Watching *THE HUNGER GAMES* For The FIRST TIME Realizing The Odds Are NOT In My Favor.. 

My computer crashed on me the other day. So my uploads might be jacked up this month. Just be patient with me I lost everything 😞 luckily I had this video already uploaded and ready to go. Hit the like for me I need the algorithm love ❤️ Don’t forget to drink water… What movie should I do next? #bingers

Take a sip of water every time Billy calls Katniss "Catalina" , Peeta "David" and Rue "Tatiana" 😂😂😂

Haymitch acts like he does bc year after year since he was a teenager he is in charge of training two kids who have all been killed no matter what he taught them. I’m sure that’ll have some pretty awful affects on your mental health not to mention remembering all the kids you killed yourself when you were literally just trying to survive.

lmao billy's confidence in his wrongness about peeta is hilarious he was never a phony, he played the capitol and played the careers, infiltrated them to help katniss because he loves her, he never betrayed her at all also it wasn't a weird way of showing it... he literally saved her and her family's life which is the most important thing to her and his mom beat him for it

Lmao Peeta is neither a phony nor misunderstood. He’s just genuinely that good of a guy. He teamed up with districts one and two to protect Katniss by leading them on a wild goose chase and keep an eye out for her bc he knew they were specifically hunting her. Believe it or not, there are people who are just genuinely GOOD people. 🙃

Billy’s an outgoing version of (book) Katniss. Doesn’t trust Peeta✔️ Rue = Little Sister ✔️ Insults Career pack and Peeta from the tree ✔️ Focuses on hydration✔️

Movie: Katniss Billy: Katalina Movie: Peeta Billy: David Movie: Rue Billy: Tatiana Throw all their names away at this point 😂

hear me out: Peeta only went with the Career's because he was trying to protect Katniss from them, it's a lot more clearer in the book. Besides, i bet you'll start liking him once u watch Catching Fire.

As someone who read the books, the movies are one of the few adaptions that are legitimately faithful to the source material while also standing completely on its on. Honestly impeccable 👌🏼

Peeta (David) infiltrated the enemy group to lead them away from Katniss (Catalina). When Katniss gets stung and starts hallucinating Peeta saves her by urging her to run away. That’s why Peeta is injured when Katniss finds him, the enemy group was angry at him for letting Katniss get away so they attacked him. It’s actually Katniss who pretends to have feelings for Peeta because the people watching the games enjoy the romance, which equals more sponsors. However, she does actually start to warm up to him.

Billy changing everyone's name lol Peeta ->Peter -> Dave ->David Katniss -> Catalina ->*realizes name ->back to Catalina ->back to Katniss Rue -> baby Tatiana

When Katniss gets chosen, clapping would've meant supporting the Capital's system. Instead, they throw up those hand signs, which are a district 12 sign of respect. They mourn her sacrifice rather than being proud of it.

Billy’s all, “Her name is Katniss?! All this time I’ve been calling her Catalina!?” But in fairness, naming conventions in Panem are like, “Meet my daughters, Stellaria, Purslane, Sorrel, and Amaranth. And my sons, Haystack, Breezy, Gyro, and Beepboop.”

I still think the "dogs" in the game where an absolute let down. In the books, they are described as basically horror reincarnated: with the faces beeing earily close to the faces of the fallen tributes, there fur matching there hair colors, same for there eyes matching the tributes eye colors, and there dog tags featuring the tributes numbers. Basically as if they took the bodys of the dead tributes, and transformed them into horrible dog beasts, putting a great element of psychological trauma behind the impeding doom that there fangs and claws spell. And here in the movie, they just scratched all of that and just made them all look the same. A real shame.

Katniss who? Peeta who? Rue who? Sis I only know Catalina, David, and Baby Tatiana 💅🏽

Peeta: * exists * Billy: David seems suspicious.

I just love how this man find himself so hilarious he out here busting out laughing at his own jokes At this point that right there is my biggest motivation in life 💀

don't think i've ever seen anyone so fundamentally misunderstand the whole thing. kinda impressive.

Billy using the wrong fingers to do the sign made me laugh so hard 🤣

"They better not kill the little girl." Billy, literally every kid MUST die except one for the Games. There is only one winner. Btw, Peeta is being for real. It's Katniss playing the long game.

as a person who was ruthlessly obsessed with the hunger games for the entirety of my preteen and teenage years, it tore my hunger games soul up listening to you call them by the wrong names lmfao

What was so tragic about Prim being selected is she only had her name submitted once. If I remember correctly from the books, 12 year olds have their names in once, 13 year olds twice, 14 year olds three times, and so on. Furthermore, you can request extra entries in exchange for money. So statistically the older tributes should have had more of a chance of being selected than the younger ones because their names are submitted multiple times, versus Prim's once. Prim being selected was such a sucker punch because it was so unlucky. Also, I can't say how many times I have randomly gone back to watch the clip of Katniss volunteering. Jennifer Lawrence killed that scene.

Her dad died in a mine explosion when she was younger and she despises her mom because she went into a terrible depression and basically let katniss and prim starve. That's why she hunts. And she feels indebted to Peeta because he burned bread for her on purpose so he could throw it out to her.

The bread scene didn’t work for me in the film, so I get why you weren’t jiving with it as “Peeta showing he cared”. In the book, they were both 11 (Katniss’ dad had recently died in a mine collapse and her mom had slipped into a catatonic state, leaving Katniss singularly responsible for providing for the family); and Peeta was already sporting a black eye from his mom’s beating him for burning the bottoms of the loaves. He desperately wanted to help Katniss, but he was also terrified of receiving another beating if his mom caught him giving the loaves to Katniss (instead of feeding the pigs as instructed). Fun factoid: he’d actually burned the loaves on purpose to make them unsellable when he saw Katniss in the vicinity. The “townies” (like Peeta’s family) were basically a higher caste than the miner’s families (like Gale and Katniss), and fraternizing was frowned upon. Also, your mistrust of Peeta and his intentions kind of mirrors Katniss’ in the book. She genuinely believed he was out to stab her in the back as well. But he joined the career pack under the guise of helping them find her when his real intent was to throw them off her trail as much as he could.

Peeta is a strategist. He did everything to save her. All of his steps went into this. At the end of the first book, when they're at the show, it shows the retrospective, and you see that his goal has always been to protect her.

I actually don’t like the fact that they cut the scene where Cato begged clove to stay with him and how they promised they were gonna win together. Because although they were brutal, they careers were still children and forced into this situation because of the capitol.

Peeta is actually so in love with Katniss. In the book the explain how he was actually leading the career pack away from katniss the whole time You would know peeta as “David” hahaha

Billy not trusting Peeta and calling him David is freaking gold 😂😂😂

The response to baby Tatiana being killed was the same we all had reading the book and seeing the movie!! For real! I’m dying!

I read the books before the movies came out. They are so much better than the movies, and though the same actions take place they tell a different story/theme. The movies don’t touch on how Peeta was abused by his family, and how emaciated everyone in that district was. Katniss was dying of hunger and Peeta purposefully burned a loaf of bread so he could give it to Katniss, and he got beat for wasting food.

I read these books when I was in 6th grade & they sucked me into a bookworm hole that I’ve never got out of. I’m excited to see you experience this! 😆

Him: her name is Katniss?? What have I been calling her this whole time?? Also him 1 minute later: Catalina 👁👄👁

I love how he’s out for Peeta right from the start and every time it shows him in a caring/ timid light before the games Billy is immediately sus 😂 when he’s genuinely being supportive. Love the reaction this is truly one of my favourite series of all time! 🥰

Fun fact, but those dogs near the end were actually the dead contestants. They mutated them after they died (at least in the books)

Billy giving the finger In the tree is killing me

Yes, I read the books and highly recommend them. The author who wrote them worked on the movies too, but she understands the art of adapting for film and what kinds of changes need to be made to work. The books are Young Adult novels (so, aimed at the 12-18 set) but they don't read like Kiddie books. Good stuff. I do wish there was a little more explanation in the movies though. Katniss's dad was a miner, and he died in a mine cave-in, as did Gale's dad, which is one of the reasons they are so poor. No one clapped when Katniss volunteered because District 12 is one of the poorest districts in the country and their kids are most often killed in the Games since, like the kids from District 11, they tend to be underfed and not well trained to survive in the Games. They don't view the Games as a chance for glory, but rather much more like an execution. It is sheer LUCK that Katniss ends up in these Games, held in a forest setting that is familiar to her (the Games change every year; sometimes it's a desert, sometimes snowy mountains, etc) and that she has been *ILLEGALLY* hunting outside of her District--something she has to do to keep her family fed since her mom sort of shut down after Katniss's dad was killed. Katniss and her family were literally starving when Peeta burnt the bread that he ended up tossing to her. The book is better able to explain that the bread loaves he gave her when she was 14 or so kept her family alive for a few more days while she figured out how to get outside the District and trap/hunt small animals for meat. You get a much better understanding of just how desperate things are for the Everdeens in the books and a better understanding for how and why Katniss became such a survivor at such a young age.

Starts calling Katniss "Katalina" Continues to call her that through the whole reaction Finally clicks that her name is Katniss Can't remember what he was calling her before he realized her real name was Katniss Immediately goes right back to calling her Katalina

Anybody mention that the actor that plays gale is thor’s brother in real life? Also, next movie should be the next hunger games movie - catching fire. The best of this series in my opinion. Books were amazing. I binged the trilogy in less than 2 days. Luckily i was on vacation so i was able to drop everything and put it all into these books. They are amazing.

“Not baby Tatiana! Not baby Tatiana!!!” - Billy an intellectual 😭😭😂

Sometimes I really forget how in the books they make the wolves at the end look like all the dead tributes and how they attack Cato and he gets basically eaten alive and torn to shreds for hours until Katniss shoots him in the head. Like Suzanne really had us reading that in sixth grade. No wonder we’re all so messed up lol.

Billy’s concern for Rue aka Tatiana is EVERYTHING!!!

I laughed so hard when the little shot of The Neverending Story dragon popped up. 🤣

WHAAAAT?! I'm surprised you haven't seen this yet. The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner are the two YA(young adult) sci-fi book series adaptations that I really enjoyed. They did things right with real emotional depth and quality casts that bring their A-game. I hope you check out The Maze Runner as well. It's not as Great as Hunger Games but still a quality trilogy. Other YA sci-fi adaptations tend to fall into cheesy CW style cliche's, one dimensional characters, and cringe-worthy acting. But not these ones.

Katniss throwing a beautiful burial for Rue always gets me 🥺

It’s the fact that they CONSTANTLY say these characters names and my boy is still just making up his own haha 😂

Sir that live action baboon is a Hemsworth and his god-like beauty shall be respected 🤣🤣🤣

I literally would die the first minute, Katniss is a beast and in the second movie is more unbelievable

No one is okay with Rue's death. It gets me every time I watch this and I've watched this movie many times.

Here's a direct quote from the book about the "three finger gesture": "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love."

I think this is one of the book adaptations that was done well, I've finished reading the whole series in 24 hours and while of course it's better because it's much more detailed, the movie was still enjoyable. It might be a spoiler not sure ...but I liked that the books actually showed what all of this did to the hero's mental health.

Books > movies, you get to know about a lot of things. eg the three fingers - its a funeral rite, they're basically just going 'you dead but we respect you'

And, according to the books, the higher your score, the more likely you will be an immediate target. That's why they wanted to find her so bad, she outscored them with that 11. Just put a huge target on her back because she shot an arrow at their heads.

26:27 yes, DAVID is so misunderstood - by you 🤣 As a #teamPeeta member it hurts me. But its also hilarious to watch xD All he did he was caring and smart. He made a deal with the bad guys, but only to find her quicker, to be sure they dont kill her. And then he helped her as much as he could. He did loved her. Remember how excited she was for the little piece of bread at the beggining? How valuable the bread is? And he purposely burned the bread, got beaten by his mother, only to help Katniss and to toss her two breads for free, so she and her family wouldnt starve :(

He is out here calling rue baby tatiana 😂😂😂😂😂

The way you were so wrong about Peeta/“David.” 😭 By the end nobody could reasonably argue that he was a “phony,” or even “misunderstood.” Like everyone else in these games, he did what he had to do to survive, and the fact that he yelled for Katniss to run after the tracker jacket attack on the Careers is literal proof that he was trying to protect her from them. Hence how he ended up with a cut to his leg while she got away; I may be biased cause I read the books. But everyone felt this way about him cause they were reading from Katniss’ point of view, only we’re able to admit when we’re wrong about him cause we’ve been shown the whole story. The whole point was that she wouldn’t BE likable if she didn’t get on board with the romanticized showmance they were supporting. That’s why it was for real for him but just a strategy to survive for her

Honestly this movie isn't 100% true to the book, but no adaptation really is but it's actually one of the best adaptations that stays true to the books. It leaves a lot of detail out but overall it's true to the books. Peeta will win you over by the end I'm sure. Now I can't wait for Catching Fire, it's the most loved movie by the fandom and honestly I agree it's my favorite of the series and I can't wait to see your reactions to the new characters, especially my favorite character.

I wrote a paper in a college writing class about how our obsession with reality television is bringing us closer to the books becoming reality, I got an A.

#bingers Harry Potter Series, The Mummy series from the 90s and the original Jurassic Park movies 🎥 Love your reactions! Thank you so much for all the awesome content!

In the books Katniss actually did that to Rue to show that Peeta’s words on the roof of the Trainer Center were not just words anymore and it basically would’ve been much more meaningful if they included Katniss’ thoughts in the book

Jennifer (Katniss) actually went deaf from the planes going off near her ear apparently it ruptured her eardrum and in the 2nd movie when they were in the water arena the lady who played Mags (Lynn) was exempt from doing her scenes in the water Jennifer (Katniss) felt horrible about pushing the old lady in the water but she thought it hilarious

“Catalina” and throwing gang sings! I AM WHEEZING, I literally can’t! 🤣😂 I read all the book, as always the movies aren’t as good as the books but it’s a good adaptation. There are parts of the book I wish they had included. Looking forward to seeing you react to the rest of the movies 😊

Catalina, David, baby Tatiana, healthy Aaron Carter 🤦🏾‍♀️😂🤣 Billy, you always have me in tears💀💀. Funny AF.👏

the sign they did with their hands at the begining when katniss voluntered is a great sign of respect and admiration, kind of like saying goodbye to someone you love.

The hunger games the true hero is Peta even if he is useless he definitely the true hero the one who sets up Katniss to be the “Real Hero” and we will definitely see this later on. Saving her in lil ways and making her seem like she’s the hero but in reality she’s just strong and very stubborn.

Fun fact: Gail is Thor brother in real life lol

Catalina, David, Tatiana.... I cant with you 🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you decide to keep watching these, please continue to call them David and Catalina I am living for it

The three finger up symbol you see when katniss is presented as tribute means respect in funeral terms

Peeta (aka David) legit had a crush on her. He was always trying to save her, hence why he told her to run after the bee (Tracker Jacker) incident. Katniss doesn't like Peeta originally, but warms up to him when she has to go through all the mental breakdowns from the games etc and he understands it too. Peeta, Katniss and Haymitch are the only ones atm in District 12 who know the horror of the games and what comes from surviving them.

Billy where do you get your shirts from? A lot of them make me feel so nostalgic. The racism against Rue (baby Tatiana) was so crazy when this came out. And what made it even dumber is that her character in the book was black.

Fun fact:I’m the books they describe everything from Katniss’ perspective so at first Peeta was the villain and then he turned into a good guy who genuinely loved Katniss

Billy not understanding peeta’s true intentions 🌚 literally in love with katniss and willing to do anything to save her hahaha 🤦🏽‍♀️ calling him a phony 😂

To answer some questions Billy, Katniss can hunt and inherited her gear from her dad who taught her. Her dad died working in the mines, there was an explosion.

If there’s one thing I’ve realized about billy after this video is that he never remembers anybody’s names. Went from Catalina to Peter, David and baby Tatiana 😂😂 Anyways glad you were finally able to react to hunger games loved it!

Me: has read this book and seen this movie and knows all the correct names of the characters Also me: BABY TATIANA NOOOOOOO

Him mentioning how young you have to participate in the hunger game but then assumes Katniss’ dad died in the hunger game 🤣

LOL @ Billy calling them every name in the world EXCEPT the ones their mamas named them 🤣

This is one of those situations where yes the books are probably better but the movies are so good that I’ve never gone back to re read the books.

Yay! I’m excited that you watched this and plan on continuing. I’m sad I missed the premiere! Maybe I’ll catch the next one though.

Billy: "You go hydrate!" Me: "If you drink too much water you can die and/or become intoxicated." Billy: "Yes, but you don't drink enough water as is!" Me: "...did...are you a part of the CIA? How you calling me out when you don't know me?!?...even if it is true, How Dare you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💕"

I did read these books and as far as I’m concerned this is the best book to movie translation I’ve ever seen.

The second one is my favorite, I can't waitttttttt. This is my fave book series.

Lol your so determined to hate poor Peeta (David). When he is a sweetheart who only wants to make sure Katnis (Catalina) survives. He know he isn't a warrior but is doing his best to help. I can't wait to see you watch the next movie.

I just knew Rue would capture your heart and then you would be DESTROYED twice over. The power of cuteness combined with the power of being done wrong.

Watched this for the first time yesterday, knowing you were doing a commentary today . 🤣 I loved it don't know why I never had any interest in watching the Hunger games trilogy before. So thankyou Billy . I am hooked and I know your reaction is going to be great because it is a combination of action and a woman . Two of yourur favourite things

The books are so much better than the films. Can't think of any adaptations off the top of my head that are better than books. I remember downloading this as I was on the final chapter of the book (shout out to limewire) and thinking how awful it was when I watched it. There are so many things left out that I didn't understand how anyone could get the full picture. The books were from Katniss' pov, which I felt made it much more digestible and understandable. All of that said, last year I listened to the audiobooks and realized that the books aren't as great a I remembered, haha.

"Catalina" is pretty cool and "David" has a good heart but what exactly did he do for "Catalina"? All I remember is him causing her problems and almost costing her her life and starting a war.

The ending in the book is actually a lot darker. The dogs (mutts) were actually made to look like the killed tributes (including Rue/Tatiana), giving them the same colored eyes, hair, and collars that had their district number on it. Cato is not killed immediately. He is being eaten alive by the mutts all night until Katniss shoots him in the morning. Peeta nearly dies from blood poisoning after being stabbed by Cato, and after they get out, he has to be revived a couple of times and gets his leg amputated. In Catching Fire, it is noted that while in the arena, he is a lot slower and trips a lot because of his prosthetic leg. I wish they would have included that detail.

the second movie catching fire is my favorite one-in the movies and the books. it’s the best one honestly. it takes the concept in the first one and twists it in such an interesting and new way and characters i love get introduced

Catalina and Peter… I can’t 😂 Anyways please do Prince of Egypt #bingers

honestly I thought you were calling katniss the wrong name on purpose lmfaooo I died when you realized you messed up😭😭

This was such a great commentary 😂. The hunger games is one of my favourite movies and this had me laughing the whole time. I look forward to watching your commentaries on the rest of the series!

3 fingers means respect admiration and goodbye to someone you love thats only told in the books not in the movies And her mockingbird pin was supposed to be given to her by a friend

Billy: Have I been calling her the wrong name this whole time?!? Me: Yes and it was killing me.

I was SO excited to watch this video because 1. I absolutely loved the books and movies when I was younger 2. I was looking forward to the takes you’d have going into the movies with no knowledge of the series (considering most of it’s watchers at the time were fans of the books) I think one of the things I love most about your videos is that you often go into the movies knowing little yet are ready and open for whatever comes, making it really fun and interesting to watch also you’re hilarious 😂

Literally one of my absolute favorite series!! Can’t wait to see you react to the others!

Sometimes I wish I could be watching this with Billy so I could explain things for him.....like the reason the fence isn't working, what happened to the girls' dad.... And just other things because those that read the book know that they left out a bunch of crucial information

You kept calling her Catalina and I was like..am I tripping?? u forgetting names hella quick is one of the funniest things😂😂

I’m so sad I missed the premiere! This is one of my favorite series. Glad you watched it! Awesome video 💙 hope you can recover some of the footage on you computer, if not no worries. We’ll be here ready for the next stuff!

I adore the movies but the books are waaaaaay better and of course explain things better. I love Peeta ❤