the whole movie and has trauma afterwords and it's just not great and that's cool for us the audience
I think it's because this was the first one to come out of the whole Divergent/Mortal Instruments/Maze Runnner etc before Hollywood put everything behind them. This movie also looks and feels a lot more grounded than the sequels, once Catching Fire came along with a boosted budget everything became a bit more CGI reliant and the colour grading made everything brighter and took away some of the character the first movie built up with it's style
Towards the end of the last movie, it legit felt like Katniss has just gone through the worst and it made me question “ dang! what more is this girl going to be put through?!!”
She will absolutely experience severe PTSD for the rest of her life.
my biggest gripe was that Battle Royale was introduced to me like the year before this came out and even tho the ending to that is confuckingfusing it was more raw, real, felt like they were all children with an even playing field, not like an 12 year old can get drafted against like all other contestants who're 16-18.
This plot made more sense but I think they should've leaned into the gore, added more people OR show things outside of just Katniss happening so we see more of the action, a lot of this is just "BOOM CANON" *this guy who didnt have a line of dialogue died*
@@steverogers7601 Honestly, the best part of Hunger Games is how Collins treats the characters' psychological problems in a fairly realistic manner. Even from the start, Katniss is already emotionally deadened by the death of her father, her mother mentally checking out, and coming one burnt/wet loaf of pity bread away from starving to death in the street and knowing her sister won't be far behind. She's basically got tunnel vision to protect Prim, and doesn't really care about anything else.
Most of the winners are basket cases. Haymitch in particular is kinda amazing. He could have been a thoroughly impressive person is he had a chance. The first time we see him, he's playing funny drunk. But in reality, he diffused a dangerous situation when the District 9 crowd did the hand gesture. That was an act of defiance and the Capitol may well have punished them and Haymitch stepped on it to keep everyone safe. It's a very subtle thing that you would have no idea that Haymitch really is capable despite his self-destruction until you know him better and he allows himself to get tunnel vision of his own to protect Katniss. And later you realize just how much of himself he's putting on the line.
@@s1ckboirariBattle Royale is both meaner and more heartfelt.
These boys keep suggesting they might not be alive to cover the other two and a half films (films films films films, filmy-films films films), but real ones will recall James locked in at the start of the year that neither of them were gonna die this year.
I am so hungry.
I think this is one of the good ya dystopian things bc it actually has real social comentary, and a lot of the stuff following this just takes the aesthetics without thinking about how it could apply to the real world
Because of that social commentary, the story makes sense if you analyse it deeply. If you know a bit about what authoritarian governments are like, the actions of the capitol make sense. And that is something other YA dystopias miss.
Fun fact when I first saw the trailer for the Prequel I was thinking: "Damn I hope Caravan of Garbage does the Hunger Games movies before it comes out"
Damn bro, can you give me a couple numbers for the next lotto drawing?!
@@steverogers76017 and 4
I'm a defender of the mutant dogs, I think when they show up in the book it's chilling when Katniss realises what they are, but also does come across like the book being like "DO YOU GET IT? DO YOU GET THE POINT OF THE BOOK HUNGER GAMES? THE CAPITOL MADE THEM INTO DOGS'
I was one of those. I ignored The Hunger Games when it first came out because I was "Eh, it's just copying Battle Royale." Then a few years later my son was reading the first book and he said, "Hey dad, this is a really good book. It's got some gross kissing and stuff (he was ten at the time) but it's really good and I think You'll like it. And he was right. We then enjoyed all the books and movies together.
That's a really cute story.
Really awesome you took your kid's advice and got to experience it together.
Same for me. I never felt much with it but I saw it almost 3 years and I've never been so wrong in all my life
The Maze Runner trilogy is actually pretty entertained. Would love if you guys covered those movies!
Going back to this channel again after 5 years and see it barely changed makes me so happy I can't describe it
Maso running around a field murdering teenagers with half a brick is the real hunger games sequel we need.
Edit: brick lore as suggested by @donaldo141194
with half a brick?
Timesplitters style with a brick.
Maso uses a set of gardening shears and cries, "get off my lawn!"
@@donaldo141194 absolutely
Here's a fun fact:
There was a deleted epilogue which they wanted as a prologue to the next movie which got scrapped anyway, where Peeta started a line of tribute breads made to celebrate Katniss' friend's Rue's spirit. The extended melancholy sequence of kneading, baking and serving pastries fm Peeta was lovingly dubbed in BTS as the Rue Harvest
I’d love to hear you guys talk about the Maze Runner. Great books and the movies are definitely… something.
it becomes George Romero’s Land of the Dead in the final movie.
I’m glad you agreed with us: the dogs ARE stupid! 😂
They just need to watch Rick and Morty like all smart guys do
The dogs are just one of many tools used by the Game Maker and President Snow to try to foil Katniss and Peeta because they were kicking too much ass. They're actually pretty crucial to the plot because Kato is getting slowly chewed to death because the clothing/armor he is wearing is SO durable that the mutant animals are having a hard time tearing into his flesh. He begs for mercy and Katniss finishes him with an arrow.
just like the rest of the movie
I would love if you covered The Maze Runner films. Also "I'm the first first of the Maze Runner, I think we should put in some corners" got me so good 😂😂
Top tier edit here, fellas! You've outdone yourselves, and that is no easy feat.
Katniss faces a tough decision - re killing goodies - when it's only Peeta remaining at the end and they decide to eat the berries. That's literally the climax you silly geese x
Choose death not knowing they would just cancel it when they tied. Yep hard ass decision MASON.
I love the hunger games such an engaging society to learn about. It focuses a lot on the trauma aspect and makes it seem impossible anyone could make any decision after that but just keep moving. Maybe not the most uplifting but one of the better uses of class in a YA novel
Circa 2023 it could have a slight air of populist framing, e.g. the 'liberal elite' in their ivory towers needing to torn down.
It's unfortunate only they have queer coding, as if queerness was a decadent choice - a vice, a signifier of moral corruption - instead of just sexuality.
I assume none of that was intended by the author, or likely the directors and writers, but I think it undermines how the world is presented a little. Its optics, let's say, are a bit clumsy.
THANK YOU JAMES Frankston is on the UP! (apart from the general Train Station area/7-11, North Frankston, Langwarrin and the fact it needs 24/7 police on duty despite being an outer suburb)
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South is nice tho, great beaches and places to eat:)
Cranbourne or Dandenong should be the new Frankston that where all the drug dealers moved to anyway 😡 gotta travel 40 mins for the Za now
3:37 Having not read any of the Maze Runner books, and going back to them after “Love and Monsters” came out… I really dig the silly Maze Runner movies and their lead actor. Good stuff!
Talking about the Hunger Games, then James calling The Bible the first book, followed by James getting angry at a random kid's book while Mason just nods along in confusion is *peak* Caravan of Garbage
I appreciate the lore that if Mason was in the Hunger Games, he'd die on day 1 but if he was at Hogwarts, he'd take down more than half the student body and teachers within a few hours.
So much editing of Mason in The Hunger Games! Great stuff!
My favourite bit in The Hunger Games is when President Snow reached the peak of his derangement and looked at the camera and said "I'm going to do The Hunger Games."
“It’s hunger time!”
When he said that, every single person in my theater stood up in awe. Definitely one of the moments in history
"What are we? Some kind of... Hunger Games?"
@@steverogers7601😊😊😊😊
this is fantastic, definitely need to look at more of these teen dystopia movies! DIVERGENT is truly something else
You should also add a section called Getting Hardwicke’d (named for Catherine Hardwicke, director of the first Twilight) for offbeat directors who unexpectedly launch massive franchises and are immediately replaced by more big-budget experienced, studio friendly directors.
I was just thinking 'wow this feels like the first Twilight film where it was a bit different and had it's own vibe and then immediately as soon as it proved it could make money became generic as hell'.
It’s always a good time when the boi’s can bring out photos of Maso’s old Tony Stark look
Every girl I knew that wanted to do archery was from this. Every boy that wanted to do archery was from Arrow
I’d like to imagine that when everyone has their weapon of choice in the middle. There’s just one of big art binders with crayons, paints, etc for Peeta.
But it’s also weighted with bricks.
We really need that Toby Jones x Stanley Tucci tv show. There are so many possibilities of things to do when the category is anything.
I would love to see a young adult book where the youth of America have to fight to survive in Minecraft hunger game mode. If they die in the game, nothing happens to them. They just won't get the chicken dinner prize
Ben and Laurence deserve an Oscar for this.
Ben?
@@samuelsimmons6647The editors of MrSundayMovies
so good to see the boys talking about my fav bookseries growing up... idk never thought I'd see the day and now we're here
PLEASE look at the Divergent movies. I only read the first book and i hated it so much that i want to know how the rest goes
I fell asleep watching one of the Divergent sequels in theaters.
@@allenmurallo3730Surely the movies cannot be worse than the book. It feels like a Twilight or 50 Shades situation where the screenwriter and director knew they were working with garbage source material and had to bring actual depth to it... right?
I hate read the entire series. It gets WAY worse. To the point that, apparently, the movies veer way off the original plot
Brown Bear does suck. "The Monster at the End of this Book" is the best little kids book, and its not even close.
For being rather young at the time, Jennifer, Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson gave really good and nuance performances
To be fair Hutcherson had been in movies for years before the Hunger Games
I thought Lawrence did a good job, but Jennifer wasn't great.
I'm kidding, I've never seen these movies.
@@versebuchanan512 if you’re like me, who didn’t care for these movies in their 20s but then watched it in my 30s, it’s a pretty solid watch to kill time on a flight or train ride.
That's Peeeeeeta? Yeah, it's a pretty good performance (and Jennifer's excellent). Doesn't manage to make him be a character I give a damn about, though...
I feel the story would've been so much stronger and more interesting if the love triangle stuff was just axed. Make it even more personal, and/or political. But I guess that's where it also really shows its YA roots.
@@SabiJDyeah unfortunately these books were popular at a similar time as Twilight. Suzanne Collins was definitely trying to get a “Team Edward/Jacob” thing going
0:24 a memory that I forgot I even had. Holy cow
I went to see The Hunger Games opening night in the theater with my friends in high school, and about a third of the way through--as soon as all the kids get to the Hunger Games arena field--the film switched to a handheld shaky camera view that gave me such bad motion sickness that I had to run out of the theater and ended up hurling in an alleyway, true story.
Baby James with angry eyebrows is my new favourite thing
I'm sure your insights on this series will be hilarious but I'm so excited at the thought of you tackling Maze Runner
Mistaking 'Panem' for the name of 'Panera Bread' is especially ironic, considering where the name 'Panem' comes from and what it means lol
I wonder if Hunger Games will follow Star Wars, where fans will one day say, "I don't like they've put politics in the Huger Games."
Somehow Snow returned.
Those are the same folks who say that Rage Against the Machine has now gone woke, are bothered that Stark Trek:TNG and X-Men had some woke episodes
@@steverogers7601 bizarrely specific
@@donnypotsmoker not really bizarre
@@steverogers7601measure of a man is about funny robot court
You know what they call The Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese
Nice
I would love it so much if you did MAZE RUNNER, although it might be more economically viable if you did all three at once because i dont imagine itd be real popular
Those young pictures of Mason are truly a blessing
Mason, James, Claire, and their dog all in a Hunger Games. I’d bet on the dog.
It's been a while since James aired his grievances. The real purpose of the podcast.
You make light to my day with these videos! If i want to relax and have a laugh i just watch one of these video’s and im instantly happier and calmer! Keep it up guys!!
Maso with the random savage self-roast in the middle lol
You know who would do really well in The Hunger Games? That guy who shouts "Rodney!" #JusticeForThatGuyWhoShoutsRodney
First three books and movies? Great. Loved them. I tried reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and could not get midway through. Ended up borrowing the audiobook from the library and could not believe how horrendously not good this book was. I gave up and Wiki’d the final third of the book and it is bonkers bad. Like bad to the level of I cannot WAIT for James and Mason to see this in the theater and talk about it on The Weekly Planet. That episode alone would be worth the price of admission.
Now this is the kinda energy I love in caravan of garbage.
I don’t know what it is about YA book adaptations that brings out the creativity in these two, but we’re two for two
Can't believe they didn't mention Stanley Tucci and Toby Jones were both in the first Captain America movie
Did you know that during the filming of the Hunger Games, the director would snack on the berries being used in the Nightlock scene as they were filming which would of course leave a blue residue around his mouth. This lead to the working title of the film being 'Blue Harvest'
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a timeless classic. James is a monster.
The blame for the increased interest in archery goes three ways. Avengers (Hawkeye), Hunger Games, and Arrow all released the same year. The arrow manufacturing industry was not ready.
I thought this movie was fine, the sequel is genuinely excellent, and the two follow-ups are… sort of alright.
not Frankston copping smoke lmao
Frankston shoutouts never get old
Oh my god we finally get to see the lads covering Wesley Bentley's weird beard! The prophecy is true!
Love the unprompted attack and swift defence of frankston.
Frankston just catchin' strays!
You almost had me convinced that Ben and Lawrence do a good job editing but then you overcompensated so much that I now have crippling doubts on how good a job they do.
Seeing Danny Gonzales in a Mr Sunday Movies video is my crossover event
Big hunger games series fan here. Love you guys work.
13:22 I didn't know Maso was a rich person in the Hunger Game Universe, the more you know and 13:49 Peeta the horse girl is here
So in 5 weeks after all these are done, should we expect another video of Maso guessing reviews for all these 4 films? With some Joker sprinkled in of course
Boy, I sure hope so
Don't be silly. Joker isn't a Hunger Games movie. It would make no sense to put it in there, and it would be very unfair to Mason. I'm sure it wouldn't even occur to James to do something like that, and that he will promise several times that he has indeed not done so.
This whole series is surprisingly good, imho. The prequel feels like a really bad idea though. Are they actually going to attempt making Snow a tragic figure?
Actually I’ve read the book and I don’t want to spoil anything but I would say he’s like the opposite of a tragic character
The book is very good
I was not ready for Younger Maso Weird Beard Jumpscare!
Jennifer Lawrence played a role in the film, real emotions.
"Hungry games" are masterpiece that is definitely worth looking.
Entertained that 50% of this video is them talking about "what if this happened in a hunger game" while laying out circumstances that the books either state outright or imply have happened in the 74 previous games
I will always remember this movie, because Jennifer Lawrence was the first female lead action movie star lol 😂
I remember this movie because the suburban privileged adolescents on Reddit were hyping her up because of her well marketed “relatable personality” and they ate it up as she was the next best thing since sliced bread.
Then they saw those risqué pics and they immediately dropped her, acting like she was old news lmao
Paying out Franga is a time proven Melbourne tradition. Loved it. Hunger games: A bit Peckish is the sequel we need
I dig the Mazerunner movies. Never read a word of the books so whatever, but I think it’s a fun little trilogy.
Hunger games was definitely one of those franchises that started real great with its first film. Just to be killed by the majority of fans. That turned it into another teen book adaptation. The films seemed to really want to go further, but they held themselves back with the Pg-13 and writing.
Honestly, I remember being a fan of the books and hating the movie. To be fair, the book is hard to adapt because of how completely 1st person it is. Everything is through Katniss' perspective and no one else gets any say in that perspective. In book 3, they explored this through her being a drugged up unreliable narrator, but how do you adapt that?
The movies get a bit silly with the cgi and action set pieces in the latter films, but it never lost its soul and its commentary was consistently on point and not contrived.
7:05 LMAOOOO Frankston slander, gotta love it
I'm glad you're doing all these Josh Hutchinson movies in the lead up to the Five Nights at Freddy's movies.
The amount of shaky cam in the first one always made me a little queezy. I get that it’s a stylistic choice meant to show the disorientation of everything, but I’m glad Francis Lawrence dropped it for the sequels. For me, the step up in quality from the first one to Catching Fire was incredible.
I agree the shaky cam is bad, but I actually think the first film is the only one that really justifies itself.
It felt like it had some teeth. Even though there's no blood, the moment the games begin is quite disturbing. It shows how truly barbaric the society and culture is. The subsequent films feel repetitive, but diminished - full of adults as they are.
So for me, the first felt more uncomfortably political. The rest just felt mired in plot, and the fairly dull, predictable process of action (of rebellion). Well enough crafted, but I was a little disappointed by the series after the opener. Jennifer Lawrence really holds that series together.
@SabiJD the first one far exceeds the others. Altho visually I liked catching fire
Mason should have to sport that weird beard to go see the new one.
Very happy we are covering that weird beard guy Mason looks like
I love brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I learned how to read.
I never knew I needed something. I am of course talking about a Caravan of Garbage on the Maze Runner franchise.
Here's some Hunger Games Trivia: Ron Perlman is left-handed
🤯 whoa
The Danny Gonzalez part lmao
Danny Gonzalez catching strays in the edit 😭😭
James’ crush on Dylan O’Brien rears its ugly head again!!
😊😊
13:20 Not a "Is this the Podcast" reference in 2023. I love that so much
Mason killed Gabe Newell in the Weekly Planet lore. 0:52
Love a Frankston reference lol
As someone who grew up next to Frankston, I highly doubt that Frankston is on the up.
Omg the shaaaade to @Danny-Gonzalez at 1:05 😂 Now THAT'S a collab this platform could use.