The Hunger Games Reaction 

Actually yeah we do find out exactly how haymitch won his games in the second book but since it's not put in the movie directly I will tell you right now he was 16. It was the second quarter quell in the quarter quell they add a new temporary rule to make it a more entertaining games and when he was there for the 50th they were like let's double the number of kids from each district, two boys and two girls. So he was in there with 47 other kids. He was 16. How he survived was he found the edge of the arena and realized if you drop something over this cliff, at the border of the arena it would bounce back. I believe he found that out with like a pebble or something. Then when it came down to him and the last girl in the arena they both had gaping wounds. She had an eye falling out. He had his guts hanging out and she threw an ax at his head. He dodged it. It flew over his head and out of the arena, then bounced back and hit her in the skull and for taking advantage of that flaw of the arena. They killed his entire family and his girlfriend. He's got PTSD. He drinks all day and sleeps all night with a knife under his pillow

Something that they left out of the movies. Katniss actually ended up with hearing damage from the bomb that she set off at the cornucopia. I haven't read the books in a hot minute, but I'm pretty sure that the Capitol ended up fitting her with a hearing aid after they were retrieved from the arena. Also, Peeta ended up losing his leg from the wound he received.

On the point of “why don’t they just rebel?” If you think about this even in terms of America, people witnessed and participated in horrifying acts against other people for centuries. And to this day police brutality/killings, mass shootings, racial killings, etc. remain a constant way of life. And people simply pull out their cell phones and watch and feel they have no power to stop it and when they do try, and they go protest those protest end exactly like how we saw in 11 with more police brutality, arrests, etc. with no change. So in a real-world country where stuff like this (and worse) happens every day and nobody’s doing anything about it, it’s hard to critique a fantasy land where it happens to 24 people a year, kids or not.

One thing you said is you didn't like how the other characters seem to enjoy killing. They probably don't explain it well in the movie but many of the more well off districts actually train some of their children to compete in the games. So they are pretty much raised to eventually volunteer and have the honor of representing their district. It's messed up. So that's why some of them seem to be way more comfortable with the whole thing from the start.

The lottery system isn't described that good in the movies, so it is a bit confusing. If I'm remembering it correctly, when you turn 12 you can be reaped for the games. You start off with one name in the glass and each year one get's added (13=2×, 14=3×, etc.). So at age 18 (the oldest you can be reaped) technically your name would be seven times in there. The outer districts are very poor so you can "freely" add in your name more times in exchange for wheat, lantern oil and other supplys. That's why Gales name is in there so much. He has younger siblings and is feeding his family. In the books it is described that he doesn't want his siblings to buy food and to put their name in more often than necessary so he does it all. Hope that helps! I really love your videos ♡

I feel like the reason the countdown is like a minute is to give the kids a chance to look around the arena and get a plan together of where the hell they're going to go and to tempt them letting them see the weapons in the cornucopia. But yeah that's why you're not allowed to move for a minute because if you get off of the platform before the minute is up, that's cheating. And the f****** thing will blow up when they set up those bombs around the cornucopia to protect their food. Yeah, that's where those bombs came from

This form of entertainment has been tolerated for centuries. Gladiator games and entertainment where people would fight to the death is a part of human history

There generally isn’t as much care between tributes from the different districts as Katniss showed for Rue. It showed the people that the other districts are just like them and are willing to fight for each other. Shown to them by children. Technically, Katniss is still a child in this.

Haymitch trauma, besides just having been in the games, is that he, as the lone district 12 winner, gets dragged out every year forced to mentor children that will die. He has no choice there so for about 25 years he's done nothing else but drink and watch kids die that are technically "in his responsibility", with no amount of effort on his part making a difference. A single fuck left in the guy is more than you would expect at this point. As for the tributes that are portrayed as "psycho-killers", it's mentioned in passing in the movie but is kinda a really relevant plotpoint that the first couple districts (particularly 1 and 2) are actually quite rich because of their economies. So they have volunteers on the regular, who are literally raised and trained to win the games (like authoritarian states tend to raise olympic athletes). These districts are fairly capital loyal because these academy alumni mean the actual kids in those districts are pretty much "save" since there is always a volunteer pair that is, yeah, pretty much a psycho killer that spent years training to kill other kids.

"We will not be overlooked." "You might get overcooked, though." LMAO

Hey Tavare, great reaction. I don't know if anyone has already told u about why they had the Hunger Games in the 1st place. Panem was once America. It ended up being bombarded by natural disasters, over population & famine. After the chaos of that time, the country was divided into 13 Districts & the Capitol, which provided a form of government. Each District provided goods or services ie. Katniss & Peeta's District 12 provides coal, Rue's District 11 is agriculture, & so on, most of which was going to the Capitol. The government that was suppose to be looking out for its people was not. The people felt as though they were being exploited & many were still starving.Seeing the Capitol getting fat & rich off them, they did rebel with a push from District 13. The biggest threat to the Capitol during The Great Rebellion was District 13. The Capitol annihilated that district & squashed the rebellion. As punishment, each District had to offer up one male & one female child to the Hunger Games. Katniss & Peeta's Hunger Games was the 74th. Haymitch's (Woody Harrelson- I noticed u were struggling to get his name.) Hunger Games was the 50th. The Capitol decided that for every 25yrs they would do something special to keep people watching. O, & just so u know they change the arena. Katniss lucked out that it happened to be a forest setting. She was afraid it was going to be a desert,cityscape or some other place she wasn't familiar with. Rue was w/Katniss longer in the book than in.the movie. The Hunger Games usually lasted for weeks. Rue knew how to treat Katniss's TrackerJacker stings because her mom taught her out of necessity. In District 11, there are a lot of TrackerJacker nests in the trees. People would get stung often. In the book, after Rue dies, her District sponsors Katniss w/fresh bread as a thank you for showing Rue love & respect while she was dying & looking out for her as long as she could. Fresh bread was expensive so it was hard to come by, especially the outer Districts. They usually got something akin to hard tack or as I like to call it "hockey puck" bread, plus a part of the rations they were given "flour" that they doubted was actual flour. O, & those gnarly dogs that corner Katniss, Peeta & Kato on top of the Cornucopia, they r even more disturbing in the book. The fallen contestants were genetically engineered into strange werewolf looking creatures, known as MUTTS, but still had their human eyes. Katniss was afraid that they did that to Rue, & did not want to see her eyes looking back @her thru the creature's grotesque face. Peeta really does have feelings for Katniss, but Katniss is unsure about her feelings for him. She plays into the romance angle to survive the game, & convinces herself Peeta is doing the same thing. In the book, she doesn't even know how she feels about Gale (her best friend & hunting buddy) either, but like Peeta, Gale does have feelings for her. I don't know if u get that hunting in the woods is suppose to be illegal, but the Peace Keepers (militia cops) turn a blind eye as long as they get 1st pick of whatever they hunt. & yes, that fence is suppose to be electrified, but the Capitol began to neglect sending electricity to the outer Districts, except for the day of The Reaping, & I think during the Hunger Games. I hope I have explained a few things. I might be slightly off about the creation of the Hunger Games, but that's what I remember from the book. Anyway, as I said, another great reaction. See u on the next movie reaction.😊

They don’t explain much besides maybe a single throw away comment from Effie but the reason it seems like a few of them enjoy it is because they kind of do enjoy it. There are 13 districts. In order, the closest numbers like 1,2, and I think 3’s are better off districts because they’re closer to the capital and live a much better quality of life. The lower the district the lower the standard of living. Also, the wealthier districts have expensive special “fighting academies” for kids to train their whole lives to practically guarantee the wins. That’s why they’re so brutal and eager as apposed to others.

The reason Katniss blew up the supplies from the district 1 and 2 contestants is because they didn't know how to hunt their own food because although they were trained in battle they didn't have to know how to hunt. Also the sponsors would send them food if they needed it because they tended to win. Katniss didn't need the supplies because she could survive on her hunting skills.

If you liked this movie, you'll LOVE the second one. Gives much more context to the world and its crazy politics. Can't wait to see the next one!

The “oh that’s DEEP Oh Okaaay………….. ……. ….”🥴 part SENT ME 😂😂

Catching Fire is a vast improvement over the first one! I think it's the best of the entire series. You should definitely give it a watch. :)

You get your name put in according to your age, and the entries accumulate (12-year-olds get their names put in once, 13-year-olds: twice, all the way up to 18-year-olds who will have their names in seven times.) Any additional entries are based on a person taking out Tesserae which also accumulates (Tesserae is credit for a year's worth of Government rationed oil and grain for a single person. Katniss took out three Tesserae in her own name for herself, Prim, and her mother starting when she was twelve, so by the time she was sixteen, her name was in there twenty times; five times for her age, and fifteen for the three Tesserae she took out every year.)

"This game would not continue... especially when they're losing children." Right? For example, just imagine if children were being slaughtered in their schools by crazy people with semi-automatic weapons. I mean, nobody would stand for that. Something would have to be done about it, right? ... right?

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes comes out in November, a prequel.

I applaud your consistency king also the second movie tops the first one by far! It's a lot of people's favorite, including mine! A good watch if you continue the series

Ooh hell yeah Hunger games. I feel the flashback with the bread isnt really made clear what happens in the movie. But in the books we go into a wee bit more detail, so as a start Peta is from the merchant families (opposed to the miners like Katniss) and while they by no means are well off, they are still a bit better then minors. And in the scene he actually saw her starving and intentionally burnt some bread (his family works a bakery BTW) and he was sent to throw it to the pigs but threw it at Katniss potentially saving her life.

If I remember correctly, Peeta was already awake and away from the group but keeping a close watch.

omg yesss! i just rewatched this myself 😊 peeta used to decorate these extravagant cakes and pastries for the capitol, so, he’s super artistically talented! hope you enjoy this movie series 🧡

knowing that big ass needle was coming after you being so happy they didnt show it felt very devious

Something about katniss that's never really looked into in the movies. It's kind of implied but never really set out loud. It's just suggested she has love for Gail as a friend. He has romantic feelings for her same thing with pita. She didn't really know Peta until they were in there with him, but she does love him. As a friend she's been saying her entire life that since she's grown up in the hunger games and in poverty that she would never have kids, she would never bother dating because she doesn't want to get married and make more kids to live a life of suffering and to risk them going into the hunger games

Great job on this movie. You pieced together your reaction so well for us. Thank you!

Oh hell yes! Didn’t realize you’d never seen these! This is gonna be fun

I just love how adamant Haymitch was that Peeta and Katniss be likeable so that they could get sponsors, and after the both of them did so well with their interviews and their ratings, they go on to have like, zero sponsors (until Haymitch shmoozes some Capitol citizens later on on their behalf, and then they get _one_ gift). Ouch.

Immediately distracted by that shirt being a modern version of “I made you a cookie but I eated it”.

It's like back during the Roman rule and the gladiators. People watched it real life and cheered.

"I don't have to see the needle 🕺🏻🎶" *Two seconds later* "EUGAHEUGAHAUH"

Exactly what I didn’t even know I needed this morning 🎉

so Katniss was taught to hunt and carve a bow by her father when she was younger. All men after they reach the reach the age of 19 and are no longer reaping age (12-18) are automatically put into work at the coal mine (unless the family owns a business like Peeta’s family owning a bakery, peacekeepers mainly buy from them and district 12 civilians trade with them). Anyways when Katniss’ father died in a accident in the coal mine, her mother mentally shut down and didnt work so katniss, primrose and their mother were starving. Peeta purposely burnt bread for her when he noticed her in the rain an inch from death, got beat by his father and his parent told him to throw the bread to their pigs. Peeta secretly threw the burnt bread to her, and she regained the strength to go out and find her bow and start providing for her family by selling and trading her hunted prey at the market to other civilians and peacekeepers. The peacekeepers as a result dont turn on the electric fence so civilians can hunt cause they arent that well off either since district 12 is usually forgotten. Also sending items into the game is really expensive especially as the game gets closer to the finale, so like katniss’ salve for her burn wound would be remarkably cheaper than the soup she shared with peeta later on.

If you want more of an understanding on how the games to be I recommend A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it has more info about it, and it's even from a young Snow's perspective (The president in this film) right now Ballad is only a book, but the film is set to release this November.. 14th I believe.

Great reaction! 😊 I'm so excited that you're starting on this movie series next. It's my second favorite from book to movie adaptation series next to "The Maze Runner" trilogy. And I was just thinking about re-reading this series. LOL! If you've read the books, there are some noticeable differences between the two. 28:25 - 29:11 RIP sweet Rue!!! 😢 Rue's death always gets to me no matter how many times I've watched this movie. The next movie in the series, "Catching Fire", is my absolute favorite of the movies and the books. Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊

About the backstory of this society's leaders, an official trailer for a spin off just came out. Probably wait until you're done with these four movies before watching it though. The books do add a lot of backstory, too.

Left out of the movies, the hounds at the movies are actually gen-mods of the other tributes, Rue included. In the books, Katniss sees it in the one hound's eyes, just for that extra level of horror show, the Capitol turned them all into monsters.

By the way, the reason Peter's mom was like 12 might finally have a winter but not talking about him. It's because not only does the winner get a lot of money and a nice house. And a good part is the district and basically a life of relative luxury. Almost to scale with the capital but they're entire. District is given extra food for the entire year. They're given a lot of gifts from the capital for just being part of the district that sent the winner, but there's a lot of dark stuff that happens once you win and it's not just that you have to be mentally tortured by getting to know these kids to send them to their death. That's the least of Victor's worries after winning it's just straight up traumatic trust me bro. When you watch the rest of the series you will get what I'm saying. Trust me your heart can't take this series

Just a comment to help you. Gale is not her boyfriend. She had been friends with him for a couple years, and they learned to hunt together and they split the food and money to take care of both families. Regarding the children who were "enjoying" killing. Those districts teach the kids from a very very young age to fight. They force them to watch propaganda and therefore want to bring "Pride" to their district by winning. The first 2 districts are very very much like the capitol with wealth but the difference is they are forced to play the games, but the first 2 districts don't see it that way, they see it as volunteering for recognition, fame, and freedom to visit the capitol and to become rich. The other districts just want money to survive.Oh and about the playing up for the cameras. For Katniss the kisses were for the cameras, but the things she said, and the fear that she had when she thought Peeta had died were real. She doesn't know what to do with her feelings. Peeta has loved her for a long long time, while Katniss has only had admiration and care that he gave her bread when her and her family hadn't eaten in days. She is NOT used to affection. The only thing in her life has been survival.

"That is sick!" Now your getting it 😬😊

in the book Peeta is also the reason why Katniss is that love tho like Haymitch say he made her look desirable

I’ve had the strangest urge to rewatch this movie lately, what a coincidence! Can’t wait to see your reaction. As someone who didn’t read the books, the first one is really well crafted, the sequel is good but just doesn’t hit the same mark, and I wasn’t a fan of the last two! Maybe I was missing context from the books, but that first one is really something special

Everything before and leading up to these 74th games was interesting. The districts were made to fear rebellion so much because (like they alluded to in the video at the reaping), the last time they did, District 13 was completely destroyed. Most of the districts are poor with very little means to communicate and coordinate an attack with each other being so spread out. They are made to hate each other in the Games, especially in the Career Districts (those who likely the most resources and could potentially coordinate and lead) but instead are made to see each other as kill and game for sport and glory. So instead of showing a united front to stop the Games, they buy into the propaganda and aim to win the Games individually to buy their freedom instead. Adults will not be reaped into the games so if you are lucky enough not to get picked before you turn 18, you are technically free from that fear, just poor living conditions and heavy labor. I cant remember if they say so in the books but parents may be incentivized to have children for better chances of survival, also Im sure you are also hoping life will be better by the time your children get of age. It is horrible but people have no hope and in their eyes, it was better to sacrifice 2 children a year than to be completely eliminated like District 13. Haymitch has lost everyone he loved because of how he won his Games and had to watch approx. 46 other people from his District killed. By the time he gets to Peeta and Katniss he assumes they will die as well. But they are the best candidates he has had in a long time. Unlike most of District 12 they are not starving and weak since Peeta works in a bakery and Katniss illegally hunts for food in the woods. Katniss is kinda like a career since she is skilled in fighting before she gets to the Games. Although not skilled in fighting, Peeta is physically strong, is very likeable and has fantastic people skills. He understands people so well, he can maneuver through and convince people very easily. You see this when he convinces Haymitch to train him, wins over the capitol in the train and interviews and how he convinces the Careers to take him on as part of their alliance, when really his motives should have been obvious. Katniss befriending Rue and showing genuine sorrow and empathy at her death is a rare show of compassion in the Games, same with a love story. Im sure people were not seeing that the previous 73 years and now there was enough discontent that despite their lack of resources, District 11 finally had enough

Oh my god I just saw your shirt HAHA! Did you wear that specifically to watch this? So clever 😅

Yeah, this movie and series can be a lot at times but it serves as a really good warning about desensitizing a nation. I must have seen Rue's demise 100 times (so many reactions to this series), but I still cry every single time. So rough

Loved this reaction so much, i was laughing and cringing together with you😂 can't wait for the next one!

Side note, I hope you had a good mother's Day. I actually was planning on wearing the shirt yesterday. I put her on and then I was like. Nope! I'm doing my cat mom shirt today

I got to say it was such a mist opportunity. Having katniss be the girl on fire and not using the f****** song this girl is on fiiiiiiiiire!

Finally you watch the hunger games!! This is so exciting, love your channel ❤️

The Capitol's enjoyment in the Hunger Games is an evolved sentiment that came from a gradual desensitization of death/execution, extreme alienating societal disparities, as well as post-war spite masked as a necessary cultural ceremony to help regulate their 'functioning' society. Besides the entertaining spectacle of the games being glossed up by the game-makers, Panem is largely a post-apocalyptic country that evolved from the ashes of a series of natural disasters and wars that left the human population on earth sparse and overly accustomed to dog-eat-dog survival tactics, as well as the very real understanding of human induced self- devastation. Collins' largest theme in the books relates to famous theories on the political nature of humanity's social nature, and how it should function so as to maintain the human species, but also live happily/freely together. In this series, you'll see that most of the antagonists live out the more pessimistic Thomas Hobbes esque philosophy (man is selfish and power-seeking in nature and is constantly at war with one another) Whereas you'll have other characters like Katniss or Peeta who naturally live out the more grey, or realistically neutral, philosophy like that of Jean Jaques Rousseau ("Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" i.e. We're born with a blank slate and the freedom to choose, though the world ultimately makes its impressions and influences on us). The people in the Capitol have not only become desensitized to the sadistic suffering, but also likely justify it on a macro-ethical scale. Snow's character embodies this type of justified evil, because he believes the regular ceremonial sacrifice of a few is necessary for society to remember its innate evil, and avoid it as such so as not to fall into ruin. Obviously we know this is BS because it's just a sophisticated reasoning to maintain those at the top of society at the top, and keep those in the fringes of society at the bottom. Thanks for reading, I love this series a little too much haha. Good reaction video!

Found your channel today, enjoying the reactions. A few recommendations in no particular order: Galaxy Quest (1999) Primer (2004) Colossus:The Forbin Project (1970) Battle Royal (2000)* Seven Samurai (1954)* The Goonies (1985) The Thing (1982) Office Space (1999) Event Horizon (1997) Super Mario Bros. (1993) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) *with subtitles I think those are excellent to react to if you haven’t seen them, they’re all fun movies with their own quirks. Thanks for the reactions!

Tbf the careers were taught to enjoy it and revel in it. They wouldn't be able to function in the games if they felt bad for the tributes from the other districts.

"Wait how do they get entered?" Movie intro: am i joke to you😢

Thank u for reacting to this. There is 3 more movie for this series

actually no for Peeta make up skills when you bake and do cake and decorate it if you really good you can make things that are pretty amazing

unfortunately an uprising would be basically futile. the reason it hasnt happened yet isnt because most people like the games, its because most of the rich people like the games. this series was created to mirror the injustice in society and how easily it can spiral out of control. without the manpower and resources that the capitol has the lower districts are effectively powerless

I will tell you hun that catching fire. The second movie is a lot more fun than this one. The third book in the series Mockingjay with split into two movies and they are a completely different vibe from the first two and I would recommend a box of tissues for when watching those. Just trust me okay bud Also, I've read the prequel book. The movie is coming out later this year please for the love of God watch that too. It shows basically how a president snow went from a halfway's decent 16-year-old to the monster. He is today cuz as a kid he was actually a decent guy. The tributes were treated so much worse. Back then they were put in a cattle car taken away from their districts like the Jews of the Holocaust and they were dumped in the capital in the goddamn monkey cage I should you not until it was time to fight to the death He's the reason former victors are now forced to be mentors because that gives your people a little something, a little somebody to give them advice and help them get gifts and that was also his idea. There was a lot of things about better in the lives of the tributes that was on him and it's because of a relationship he had in that book. But it also shows when you scorn him. That's how he becomes the monster he is today

Loved your reaction. Plan on watching the sequels? Hugs from Brasil 👍🏻👍🏻

Love your shirt! ✌️

Been waiting for this one 🥳🥳 Also more than half of these comments are the same person lmao

The problem hun is that if katniss is hiding too far away from the other tributes then she's really not in the game proper. So it would be kind of like cheating to them. And you know at least not proper sportsmanship or whatever so they got to make it interesting. They got to force her to be closer to the other contestants so there can be some more and not me. Just leaving on a walk. Still listening to your video last week. I did like 80 km walking around. Basically the neighborhood throughout the week. Right now I'm going to the nearby Dollar tree makes me wonder exactly how large some of these arenas really are. This is so much larger than a typical sports arena. I imagine it's like I don't know what the size of a central park, maybe bigger

Did you post Pride and Prejudice already? I got so excited when you mentioned it, but I couldn’t find it on your channel

They are enjoying the killing because that’s what they have been trained for their whole lives and they were told to win (in district 1 and 2). It’s extremely fucked up. They were also manipulated and conditioned so the games would be more entertaining. If none of the kids knew how to fight, there wouldn’t be a „good“ hunger games…

Yessss love these movies and books so much. Great read, pretty easy too, about 400 pages each I think. Some really good stuff in them, I especially love all the political details in the books that didn't make it into the films.

I feel like this was from the other account cuz I swear I remember you reacting to this. Am I just stupid or what? Side note, I'm also rocking a turtle shirt today and navy blue one that has orange kitty in Venn diagram that says anxious on one side. sarcastic on the other me in the middle

This won't be the last of the Pride and Prejudice characters you'll be seeing! lol Watch Catching Fire and hopefully you'll know.

These chick book hero movies are a guilty pleasure of mine. Can you imagine if Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Twilight, Divergent were done as Rated R? Golden opportunity past by.

Firstly, I love your Son Oh Gong plushie! I have one too. Secondly, the Hunger Games wouldn't last that long irl? Um, have you watched the nightly news lately? America is the Hunger Games. At least in this dystopian future, only two kids (ages 12-18) get reaped once a year. Here we get 6 five-year-olds killed one day, 2 sisters and one 3-year-old killed the next day, and an 18-year-old killed by cops for shooting 3 older women. Today a 9-year-old was killed by her 4-year-old brother. No one in power cares who's getting taken out each day because they're making that sweet sweet NRA money. Seriously, our Hunger Games are much worse we don't even have hope we'll survive going to the mall or church or work or school every day. But hey, May the odds be ever in your favor. Other than that, loved your reaction.

Oh sweetheart, yeah they have to fight because it wouldn't be entertaining if they didn't and also they are left in the arena until there's only one survivor so honey they could be in there for months if they waited for exposure to kill everyone

Great video, Catching Fire tomorrow please

Are you going to react to the other movies?

Please please please watch the other movies they are so good and touch onto a lot of interesting topics

Great trilogy!!!!!!

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Love your content and I really hope you go back to game of thrones.

PLEASE WATCH CATCHING FIRE

You now have to continue watching the trilogy

Call me cynical or jaded but I believe something like this could happen and most people would tolerate it. If you know history, you know that humans are sick creatures.

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Am I a bad person for finding it amusing how squeamish you are, as a person who doesn't mind bugs or gore or needles or anything, it's kinda funny when I see you constantly cringe at it. BTW in the end iirc in the books Cato was being eaten by the hounds over hours before Katniss put him out of his misery (IDK how he didn't die being munched upon by a pack of angry dogs for hours... but yeah)

Dear god you will be so bored from these movies lmao These movies are terrible

the bugs, they are everywhere... know that felling, when seeing it on screen. ❤🧡💛🖤🤎💜💙💚