EARLY ACCESS: Hunger Games Catching Fire FULL REACTION
Added 2022-07-06 15:45:01 +0000 UTCThe 2nd installment of Hunger Games... what a cliff hanger! lol. Things are picking up on this. Definitely a different vibe from the first and the tension keeps building. We can't until the next one.
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Sarah
2023-10-09 00:02:01 +0000 UTCThe Oak is right to feel gross over the storyline in Hunger Games. I'm pretty sure that Suzanne Collins wanted folks to feel that way. She's said that her aim in writing the books was to explore the effects of war on kids; more to the point, her inspiration for the concept was the Greek myth of youths and maidens being sacrificed to the minotaur, and reality television as modern mass entertainment.
Amy Petty
2023-07-22 20:49:19 +0000 UTCYes, same, arbeit mach frei.
Amy Silknitter
2022-07-24 02:55:20 +0000 UTCJ Law crushed this role
Badd Medicine
2022-07-22 13:55:04 +0000 UTCThe last scene .. watching the emotions of Katniss solely shown on her face without any dialogue. Jennifer Lawrence is an incredible actor.
Lloyd S.
2022-07-22 06:51:20 +0000 UTCThank you, Jack! We really do appreciate the kind words here and the support here on Patreon. Lol... You know, Im not sure if he did? 🤔😂
Badd Medicine
2022-07-21 11:03:56 +0000 UTCJesus, Oak. The guy with the biggest muscles giving me the biggest analysis of the Hunger Games I've ever heard. I know it's not Citizen Kane but you got some insight muscles too, brother. All you guys are good at this and I'm really glad I subscribed. I can't wait to see the rest of these and see where you guys go with movies and shows. Great stuff. Keep it up. Anyone notice Oak didn't give a rating? He was so into the analysis and symbolism that everyone forgot. (Unless I missed it)
Jack Burton
2022-07-21 05:11:14 +0000 UTC😁😁😁
Badd Medicine
2022-07-10 23:28:47 +0000 UTCI CAN'T REMEMBER IF I WATCHED IT OR NOT
Patricia
2022-07-10 18:54:19 +0000 UTCAlso the districts found out about the jabberjays and would say nonsense things or false info. Which would then be repeated to the capital. It made the capital look foolish so they nixed the jabberjays but the jabberjays, as you said, mated with mockingbirds and thrived in the wild. So mockingjays are like a double FU to the capital.
important nobody
2022-07-09 13:07:00 +0000 UTClol
Badd Medicine
2022-07-08 15:07:28 +0000 UTCahhh I don't think I really noticed that.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-08 15:07:22 +0000 UTCLove that Jeffrey Wright is in this. He's a great actor. Yes, Lynn does. I would agree!
Badd Medicine
2022-07-08 15:06:53 +0000 UTCAlso, one of the subtle moments was when Plutarch asked the headquarters to spin the hub. But if you notice, once you see Katniss falls, Plutarch asks his team to stop. When he easily could have kept the hub spinning, so Katniss and others would have drowned.
Ryan Chan
2022-07-07 20:22:01 +0000 UTC13? ..13..yes.... sometimes timing is just perfect lol
Lyonheart86(BryonH)
2022-07-07 20:16:27 +0000 UTCWanted to share that district 3 is the district where there are electronics are made to the capitol. So all the tributes in that district are techies. Hence Bettee (Jeffrey Wright's character) and Wiress know a lot about electrocuting their competition. In the first movie the boy that Cato snapped his neck, was from district 3 and he was the one that actually moved the mines around to surround the supplies. Just wanted to share since the movie didn't really give a clear background to that. Underrated actor/actress, is the Lynn Cohen who played Mags the old lady that sacrificed herself to the fog. Really puts a ton of impact in the few scenes she was in. Actress for Johanna (district axe girl), was really good as well. She was exactly who I imagined the character would be in the book.
Ryan Chan
2022-07-07 20:04:28 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the final 2
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:41:43 +0000 UTCI don't think you're too far off.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:39:27 +0000 UTCAlways very insight! We appreciate that, Andrew. Always keep it coming🤙
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:35:49 +0000 UTCThank you! And thank you the knowledge share on the Mockingjay 🤘
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:32:47 +0000 UTCThank you and thanks for this link. I'll be checking it out today! 😁🤙
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:30:34 +0000 UTCHaha good ol Patreon brought it back
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 19:29:57 +0000 UTCDon't worry Oak, this story is meant to be disturbing with the whole Let's Put Kids To Murder Each Other And View It As Entertainment idea. I personally think that's the main point. I really love the Mockingjay movies, can't wait to see what you'll think! p.s. The new movie coming out tells the story of President Snow and how he got into power
Meeri p
2022-07-07 19:23:50 +0000 UTCOmg my comment had mysteriously disappeared and now it's back!! Whaaat!?
Miss_CJ
2022-07-07 18:14:12 +0000 UTCYes. I love the growth and development. Not forced. Just natural. And Peeta is such a nice kid. You can’t help but root for him.
Nakia Smith
2022-07-07 18:08:46 +0000 UTCThank you and thanks for knowledge drop here🤘🤙
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:59:58 +0000 UTCOk. Good to see that we weren't off there.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:59:17 +0000 UTCGreat call outs here!
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:58:37 +0000 UTCThat's awesome! Let's goooooo
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:58:01 +0000 UTCJ-Law did fantastic. Her facials in this two a very good story. And thanks for the info here too🤙
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:57:41 +0000 UTC😁
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:56:41 +0000 UTCThank you and thanks for the support here! We appreciate it 🤙
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 17:56:14 +0000 UTCJ-Law is fantastic in this series. We are looking forward to the last 2.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 11:21:31 +0000 UTCAwesome reaction!, since I heard you guys question where this all takes place in the world if you watch closely during the first time Katniss looks into the control room on the train where the peacekeeper is working you can see the map of the entire Panem on the monitor, a post apocalyptic North America partly flooded with all the districts listed. Im a sucker for these things and seems like you guys are intrigued by the world as well, catching fire also had me wanting to see the exterior of an arena more so badly haha
omag
2022-07-07 04:35:29 +0000 UTCWanted to share some thoughts last time but I'll share them here now before i watch this reaction (this is my favorite movie of the series) to just thoughts on the premise of the movies compared to stories that have great attrocities in them. Am i understanding right just from commentary that you guys have seen Game of Thrones? In my opinion there is a huge difference in value/values between this and GOT, between the story event of the Hunger Games within the story universe and things in the GOT universe like the red wedding, and why i think, even setting aside the incest and sex gratuitous violence etc of GOT, there's a lot more value in watching/reading The Hunger Games than there is doing GOT, which i have watched and read. Let Me explain how. We all know there's evil and atrocities in the world, this isn't a criticism that GOT isn't all sunshine and daises, just look at what's going on in Ukraine. I'm half Ukrainian, all four of my Mother's grandparent's came here from Ukraine in the Early 1900s, and given our heritage, we knew about their long atrocity filled relationship long before most people. Few people know of the Holodomor, which is when Stalin, a decade before The Holocaust murdered 10 million Ukrainians in A SINGLE YEAR, by intentionally starving them to death. He thought they were too independent and seized their grain to force submission. We know these kinds of evils exist, but we need hope, redemption, etc that GOT doesn't offer, going instead for subverting expectations, because GRRM has a very nihilistic worldview. He questioned whether or not Aragorn in LOTR was really that good a king, because it doesn't say what Aragorn did with all the Orc babies, and did he slaughter all those babies? I recently read a book where this guy and went and interviewed anti-soviet dissidents who were instrumental in toppling communism in Czechoslovakia, and their kids. What they talked about was how important reading Lord of the Rings was to getting through living under communism, because in their own words, "We knew Mordor was real," and i forget exactly how they put it but how they needed stories and characters like Frodo and Sam to encourage and motivate them in their own trying times. I would to an extent characterize The Hunger Games similarly. Even though i would characterize LOTR as a tragedy, especially the ending of the books and similarly the Hunger Games overall (I'm not giving anything away) come back to this comment and save it for after you finish all the movies, you'll see what i mean.
Andrew Hansen
2022-07-07 01:54:33 +0000 UTCBummer! Loved the reaction guys! :D
Miss_CJ
2022-07-07 01:06:23 +0000 UTCHello... We don't delete comments. This has happened before to others where the comments disappear. Not sure why Patreon does that.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-07 00:57:41 +0000 UTCWait, where did my comment go? :( There were no spoiler beyond what you guys already saw...
Miss_CJ
2022-07-07 00:46:12 +0000 UTCWhen Gale was injured on the table after getting publicly flogged, and Peeta took Katniss' place to watch over him, the comment Answer said made me cackle. It was such a Slytherin thing to say, the nonchalant dark humor lmao. 😂😂😂 I'm glad you guys noticed the growth in Effie's character (Banks). You totally understood what was going on with her. She'd always lived in the Capitol, was raised to praise and ''worship'' the Games. To her, and most of the people living in the Capitol, the Games are just like a reality show, where you can root for a participant and cheer them on. Being the representant for District 12 and the victors, following them around on tour, prepping them, witnessing the uprising and riots with her own eyes instead of on TV; Effie realizes that the things she idealized before are wrong. Happy you guys liked the movie! This one is my favorite one in the series, it just brings so much to the plot. The characters that are introduced are all unique and it's easy to remember them. They all play an important part in the story. EDIT: I forgot to mention! I'm also with you guys when you were saying Katniss had to make a choice between Gale and Peeta. The way I see it with Gale is that she's known him forever, he's her friend, took care of her and her family, there is affection between them but I personally don't think she 'loves' him the way he loves her. Gale is the representation of comfort, he grounds her, he's familiarity, which she clings to whenever she feels lost. While Peeta, she doesn't really know him personally but grows closer to him with time. Grows to truly care for him. They get closer because they are on the same boat, understand what the other is going through, the nightmares. That conversation they had on the beach is one of my favorite scenes. The small attention Peeta does for her (the token being a necklace to hold the pictures for Katniss, the little pearl, the night where he stayed with her when she couldn't sleep), always having her back and caring for her, is what led Katniss to give him a REAL kiss on the beach. If you noticed, the kisses all have different intensity, she is never truly passionate with Gale, they always felt hesitant to me. And yes, she never said she loved him. And yes, I'm team Peeta lmao
Miss_CJ
2022-07-07 00:21:38 +0000 UTCI could be wrong but I always assumed that Beetee’s whole plan about running the wire down to the water was just a distraction to draw attention away from his actual plan. Meaning, his plan never had anything to do with electrocuting the other tributes and was always about breaking down the force field but he couldn’t actually discuss that out in the open because they’re constantly being recorded and filmed. He had to provide an alternate reason for why they were doing this whole thing with the wire and the tree, so his official reason (for the purpose of the broadcasted program they were always on) was that it was a plan to kill the other career tributes (which is what they were supposed to be doing). Was that just my interpretation?
TE
2022-07-07 00:03:04 +0000 UTCAwesome reactions as always lads. Can’t wait for the next 2 movies!!! One thing the movies don’t really explain is the significance of the mockingjay. Those birds that mimic voices are called Jaberjays that were invented by the Capitol as means to spy on various districts but they ended up just mating with mockingbirds to create mockingjays. It’s almost as if the jaberjays were being rebellious and that’s why the mockingjay is a symbol of rebellion.
Pratish Lakhani
2022-07-06 21:55:08 +0000 UTCLoved your reaction, this one is definitely my favorite in the series! Only wish they kept in how Katniss watched Haymitch’s games right before she went into the arena and learned how he used the force field as well to win. If y’all are curious, some fans made a really well made short film of what the books describe his games as and it would be cool to see you guys watch that too, here’s the link! https://youtu.be/7mUjssn86h4
Allison V
2022-07-06 21:41:47 +0000 UTCThank you for reacting. This is my favorite hunger games movie :)
Esther Montes
2022-07-06 21:09:00 +0000 UTCThe painting of rue that was on the floor was done by peeta. It was suposed to show the people what the games do... it wasnt to disturbe katniss
Esther Montes
2022-07-06 21:08:05 +0000 UTCI’ve seen this movie so many times and for the first time ever I watched Finnick carrying Mags and thought of Luke running with Yoda on Dagobah.😂😂
Chandra
2022-07-06 20:31:22 +0000 UTCAlso I feel like Katniss wants to love Gale like he does her, but she can't quite get there emotionally. You'll see in the later movies how similar their fiery personalities are. He may be even more so than her.
NS
2022-07-06 20:13:59 +0000 UTCThe people who are servants in the apartment where Peeta and Katniss stay are called Avox. They are people (usually from the districts) being punished by The Capital for rebelling, treason or desertion. They have had their tongues cut out.
Chandra
2022-07-06 20:02:04 +0000 UTCYou are right about JLaw being a great choice for katniss… she is so facially expressive and she’s not afraid of looking ugly to get her emotions across. When you read the books, they are written in first person limited from Katniss’ perspective. So you have her inner monologue. She is a fairly quiet verbal main character so the actress had to be compelling and able to get across so much without too many words. They couldn’t have chosen better in my opinion.
Melanie P
2022-07-06 19:39:58 +0000 UTCAll gas, no breaks moving through the next two.
NS
2022-07-06 19:35:45 +0000 UTCThe capitol is modeled after nazi germany, ancient rome, etc. the bread and circus. This one is slightly easier to watch than the first because on the whole, it’s not kids killing kids. It’s adults mostly. So it’s more palatable than the first one. It’s not… but everything is easier to accept when it’s adults rather than children. Great reaction! I knew you guys would enjoy this movie.
Melanie P
2022-07-06 19:34:17 +0000 UTCHaymitch's "win" was actually in the previous Quarter Quell, which makes it even more amazing that he was willing to volunteer for Peeta. Also agree with you about the Victors Village, it echoes what Plutarch said about using the media coverage to make the people believe Katniss was "one of them" now. The "reward" is to essentially become an oppressor but still have to live a stone's throw from the oppressed.
b
2022-07-06 19:08:17 +0000 UTCJust a bit of info to clear up a few things.. According to the book, the three finger salute is an old and rarely used gesture of District 12 and is occasionally seen at funerals. It can mean “thanks,” “admiration,” and “good-bye to someone you love.” This is why katniss originally does it after Rue’s death. It then becomes adopted, along with the whistle tune, as a symbol of the rebellion. Panem is the name of the country (which is in North America) and includes the capitol and the districts. District 12 is said to be in the area of the Appalachian mountains. When Gale and Katniss were discussing running away, the plan was to just survive and hunt in the woods with their families. Also, like another commenter mentioned, the painting of Rue was actually done by Peeta. Jennifer Lawrence does an amazing job! I particularly love her facial expressions when she sees the old man in district 11 be shot and also the close up shot at the very end where she seamlessly transitions from shock and sadness to straight up anger. Great reaction, can’t wait until next week!
AllButJustForgotten
2022-07-06 19:04:10 +0000 UTCJennifer L. is AMAZING in all of these movies ❤️ And as always, I love your reactions 🤟 It is a long time to next wednesday 😅
Tyta
2022-07-06 18:52:01 +0000 UTCahhh.... That makes sense now.
Badd Medicine
2022-07-06 18:17:11 +0000 UTCRue's painting was Peeta's f-U to the Capital.
Pam R
2022-07-06 18:15:12 +0000 UTC🔥🔥🔥🔥🤜🤛
Badd Medicine
2022-07-06 16:03:51 +0000 UTCYass 🏹🔥
Tyta
2022-07-06 16:02:22 +0000 UTCWe actually had all the tech go smooth 😂
Badd Medicine
2022-07-06 15:53:29 +0000 UTCThat was quick!
Alex Perez
2022-07-06 15:47:13 +0000 UTC
