Honestly, while this first movie is solid, the quality jumps MASSIVELY starting with the second film, and then stays that way for the rest of the films. It's one of the super-rare instances where "more money and success" actually equaled "better filmmaking and storytelling" for a series.

The way you described Jennifer's acting as always perplexed or out of it is spot on with katniss' character lmao. She's always confused especially when youre reading her thought process in the books. She's also socially awkward and misreads situations like a LOT since she gets confused by certain social cues wc makes her an unreliable narrator. Makes sense cuz she's basically just a teenager. Love her

I actually really like Ceasar.Katniss says it in the books, what he does is helping the tributes in his own way.He gives everyone their little moment to shine, trying to make the audience like them.For someone that got a low or mid score, that is their way of reaching for sponsors, which we have already seen it can save your life. He is actually kind to them, and as you can see, when Katniss was freaking out on her interview, he tried to help her feel a bit more confident. I don't know, maybe I'm seeing thing were there aren't, vut that's what I think Also, a quick fun fact:They always reape the corpses the moment they die with those...plane like things(I don't remember the name) because a few tributes ended up eating them because of hunger and the audience found that disgusting

Fun Fact: I believe Haymitch's Hunger games was in a Quarter Quell and his year had FOUR tributes from each district. Haymitch had twice as many.

them talking about peeta being overshadowed by katniss during the evaluations and im like 'theyre about to find out this man is a pr king' lmaoo

You dont think you should feed pigs bread? Lady... they can eat anything. They're omnivores. They eat slop. and PEOPLE.

Haymitchs games were a quarter quell. Instead of sending 24 tributes, they doubled it for special games and sent 48 tributes. Haymitch won by using the forcefield. Another tribute threw an axe at him which he ducked, and the axe hit the forcefield and flew right back at the other tribute. Snow was pissed and Haymitchs entire family got killed for his "trick". After that, he has been a mentor every year for 2 kids from D12. That means he's befriended, trained, and had to see 46 kids from his district die.

They don't live in the Capital after the Games, they live in the winners' village in their district. All the winners gain rewards after the games, including housing, money etc.

the guy on the bottom left can’t go 10 seconds without having a laugh 💀

For future movies I would enjoy it if people who have seen the movie would be more careful of what they say, sometimes it just feels like pushing newcomers into seeing the intended POV/perspective instead of letting them get there by themselves.

Katniss wasn't the first one to volunteer ever, she was the first of her district to volunteer but I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the books how kids from district 1 and 2 train in professional academies to participate in the games and they're called "The careers" or something like that

One thing that was in the book that the movie didn't bring up was how the dogs from the finale were infused with the DNA of fallen tributes. Like the dogs have their eyes and everything. It's been a while since I've read it, so I could be wrong, but I vividly recall a part where Katness had to shoot down the dog with Rue's DNA to save Peeta. I don't know how we were allowed to read this in middle school.

Do they actually absorb any of the plot with all the talking they do? I'm not criticizing, i'm genuinely curious. Because that would be impressive lol

When you turn twelve your name is entered into the drawing once, your name is in twice the next year, three times the next year and so on. You can also have it added an additional time for each family member you have that’s either too young or old to compete and in exchange they give you extra food. So Katniss has been putting her name in an additional two times for a few years to try and keep her and her family from starving.

31:27 Not nerves, she's used to wooden bows the bow she used during her evaluation wasn't wood so she wasn't used to it. She had to slightly adjust how she shoots and that's how she did better with the other two shots.

It's highly implied that Foxface (the tricky redhaired girl) committed suicide by eating the poison berries on purpose, not because she assumed they were safe because Peeta was picking them. During the pre-games training montage, we see her identifying a bunch of wild plants on a screen and doing quite well, so she probably knew what they were. She had survived to that point by avoiding combat and being smart and sneaky, but sooner or later one of the other tributes would've found her, or she would've been eaten by the dogs. She had to choose between facing a violent death by someone else's hands or eating a few berries and dying quickly and (probably) painlessly. And it's very tragic that a teenage girl would even need to make that choice.

Regarding the arena stuff, the gamemakers have no issue killing contestants if they are trying to make a "moment" kind of like reality tv is totally cool messing with peoples heads for that "golden breakdown moment". The movie leaves out a good amount of background about the games from passive convos that were cut. But they mention that more people usually die to the arena conditions and/or traps than kills since the contestants are usually not that into killing each other. Like its mentioned one year the "ratings" were really bad because they decided to do a frozen tundra style arena but it was basically just people sitting around freezing to death after the first day or so, so they were like "nope not doing that again" like a failed TV show pilot. Or how in one year the game wasn't going fast enough so they decided to just do a Noah's arc level flood and the winner only won because they were able to tread water the longest. So the arena is super unfair, but there is also a very heavy media/reality TV angle that the author was trying to portray in the books. She just found it so messed up that we are willing to mess with people for "moments", "entertainment", and "ratings" that it felt a bit like the Roman coliseum to her and was like what if I take modern tech and sensibilities and take it to the extreme where entertainment circles back to the Roman days.

26:40 She hasn't been in much since hunger games? Are you high??? She's starred in over a dozen movies since the first hunger games movie!

Battle Royale was a Japanese novel that became a couple movies. One thing I appreciate about Hunger Games is that, while it starts with a similar premise as Battle Royale, Suzanne Collins took the franchise in an entirely different direction

When I saw this in theaters, one of my friends loudly said “Eeeewwww” when Katniss and Peeta kissed as a joke. The whole audience laughed and probably ruined the moment for anyone who was invested in the ship.

Just had to mention guys, Jennifer Lawrence is actually in at least 30 movies since this😂 & the lead female in about half of them lol- she's got a decent filmography!👌 Great reaction, appreciate ya's!👍 💚🇦🇺💜

Jennifer Lawrence has been in to many movies since the hunger games I have no idea what’s she’s talking about.

26:40? She hasnt been in mutch??? Really? X men / passegers / Mother and countless others! she has been everywere since Hunger Games.

They do in fact go back to their district after winning. However, they get a new house and money from the Capital every month or something like that. So they live way more comfortably than everyone else in the district.

"She hasnt been in much" literally shes Mystique in X men. Shes also in a lot more movies." I'd be exited" pretty sure you wouldn't be excited as a child to know you are gonna die cause you are littler then the others it's not like they have class division or weight requirements. Also notice that all the black people are in the same district and when Katniss made Rue her crown it was an important moment in the movie that Katniss is for people. This whole movie is about a tyrannical government that divides people people by race an class and Katniss is the light that will unite them all against the government who want them apart.

Some of the more messed up things they left out of the movie - from what I remember, they bioengineered the dogs with the kids who had already died. So you could tell exactly which dog was who. And then the dogs didn’t kill Cato quickly. Peeta and Katniss had to listen to his screams for hours before Katniss finally shot him out of pity.

Y'all's reaction is a bit odd, like laughing at parts that most people wouldn't.... I kept watching to see if it got better but it was childish as hell.

And I thought she read the book. He talked in the cave about her hair being braided when he first saw her. Peetacwas telling the truth about having a crush on her. Plus he saved her family from starving to death with that loaf of bread.

There’s 12 districts, but there used to be 13 until 13 was destroyed by the capitol. Also, there are three books, and the last one was plot into two movies, but the 5th movie is coming out soon and it’s a prequel based off of the prequel book.

The first movie left a lot out from the books to keep it pg-13, since the games are much more sadistic. Districts 1,2 and 4 are "career" districts where they train kids to volunteer. Katniss is the 1st volunteer from district 12. The dogs at the end are engineered with dead tribute DNA to resemble them in the books like similar colored fur and eyes. Haymitch also won the 50th Hunger Games. This one was a "Quarter quell" and is special. His games had double the amount of tributes, so 48 kids instead of 24 particpated. The movie does a poor job of explaining what happened to district 13, but after the 1st rebellion the Capitol bombed them and destroyed them. Now there are only 12 districts.

There's 4 movies. The new movie isn't about the things in the first 4 movies, it's a prequel.

Question: how much info in the movie did you miss while talking about squirrels?

"Are there aliens?" "Worse. Rich people." I LOL'd. 😆🤣😂

she is so wrong about haymitch , first of all he didn’t go into a games with 24 people he went in with 48 because he won the 50th games/ the 2nd quater quell , and secondly he’s fallen out of trying to mentor the tributes because he doesn’t wanna get close to them before they die in the arena

"Aliens" "No, it's worse, it's rich people" THE WAY I WHEEZED

Santa: So hear me out i figured out how to deliver to less kids.

YOOO When bree said "where's peeta?" at 3:30 i was like "so she did watch this before?" not knowing she meant PETA 💀💀💀

Not true she has been in many many things since hunger games lmao

"I would get stung by a wasp for shits and giggles." Dude don't be an idiot, just lick a toad.

technically Prim and Katniss had the pin and they both lived so it did protect them

Don't know if anyone told u, but Peeta loses his leg after the Hunger Games in the book. @ the end, Cato looked all messed up because he had fought Thresh (the big black guy from Rue's District). None of the participants r suppose to be trained for the Hunger Games, but those Districts closest to the Capitol, the wealthier districts, do & actually do believe it a great honor to participate in the games. I believe Cato was from District 1 & knife throwing girl was from District 2, they were tall & athletic in build. In the book, Katniss is actually quite petite because she was malnourished. O, & Katniss actually wanted to blow up all those supplies. Cato & the group of kids following them had horded all the supplies: food, medicine, sleeping bags, & etc. which meant they had no survival skills. Without all that stuff, they were as good as dead. In the book, the explosion was so big that it caused Katniss to lose the hearing in one ear. After she & Peeta won, they were given medical attention. Somehow they repaired her hearing, but could not save Peeta's leg. @ that interview after the games, Peeta was wearing a prosthetic leg in the book. Also, in the book, Peeta really does have feelings for Katniss. Katniss does not know how she feels about him, & did play up their romance for the cameras in order to survive, also convincing herself that Peeta was doing the same.. Gale, the "boyfriend" back home, also had feelings for Katniss, but she really didn't know how she felt about him either. Katniss's father died in a mining explosion a month/more before her 1st Reaping. Her mother went into a deep depression after he died checking out completely. Katniss had to take it uppon herself to care for her then 8yr old sister. When Peeta threw her that bread in the rain, it literally saved her & her family's lives. Anyway, it was an entertaining reaction. I will be looking for u reacting to the next one.

The Santa fanfiction comment killed me! I think this is the first time I've ever laughed at a Hunger Games reaction. Well done! haha

Everyone who reacts to this movie says the same thing of taking all of the bags at the cornucopia, but you have to remember there are several problems with that. First of all if you take someone else stuff they will hunt you down, and in Katniss case she can't afford that since she can't protect Peeta if Cato, Clove and Thresh would come after her to get their stuff. Second of all the Capitol/Gamemakers want a show right, and someone just stealing stuff and running away with it would not be a good show. They have already punished her with the fire so taking the chance of them being pissed off at her after stealing other bags is not a good choice. She actually remarks on how smart Foxface is for hiding inside the cornucopia and running away, because she can get away before the rest of them even gets to the bags.

On this episode, SeeOhKnee and Boom react to The Hunger Games while Ruff and Bree react to the storm outside

42:15 funfact it's actually been proven that if both Jack and Rose tried to get on that door then they both would have died, the problem wasn't that they both couldn't get on, by measurement both of them could have gotten atop the door but the problem that would entail would be fatal for both, the reason that Rose lives is because of that boats buoyancy it was just enough to keep her from interacting with the water, but if both of them got on? it would have sunk, not all the way but enough that the two of them would be submerging their lower halves to the water, resulting in both of their probable deaths.

Noooo, Hman!🥲 WHERE'S MY BABY!?😭

31:27 Context: Katniss has an advantage as long as none of the other kids knows she's good with a bow. So Haymitch told her to avoid training with them in the training room. As a result, she's not used to a metal bow. In the book she uses arrow after arrow until she has it down during that assessment and *then* fires the arrow at the apple. I'm fine with how the movie does it too. She's surprised she missed and immediately corrects herself with her second shot. It's quick and shows what it needs to: her talent and power with a bow.

Saddest thing about the finale mutts is that in the books, they have the eyes of the fallen victors. I remember Katniss recognizing Rue’s eyes on one of the mutts.

Wow hman be looking different in this reaction 😂 /j

Battle Royale is Japanese and is based on a manga which is even darker and more violent than the movie. What makes Hunger Games so different is the surrounding lore.

In the book, Cato was alive, being mauled by the hounds until the sunrise

Stanley tucci being called sonic the hedgehog is hysterical to me 😂

Reactors: Talking about squirrel benches. Katniss and Gale: (taking notes for future squirrel-hunting endeavors) This is going to put food on our tables!

This series was the first time a book series I really liked got turned into a movie and I was so hyped. It was like Harry Potter except for people who liked bows.

“She’s not been in much since THG” bro, how many movies should she have to qualify “been in much”?

That whistle has been in my brain for a while whenever me or my friends say “I volunteer as tribute”… 😂

I didn’t expect this reaction from you guys but i’m so happy to see it!!

In the books the mockingjay pendant pin thing isn't from the sister but a friend of Katniss' from school. It's less ridiculous than the whole 'this will protect you' and then it doesn't protect you😂 also you guys were trying to do the math, the 50th games they decided it'd be a 'fun' twist to put double the names in so 48 kids went in that year and only one (Haymitch) survived

They do live in their district, they just live in victor village, which has a bunch of huge empty mansions since there are so few victors, and they get tons of money

41:23 That's the exact point that it is worth it. all those reactions recently started with jokes and the people mocking until suddenly it wasn't fun anymore and got you right in the feels. that's what I expecting

“Aliens!” “No, it’s worse. It’s rich people.” 🤣💯💯

oh i'm so excited to see you guys get into this! hunger games was my YA of choice back in school - i read all the books by lamplight under my blankets instead of sleeping, and then marathoned all the movies with my dad. i really need to rewatch them, they meant a lot to me but i can't remember a lot of them

I loved this movie growing up and I still have a memory of being 10, loving the books and arguing with my parents to let me see it because they argued it was “too gorey” for me. And while it was the first time I saw gore in a movie I still don’t understand why they thought it’d be too bad since I read the books

Also did you know those "animals" are actually bits and pieces of the kids who died in the hunger games including rue with animal parts for extra support 😢

Guy in the top right was the real girl on fire with the jokes this reaction LMAOO

I am REALLY early for this lol, I can’t believe you guys haven’t seen these, this trilogy is actually so good and definitely one of the best of its genre, I know you’re going to enjoy these movies a lot, but if you have the chance I really recommend reading the books bc there’s a lot of POV information from Katniss that the movies just can’t include

You can’t get rid of wasps that are also pollinators😂

I cannot WAIT for your next reaction. Catching fire is definitely return of the Jedi of this franchise

10:19 Lol She understood what he said because he was mocking/repeating the first sentence of the video that they watch every single year during the "reaping". Most likely something they do or have done in the past aka an inside joke 15:53 The movie you're thinking about is called zathura

“I’m starting to think there’s no honor in this game where children die”😂😂😂

Saying Jake hasn’t been in much since hunger games is absolutely the most wild statement I’ve ever heard. 🤣

Everyone involved with the "Santa" thing needs to be punished in some way.

4 books 4 movies are out (book 3 is split) 1 movie coming out in November

Y’all should look up some cool details that you miss in the movies. One is haymitch game that he won was a quarter quell where they had double the amount of people in it. So he had to go against 48 people instead of 24. And then after all that trauma as a mentor he watches district 12 tributes children go to their slaughter after he gets to know them because no one from 12 ever has hope of winning cause the career districts (capitol fav districts) always win, people in those districts get trained from really young to be trained killers for the games, they take pride in it.

41:30 lol way to address your internal biases dude, omfg 😭 like I knew people wouldn’t watch movies for these kinds of reasons but I didn’t think he would actually out and say it 😂😂😂

H-man lookin real different these days

The girl says she’s read the books but she’s gotten EVERY story beat wrong omfg 😂

Fun Fact: Haymitch Abernathy won the 50th Hunger games "The Second Quarter Quell"( A quarter annual anniversary) with a special twist that there are twice as many tributes ( four from each district two boys and two girls ) 48 tributes in total.

Aaaa Bree!!! Hii Bree! What an awesome surprise guest! Also oh boy is Hunger Games an emotional ride

Correct me if I’m wrong, but trackerjackers are engineered for surveillance right? Similar to jabberjays?

At this point there had been 71 Hunger Games and 2 Quarter Quells, the second of which had twice the amount of tributes, this means there had been 1,703 dead people and 73 victors up to this point.

Woah, a lot of people have been reacting to this in the last months, glad to see you all reacting as well! This’ll be a fun watch!

Fun fact, wasps actually do pollinate, just not very much, especially compared to the bees. However, due to the rapid bee decline, conservationists suggest protecting the wasps to try to help mitigate the loss of bees. Also, wasps are actually chill as long as you stay away from their nests and move slowly when they're around (they communicate aggression through quick wingbeat speed and perceive a person's fast movement as hostility). You can keep them away by leaving out something sweet away from where you are as well as leaving up old nests or paper bags as decoy nests around your property to deter them (they don't reuse nests and avoid other colonies nests even if they're empty). Colonies die out by the end of autumn (except for future queens, who freeze until spring, but they usually go elsewhere when they wake up), so if you get a nest, don't be afraid to leave it there until they die out and keep the nest up after to deter them next spring. If you do ever need to get rid of a nest, sneak up on them at night when they're sleeping/resting and knock them into a container with a lid and leave it somewhere until they relax before opening the container and fuckin bookin it in the other direction (they'll be absolutely pissed you fucked with their house). Sorry for the fuckin science paper, I'm a stoned nerd and I love these little guys. They get a bad wrap, but they're actually fairly chill as long as you're chill

“Imagine winning and having to go back!” Bro they do. They get to live in a slightly better house and basically become the Kardashians but poor

Whoever did the throwback to old school “got a freakin dart in your neck” made me laugh so hard and got me to subscribe lol

The training scores are from 1-12 but no tribute ever got higher than 10 until Katniss got her 11. That immediately made her a target

It's rich people that got me 😂😂😂

We had a squirrel I named Charlie when I was younger, we would leave peanuts on our front porch, and he would come by daily and have a snack. Sadly we moved, but I left him a bunch so he would be good for a while after we left

56:12 immediate flashbacks to the time I got stung in the face by a wasp the second I walked up to my front door because my mom had knocked down a bunch of wasp nests the day prior and I look a lot like her :')

Dang. I hadn't heard about the new movie at all, thanks for the info. From the synopsis, the new movie will be a prequel, and it sounds interesting. Can't wait.

The greatest meme I ever saw was a pic of Seneca Crane ( the game maker with the sharp ass moustache ) and instead of being locked in a room with poisonous berries he was locked in a room and in the bowl was a Gillette shaving razor 😂😂😂

They actually do go back to their district to live instead of living in the capitol. But they dont go back into poverty, they are gifted a nice house and are given monthly stipends from the capitol.

This whole series is amazing! I hope you watch them all!

So the reason they went after the careers supplies is because every year the supplies get destroyed, an outlier district (3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12) all have a chance of winning. It’s a huge handicap for people who have never been hungry or without what they need to suddenly have nothing.

The first reactors to get exactly why the shaky cam was so important for the "slaughter" scene. It sets the tone of chaos, but was really done to hide the savage murder of like a dozen children with bladed weapons. Thank you for getting it instead of complaining that you can't tell everything that is happening, when that's the entire point of the choice of camera work.

Ain't no WAY you guys have never seen Hunger Games before. How many movies or shows have you guys not seen!? XD

Waiting the whole video to see my man in the top left start screaming "Not the American Average" Kudos to whoever gets the reference

When she said “most 12 yr olds are taller than me” I felt that. I’m 4ft 11in tall. 😩

OK first off, I just want to say that I really loved this reaction. You all have great reactions, commentary, and vibes, and you're jokes are great! All that said, I've got a bone to pick with you about the way ya'll talk about wasps*. They are fascinating animals that are very important to the ecosystem. They dont only eat caterpillars and crickets - though those are animals that need to be kept in check. Many species of wasp also eat flies, roaches, spiders and other bugs that are considered less desirable (though of course all of them have their value). Indeed, the wasp is known to some as the gardener's best friend - without them "pest" control would be a much more difficult endeavor. Some gardeners even grow plants that are known to attract wasps for that express purpose! Many wasps are also pollinators, believe it or not, although they admittedly don't do nearly as much as bees do. And yes, (at least some) wasps CAN recognize human faces! And that can certainly be intimidating - pissing off a wasp is even less desirable once you know that they can hold a grudge - But it's actually very cool, and not just for scientific reasons. Because if a wasp can recognize your face and remember that you attacked its nest, who's to say that it can't remember you for being respectful and posing little threat? It's difficult to find studies on the matter and truthfully It's difficult to find studies on wasps in general, something that I suspect has to do with their unfairly poor reputation. However, there is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that wasps can be befriended, or at least that more positive relationships can be formed between humans and wasp colonies. Ultimately it seems to me as if the best rule of thumb for interacting with wasps is that old rule we were taught back in kindergarten; "treat others as you wish to be treated" (atleast assuming you're a hermit who needs a bit of extra space between you and the rest of the world lol). If you lash out in fear they'll probably do the same, but if you stay calm and respectful of their space, ive found that they might just match your energy. Alllright, long wasp rant over. I understand if you didn't read all that, but if you did, i hope you learned something and maybe even enjoyed yourself! if you didn't enjoy it... Sorry? anyway, I really was genuine about enjoying this video; it was a lot of fun! I'll have to see if you've done reactions to the other Hunger Games movies yet - if not, I'd love to see some! Have a good day, ya'll! P.S: this whole comment was intended to be lighthearted and all in good fun - I have no intention to come off as rude or mad, and I sincerely apologize if I do! (Genuinely) * There are a ton of animals with a lot of diversity in this category, but for the sake of this comment i'm going to be focusing mostly on eusocial wasps such as yellow jackets and hornets (im pretty sure that's mostly what ya'll were thinking of anyway)

"its a little long for my taste" proceeds to love the bajeesus out of one piece... your argument is invalid sir! lmao; loved the reaction keep it up