First Time Watching The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Movie Group Reaction 

After finishing the series, this was definitely my take away. Even though the series was named after them, they were only ever the set up to the issues that followed. I'm glad they split them up in the end. It was needed.

This isn’t entirely true. Even Francis Lawrence said his time limit for completing Mockingjay was too short so to make the best out of the two films was obviously a difficult task for him. I also think another problem was the fact Divergent and Maze runner movies came in and they all end with a cliche “overthrowing the government story” so of course people would feel a bit less inclined to be excited about it.

Yeah, it's at the end where being in Katniss' head is most important, and you get that in the books. I think Mockingjay still did a great job. I love the whole series.

I think the reason why most people canned the third one is because they were still reeling from the games itself. And with that I’ll not spoil further

@@sortastupid the jaberjays are in all the districts they just recorded them all the time and used what they had

And then, when he came home everyone he cared about (his whole family and I think his girlfriend?) had been killed because he won the games in a way that embarrassed the Game Makers. So… yah, he’s been through it.

@@gracielasea How did Haymitch win again?

He won by abusing the arena, using an abyss that threw whatever you throw into back at you. Tricking the final opponent who was a better fighter to throw an axe into it, and it came out to fly into their head, leaving Haymitch the victor.

@@GMDTurbo btw in the Abbys there is a Force Field a.k.a. The Edge of the Arena, so when you thrown something at a Force Field its bounce back. Just like Peeta when hitting the Force Field.

Wait 50th?! So in this movie, 25 years has passed since he became a winner? Jesus. In what age he did that?

I never read the books and I really liked the last 2, I actually like those 2 the best 😂 I think it's just one of those movies that score badly amongst critics for some reason. I'm genuinely shocked they scored way lower tbh since I thought most people liked them

I do like this one better...book as well. And I was not sure I liked all of what they did (even in the book) with it. Somewhat unconvincing. BUT, I did think it was quality and the internal conflicts, the PTSD, were BRILLIANTLY done. It deserves kudos for that. I admit I do not always watch the reactions to those. It is more of a commitment. But they are very much worthwhile movies. Guess I need to get the prequel. Wasn't expecting it.

I think it has more to do with how good Caching Fire was, it's usually regarded as the best film. So it was a very hard act to follow and many people were left disappointed when it wasn't as strong of a film.

The book fanbase actually like the movie more than the book because in the book the death of Snow was unclear.

Nah because I feel the same way about the last book too. Sure you should read it if you really want to see how the story ends but you can just as well skip it. Katniss is super miserable in the last book/last 2 movies and we lost a lot of the characters a lot of us loved. I don't think it's weird that people seem to enjoy it less than the first 2.

Oops 😂

It was so perfectly wrong it almost felt like a prediction in its own way 😂

bree’s face when he said that 😭

yea splitting it was good, but the book just didnt have enough action in it to satisfy viewers

​​@@dxnes5067 Exactly. It somewhat had too much happening but also not enough happening.

Also, Peeta losing his leg kinda explains why he was such a burden the whole time to everyone else during the games, whereas in the movie he's such a damsel in distress that it becomes annoying to the point that you wish they would just leave him behind.

@@willpina they downplayed Peeta to make Gale look better.

​@@darkwolf1202 and it didn't work for 14 yr old me😆😆🤣🤣🤣

The female victors mentor the female tributes same with the males.

@@anonomas6126 no, they don’t. How Grace explained it is how it is

@@anonomas6126 Mags was Finnicks mentor so that immediately invalidates your statement.

​@@anonomas6126nope.

And work in the sewers basically anything that capital citizens wouldn’t do.

We really enjoyed all of the movies. We didn't understand the hate the last two get.

@@sortastupid Oh, so you've seen them all! yeah, the last two movies got hate because they didn't have any Hunger Games in them and people were expecting a grander finale, like lots of vengeance and satisfaction, but that wasn't the point of the series at all, ya know? It's just unfortunate that people watched those movies and never even tried to understand the point of it. /:

@@SoapyTurtlesYeah, it's kind of scary to see so many people wanting vengeance like certain characters in the books. 😅

Unless there was a quarter quell that had rules of no age limits on tributes. But thankfully, the 75 was the last game.

I think she and Gale did actually enter their names, just not Prim

@@witzitzilin They all have put their names in the reaping pool at least once, otherwise Prim wouldn't have been chosen in the beginning but i'm pretty sure Katniss goes hunting when she can to keep the amount of names of her and Prim as little as possible, to decrease the risk of getting picked. That's why Katniss told Prim, after she got picked, to not go pick up food but ask Gale instead so she wouldn't have to put her name in there again.

@@michellehawk282 Correct on Prim's name, but not on Katniss's name. Katniss is in 20 times, and Gale 42 because Gale has a larger family than Katniss.

In the books Katniss actually does put her name in as many times as she can to help feed her family, but she never lets Prim do it, and when she's off to her first games, she makes Gale promise to help feed them and take up the mantle of preventing Prim from putting her name in more times.

and she was shaking because of trauma, they show it in the first movie because of her husband dying in the coal mines

She is "juiced up." In the books it's explained that she takes a drug called morphling. I'm pretty sure it's a fictional drug that is similar to morphine. She allegedly takes it for headaches, but it's described that she uses it to deal with her grief.

They kind of say that in the movie as well, Haymitch says when introducing finnick that mags is his weakness and that she practically raised him

Omg I was rolling my eyes during that entire segment lol. What a horrible take.

Green is not a creative colour

@@permets2apollox453 📕🔫

In the books beetee explains that they can manipulate audio recordings of people's voices to sound however they want. All they had to do was interview the friends and families then distort the audio into screams.

I don't think it was because she was _a_ pregnant woman so much as she was the Capitol's darling favorite girl. They wanted her and Peeta to get this fairytale happy ending of a life together and a home and children, and it was bad enough the "star-crossed" lovers might be lost, but now the Capitol might lose their kid, too. Remember, they are celebrities now, and just like our own culture, "fans" became obsessed with them and their lives and their families.

Kind of like when people are more upset about abortions that actual living children dying or living in catastrophic social environments

That's accurate and all in the books.

After finishing the series, we don't get it either.

@@sortastupid good to know lol

Mockingjay had its fair share of problems. They split the movie into two parts which is already a bad idea. Sure he might make more money overall but it annoys the fan base, especially those that read the book. If you’re Harry Potter then yeh after 6-7 books sure split the last one into two parts, but the Hunger Games wasn’t that. Second, Francis Lawrence (the director) said his time frame for Completing mockingjay was pretty short meaning mistakes would be made, and corners would be cut. A lot of mockingjay took place in 13 which was miserable and gloomy and a huge contrast to the first two movies. The games - yes no games. Some argue that whoever complains about this didn’t understand the social and political commentary that the story opened up. As somebody who did understand it, mockingjay still felt flat. The two movies especially, and if you consider that the Maze Runner and Divergent movies had started to release; they all end with the cliche “overthrowing the government arc” so it’s the problem of having a very interesting concept and two books full of opportunities for great storytelling, all have to be removed for the sake of the conclusion. Whatever Hunger Games fan that says they didn’t enjoy the games aspect and the entire build up to it is a big fat liar because that’s why they picked up the book to begin with.

Simple: they wanted violence and didn’t like having to think critically / can’t focus on films without keys dangling in their faces the whole time

@@jaysax7381 simply not true. Acting like mockingjay part 1 and 2 were perfect films, even the book got mixed reviews.

Nah he takes poison so people aren't sus of him while he poisons someone else, like "i drank from this so it's safe guys!". He would then take an antidote, but they don't completely work so he got sores in his mouth, and probably lips.

RIP Mags 😭

We didn't see them as disposable teenage films, we're just having fun as friends. We liked the series a lot.

@@sortastupid Oh awesome, good to know! I've seen how invested you guys get with other material (like The Last of Us) and just hoped you weren't cheating yourselves out of fully enjoying these movies. Thanks for the reply! :)

That makes it sound way more intense, I like that

Yeah! The movies aren’t that clear but his family life isn’t great. They didn’t show how bad it was but when Peeta’s mother hit him in the books with the bread they were 11 and his mother didn’t just hit him like how the movies showed, she hit him with a metal kitchen tool and his eye was swelling up. The next day in school Katniss saw he was black and blue. Peeta does have siblings, he has two older brothers so he’s the youngest and Katniss points out how none of his brother’s volunteered for him like how she volunteered for her youngest sister. They just sat there and we know at least one is old enough to volunteer. We know the most about his dad book wise, he’s known to be kind and in the first book after Katniss and Peeta are chosen and they get to say goodbye to their families, Peeta’s dad actually goes to see Katniss after Katniss says goodbye to her mother, prim and then gale. Peeta’s dad is known to be a man of few words so he just sits there and then gives Katniss cookies and promises to make sure that her little sister is fed. It is really nice, but thinking about it… he went to visit the girl who was a ‘rival’ who had a chance of killing his son. We also know from what peeta told us that his father had a huge crush on Katniss’ mother but then she ran away with a ‘coal miner’ which is Katniss dad. So Peeta’s mother wasn’t who his dad loves and I think that put a huge strain in their family dynamic. It’s even more sad for Peeta after they won the first games, Katniss moves into the big victors village house full of support. She lives with there with her mother and Prim and sees Gale’s family a lot, obviously Katniss is still traumatised but she had people to be there for her. Peeta was completely alone, his family didn’t even come to live with him in his huge victors house. He was 16 and was left alone after being traumatised and nearly dying and he even just lost his leg completely and they left him by himself with no help and Katniss doesn’t know what peeta is doing because he seemed to distance himself completely from everything but he’d make bread to drop off to Haymitch and Katniss’ house. Katniss even notes later after the tour when her and Peeta are proper friends again that Peeta quickly goes to visit the bakery to drop something off and she goes with him and his conversation with his dad is very short and awkward. It’s no wonder peeta is so adamant on saving Katniss over himself, yes he has a crush on her and all, however it is true that he knows that her death would matter more to people than him. Her death would be awful on her family and they would struggle to look after themselves, they need her. Whereas with peeta, I’m sure they will still be sad. However they really don’t need him, his death doesn’t affect anyone really and you can tell by the stuff he says that he knows he’s not important to anyone and is never the first choice for people ever. Even with Haymitch being both of their mentors, he also always puts Katniss first, even though Haymitch tells Katniss that he likes Peeta more and how he’s too good for everyone. That was more why he was so wounded at the end of the first games when he found out everything was an act on Katniss side because it was the first time he felt like someone cared and put him first to live but then he found out it was fake and started to wonder if any of how she seemed to care about him was real. Sorry this was long… wow. I wrote a whole essay… oh well.

No, katniss lied about the hearing. She didn't want to reveal the weak spot to the capitol as that would allow them to make the shields better, so she lies and says they make a faint sound.

We thought the movies were awesome. So yes clearly you didn’t watch the video. Have a great day 😁