A lot of reactors miss this: Peeta can't just kill the careers in their sleep because of the immediate cannon firing when the tracker senses their heart stopping. He would never get several people killed without them waking. Plus...he's Peeta. He's not going to murder anyone if he can avoid it.(These movies don't do his character justice.)

At the end of the Hunger Games, on the cornucopia, if you look closely when Cato has Peeta in a headlock, you'll see Peeta pointing to Cato's hand, indicating where Katniss should aim her arrow.

Also something they completely left out in the movie is that Peeta loses a leg after the hunger games because of how bad his injuries were and katniss goes deaf in one hear from the explosion

I don't think the camera work is bad. It's an artistic decision made by the filmmakers to up the tension and cut out violence that wouldn't be appropriate for a PG-13 movie. It's ok to not like it, but that doesn't make it trash.

'Shaky-Cam' is doing to you exactly what it is designed to do. Make you feel confused and on-edge just as if you were there.

I know I'm late to the party, but when Haymitch says "Embrace the probability of your imminent death And know, in your heart, that there's nothing I can do to save you" just breaks my heart. The kids from the poor side of District 12 have to sign up for grain and oil to be able to survive. They need to sign up once for each member of their family and what it does is put the name of the child in the reaping for each time they sign up. So if a child has 3 other family members, the first year , they have their names in 5 times (4 x for the food + their regular entry). The following year, they have their names in 10 times (4 times for the food x2 years + 2 'regular' times.). The third year, they have their names in 15 times (4x3 years + 3 regular times). You get the picture. This is why Gale's name is in 42 times instead of just once per year, because he has 2 brothers, a sister and his mom. That means most of the chosen tributes come from "The seam" (The really poor part of the district). They are starving, they are small, they are tired, have no energy or muscle mass. No sponsor would take them on. So for the last 23 years, Haymitch watched 46 kids die because there was nothing he could do to save them. And then, he had to go back to the district, year after year, and face the families and loved ones of those 46 fallen tributes. For the last 23 years, he has to live with the memories of having failed to save those children. I don't even live in that world and I want to drink. When he sees that Katniss and Peeta have heart, they have spunk, they have muscle mass, he sees that maybe, just maybe, there is a chance he could bring one of them back alive... no matter how slim that chance may be. Sorry, this is one of my favorite series of all time so I tend to get overly passionate. Thank you for reacting to it

The Hunger Games books are written in first person present tense, so rather than events having already happened to someone else (like with the more common third person past tense), these books feel like events are happening to me, right now. I think it adds a new element of tension and stakes for the reader. I personally believe this is the reason for the artistic choice to shoot this movie with a shaky cam, because it is an attempt to capture this same idea of the audience feeling like they're right there in the action as well, just like in the books.

Shaky can was not only to show the chaos of the moment, but was necessary during the children slaughter scene because children were being killed brutally and that kept the movie from getting a more adult rating. That wasn't bees or a quick arrow, it was slashes and stabbings with mostly the younger children being killed. I'm glad they made the choice they did, seeing that clearly would have lessened my enjoyment of the movie.

You catch so much that I didn't when I first saw this movie! The hand held camera is deliberate to make it like you are part of the action. It is disconcerting but I appreciate it. Oh...and "A bow in melee is not the best" may be one of my favorite quotes from a reactor.

Hollywood really upped the love triangle for these films. Katniss sees gale like a brother and otherwise she surpesses her emotions because shes so focused on surviving. Its in the cave with peeta when they kiss that she starts to "feel a hunger" for something but she can't identify because shes still surviving lol.

While they were filming the fight between Katniss and Clove (Isabelle Fuhrman), Jennifer Lawrence told Isabelle, "You can put your full weight on me. It's okay." Isabelle said, "My full weight IS on you." Isabelle had tried out for the Katniss role. There were people complaining about the shaky camera, but it didn't seem to bother me much, and I hadn't even really noticed. In the book, the crown detached into two crowns.

25:35 "For those of you who don't know, tracker jackers are genetically engineered wasps whose venom causes _searing_ pain." There are not many books in my life that I've read before seeing the movie, but this is one of them. This scene illuminates a key difference that emerges when it's time for exposition. In the book, they just paused the action and _explained_ the backstory with tracker jackers. In the movie, they had to have one of the _characters_ explain them.

33:03 Here, we come to a key _problem_ with the bow and arrows. They're useful if you're shooting at things a long ways off, but for fighting someone _close_ who has weapons of their _own_ and are intent on _killing_ you, you need something else.

Shaky cam was very popular when this movie was made. Thankfully it wasn't so bad in the sequels.

I completely understand why you hated the camera work but for me it made me feel like I was there and made me more nervous. I also think it was strategic in making the film because they wanted to show the brutality but not head on with children getting killed. Thanks for doing these! Look forward to the rest!

I enjoy your guesstimates of what's to come in the future stories. Not just hunger games but some of the other series as well. They're very well thought out. I like that.

So the way the arena works is that they all get positioned around the cornucopia that’s filled with gear to entice them to get it and cause a bloodbath. The items that come in the parachutes are what they get from their sponsors. When you win the hunger games you become a mentor to anyone else that gets picked to participate. Also if you enter your name into the reaping multiple times you can get more food for the year.

There were three Hunger Games books, but four movies. It was felt that the last book had too much to compact into one movie, so that one was divided into two parts.

I 100% agree about the shaky camera. You can use it to good effect, but it is really bad when you're doing it WHILE zoomed in on something. Shots like these are some of the only things that cause me motion sickness (I can do VR just fine most of the time, for instance). A wider shot with shaky cam is fine, but the stuff they do here goes overboard. Luckily the other films did this stuff better.

I completely agree with you about the shaky camera movement. I think it is meant to make the film more "of the moment" or "in your face", but for me, it takes me out of the show every time, because I search around off screen for stability. For this very reason, I cannot enjoy "The Office", for example, and have never been able to watch complete episodes of it.

Honestly I've never really had an issue with the shaky cam in this one. But a lot of folks definitely did

I totally get why you don’t like the shaky cam, but calling it ridiculous is not cool. It isn’t to YOUR liking. That’s all. Your proclivity to getting motion sickness and the unfortunate fact that you must react while watching it on a very small screen really have little to do with the decisions that were made in making this movie. No Director or DP makes their artistic choices based on anything other than the big screen in mind. If you take a while to really pay attention to the action sequences you will start to understand that this had to pass PG-13 standards. All of the red tape that must have been slashed through to get this incredibly dark themed, marketed to adolescents, film made is pretty overwhelming. I think they did a wonderful job in trying to convey the chaos, primal, horrific terror that children were being subjected to with using very little actual violence onscreen.

@29:50 ... 'ShakyCam' doing it's job perfectly ...

Book info: The districts 1-13 (who provide most of the needed resources, such as food, fuel, energy, clothing, technology) rebelled against the Capitol 74 years ago and lost, with 13 being destroyed via bombs. The Games are punishment for 1-12. In the beginning it was more of a punishment, but over decades it became a the sporting event of the year. Families can get extra rations (of low-quality food) from the government, but in return they agree that kids get more pieces of paper. Due this poorer families have bigger chance to loose their kids. Most victors, like Haymitch, are traumatised from their own games and having to see the kids they train die pretty much every year (there can only be 1 victor). Due to this many of them are alcoholics or addicts to num the game. The Capitol also often forces them to prostitution. Districts 1, 2 and 4 have a better relationship with the Capitol than the others, which is why they have career tributes. Katniss lost hearing in of her ears during the game. The mines are active for only the first 60 seconds of the game. The careers recruited the young kid from District 3 (technology and engineering) to reactivate them in order make the circle around the goodies. Thresh, the guy from the same district as Rue, just wanted to respect Katniss for what she did to the little girl. The mutant dogs were originally mutant wolves that were based on the dead tributes. Katniss only had one arrow left in the books, and she had to choose use it either to kill Cato (who being teared up alive by the dogs/wolves) or use it as a makeshift support to keep Peeta's cut open leg straight. After the games Peeta had to get a leg amputated and Katniss got her ear fixed.

No snacks. 😆 Nice one, Verowak! I'm not a fan of those Blair Witch, Cloverfield like "found footage" style movies either, but for me this one wasn't quite that bad. But then I had read all of the books and I knew what was happening most of the time. The books are really good, btw. 😉 On to the next one!

I'm pretty sure the shaky camera work stops after the first film, so that's good news for you :) btw the hunger aspect and Katniss's feelings and thoughts are a lot more prominent in the books, I recommend them, they are really good.

27:41 There were land mines set around all of the pedestals where the tributes started to prevent any of the tributes from starting the games before the countdown finished.

New subscriber. Love your reactions! : ) Camera-work is 1/10, and that 1 point is for not forgetting to press record. TLOU made it so much better. You have the feeling you are with them but you skip the part where you almost throw up.

Bonus points for using the term “lollygag”.

Sponsprs of course are the watchers of the capitol peaple. That game is a bit like our "Big brother" or "i'm a celebrety let me out of hear", just realer for them.

Did you watch Telematch on German TV, growing up? Where they had villages or towns compete against each other in many fun challenges.

You're adorkable (not a typo); I'm not sure I trust this dislike for cats though...they're awesome pets. I've met 1 bad cat, but it's owner was an ass....likely mistreated :(

I am the same way with shaky cam , I know they wanted to depict Chaos but if it is overdone it can be stomach churning

I don't have the motion sickness problem but I too find the intentional shaky cam work to be annoying. I guess they're going for a live news cam type of feel. It's one thing if there's intense action happening. These guys use the technique on every scene. As I was typing this they showed a food buffet with a shaky camera.

I saw the movie years before reading the book and I have to say that the differences are astronomical as far as book 1 and movie 1 go. I found the physical imagery of the movie to be more harsh than the book. This is opposite of most people and my best guess as to why that is is bc when reading it, I can sensor what I want in my head. But watching children slash one another wasn't for me.

14:06 … how exactly do you propose he do that?

What happend to the second movie reation? Sadly cant find catching fire on your channel.

I also get very bad motion sickness ever since I was very young

It takes skill to do that camera work.

Late to the party and I'm sure its already been mentioned, but from watching another video, I know you are a reader. I understand the teen dystopia thing has been done to death, but the book trilogy is excellent, and though I do appreciate the films individually, they don't really do the book trilogy justice as a whole overall arc. They broke the 3rd book into two movies, like harry potter and the final book in that series, a!omg with divergent series, twilight, etc.. Its totally unnecessary and are kind of cash grab films. Catching Fire is easily the best in the trilogy. The first one does a great job of setting things up and its enough to get one invested in the story, but I agree about some of the camera work. I understand why it was done that way, but my preference is clean camera work as well..xo

Je higher the Number of the district, je poorer That district is!

I forget you are not much of a cryer and I'm here drying my eyes with Rue lol, no worries. Next movies get rid of the camera movements. Keep it going!

Shaky Cam the movie.

You didn't count the ones who died because she cut down the wasp nest

The rest of the movies don't have shaky cam!!

Like you, I find the camera technique as used here to be a detriment. In regard to much of Hollywood trickery -- if the audience notices the trickery, and it's not ironic, then you probably failed. The "shaky cam" technique has its place, even here, but if it's too broad and/or too frequent, it takes you out of the movie and into the technique. Conversely, steady-cam shots can do the same because it's too smooth and entices auteurs to shoot superfluous "oners". But hey, tastes differ. I'm very old school (literally), and think that very often in storytelling, if you make the effort, less is more.

Keep the series going. It's a great franchise.

I take it you already saw these and you don't approve of the handheld camera being used to keep their rating low?

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The first film is the only one with Shakira camera.

I hate when people start these movies and never finish them lol not talking about her here, just talking about the other reaction channels that watched just the first movie or the first two movies over a year ago and still haven't finished it to this day haha makes no sense to start something and never finish it.

not really a fan of the movies (i dont think ive seen them all), so no fun facts or explanations from me this time ahah

This and twilight are two franchises I have not nor will watchn🤷‍♂️

you should watch john wick...

Lovely Bri'ish accent 💂

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Hunger games is just a watered-down kid friendly version of Battle Royale, which is the better movie imo

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I loved this movie....and this was a great reaction... but I have to say it... I love that Jennifer Lawrence was able to be the first female lead in an action movie EVER! She is so brave and strong!

All the comments or Snarky Comments after every minute of show or every minute and a half is most annoying, I hope the reaction gets allot better by the next movie.

This movie/book seem like total trash.

And stop Talking to much!!!