First Time Watching *THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)* Movie REACTION!!! 

Yeah, their entire lives where essentially built on the foundation of them volunteering themselves to die or win into the Hunger Games for others entertainment, it's really sad when you think about it - Their only purpose in life is to provide entertainment to the Capitol, the manipulate and glorify them to the slaughter. Kinda-felt bad for Cato at the end.

@@TheCourtsOfLove Those kids are essentially sacrifices- lambs led to the slaughter by their own parents & other adults in their district. But I can't fault the adults either. Some kid IS going to be chosen no matter what they do. But if they set things up the way they have, it makes it far more likely one of the kids from their district will make it back home. AND their district will get more prestige, money (from the victor's winnings), and connections in the capital that could help future tributes. It's cold and calculating to play such a proactive role in the deaths of their own children but there's a reason there are more survivors from those districts than the others, so at the end of the day it might be kinder in the long run.

And that's what people have trouble understanding. In the Capital, it is being played like the districts WANT to participate, they WANT to fight in honor of their district, they look up to the tributes like they are heroes. Sort of like in Roman times with the Gladiators. And the Careers don't help, training and volunteering and everything, and then the mentors have to "suck up" to get sponsors.

Book and movies are two different things. A movie would have to be about 20 hours long with a whole lot of narrating to get their innermost thoughts.

@@ckobo84 Exactly, which is why books are almost always better than the movies in virtually any story series. You still get to visualize the scenes the way they appear on screen but books have the page length and time to explain concepts the movies are forced to gloss over. I don’t think the term “Avox” or “mutt” was referred to once in this movie yet they play huge roles in the books and are explained in detail immediately.

@@patmcconnell9956 avox was explained in Mockingjay part 1 when Katniss's camera crew had one.

@@RobGamesOn yeah but all they said was that he was an Avox who had his tongue cut out by the Capitol. That doesn’t explain a whole lot or give much context to what it means to be taken prisoner by the Capitol and forced to serve as Avox slaves. There was a whole story line that had to do with Katniss’ association and obsession with this “red-headed Avox girl,” and her peacekeeper friend being punished for something in Catching Fire and becoming an Avox himself. This is the stuff that movies just unfortunately didn’t have the time to give much attention to IMO.

@@patmcconnell9956 this is true. I remember reading that... such good books!

Not just most... probably all of them since he seems to be the only victor from district 12. Since he won... 26 years earlier, that is 52 kids he 'mentored' who then died. No wonder he drinks, eh.

@@ZeniaRose He won game number 50, the second Quarter Quell with double the amount of tributes, and this one was game number 74, so 24 games, 23 of which has been him watching the tributes he was mentoring die, so all in all 46 dead tributes since he started mentoring as the only living victor from his district. Still a lot of dead kids, and a huge amount of trauma, so that obviously doesn't make it better in any way, but... yeah, that is the timeline and the numbers as they stand by the end of this movie.

All of them dying.

@@ZeniaRose every single kid he’s mentored has died. Besides Katniss and Peeta. HayMitch was the last winner on the hunger games from District 12. Only said this because you said “most of them dying” but it has been all of them

i’ve never understood the hate or lack of compassion when it comes to Haymitch. he’s been through so much, and i’m not one that is big on drinking, but i really do not blame him one bit for being the way that he is by the time Katniss meets him.

thank you

I think that was one of the biggest book to movie fail for it

@@gloriebluestein9721 Yea like how messed up is it that in the books "Yea remember all those people who have died? Well we harvested them and here they are again to kill you!" 😧

Yeah and it made it so much harder for katness to hurt or kill them because they resembled people like rue and thresh (who both saved her)

@@gloriebluestein9721 Yeah, as much as I think the movies did a great job in many areas, the gross banality of the Mutt designs across the films compared to the amazing nightmare creatures from the books is a major point against them.

Well. I’d personally say the bigger injustice for movies & the mutts was, peeta never lost his foot to them. Dude went through 75th games with only one real foot. Katniss also having lost one side of hearing as well in the first games. Both were handicapped in 75th on.

My boy Peeta being so smart❤

Yesss finally some Peeta appreciation

That’s understandable, I liked it for the bloodbath scene but that’s about it. I generally prefer to be able to see exactly what’s going on in most action scenes

@@MovieFusion In the next movie, "Catching Fire", and in the others, the shaky camera doesn't comeback. In the next few movies, the shaki camera goes away. because the shaky camera was the first movie director's choice, by Gary Ross, because he wanted you to feel in the arena. But as the other films had another director, Francis Lawrence, he wanted to take that idea away.

@@MovieFusion If you enjoyed Harry Potter, please watch A Very Potter Musical, A Very Potter Sequel and A Very Potter Senior Year, all three starring Darrin Criss. The creators have released them in full to the net, so you can air your full reactions without having to edit it.

I don't mind the shakey cam aesthetic, but I'm glad we're out of the 2002-2012 era where things went off the rails a little bit. It's a cheap way to make a scene more "exciting" and more "realistic." Sometimes that style can really work for a movie, or even a specific scene (the bloodbath scene is an example where I think the shakey cam works well to reinforce both the physical and psychological trauma that's occurring on screen). But in my opinion, it's a little overdone in this movie. I remember going to the theater to see this with a group of friends (who were all big fans of the books) and having to sit in the 3rd-4th row. Let me tell you, every time there was a shot that looked like it had been filmed on a tripod ... it was like being lost in the desert and then having someone hand you a glass of cold water. I did still enjoy the movie though.

Yeah, as someone who as a rule hates shakey cam with a passion, this is one of if not the only film where I feel it really works well.

This is an important point because it is exceptionally unclear how katniss feels about both peeta and gale. The movies kinda hammed up the romance aspect more than the books because to katniss, she was only worried about survival, getting out, getting her family out until the very end. Of course she cares about Gale, her long time friend and the person who saw to her family when she couldn't, and peeta, the guy she trauma bonds with as well as rue and some others over the series. But is she in love? Really hard to say. She doesn't focus on that at all so... who knows? Not her and therefore not us. Plus we don't know if peeta is being genuine or playing it up for the games because katniss doesn't know. We don't know if gale has serious feelings because katniss doesn't know. In the books romance was almost 100% for the media, for the sponsors, for survival in her mind but in the movies it makes it seem like she might actually love them more than she did.

this is a year later. But yes.. Katniss is a highly unreliable narrator. We see all of it thorugh her eyes, process things and witness a big political statement through a 17 year old poor girl with very basic education. I am not saying she is wrong, but she is unreliable. She does not understand the capitol at all. But if you look at it and really think of it, even now we humans do absolutely cruel things and its minimal effort to stop it apart from a small group of very passionate people. Take fur harvesting for fur coats and stuff. Mink farms are absolutely hell, animals are often slayen off their skin alive because humane euthanization is expensive. Human trafficking with children is a thing in the real world as well, and people turn a blind eye, because why? because thinking too much about it hurts too much. The Capitol isnt evil, but it is highly corrupt. Even Snow isnt EVIL, he was raised in these ideals. And in Songbirds and snakes, where we follow Snow's teen years, he is litterally in a military academy. He is brainwashed himself, but also highly intelligent, so he does what he genuinly belives is right, because he whole heartedly belive that without this power, and without the hunger games, humans would destroy eachother, District and Capitol alike would all be basically one big arena, we would innihalate eachother if it wasnt for this power. That is his genuine belif. He thinks this is the better of 2 evils, this is what keeps order in his world. But he did not agree with how the tributes were treated, so he changed it. Before Snow got to power, the tributes were travelling in cattle cars of the train, and thrown into a cage in the zoo, and not fed for several days until their fight. People came to watch them in the zoo like animals until the big fight day. I really ejoy that this world isnt evil vs good, it IS a very complicated history with a very deep political and psycological theme. It does not feel superficial, and once you see it through not just Katniss's eyes, you see how we came to the point we are at. Snow is a genuinly complicated character, but through the 17 year old girl's eyes, we experience all through her.

Ahhh I remember English teachers being so obsessed with it too! I was in 7-8th grade and they made us read it in class with audiobook. I remember not paying attention at all until years later realized “hey this is actually really good” 😭

I remember my cousin getting me the 1st book for Christmas when it was only a couple months old and was just beginning to.....catch fire haha. Read it, loved it, gave it to every friend of mine to borrow and read it, they loved it, bought their own copies, repeat. I guess in an incredibly tiny and insignificant way, my cousin helped light that spark lol

@@iloveyourunclebob that’s such a funny and sweet story

Or to convey how nervous and panicky the characters felt (?)

That’s most likely the case but it was also used in some scenes that didn’t really have much gore. Generally speaking it’s usually a way to film action scenes in a way that doesn’t require as much perfect choreography from the people involved

Yeah I felt it worked in the very first scene of the game with the bloodbath, but when it started being used for like every other high intensity scene it felt like a bit much

Finally some Peeta appreciation

yup. and I think people who start cheering on the deaths of the careers don’t realize they are falling into literally the same mentality as the capitol citizens in the world of the movie - despite the fact that those same reactors talk about how evil the capitol citizens are for finding entertainment in children slaughtering each other and rooting for favorites. yall are doing the same thing! and that’s the whole point! it’s a fascinating commentary on the subject matter, and the reactors just prove suzanne collins’ point.

It takes her time but she does fall in love with Peeta around the end of CF❤

He’s actually super smart but it gets overlooked in the movies

I mean, don't get me wrong I LOVE a badass (I would say Katniss is also a badass here), but I don't enjoy badasses when they are completely flawless. Whether that flaw is a physical, mental, or emotional one, I feel like they don't seem human unless they have at least one flaw that fits into the story. I would argue most of those characters you mentioned do have some flaws. Dumbledore's being effectively shown in the last few films.

@@MovieFusion I suppose, but their flaws all have to do with very mental or emotional things. Katniss has both physical and mental AND emotional flaws. I do love katniss in this movie tho, definitely a badass. And I respect that opinion a lot, I enjoy when characters are flawed for the most part as well, just not when it’s the stereotypical old wise mentor that helps the protagonist out. Haymitch would be the example here, but frankly I don’t think he fits very well into that category lmfao. And I love woody so I don’t really care what haymitch does, I’ll love him either way. Thanks for having a discussion with me, hope u enjoy the other movies, the second one is my favorite of the 4

Gotta be fast then LMAO

@@MovieFusion yeah but only the flash is fast enough to take out 4 career tributes in a couple seconds cause that cannon will go off immediately, so peeta may be able to take out two but the other two will get him, plus peeta is a pacifist he’ll really only kill in self defense or in defense of someone he loves, if katniss was on the ground and they were attacking her than he’d be actively tryna kill them

Peeta is the best❤

It’s actually Everlark haha

Yes I will! But I already did Kill Bill on the channel about a year ago

guess that's because i never really said anything during those scenes, but I definitely had more to say about his scenes in the sequel. Editing that one now

Thank you!!

My poor sweet baby boy❤

Thank u!