Peeta’s mother beats him up and hates him that’s why he said ‘nobody else I care about’. The books mention this is if you didn’t know.He hasn’t got a close relationship with his family.
What Haymitch says, "You never get off this train" breaks my heart. Because the Capital plays it that once you win the game, they leave you alone other than once a year, you have to help tributes from your district. But nobody talks about how you basically become slaves of the Capital. Like Johanna says, "There's no one left that I love". That's what happens when you defy the Capital.
There is also the fact that all the victors that were in on it were all wearing gold and not even Katniss noticed. It's why Joanna got naked in the elevator. She only had on makeup and it was gold. Beetee's training outfit is lined with gold which is why Finnick laughs when he walks past him. All the victors were trying to send subliminal messages to Katniss to let her know they were on her side right in the capital's face and no one noticed lol. Also...I never knew I needed to hear someone say, "Ah shit, it's Mr. Clean," with such fear before now...thank you. lol
Cinna's only decoration is his gold eyeliner; I wonder if that was why the team color was chosen - it's from the one Capitol citizen that Katniss trusts.
I really love peoples first impression of finnick because he’s really different from what you imagine and the assumptions as well! Finnick really did the most to save katniss and Peeta throughout the hunger games and there’s more to him as well but I’ll wait until you react to the next movie since it’s spoilers, however most people don’t pick up on it since the movie brushes over it. All I have to say tho some of the things you said when you first saw finnick hits differently when you know more about him! Also that isn’t anything on you! That’s the point with what they were trying to do, even Katniss thinks the exact same things
@@MoMoMyPup10 he was introduced as a douche in the books though lol That convo with Katniss happened in the books as well and he doesn't appear trustworthy until he revives Peeta.
@@Lill2895 I didn’t see him as douchey at all. Does he come off way more douchey in the books? Because from what I saw, his first interaction with Katnis was just playful banter.
IKR? I read the books before watching the movies so when Finnick was introduced I thought he was gonna be Cato 2.0 (aka the big bad of this chapter who was gonna betray Katniss last-minute) but then when he says "remember who the real enemies are" that blew me away.
No one talks about how perfect the last shot is. a close up shot of katniss processing her raw emotions from shock to confusion to sadness to anger/vengeful. Jlaw killed it.
Peeta's mother used to beat him. In the books besides physical strength was very smart, the capital loved him (he made people from the capital like katness) and he lost his leg in the first game, that's why he have some difficulty in some stuff. in the books he painted rue on the ground as a form of protest, remembering that despite the capital trying to make people forget it was a child who died because of them. Joana and Finnik are amazing
Thank you for reminding me about his leg! I read this series when I was in middle school (I'm almost 21 now), so it's been quite a while since I first read them. I completely forgot about that detail.
Just a casual reminder Katniss is deadass 17 during this film, not only does she develop PTSD and likely already had C-PTSD from the living conditions in Panem but developing such severe trauma before your brain fully develops permanently alters your perception of the world. I’m not happy that they glazed over Katniss losing her hearing in one ear from the explosion at the careers’ camp or the fact that she had to sacrifice Peeta’s leg for the sake of keeping him from bleeding out but I’m just so glad Suzanne didn’t let them brush over the trauma. I was around Katniss’ age when my trauma started manifesting in similar ways to hers, it hasn’t been all that fun seeing people react to her character development with such distain when I know exactly why she acts the way she does but Suzanne’s accurate portrayal of ptsd potentially saved my life and I’m hopeful that the visual representation of it (performed amazingly by Jennifer) will not only help other people recognize their own symptoms but make the general public more sympathetic to the realities of trauma.
Katniss suffers complex traumatic stress disorder. It's similar to ptsd but unlike ptsd which is brought about by an event or events that happened in the past, her trauma is ongoing, and something she's been dealing with since she was a child.
Read all the books and watched the whole franchise in theaters. I snuck a whole ass meal in for this movie, which made it all the more memorable. Just a little background info that they don't really mention in the movies... Finnick was actually molested by the capitol and they killed Johanna's entire family (I forgot why) so she has nothing to lose, which is why she's so outspoken.
16:49 The new Tribute Training Center was filmed at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, which was also used in the Loki series on Disney+. Every Labor Day weekend, that same hotel is the center of the five convention hotels that host DragonCon, one of the biggest general geekery conventions on the East Coast. I've BEEN on that specific elevator from the scene at 18:43. I've had borderline PTSD from the elevators in that hotel from how busy and overcrowded they get during DragonCon. Also depending on the time of night during the convention, you may find yourself on those elevators with cosplayers wearing only *slightly* more than Johanna Mason was at the end of that scene.
It’s funny you called Finnic Aquaman because one of the other tributes, Alan Ritchson, played Aquaman in Smallville. He is also in the new Jack Reacher show on Amazon Prime. He did a great job.
Because we know producers cast people a lot for looks, we should be aware that they are capitalizing on the fact that too many people just look at the 'flesh' and not the 'character' of people (yes, actors as well as in real life). It's a sad commentary on society that this is true. I love watching people dis Finnick in the beginning cause it's too cute when they realize they were so wrong about his character, that he was so good he had them fooled, :)...I adore these movies and really appreciate your reactions!
This was actually the first one I saw out of the series. I remember being so shocked by it. I watched the first movie after and then ready the books lol
Great reaction. I was in tears when the edit of you in the elevator popped up! I couldn't take it, that was too damn funny. But this series is strong, can't wait for the next reaction. Nice work.
Yeah, this one is definitely the best of the franchise. The next one touches on some neat ideas, but it doesn't all hit quite as hard as this one. Except maybe the "hanging tree" scene. That scene is dope.
Out of curiosity I found out what the other 2 quarter quells were like. The 1st one (25th Hunger Games) was basically election style. The 2nd (50th Hunger Games) was traditional but doubled. That’s instead of 2 (1 boy & 1 girl) from each of the 12 districts it was 4 (2 boys & 2 girls). And from what I read the 2nd quarter quell was the one Haymitch won.
haymitch lived in victors village in the 1st movie now katniss & peetas families live their too its a neighborhood in the district where the victors live & in this district before haymitch they hadn't had a living victor in a long time all the others are dead
I feel like, during your reaction, you missed A LOT of the point of PanAm and it's inhabitants. You kept saying no one would buy the queue cards and the corny lines, etc. THAT was the entire point. They were eating it up. They didn't care. It's a commentary on society. What will we EXCUSE as entertainment?
You mean the people in the capitol were eating it up right? The people in the districts clearly weren’t. The games aren’t entertainment for them. Everything about them is mandatory for the people in the districts. Even watching them is mandatory. It’s on all the screens all the time until there’s a winner. It’s even more clear in the books that several of the districts are rebelling. The 3 finger salute from district 11 was a planned thing, not just because of Katniss speech. District 8, were in open rebellion. The capitol starved them for a couple weeks then bombed one of their factories to get them back in line.
"It's going to cause an uprising, no matter what." -- Ah, you noticed the nail in the coffin. President Snow did indeed set her up to fail from the very beginning of this one.
21:54 oh damn. Funny thing is I didn’t think they were. I thought they were just beating him up and than putting him in prison. Only for me to read up later that he was indeed killed
i think you’d like the maze runner series! a good amount of reaction channels have been on it lately :) seems like the dystopian era is might i say “catching fire” again 😂😂
Great reaction Mello! Yep, I missed out on The Hunger Games because I thought that it was going to be an overblown version of Divergent. This film seems like it's a very good movie.
It wasn't in the movie, but in the scene when Peeta's heart had stopped and Katniss at first thinks he will kill Peeta and then understands what he's doing she at firsts thinks; "...Finnick is kissing Peeta..." in the books lol
I love your choice of music when something sad happens. The Last of Us is my absolute favorite video game and the music immediately makes me tear up. Love it!
Peeta is such a good human being. They tried to get that across in the movies but it's so much clearer in the book. It's why she has a hard time trusting him. He has no hidden motives or angles. He'd sacrifice himself for her in a heartbeat.
I think Joanna’s interview is the best change the movie makes from the book, the fact that she just curses out the audience is gold and I think more impactful, it’s just straight anger.
Johanna is one of my favourite Hunger Games characters and that scene is so good! Especially when you watch her speech and you can hear her give this devious, completely done with this bullshit giggle before she starts screaming and cursing everyone out and it’s magnificent!
@@roy.moreno I know you asked this 10 months ago so you probably know by now, but for anyone else wondering, Johanna's interview is - 'By the time Johanna Mason gets up, she's asking if something can't be done about the situation. Surely the creators of the Quarter Quell never anticipated such love forming between the victors and the Capitol. No one could be so cruel as to sever such a deep bond.' As much as I love the books, I have to agree that the movie Johanna is better in this part. It's pretty obvious they're all aware of what the Capitol can do if they step out of line, but as Johanna says later, there's no one left that she loves, so they can't hurt her anymore. Cussing them out on TV seems more in character.
18:04 Yeah, strippers… They were alluding to it in that scene, and it’s mentioned briefly in the first book: Victors are pimped out to Capitol citizens. If they say no, their loved ones are killed. That’s why Johanna says, “There’s no one left I love.” Katniss actually said the words, “How do people pay for the pleasure of your company?” She gets a pass because she won as half of a romantic couple, but you can still see someone touching her when she arrives at that party in the Capitol.
They make Peeta seem weak and like everyone is trying to protect him without explaining why in the films so the concern comes off weird to people. When Katnis put a tourniquet on his leg in the first game it was so tight that he ended up losing it after. She didn't find out until they were on stage with Ceasar.He has a prosthetic leg and him going back in was instantly seen as an automatic death sentence even beyond everyone elses. I guess they didn't want to have to account for it in the films.
Yeah, the movies are mostly good, but they skipped so much of Peeta that it really does him a disservice... which is kind of a disservice to everyone else in the movies, since so many of their decisions are based on what's in the books about them.
I like Peeta in the movies. He doesn't have to be super physically capable in order to be a good human being or a worthwhile character. The most important aspects of him -- his kindness and his talent at playing the crowd -- is still there.
@@HandsomeLongshanks also Peeta was stabbed in the leg to save Katniss from Cato, who went after her. Peeta protected her while she was escaping and got stabbed in the leg. And they also never explained the real reason why Peeta fell for Katniss, in the movies they made it seem like it was love at first sight when he met her in school, but that's not the actual reason why.
Something I didn't see mentioned in the comments (though I didn't scroll down too horribly far) is that Katniss's immediate thought when they entered the arena and she was still reeling from them killing Cinna was that they were sending a message because a water-filled arena is no place for a girl on fire.
My favourite scene in the movie is when Peeta gets hit by the force field and Katniss starts screaming. The way her voice breaks. You can tell she isn't acting anymore and that the thought of loosing Peeta puts her in actual hysterics.
I agree it was amazing, Mine is when she stuck in the tube and she seen Cinna being dragged and she can't get out. Serious acting on the part of Jennifer Lawrence
@@Strawberryfearsforever not that the actor wasn’t acting but that since in the movie her character was acting like she loved him but in that moment her character wasn’t acting anymore and actually loved his character
im so glad you called gale out lmao he's one of the worst characters. katniss just went through something insanely traumatizing and currently has every one of her actions being watched by the capitol and gale's just constantly whining and asking her about if she loves him or not. you can see the clear difference between the way peeta and katniss actually care about each other and the way gale WANTS katniss to care about him even though he barely asks her if she's ever okay.
And thats not to mention some of the crap he does in "Mockingjay"(especially his treatment of the tortured prep team because they were from the Capitol(not in the movies, so not really a spoiler).
I was going to say something to this effect, i like how since he was in the ganes with Katniss he kind of understands more of what shes thinking and feeling where Gale was kind of a pick me boy@@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289
The quarte quell is celebrated every 25 years to remember the capitols victory over the districts. It was decided the stipulations would be chosen from a random envelope kept in a box in the capitol. Snow changed it so that Katniss would have to be in the games again. Haymitch's game was a quarter quell I believe the stipulations for his was 4 tributes would be chosen instead if 2. In the books it said there were enough for all the way up to the 2000th hunger games.
The first QQ I believe, the tributes were reaped by popular vote. Everyone in the district would nominate someone, and whoever got the most became the tribute.
I never mentioned the 2000th games. All it said “whoever devised the Quarter Quell system had prepared for centuries of Hunger Games.” It could mean 500 years, 1000 years, maybe 2000. Who knows
Was never established in the books whether snow rigged it or it was really just unlucky coincidence that the 3rd quarter quell would use existing Victors, least not to my memory. Snow may even have predicted a high likelihood of rebellion brewing after 70 years
@@lorddanielthesecond73 My personal opinion is that it is rigged to the extent that the envelopes are part of the theatre and in reality none of them have been planned out in advance and the quarter quell can just be whatever Snow wants it to be, whatever's most convenient for him. But that's just my opinion, could just be me being overly cynical about everything the Capitol does haha
Haymitch actually was in District 12 the whole time before the events of the first movie. He was just hidden away in 12's Victor's Village, a place where all the victors of each district live in lavish mansions with infinite rations and basically whatever they want. He was there alone, since 12 has no other victors, drinking his sorrows away.
Well technically District 12 did have another victor before Haymitch but yeah, she was long gone by the time Haymitch won his games and became a mentor
@@bluet. Yes I know and I'm super excited to see it however, while we may not know what happened to Lucy after Snow's gunshot, she is dead by the time of the original trilogy because in the first book during the reaping before Prim gets picked, Katniss talks about how District 12 only has 2 winners and that Haymitch is the only one still alive
I don't think Peeta gets credit for how strong he is. He's not a physical fighter, but emotionally he's incredibly resilient, intelligent, and aware. I think him as the main love interest is a testament to the "female gaze" and the writer being a woman. He represents so many characteristics that women value in a partner. He recognizes Katniss's strengths and capabilities, he is genuinely supportive, he doesn't try to diminish who she is to be dominant (not in private and not when potentially pressured in the public eye), he is an emotional rock, capable of healthy communication even when he's hurting (thank God, because Katniss struggles with this, but I think she grows with him). I think sometimes he diminishes his own value because he's impacted by messages of what he's "supposed" to be, but I also think he knows who he is and stays true to that. Peeta is probably much closer to a healthy woman's ideal man than most movie depictions tend to represent.
I hesitated for a long time before I gave these movies a chance. There were a lot of franchise movies at the time, or I thought it would be just for our tween demo. Worth a watch. For anyone.
I was afraid to watch these movies, too, but because this was the only one of the YA trilogies I could enjoy reading. I was sure they’d spoil good books with bad adaptations. Very happy to say I was wrong.
This is my absolute favorite reaction anyone has ever had to this movie. You paid so much attention to things like scenery, character development, the way certain shots were filmed/directed, etc. Can’t wait to see you react to the final two films!
Why the victory tour? To further rub it in the faces of the Districts that their kids died. To further crush any spark of rebellion by showing off the person who ensured their kids never came home.
Also Peeta painted rue on the floor to show the what these people are really doing and to also remind katniss what they are fighting for Like someone else said Peeta’s mother beats him and puts him down, they hinted and showed a bit of it last movie but it really wasn’t obvious so when Peeta says about how he has no one who needs him and stuff it does feel like out of nowhere
Man I still think Catching Fire is one of the best book-to-movie adaptations. Like I tried to picture how the arena worked in my mind when I was reading the book; the movie did such a perfect depiction that it really made that whole thing clearer to me.
Well, Finnick's role is one he's played for a long time. He acts the way he does so the Capitol won't kill his family and loved ones. Which is also why he sleeps with anyone the Capitol tells him to.
This movie shows what it means to be a victor...and it means trauma and doing what the government wants you to do or you can be messed up. And imagine Hamish's experience as victor. He probably tried training people for real at first and they all died. The PTSD from BEING a victor, including survivor's guilt, then investing kid after kid and seeing them die, he was a broken man with nothing to look forward to except more dead children he couldn't help. The ONE thing that a victor could count on was never having to face the arena again...until...and what are those victors going to do when that ONE thing is taken away... Third movie is worth watching just to close it out. But yes...this was the best of the franchise. And the most horrifying.
I know you said you don't like the idea of allies because it makes the games go by quicker but the games can actually last quite a while. The 74th ( 1st movie ) went for 18 days. I believe the longest game was something just over a month. Also, allies are a pretty vital part of the game depending on your playstyle. Careers ( district 1, 2 & 4. Although they only have 1 and 2 as careers in the movies for whatever reason ) Careers ally almost every game so they can take out the biggest threats and as soon as that's done, whoever wakes up first usually kills everyone. Or you could play the way Johanna played her games ( don't remember which one, I think it was 70th or 71st ) but Johanna played the weak card, showed everyone during training that she sucked so she got a low score so nobody thought she was a threat then just went savage on everyone when the games started.
Johanna was even smarter than that. She didn’t go savage at the start of the games, she played the weakling for all the games then just went savage at the end when everyone else had already mostly killed each other lol
The casting for this franchise was also on point. Everyone was great. Specifically Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair. Exactly as I imagined them in the books!
Actually, in the books Katniss had nightmares every single night about things from the games, the mutts (which had the eyes from the fallen tributes in the books) turning to other people from the game she had killed, coming back killing her, hunting her and worse. Then Peeta was the onluy one who could help her sleep.
In the books it’s heavily implied that at some point during the second games Katniss actually begins to fall for Peeta. So she isn’t acting really anymore.
Most people from don't know how to swim, including Peeta. Also, Peeta is the main person, besides maybe her sister Prim, that literally keeps Katniss "sane". Peeta is the strategic, intelligent, well spoken, charming, master manipulator and observer. They new that Katniss wouldn't have been very able to "sell" herself/image to the Capitol or get her to work with them, without Peeta's calming influence on her and his ability to make her look good and appealing infront of an audience.
Every 25th Hunger Games, to *really* drive home that this is punishment for the Districts rebellion, they add a twist. The 25th Hunger Games, they had to vote on who went to the games. To remind them that they had *chosen* to rebel. The 50th Hunger Games, the one Haymitch won, they took twice as many tributes as usual. To remind the Districts that for every one of them that was killed, two Capitol citizens died.
I think you were joking? But as for why District 11 is mostly/all Black people, canonically I think District 11 is supposed to be the southern part of the US: Georgia, Alabama, Florida, etc. (Also the fascist regime that forces children to murder each other is also a /tiny/ bit racist.) /jk (Also I giggle a little bit every time you call him Peter - his name is Peeta, but Peter is my dad's name lol) Also, that joke about Finnick getting strippers/hookers made my cackle considering his book bg - in the books, after he won his games, (at 14), he was forced into prostitution. I feel like there's a bingo card somewhere of all the different ways a culture can be fucked up, and Panem hits all of them.
That last cannon was Brutus’s cannon, Peeta got mad and killed him after Brutus killed Chaff(the tribute who kissed Katniss) I wish we could’ve saw that!
They discuss Haymitch’s Games and what President Snow does to his family as a result in the books, it’s honestly a crime that they never go into it in the movies
@@andrevaughn6980 if I remember correctly (it’s been a few years since I’ve read the books), Haymitch was the first to understand and utilize the force field to his advantage. There were twice as many tributes in his game but he won because he manipulated the system, and Snow killed his entire family.
