I love Peeta's introduction. He throws out some bread for Jennifer Lawrence. . . right on the ground. . . in the rain. . . like she's a dog. Romance imminent. This movie is unintentional comedy gold.
Yeah, Peeta was just a pathetic character. Gale should've been the one chosen for the games since he and Katniss had established history and actual personal and romantic stakes. It would've been much better to have them deal with the games together, especially when they were the only two left!
I especially loved the moment where Peet’s fucking smears the blood on Katniss’ forehead. They try to make it all quiet and serious but when that happened I couldn’t stop thinking of the Lion King. “S I M B A.”
My biggest problem with this is how camouflage painting that complex probably took an hour from a team of professional makeup artists in reality, but somehow he did that to himself in battlefield conditions and fast enough for the others to not catch up with him. The explanation for him gaining those skills is also stupid. Unless those cakes were decorated to make them look like photorealistic landscapes, it's like saying that being good at carving wooden statues makes you a competent shipwright.
Timothy Y. Probably being bought by people in the Capitol. The film never really established that some people living in the districts were actually quite well off doing that sort of thing - yet another thing only in the books. Man this is a bad adaptation.
I shook my head at him going “the ruling class is comically evil and unrealistic”. I mean, ignoring current events, he clearly hasn’t heard of the games masters used to play with their slaves.
+MayuriKurotsuchi yeah i listen do the audio book versions of these and yeah it was a LOT more violent and peeta had a bad leg and katniss was deaf in one ear
+kris stasko Just let me tell you: I am a HUGE fan of THG but the first movie is shit. Complete CRAP. The director was out of his fucking mind when he fucked up the story that badly. So much shit should've happened and it would have caught the eye of even the most critical viewer but he just cut that off and made it the simplistic shit it is.
+MayuriKurotsuchi I read the book and watched the movie, what really annoyed me was that when all the people ganged up on Katniss, they could have just burned the tree down.
I've read the book, and listening to your review, it is very apparent that it is almost a requierment to read the book before watching this movie. Some of the flaws you pointed out I didnt pick up when watching this movie, because it was already explained in the book. Which is bullshit, it should be able to hold its own as a movie.
What really made me salty was the wasp scene. I wanted to see the crazy shit like trees bleeding and a pit of humming orange bubbles, and I got Bill from Editing fucking around with Sony Vegas for a few seconds. I get it's PG-13 but come the fuck on.
They actually do that in other districts. I dunno if it's in the movie but at least in the book they are explicitly referred to as career tributes or something like that.
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that's an actual thing some of the other districts do. I never read the books, but my sister did and she told me about it. They trained specifically for the Hunger Games, then volunteered.
True, like imagine she's holding onto Rue, who has passed out at this point. She's pressing her forehead against Rue's, silently praying that it's all going to be okay, and there's a silent pause for a second that makes the audience think "hey maybe she'll be alright". After a few seconds of that, the cannon goes off, signifying Rue's heart has stopped, crushing any hope katniss or the audience may have had of a happy ending between the two characters.
They could've even made that cannonshot for that little black girl dramatic to fit the mood. Like, if after she kills Spearman, she heard not one, but two cannonshots. She'd then turn and see the girl on the ground, on the brink of death. Or heck, you could even use it at Katniss stood up to make the little sign to the watchers, the cannon going off as the movie smash-cuts the riot beginning.
okay wow, this made me realise how little the movie explains. most of the questions you had were in the book and i guess when adapting it to a movie they assumed the audience would have read the book which is dumb
Jaedyn there is no way that anything in that book justifies how stupid the premise is. Read Battle Royal, the original story this series ripped off. Battle Royal actually makes sense.
The whole plot and environment. The capital is living in the 22nd century, while the districts are living in the 19th century. Hell, it's even worse than the 19th century, because they're all starving to death for some reason. Why? How? It makes no fucking sense. How have they not revolted decades ago?!
John Handcock thank you. Why haven’t the massive amount of people that are starving (whom are buff somehow and master fully trained somehow) have never thought, “huh? These rich assholes kinda suck. And we all hate them right? Let’s kill them.” Also what is the motivation of the rich people? How are they rich if they don’t have a lower class that works for them? It all makes no sense. Now if they had doomsday weapons or something, I might understand. But revolts would have happened. Why the fuck does anyone participate in these stupid fucking games? I would take weapons I forged of blunt tools and kill everyone in the citadel. They don’t seem to know how to fight.
It seems more believable to me that the citizens of the citadel may not be fully informed on what's actually going on beyond the walls, are threatened to not lash out against it, or possibly have been raised to believe that what is happening to these kids is deserved in some way as some form of extreme classism. Read any testament from someone who has escaped North Korea. It is quite the eye opener what people can be made to believe when they are raised in a country that can make you disappear for even gossiping about your leader. If they have the power to keep these districts in line and even parade the slaughter of their children for generations, I'm lead to believe that they must have the military power to back it up.
7:00 There is no reason for anybody to kill Effie. She has no actual power, she just pulls names out of a box and explains the games to the kids who get picked. She's a random number generator and rulebook with a face. Even if somebody did manage to kill her, she could easily be replaced.
+Bob Woggle Also, the Capitol people might see her as a beloved celebrity, and if she were to be killed or kidnapped, there would certainly be an uproar.
+Bob Woggle Also, the Capitol people might see her as a beloved celebrity, and if she were to be killed or kidnapped, there would certainly be an uproar.
+Miranda Sanchez If being called a faggot by kids in school for a few years can make a kid end up strolling through the halls with an assault rifle shooting anything that moves, I think being told " You're going to be in a shitty clone of battle royale, You're basically dead bitch. " can lead to some pretty violent outbursts.
Actually, you know the true irony in this movie series? We're told that in the Capitol, the Hunger Games are sensationalized and turned into pure entertainment. And then the marketing for the movies happened, and they played pop remixes of the soundtrack on the radio, and advertised Hunger Games themed makeup, and basically did exactly what the Capitol did in the books.
Yeah, that's sick! The only purpose of movies is to get people to watch them so that they make money. When they try to include stupid "deep" messages in there, they're just being hypocritical liars!
The CG Lorax did the exact same thing. They constantly talk about how evil and wasteful industrialization is, and show how the characters are often exploited for material gain. The filmmakers then turn around and create commercials where the Lorax himself advertises cars, restraunts, etc...
Um... what? The Hunger Games are sensationalized and turned into "pure entertainment"? Is that not their entire purpose? And it's ironic because a movie has advertising...? My brain hurts.
they can at least excuse themselves by saying theyre going all meta with the marketing. i mean, i dont think that was their intention, but they can at least pretend like it was to save face
"I guess when the your target audience is the US you can sell the idea of a famine by simply casting people that are not fat." LOL This is so true! The movie tries to convince me that they live in starvation, but they all look well-nourished and healthy from the start.
Yup, just like a cartoon...only live-action...but really really cartoony...except live-action. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit was more convincingly realistic.) 🤔🤦😒🤡🤓
@@BlackSheepNara You know you got me curious there, so I looked it up. I found an 2012 article that says that the rate of obesity in the US is 35% among food insecure households. And 25% among food secure households. Yikes.
My favorite part about this review is that a lot of his very valid gripes about the movie are actually explained in the books and many actually make sense when contextually justified. Just shows how shitty this movie is at pulling from its source material and standing on its own.
Thank you for using the fact that things not explained in the movie are explained in the book, as a criticism AGAINST the movie, and not an excuse FOR it. I wish more people did exactly that when commenting on plot holes or unexplained things in movies based on books.
Dude tell me about it, the directors fkn destroyed the story, like the books weren't absolutely amazing but they weren't awful either, and they had way more context than the films
Districts 1-4 train their teens for the game because they're richer. Some kids even volunteer. No one from district 12 had ever volunteered because they're the poorest district. They don't explain that well enough.
@Augustus Freeman True, but there's a bit in the training facility in the first film where they're talking about the Careers and Katniss mentions they're from District 1. Haymitch says "And 2.", but they leave out 4 for some reason. That always kind of baffled me.
74 years, and not one depressed teen volunteers? I find it hard to believe that in 74 years there hasn’t been one suicidal teen in a poor coal mining town in a dystopian future.
but why not? just because they are poor, not mean they can't train someone. Sure richer district can be well-feed but not like they can't train they body and skill even if they district is poor.
I am very sure they explained it in the movie well enough. It has been years since I have seen it the last time and I still remembered it. He just somehow missed it... hope he doesn't do this to often or he will end up like cinemasins
Geo Sustento not really in the movie, they were just called career tributes so you just assume they’re people that got prior training just in case or something. It’s not the same thing as adams strategy
I've always hated it when a movie would show a character as being from a place that is plagued by famine, yet they don't look malnourished at all. One would think that the folks who made the Hunger Games movie, a movie with a multi-million dollar budget, could at least make the actors look like they have been starved. But then again, the make up department was too busy making the capital residents look like the population of Tumblr.
Actually, it was J law who fucked up Katniss's image. She didn't want young insecure girls to think being emaciated was cool so she went for a lean athletic look. Just look it up for more info
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts I don't think she looked fat in the movie... plus she did also do actual archery lessons for the movie so not like she doesn't know how to put in effort. I think there is a real concern that young girls would look up to her and want to lose an unhealthy amount of weight too if they saw her like that. Not sure how not wanting little girls to get body or health issues cos of what they're seeing on TV is a stupid reason, I'm someone who loves complete accuracy but even then I don't expect actors to lose/gain an unhealthy amount of weight for a role, that's silly.
Though I think it's great they didn't make her look starved for safety of the audience, I think it's just an excuse. Simply putting some proper shadow makeup on the bones and muscles, and then as soon as you get to the capital showing them eating AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
@The Jrr "sounds like she just didn't wanna do go the extra mile and lose weight" How's she supposed to lose enough weight to look like she's starving to death and still be able to pull off the physical stunts required in the movie? Didn't think that one through, didja? How embarrassing for you.
If this was a movie to be taken seriously with good actors they would initially have lost some 10 to 20 kg for their role. And if you don't want teenager to relate to a starved Katniss just make the underweight in the movie a bad thing. Show the characters desperate to gain food and weight, show their suffering from the famine, show how much their lives improve as soon as they are properly nourished. Then any intelligent teenager would get the message "no food equals bad".
In the original he wasn’t nearly that good at camoflouge, and was also covered in moss to disguise himself. But they chose image of him looking like a rock over that.
It still confuses me to this freaking day how Pita bread managed to camouflage himself so perfectly while being essentially hunted. That kind of make up would take literal hours. Not to mention the necessary materials.
This movie was way too lighthearted for the theme. The plot is that a group of people is forced to fight each other 'til one of them is the last man standing, that's pure horror material, but skrew that, let's make a PG-13 movie and skip all mentally disturbing stuff. Killing is okay when you don't show how people are scared to death or mentally distrupted about their actions.
+Mixa I just watched part one of the last movie and god it was absoulute wank makes this seem like a work of art 2 hours of fucking nothing missed all the important stuff from the books
I remember in the book there was a scene where the town drunk falls off the stage right after Katniss and Bread Boy got up on stage. It was literally the entire reason I went to see the movie and it wasn't fucking there.
The worst thing about the series is easily the lack of character development, in the first hunger games movie only 10 of the 24 tributes have names, the rest are just token no name people who die immediately. Same exact thing happened in the 2nd movie too. In mockingjay part 2 at the halfway point they just started killing characters for no reason, they try to get you attached to a character then they just kill them off a second later.
The part near the end of the movie with the wolves really pissed me off. In the books each wolf signified one of the tributes, there was one that looked like Rue and Katniss saw it and shit. I was super disappointed when they cut this part in the movie :/
Wake up Sheeple 2017 They replaced the wolf's eyes with the eyes of the dead tributes. They also added the number of the tribute's district on their collars.
I love when that happens lol I actually have always kept it in mind when hanging out with friends, if we're walking through a store and a sing is playing, if I can speak in rhyme, (alongside the song quietly in background) or just work the song's lyrics into the conversation, I'll do it, then just wait 20-30 minutes and see if they even noticed lol Always gets a good laugh, and when people notice, they get baffled like "wait, are you INTENTIONALLY doing that, ooorrr...." To which I'll reply "Huh, that's REALLY ODD! I didn't even notice i was doing that, but if it annoys you, I can always go ahead and put an abrupt and violent stop, TO THAT"(again, rhyming) And just kinda string them along just to screw with them lol
To me it seems that the logical thing to do to solve that suicide pact would be to broadcast to them is that if they go through with it, their families will be executed in particularly excruciating ways. Say, entomb them alive with an air source left open and let thirst kill them. That is a nasty but simple way to kill a person. You would think that somewhere during those previous 73 games the situation has arisen that the participants decide to just not fight.
No because the previous contenders didn't have a plan to both win. They already said they would, and they would receive massive backlash if they said that. It was easier for them to just let them both win and cause more drama/buzz.
Kami Lee I felt the same. I was disappointed that she found water immediately, like it felt real and like she was fighting to win when she was struggling and then almost died before she found it. I hated how she found it immediately.
7:34 another thing they addressed in the book! In the capitol, they have huge feasts... and then cups of stuff that makes you puke it up. The point of that in the book was that it meant that the capitol had a serious abundance of food but some of the later districts were starving.
@@SaraH-jn5db I don't think that is op's point, it's something they left out of the film IE that's a criticism because removing it actively hurts the authors author's characterisation of the Capitol residents.
They missed so much good parts in the book. Like when peta (I think) tried to jump off a roof and got shot back up. Katness being deaf in one ear. The other districts trainer their kids like solders.
Everything is controlled by the game makers - pretty sure they can 'call off' the dogs. They called off the fire once they got Katniss to go where thet wanted her to
The "wolves" were basically deformed werewolves who had the faces of every person who died in the games. The movie was made for children, the book was written for... idk who. I'm surprised it got so popular. The books were way too brutal for the cringe normie audiences that the film was made for. But I read it like 12 years ago? So maybe im misremembering but doubt i am. It was a brutal book, and I hated the film when I watched it in the theater. Really nothing like the book besides the first half. There's like an entire page describing the kid screaming as he got slowly eaten and tortured by the mutant werewolf things lol.
Some notes: - she's given an 11 out of a possible 12 (which was stated in the film) - The super buff kids are "careers" who train and presumably put their names in hundreds of times to get extra food because they want to be in the games which somewhat explains their psycho-ness (also stated in the film)
honestly I just remember how fond I was of the Minecraft hunger games that adapted from the movie/book. I didn't hate the movie but it was nowhere near as memorable as that dumbass minecraft mini-game haha
Actually... that whole "why don't they train kids to be super murderers and then volunteer them for the district to win was an actual plot point explained in the books. The 1st 2nd and 4th districts all do it and that is why they team up in the first place.
A lot of his complaints are explained in the books. Jesus these movies suck ass. I am not saying the books are THAT good, they have their fair share of dumb shit, but the movies are fucking trash in comparison
+Gabriel Shaw somebody should make a mashup of all the moments where Adum talks over that beat and it sounds like he's going with the rhythm; it would be the dankest mixtape ever
The film is so pussy about it. In the book its way more gruesome. It details someones head being crushed over and over with a rock, and cato is thrown to the super wolves he is slowly ripped to shreds while still alive, and katniss has to shoot him out of mercy. Plus as you said at the end a lot of these questions are probably solved in the books and they are. Just another example of a film not living up to the book, which is a real shame.
Although that does provide a reason for the lack of violence it doesn't completely forgive the film. As they do miss out some really key points from the books, like explaining the careers and the character development that the people of District 12 get in the film is nothing compared to the book. And either way, pussying out and taking away the gruesome nature of the source material just to get PG13 isn't a good thing. That's like saying "yeah i know that the Great Gatsby book has murder and sex and gambling, but we are taking all of it out so that we can get to a younger audience.".
the book has actual commentary and is a great satire of the teen drama format, which is one of the reasons why the movie sucks so bad. the movie literally just cashed in on the fact that the book included all of the teen drama cliches and had an overused premise that preteens hadn't been introduced to yet it's also important to note that the book addressed most of the issues you had, but the movie was really bad at covering these things, and just sort of assumed you've read the book.
The book explains a few thing but many of its problems carry over into the movie. Not to say that the book was terrible, but honestly it had too many shortcomings for me to completely take it seriously.
AE Hall I think this was about the "random" kids that are magically skilled killers part. In the book his hunch was right, the richer districts have lots of money so they have training centers that molds kids into killer volunteers and win almost every time. Winning gives them more money thus more kids to train. Katniss' district cant do the same because in the book they were extremely poor, and the better-off ones like Peeta came from families that are too selfish to care. Only Haymitch won and his victory was dumb luck. Also the 11/10 score was meant ro be a punishment. What Katniss did (shooting arrows at the government officials) was a threat so they decided to put a target on her. Once the trained kids know there is a better victor, they'll try to kill her first (or make it top priority) because that would mean the people watching would throw more support and money at Katniss and not at them.
Marga Esperanza It's out of 12. But I hadn't thought of that - that's actually really clever. Typically in a last man standing situation, it's normal to gang up on the strongest player early on.
at around 8:25 when you talk about how unrealistic it is for kids chosen at random to be that skilled; Its because those districts are careers who train for the chance at the hunger games for their whole youth. then again, if you missed that it was probably the movies fault as I'm not sure if it was explained. also there's a flaw in volunteering bc the careers want to go to the hunger games, so how does that work for them? wouldn't everyone want to volunteer whatever lmao. nice points btw
jennyeet It's about 38 minutes into the film. Haymitch: "He's a Career. You know what that is?" Katniss: "From District 1." Peeta: "And 2." Haymitch: "They train in a special academy until they're 18. Then they volunteer. By that point they're pretty lethal." Effie: "But they don't receive any special treatment. In fact, they stay in the exact same apartment as you do. And I don't think they let them have dessert."
10:15 It's even worse in the book. It's divided into 3 roughly-equal sections, and only the last section is the Game itself. The rest is just endless preparation.
It's actually the first section as the pre-games, the second section following Katniss alone, and later with Rue in the games, and the third with Katniss and Peeta as allies.
5:07 Actually I thought the reveal that Prim was the one who was chosen was really well done, at least in the book. I think the typical trope is that the protagonist is usually picked, as though by fate, to undergo the events of the novel. Katniss however, voluntarily shoulders the burden in order to protect her sister, which I think is much more impactful!
Most of the flaws are explained. They hunt illegally food, which is why they are fed well. The upper class drink something that makes them vomit, which is why they are not fat. There are guards on the train, and in the training room. The scoring is out of 12, not 10. And even more I don't even want to explain. Edit: Actually, you're right. They sucked at adapting the book.
exactly!! i’ve tried telling so many people about the poor character development (ESPECIALLY of katniss and peeta) or how the plot is so predictable and only does things so that the characters can benefit from it in the end, but then they whine and go “UR JUST A BULLY! THE HUNGER GAMES IS THE BEST YOU RAT :((“
Or, you just get a kid with terminal illness who won't live past the game anyways to volunteer and everyone else just joins the lottery a shitload of times.
For Logins he could die before the games or chicken out and there wouldn’t be many kids with terminal illnesses willing to just let themselves get absolutely pounded in the games. He/she might also cling on to life or hope. And there also is not a guarantee that there will be a kid with terminal illness every year.
Sir Jocas El Jocoso Alright that makes sense but the other points are still valid and I believe somewhere in the books it said that you could only enter your name a few times. Not completely sure about that though.
@@yee5163 late reply but yes you're right, you can only enter your name once per family member each year, so Katniss entered her name an extra 3 times to get 3 rations of food for their family
Lmao I love that he's describing literally what some of the other districts do in the book to take advantage of the volunteer system XD Every point he raised really highlighted just how much of the books they cut down on to make these movies
I'd love to give Jennifer Lawrence MY "Winter's Bone", DERHURHURHURHURHURHURHURHUR Also, have you noticed how, if a person talks normally while a rap beat plays in the background, it almost sounds like they themselves are rapping?
Im surprised Adam because they do deffintatly mention that those kids that are experts did volunteer its just the Katniss is the first volunteer from district 12
@@dirrdevil Volunteers replace the person whose name is drawn, then it's locked in, was my understanding when I read the books. That is, if you want to volunteer, you _don't_ want your name drawn because you could get sniped out of the running
Man, I'll always be salty how much people loved the books. Susanne Collins literally wrote a better, 5 part series called "Gregor the Overlander". It was better paced with a much more flushed out world. I'm glad it didn't get a movie interpretation though because damn they probably would've destroyed it.
Update: it's ten months later and I was like "Oh man, I'm definitely going to leave a comment about the Gregor the Overlander series", just to find out I totally already did that exact thing.
Woebegone Kenobi randomly you just decided to come back write about a book series the author of the book the film Adam is reviewing’s interpretation? Okay cool
yeah I read gregor the overlander series a few years before I read the hunger games when I didnt know they were by the same author and gregor is much better I agree
Woebegone Kenobi eh, I personally liked Hunger Games more but then again I was in elementary school when I read both of them so I really didn’t have a taste in any sort of art yet
***** The book explained a story about a girl dropping her token while on the pad and getting blown up (as I remember, it was a ball), so why not take one of those with you and throw it at your toughest competitor?
10:09 "Things kinda seem to just be made up as they go along - something here is very, very clearly wrong" I don't know that flow was unintentionally insane with the beat so I put in an ending rhyme.
Believe it or not the super werewolves in the book are actually stupider. They're the re purposed corpses of the this Game's victims. Yes. I'm dead fucking serious. With decorative collars to represent their districts. This was officially the point where I gave the fuck up on the entire series. That was too stupid even for me. And I love Batman and Robin for fuck's sake.
Arnar Er Besturson Aw, thank you ^o^ I won't deny that this series has its moments and I understand why it has its fans but..yeah. After that I was officially like, "I'll stick to Battle Royale thank you. They didn't need to use sci fi bullshit to be unsettling and powerful"
roarshach13 yeah that's not technically right, but it's still kinda dumb. They're not actually made from the corpse but made to resemble them. The bodies still have to be sent home to their families. It's just supposed to fuck with their minds. None the less it is still not that great. But hey at least it's something younger kids are getting into that isn't as awful and morally terrible as the twilight serious. Though this serious does have its moments with both of those things.
That reminds me of the bizzare dark twist in the gritty Bionic Commando reboot where the lead's arm was being powered by his wife. They turned his wife into the robot arm.
I feel like most directors don't know how to use Jennifer Lawrence properly. She can do a good range of roles, but the two she can't do are anger and crying. The former in particular results in her getting a hilarious tone of voice that's so over the top that it's hard to take seriously. Same with the latter, but with facial expressions. She can be a great actress, just not with those two actions.
I always thought the opposite. She's a bad actress because she can only do hysterical crying/panicking but is unbelievably lacking in any emotion that requires subtlety.
I don't think they would have sex with skulls, but it would be some fucked up lord of the flies shit going on, and the horror within would be something this movie utterly failed to recreate or even effectively comment on.
@We Have To Go Back No. It's not. Kids being forced to kill each other has been in other storylines, movies, and animes for decades. They just changed some things.
@We Have To Go Back in that myth city of athens was under the control of king midas so every year Athens had to give 12 young men and 12 young women to send in the labyrinth where Minotaur lived and it would murder those young people until Theseus murdered it. THG series is based on that. And the title of the myth is Theseus and the Minotaur.
Okay, almost every comment on this video is people complaining about how _"the book explains it _*_aaaallllllll!_*_"_ and almost every reply is explaining how that doesn't matter since it's a movie adaptation.
Ryan Mayer everyone assumes that comments like that are trying to excuse the film's flaws rather than people being frustrated that those things were left out
Not really everyone, since I have read the books and know they don't explain it all, or even a lot. Almost all Adam's objections still stand, including that one about who is buying the cakes. Yes, it seems there are a few relatively wealthy families, but not enough to support a bakery, unless they're only eating cakes, every day. An explanation =/= a good explanation.
Flora Posteschild you realize bakeries make more than just desserts right? they tend to also make, like, all the bread. you know how the phrase "bread and butter" refers to what someone considers essential? a bakery's going to be pretty important in a basically agrarian, bartering town. i haven't seen this video in a while, but surely that's the weakest possible argument you could've tried. i think the argument buckley was going for was about peeta's painting skills being a stretch (since there shouldn't be much need for cake decoration) rather than that the bakery shouldn't be doing well. in a town like that, people who sell food are going to be among the most well off
The problem with these movies is that the entire series relies on the audience hating President Snow. Do you like Katniss and care about what happens to her? Not really. She's dry and bland through most of these films. You just want to see Snow get shot in his smug face because he's that effective of a villain. I watched 4 of these boring movies filled with mannequin actors just to see retribution
+MrZurata You know, it's funny. While I absolutely hated Snow in the books, I didn't care one way or the other about him in the movies. I found none of the performances in any of the films engaging at all, and sadly Snow was no exception.
My favorite thing about your videos is your it seems like you scanned the whole movie and automatically detected all its flaws as if you were a robot or something. You just point out a bunch of stuff that doesn't make sense in sequence and it's hilarious.
The volunteering thing is actually explained in the movie, districts 1 and 2 specifically train kids to volunteer which is why they're all buff as hell. I agree with pretty much everything else you say but then I never thought this movie was flawless in the first place, I don't think there is such a thing.
TheWatchernator It was the first volunteering in District 11, when Mahogany McGeorgianwig says "our first volunteer" she's referring to the District not the nation. The fact that Districts 1 and 2 game the system by training people to volunteer is mentioned in the film a couple of times. That still doesn't explain why other districts don't do the same thing, I've never read the books so maybe there was a reason given in them. And yes District 9 is full of aliens and cannibal Nigerians.
The idea around 6 minutes is, if I remember the books right, pretty much how the other districts handle it. The more rich ones at least, they all put their names in thousands of times and like, and then train for the whole year, if not multiple years, expecting to win.
i’m SO glad you caught the “is this real?” bread scene. that genuinely pissed me off when i saw this movie with my girlfriend and she didn’t understand why i was so upset at two fit superhero looking people sharing food like they’re starving. i can die happy knowing i’m not the only one who noticed that shit.
they wouldn't have appeared as starving as other people in the district as they are more well-nourished due to their hunting and gathering in the woods that other citizens cannot do. Additionally, all the running around in the woods would build a lot of muscle. However I do think that they should have been thinner and less polished looking, but definitely not near death. Also, she said "is this real?' because it was refined white bread that gale got from an actual bakery which is noted to be very different from the rough whole grain stuff they usually make at home in the book. not implying that they've never had bread.
2 bad things could happen when adapting a book 1. The audience would complain that the book was nothing like this 2. The audience would complain that this is literally JUST the book and nothing new.
I think a good book adaptation would retell the events of the book but with good cinematography and direction that couldn’t be presented in a book. Like a book might spend a long time saying something that a movie could do in much less time by just showing. Also having small but noticeable nods to the book for anything that would get cut (it’d be naive to think everything from a book to its film would be adapted as usually storylines or characters get cut). Imo Scott Pilgrim is a good adaptation cuz of how it stands on its own, has alternate details for very minor characters, and yet still has nods to the graphic novels. I watched the movie first and loved it. I then was interested and read the books, seeing the different character arcs that wouldn’t fit in a single movie. I then went back to the movie and noticed some details that go by in a second but are really neat to discover.
I'm surprised how much his demographic is 13-17... From most the bigger channels it shows 18-24 being the largest and the assumption is most the 13-17 year olds have an account with the 18+ age to avoid age restriction... So, again, with that assumption you'd assume that the 13-17 age group is even bigger. I'm surprised so many in that demographic enjoy your content.
13-17 year old kids fall for stupid things more easily since their brains are still developing. Despite that, there are some who are able to view all subjects with criticism, even things that they like, but their brains are still developing in other places.
You’re correct about the other districts training kids. I read the book like 7 years ago but they had like ‘career districts’ that’d train up kids from birth(?) to go into the games. It was like the first 3 or 4 districts. The others were too poor
I feel like half this movie is based on the Japanese film "Battle Royale". The kids walking through the forest shit talking dead kids makes a lot more sense when they're all delinquents, though,
Hey hey hey, what was that about your audience? Come on man, it's pretty obvious that the women watching your videos are not the same who love these kinds of movies... And the same applies to men, by the way.
I know. Was just making a reference to how gender-targeted this movie is. It's more of a "young girl" targeted movie than an "all women" movie anyway, so you're right that I could have been clearer on that.
Yeah... well... umm... it's too late!... Too late for me to keep watching your videos because I have to sleep, seriously, it's almost 2 am where I live. It's cool man, thanks for replying. Keep up the good work!
More like some crazy, elaborate, transition about a scenario that shouldn't be typed. its not like some Facebook chat where you have to respond asap.Time isn't a real factor on google+. just look at how long ago this message was written. and if you view that as a joke. then i honestly don't understand your brand of humor.
Ah yes, The Hunger Games. Where a book about an overbearing government forcing kids to fight to the death is marketed in the movie trailers purely on a hot love triangle that barely existed in the books.
Also, most of the points you expressed against the movie were properly explained in the book. That is the main reason this movie series was pretty bad, especially compared to the books.
Battle Royale was so much better, it actually felt emotional and sad when it was trying to be and you could feel a actual sense of danger. Hunger Games was straight up stupid, half of it made no sense and characters were so bland and uninteresting. The girl in Hunger Games you said was enjoying it too much was a direct copy of the psychopathic girl in Battle Royale who was ACTUALLY creepy. People say Battle Royale's ending sucked but have you seen Hunger Games? It's probably the worst excuse I've seen for a ending I've heard in my life!
Fat Rat If BR is for edgy weebs then who were its target audience back home? Paedophiles with a snuff fetish? :S But if we're going down this "bad as each other" angle then I'll chip in: both stories rip off Theseus and the Minotaur.
Basically every problem stated is resolved in the books "Why are these kids so ripped before even training?" Careers "How did Katniss get an 11 out of 10?" It is stated in the books that it's out of 12 These movies are shit.
Both points are explained in the movie though. I didn't read the books and still think the movie did a decent job. I'm sure the books are better because they always are anyway.
I know this is old but another thing in the books the movies completely ignore is the actual main messed up part of the wolves, they aren't just normal wolves and in fact where described more like werewolves and looked remarkably like the dead contestants as they where basically spliced together with the DNA of the dead contestants and normal wolves
I love Peeta's introduction. He throws out some bread for Jennifer Lawrence. . . right on the ground. . . in the rain. . . like she's a dog. Romance imminent. This movie is unintentional comedy gold.
Yeah, Peeta was just a pathetic character. Gale should've been the one chosen for the games since he and Katniss had established history and actual personal and romantic stakes. It would've been much better to have them deal with the games together, especially when they were the only two left!
I especially loved the moment where Peet’s fucking smears the blood on Katniss’ forehead. They try to make it all quiet and serious but when that happened I couldn’t stop thinking of the Lion King.
“S I M B A.”
In the book, he’s actually like a good person
Food is scarce, that's why you throw away slightly burned loaf on a ground.
He's also really ugly
In the book the black kid beats the girl in the face with a rock, Not sure where the "Push her lightly into a wall and die" came from
JoyfullSpartian300 gotta keep that pg-13 rating
I'm sure feminism is also causing world hunger and wars
The Magistere that makes absolutely no sense.
In the book her face was completley caved in and she was splurting blood and stuff out all her orifices nah just gotta keep it pg13
In the movie it looked more like he rammed her skull into the wall multiple times.
I had a ton of problems with the book, but my biggest gripe was why the hell was he making fancy decorated cakes in a district where people eat rats
I think they were made for the capital.
My biggest problem with this is how camouflage painting that complex probably took an hour from a team of professional makeup artists in reality, but somehow he did that to himself in battlefield conditions and fast enough for the others to not catch up with him. The explanation for him gaining those skills is also stupid. Unless those cakes were decorated to make them look like photorealistic landscapes, it's like saying that being good at carving wooden statues makes you a competent shipwright.
Timothy Yasi maybe it's a reference to "let them eat cake" but idk if the target audience is right for putting meta comedy in
I've created a "rat cake" theory and I'm sticking to it.
Timothy Y. Probably being bought by people in the Capitol. The film never really established that some people living in the districts were actually quite well off doing that sort of thing - yet another thing only in the books. Man this is a bad adaptation.
Adam: "The ruling class is comically evil and unrealistic"
Also Adam: "Can the sponsors fuck with the participants instead of helping them? I would"
lol
They look exactly like a typical Met Gala
It's called being based, I'm sure you wouldn't understand.
I shook my head at him going “the ruling class is comically evil and unrealistic”.
I mean, ignoring current events, he clearly hasn’t heard of the games masters used to play with their slaves.
Literally every issue you have is perfectly explained in the book. Which is sad, because a movie should be able to stand alone. Great review!
Katzun Oh wow. A random UA-camr that I recognize watches another UA-camr I like. This absolutely cannot be happening.
+Katzun
The books do have their share of problems, though.
He literally said that at the end of the video, what was the point of this comment
I actually think many of these problems are present in the book.
Oscar H Music That's what he said.
"this is the time to give her a note that says 'ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli"
"why dont you just give her a fuckin GLOCK"
im dead
lol
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I read your comment just as he said that. Spooky.
You can watch The Hunger Games (2012) full movie here *fullmoviesclub(dot)pw/the-hunger-games-2012-full-movie/.* Thanks, Odell.
How to top comment. Quote the video WE ALL just saw.
What pissed me off most about this movie was the lack of on-screen violence. After reading the book I expected a different movie.
+MayuriKurotsuchi fuckin word
+MayuriKurotsuchi yeah i listen do the audio book versions of these and yeah it was a LOT more violent and peeta had a bad leg and katniss was deaf in one ear
+kris stasko Just let me tell you: I am a HUGE fan of THG but the first movie is shit. Complete CRAP. The director was out of his fucking mind when he fucked up the story that badly. So much shit should've happened and it would have caught the eye of even the most critical viewer but he just cut that off and made it the simplistic shit it is.
yeah but it started a trend..so :/
+MayuriKurotsuchi I read the book and watched the movie, what really annoyed me was that when all the people ganged up on Katniss, they could have just burned the tree down.
At 10:09 Adams voice syncs with the beat and it sounds like hes rapping
Bruh it totally does 😂
Same for 11:00
Hel Hel yo that’s wild
I know it wouldnt have made sense, but a wish he said "74 year old song." It would if actually sounded like a rap.
I've noticed a lot of times when people put that beat in the background it sounds like they're rapping. Just that one specific Dr.Dre beat.
10:09 there is some insane rappping flow in the sentence "things kinda seem to...". Seriously, omg
LOL
😂
Holy shit that's amazing
Holy shit I want a full version of that now
Holy shit I want a full version of that now
I've read the book, and listening to your review, it is very apparent that it is almost a requierment to read the book before watching this movie. Some of the flaws you pointed out I didnt pick up when watching this movie, because it was already explained in the book. Which is bullshit, it should be able to hold its own as a movie.
And vice versa.Eg Prim didn't give her the pin
He's reviewing a movie, not a book
Hà Dương Well no shit Sherlock.
19:35 to 20:11
Yes, my point excactly.
What really made me salty was the wasp scene. I wanted to see the crazy shit like trees bleeding and a pit of humming orange bubbles, and I got Bill from Editing fucking around with Sony Vegas for a few seconds. I get it's PG-13 but come the fuck on.
lmao " Bill from editing" xD
That scene was pretty disappointing
In my head it was all Alice in Wonderland type shit and I loved it xD
I mean, how hard is it to create CG hallucinations? Throw the effects guy into the You Had One Fucking Job Club.
I love the way you phrased this, I'm LOL
I like your idea of having each district buff up a predetermined volunteer. Would really raise the level of competition.
They actually do that in other districts. I dunno if it's in the movie but at least in the book they are explicitly referred to as career tributes or something like that.
That does happen, they're called "professionals". The people who camouflage themselves are also trained but in a different tactic.
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that's an actual thing some of the other districts do. I never read the books, but my sister did and she told me about it. They trained specifically for the Hunger Games, then volunteered.
that's something that happens they just didn't explain it in the movie
It’s technically illegal to do but the richer districts do it anyways. Idk why I commented on a 7 y/o comment but whatever
I think Rue's death would have been more sad if the canon shot was there.
Honestly, yeah.
Which canon? The cannon? or the canon?
True, like imagine she's holding onto Rue, who has passed out at this point. She's pressing her forehead against Rue's, silently praying that it's all going to be okay, and there's a silent pause for a second that makes the audience think "hey maybe she'll be alright". After a few seconds of that, the cannon goes off, signifying Rue's heart has stopped, crushing any hope katniss or the audience may have had of a happy ending between the two characters.
I think it would’ve been more effective if we had known the character for more than 5 minutes beforehand
You're expecting artistic competence from the makers of this f*cking dreck?
4 years later and people actually have that hair and beard.
Kolbster47 they’re called feminists
They're called rappers.
They’re called SJWs
Hard Rock Nick
it's the future
They could've even made that cannonshot for that little black girl dramatic to fit the mood. Like, if after she kills Spearman, she heard not one, but two cannonshots. She'd then turn and see the girl on the ground, on the brink of death.
Or heck, you could even use it at Katniss stood up to make the little sign to the watchers, the cannon going off as the movie smash-cuts the riot beginning.
Holy Applebutter And just like that you've proven infinitely more competent than this film's director.
Holy Applebutter but, like, if anything else was going on, how would, the, audience, know to be, like, sad and stuff.
When Roo is shot they should have played 🎵Shot through the heart...🎵
@@omnimonramone8459 The guitar blasts and the people are just standing there, all sad with their fingers up...
Interviewer: “but these are children”
Director: “maybe that’s why I was drawn to it”
This is too fckn honest😂
Pedo intensifies
Kevin Spacey
the second i read this comment that part of the video played
(Chris Hansen intensifies)
FBI OPEN UP
okay wow, this made me realise how little the movie explains. most of the questions you had were in the book and i guess when adapting it to a movie they assumed the audience would have read the book which is dumb
Jaedyn there is no way that anything in that book justifies how stupid the premise is. Read Battle Royal, the original story this series ripped off. Battle Royal actually makes sense.
explain what you find stupid?
The whole plot and environment. The capital is living in the 22nd century, while the districts are living in the 19th century. Hell, it's even worse than the 19th century, because they're all starving to death for some reason. Why? How? It makes no fucking sense. How have they not revolted decades ago?!
John Handcock thank you.
Why haven’t the massive amount of people that are starving (whom are buff somehow and master fully trained somehow) have never thought, “huh? These rich assholes kinda suck. And we all hate them right? Let’s kill them.”
Also what is the motivation of the rich people? How are they rich if they don’t have a lower class that works for them? It all makes no sense. Now if they had doomsday weapons or something, I might understand. But revolts would have happened. Why the fuck does anyone participate in these stupid fucking games? I would take weapons I forged of blunt tools and kill everyone in the citadel. They don’t seem to know how to fight.
It seems more believable to me that the citizens of the citadel may not be fully informed on what's actually going on beyond the walls, are threatened to not lash out against it, or possibly have been raised to believe that what is happening to these kids is deserved in some way as some form of extreme classism.
Read any testament from someone who has escaped North Korea. It is quite the eye opener what people can be made to believe when they are raised in a country that can make you disappear for even gossiping about your leader. If they have the power to keep these districts in line and even parade the slaughter of their children for generations, I'm lead to believe that they must have the military power to back it up.
7:00
There is no reason for anybody to kill Effie. She has no actual power, she just pulls names out of a box and explains the games to the kids who get picked. She's a random number generator and rulebook with a face. Even if somebody did manage to kill her, she could easily be replaced.
+Bob Woggle Also, the Capitol people might see her as a beloved celebrity, and if she were to be killed or kidnapped, there would certainly be an uproar.
+Bob Woggle Also, the Capitol people might see her as a beloved celebrity, and if she were to be killed or kidnapped, there would certainly be an uproar.
+Bob Woggle And you think Teenagers, which are supposed to be the characters in the movie, would consider this?
Miranda Sanchez Yes.
+Miranda Sanchez If being called a faggot by kids in school for a few years can make a kid end up strolling through the halls with an assault rifle shooting anything that moves, I think being told " You're going to be in a shitty clone of battle royale, You're basically dead bitch. " can lead to some pretty violent outbursts.
Actually, you know the true irony in this movie series? We're told that in the Capitol, the Hunger Games are sensationalized and turned into pure entertainment. And then the marketing for the movies happened, and they played pop remixes of the soundtrack on the radio, and advertised Hunger Games themed makeup, and basically did exactly what the Capitol did in the books.
Yeah, that's sick! The only purpose of movies is to get people to watch them so that they make money. When they try to include stupid "deep" messages in there, they're just being hypocritical liars!
The CG Lorax did the exact same thing. They constantly talk about how evil and wasteful industrialization is, and show how the characters are often exploited for material gain. The filmmakers then turn around and create commercials where the Lorax himself advertises cars, restraunts, etc...
Um... what? The Hunger Games are sensationalized and turned into "pure entertainment"? Is that not their entire purpose? And it's ironic because a movie has advertising...? My brain hurts.
they can at least excuse themselves by saying theyre going all meta with the marketing. i mean, i dont think that was their intention, but they can at least pretend like it was to save face
@@oiii3538 Okay, so basically im14andthisisdeep
"I guess when the your target audience is the US you can sell the idea of a famine by simply casting people that are not fat." LOL
This is so true! The movie tries to convince me that they live in starvation, but they all look well-nourished and healthy from the start.
Yup, just like a cartoon...only live-action...but really really cartoony...except live-action. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit was more convincingly realistic.) 🤔🤦😒🤡🤓
Ironically, in the US, it’s the poor that are over weight or obese and the rich are fit or skinny.
BlackSheepNara That's the because the US doesn't have real poor.
@@BlackSheepNara You know you got me curious there, so I looked it up. I found an 2012 article that says that the rate of obesity in the US is 35% among food insecure households. And 25% among food secure households. Yikes.
@@Yodah97 yeah it makes sense junk food is cheap
My favorite part about this review is that a lot of his very valid gripes about the movie are actually explained in the books and many actually make sense when contextually justified. Just shows how shitty this movie is at pulling from its source material and standing on its own.
Thank you for using the fact that things not explained in the movie are explained in the book, as a criticism AGAINST the movie, and not an excuse FOR it. I wish more people did exactly that when commenting on plot holes or unexplained things in movies based on books.
Dude tell me about it, the directors fkn destroyed the story, like the books weren't absolutely amazing but they weren't awful either, and they had way more context than the films
This looks like a generic goreless Hollywood version of the amazing Japanese movie Battle Royal. I bet even the book is a shitty rip off lol
VirusRonsen82 Its really not
@@KillyRR the books just a shitty rip off the author didnt even bother everything changed was to add a plot hole or add something stupid
If you are feeling suicidal go to the Hunger Games.
I knew i was going wrong somewhere!
Nah mate, go to the cornucopia.
If you’re feeling suicidal you’ve come to the right place
Nooo.....
>"I want to die... better make the remainder of my life agonizingly traumatic instead of just tying my throat with a rope to a tree"
dat logic
Districts 1-4 train their teens for the game because they're richer. Some kids even volunteer. No one from district 12 had ever volunteered because they're the poorest district. They don't explain that well enough.
no
Books: 1, 2, and 4
Movies: 1 and 2
3 is not a career in the book or movie
@Augustus Freeman True, but there's a bit in the training facility in the first film where they're talking about the Careers and Katniss mentions they're from District 1. Haymitch says "And 2.", but they leave out 4 for some reason. That always kind of baffled me.
74 years, and not one depressed teen volunteers? I find it hard to believe that in 74 years there hasn’t been one suicidal teen in a poor coal mining town in a dystopian future.
but why not? just because they are poor, not mean they can't train someone. Sure richer district can be well-feed but not like they can't train they body and skill even if they district is poor.
I am very sure they explained it in the movie well enough. It has been years since I have seen it the last time and I still remembered it. He just somehow missed it... hope he doesn't do this to often or he will end up like cinemasins
5:50 that's exactly what other districts do. They even have a term for them: careers. And it will be explained later in the movie.
@@DespOIcito that's what I said. OTHER DISTRICTS.
Geo Sustento not really in the movie, they were just called career tributes so you just assume they’re people that got prior training just in case or something. It’s not the same thing as adams strategy
Actually, was thoroughly explained in the movie. Poor media comprehension is sad.
I love the idea of someone sending them " Ravioli Ravioli give me the formuli"
+Sloth Formula time?
+torogami2 time to stop
+Sloth Time to have a pasta party
If im going to be a high class millionare when this happens Im gonna do it
I've always hated it when a movie would show a character as being from a place that is plagued by famine, yet they don't look malnourished at all. One would think that the folks who made the Hunger Games movie, a movie with a multi-million dollar budget, could at least make the actors look like they have been starved. But then again, the make up department was too busy making the capital residents look like the population of Tumblr.
Actually, it was J law who fucked up Katniss's image. She didn't want young insecure girls to think being emaciated was cool so she went for a lean athletic look. Just look it up for more info
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts I don't think she looked fat in the movie... plus she did also do actual archery lessons for the movie so not like she doesn't know how to put in effort. I think there is a real concern that young girls would look up to her and want to lose an unhealthy amount of weight too if they saw her like that. Not sure how not wanting little girls to get body or health issues cos of what they're seeing on TV is a stupid reason, I'm someone who loves complete accuracy but even then I don't expect actors to lose/gain an unhealthy amount of weight for a role, that's silly.
Though I think it's great they didn't make her look starved for safety of the audience, I think it's just an excuse. Simply putting some proper shadow makeup on the bones and muscles, and then as soon as you get to the capital showing them eating AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
@The Jrr "sounds like she just didn't wanna do go the extra mile and lose weight"
How's she supposed to lose enough weight to look like she's starving to death and still be able to pull off the physical stunts required in the movie? Didn't think that one through, didja? How embarrassing for you.
If this was a movie to be taken seriously with good actors they would initially have lost some 10 to 20 kg for their role.
And if you don't want teenager to relate to a starved Katniss just make the underweight in the movie a bad thing. Show the characters desperate to gain food and weight, show their suffering from the famine, show how much their lives improve as soon as they are properly nourished. Then any intelligent teenager would get the message "no food equals bad".
"I made cakes at a bakery" LMAO that's like saying "I took art class in middle school" and trying to paint something equal to the Mona Lisa.
In the original he wasn’t nearly that good at camoflouge, and was also covered in moss to disguise himself. But they chose image of him looking like a rock over that.
It still confuses me to this freaking day how Pita bread managed to camouflage himself so perfectly while being essentially hunted. That kind of make up would take literal hours. Not to mention the necessary materials.
Heihachi, what does the scouter say abut his power level?
Honestly the dumbest shit in the whole movie
Anyone else find it funny how he rants about Katniss getting a prediction score of 11/10 when it's on a scale of 1-12
actually they did say it in the movie he just missed it lol
Okay, I don't know if you get this often, but ohmygod I see your in the comments of a ton of people I watch
And he put a correction in the video a few months after it went up back in 2013.
Peeble Kitty
they literally explained it right before they showed all the scores lol
This movie was way too lighthearted for the theme. The plot is that a group of people is forced to fight each other 'til one of them is the last man standing, that's pure horror material, but skrew that, let's make a PG-13 movie and skip all mentally disturbing stuff. Killing is okay when you don't show how people are scared to death or mentally distrupted about their actions.
Doesn't sound like something I'd wanna see, especially after watching The Condemned.
+Mixa Horror? No. I'd like it to be a Action, Thriller and Adventure.
+Mixa I just watched part one of the last movie and god it was absoulute wank makes this seem like a work of art 2 hours of fucking nothing missed all the important stuff from the books
+Mixa It would of been a amazing movie if they went to R rating
I remember in the book there was a scene where the town drunk falls off the stage right after Katniss and Bread Boy got up on stage. It was literally the entire reason I went to see the movie and it wasn't fucking there.
They even imply the scene at one point before cutting to him after the scene happens, but you’d only notice if you’d read the book.
The worst thing about the series is easily the lack of character development, in the first hunger games movie only 10 of the 24 tributes have names, the rest are just token no name people who die immediately. Same exact thing happened in the 2nd movie too. In mockingjay part 2 at the halfway point they just started killing characters for no reason, they try to get you attached to a character then they just kill them off a second later.
it would be impossible to properly develop 24 tributes
@@heliopyre Game of Thrones would like to have a word with you.
@@6ixlxrd you mean a tv series with 8 seasons? yeah, that's comperable to a 90 minute film.
@@heliopyre I mean the books, but yeah. Let's pretend they don't exist for the sake of your sarcasm.
Ayy Lmao hold on isn’t one of the rules to being verified on UA-cam to have over 100000 subs? How are you verified?
The part near the end of the movie with the wolves really pissed me off. In the books each wolf signified one of the tributes, there was one that looked like Rue and Katniss saw it and shit. I was super disappointed when they cut this part in the movie :/
Pie KaZkout How does a wolf look like a small girl?
Wake up Sheeple 2017
They replaced the wolf's eyes with the eyes of the dead tributes. They also added the number of the tribute's district on their collars.
Katniss actually shit her pants at that?
Slenderfluid Shits Speedpaints that would be hard to show in the movie though, although not impossible, without looking really dumb.
I still love the fact that the strategy he describes for the volunteers is EXACTLY how career tributes work in the book
I guess the movie forgot to tell us.
Das_Bass To be fair, that's one of the few things the film DOES explain. AND they don't get to have dessert!
1:14 was so written so rhythmic it actually matched up pretty well with the background music
Ya
10:09 he’s talking in a cadence that fits with the instrumental and it’s pretty pleasing to the ear 😂 funny how that happens sometimes.
I love when that happens lol
I actually have always kept it in mind when hanging out with friends, if we're walking through a store and a sing is playing, if I can speak in rhyme, (alongside the song quietly in background) or just work the song's lyrics into the conversation, I'll do it, then just wait 20-30 minutes and see if they even noticed lol
Always gets a good laugh, and when people notice, they get baffled like "wait, are you INTENTIONALLY doing that, ooorrr...."
To which I'll reply
"Huh, that's REALLY ODD! I didn't even notice i was doing that, but if it annoys you, I can always go ahead and put an abrupt and violent stop, TO THAT"(again, rhyming)
And just kinda string them along just to screw with them lol
To me it seems that the logical thing to do to solve that suicide pact would be to broadcast to them is that if they go through with it, their families will be executed in particularly excruciating ways. Say, entomb them alive with an air source left open and let thirst kill them. That is a nasty but simple way to kill a person. You would think that somewhere during those previous 73 games the situation has arisen that the participants decide to just not fight.
Crowley9 you okay bud?
weirdo...
NarcoticDimension hurhur look at me I'm too confined in my social norms to engage in thinking about violence
Mega cringe
No because the previous contenders didn't have a plan to both win. They already said they would, and they would receive massive backlash if they said that. It was easier for them to just let them both win and cause more drama/buzz.
I loved the book, but the movie was always... Empty. It felt really weird without hearing Katniss's inner thoughts, which was like, half the book.
Both are pretty fucking awful tween pandering narcissistic and overly edgy shit.
The movie is so much better than the book. Katniss had a terrible inner monologue and the movie is better because we don't have to hear that shit.
When I found out that the government is not give its citizens food I was like hey the most recycled idea ever and abusive government
I don't know why they didn't do a shitty voice over. The movie was already fucked, that could've helped.
Kami Lee I felt the same. I was disappointed that she found water immediately, like it felt real and like she was fighting to win when she was struggling and then almost died before she found it. I hated how she found it immediately.
7:34 another thing they addressed in the book! In the capitol, they have huge feasts... and then cups of stuff that makes you puke it up. The point of that in the book was that it meant that the capitol had a serious abundance of food but some of the later districts were starving.
chloe e. Eh, that was referenced in Catching Fire.
That sounds like it’s supposed to be a reference to the myth that romans would feast then puke it up so they can eat more.
Then they should have put it in the movie. You shouldn't need to read the book to have the movie's logical inconsistencies answered
@@SaraH-jn5db I don't think that is op's point, it's something they left out of the film IE that's a criticism because removing it actively hurts the authors author's characterisation of the Capitol residents.
"We'll say that they don't even have enough bread."
"I decorate cakes."
Really?
They imitate bread with rat skin obviously.
they sell it to the richer people..??
Yeah there is an explanation for it in the books, but the movie does a shit job of explaining stuff
I'd imagine they have _jobs_ .
Work at McDonald's, and never at a Big Mac?
What!?
@@TemmiePlays Big Macs are garbage, change my mind.
They missed so much good parts in the book. Like when peta (I think) tried to jump off a roof and got shot back up. Katness being deaf in one ear. The other districts trainer their kids like solders.
Yeah those small details impact the story a whole loy
To be specific, he demonstrated the forcefield by throwing an object off the roof, causing Katniss to wryly comment on the fact.
Yes, there are some great things that were in the book, yet aren't in the movie
books almost always better
I thought the whole cliff part was what happened when Haymitch was in the Hunger Games
"Gulliver's Travels or... um. The examples are endless"
I read the first book, corresponding to this film of course, and there are so many things that were left out, including Peeta's amputation.
The dude got his limbs choped off?
Only the leg, yes.
but missing limbs would make him less pretty guys!!
DarkSoulsSauron Oh noooooo, that won't do at all! They would lose their teenage girl audience!!!
Nettohunden619 I cant remember Peeta getting his leg chopped off, at which part in the book did this occur?
I feel like a cannon shot at the little girls death would not only be consistent but would make that scene much more dramatic
I assumed the wolf things had some kind of remote kill switch they could use to keep them from killing the last competitor.
They still should've at least mentioned that, even in passing.
What up Shaym sorry about youtube pretty much killing your main channel
Robert Murrell he kinda deseves it doe
Everything is controlled by the game makers - pretty sure they can 'call off' the dogs. They called off the fire once they got Katniss to go where thet wanted her to
The "wolves" were basically deformed werewolves who had the faces of every person who died in the games. The movie was made for children, the book was written for... idk who. I'm surprised it got so popular. The books were way too brutal for the cringe normie audiences that the film was made for. But I read it like 12 years ago? So maybe im misremembering but doubt i am. It was a brutal book, and I hated the film when I watched it in the theater. Really nothing like the book besides the first half. There's like an entire page describing the kid screaming as he got slowly eaten and tortured by the mutant werewolf things lol.
YMS the scoring system is out of 12 not 10. The reason it’s 12 is because of the 12 districts.
Future Gamer lol
Future Gamer But they don't say it in the movie.
They actually do tho, he just missed it
"""""""12"""""" districts
Some notes:
- she's given an 11 out of a possible 12 (which was stated in the film)
- The super buff kids are "careers" who train and presumably put their names in hundreds of times to get extra food because they want to be in the games which somewhat explains their psycho-ness (also stated in the film)
honestly I just remember how fond I was of the Minecraft hunger games that adapted from the movie/book. I didn't hate the movie but it was nowhere near as memorable as that dumbass minecraft mini-game haha
Minecraft hunger games >>>>> everything else
Remember when EVERY MINECRAFT UA-camR used it? That, and those parkour maps. Ah, the good ol' days.
100%. Minecraft Hunger Games became such a big part of my life that I completely forgot it came from a book with the same name until now.
Actually... that whole "why don't they train kids to be super murderers and then volunteer them for the district to win was an actual plot point explained in the books. The 1st 2nd and 4th districts all do it and that is why they team up in the first place.
A lot of his complaints are explained in the books. Jesus these movies suck ass. I am not saying the books are THAT good, they have their fair share of dumb shit, but the movies are fucking trash in comparison
They could've just added one line in the movie to say that the badass kids volunteer every year and train like mad dogs.
I thought they did, but it has been a while.
phil null yeah they did. it was quick but they did.
+FeatheredCrow They did. They did say that. Why did everybody miss it? It's still not a very good movie, but that was explained.
I would've lost it to see someone send them, "Oh... You touch my tra la la... My ding ding dong..."
+YourMovieSucksDOTorg 18:16
Kinda wished you used a Lion King joke there ;-;
if someone send me that i would slowly die inside of laughter and walk away
"You can tell its the future because no one would wear their hair like that"
*Looks at youtube content creators*
Markiplier is a timetraveller?!
@@almightycinder this aged well
Tik Tok
He said no SANE person. That was the entire joke
Adum is totally rapping at 10:09, yo
+WandaThePanda Sick flow, homes!
Things just seem to be made up as they go along _(Uh-huh)_
Witch is kinda weird for a 74-year-old tradition _(Yo!)_
+Gabriel Shaw somebody should make a mashup of all the moments where Adum talks over that beat and it sounds like he's going with the rhythm; it would be the dankest mixtape ever
WandaThePanda XD lmao
+WandaThePanda and he also raps at 11:01
The film is so pussy about it. In the book its way more gruesome. It details someones head being crushed over and over with a rock, and cato is thrown to the super wolves he is slowly ripped to shreds while still alive, and katniss has to shoot him out of mercy. Plus as you said at the end a lot of these questions are probably solved in the books and they are. Just another example of a film not living up to the book, which is a real shame.
blame PG-13
gotta get those twilight tweens man.
+Mishka well also they wanted to keep the movie pg13 so that more people could see it ya know
Although that does provide a reason for the lack of violence it doesn't completely forgive the film. As they do miss out some really key points from the books, like explaining the careers and the character development that the people of District 12 get in the film is nothing compared to the book. And either way, pussying out and taking away the gruesome nature of the source material just to get PG13 isn't a good thing. That's like saying "yeah i know that the Great Gatsby book has murder and sex and gambling, but we are taking all of it out so that we can get to a younger audience.".
Yeah Clove's death was gruesome shitless. Also hi i'm a year late.
the book has actual commentary and is a great satire of the teen drama format, which is one of the reasons why the movie sucks so bad. the movie literally just cashed in on the fact that the book included all of the teen drama cliches and had an overused premise that preteens hadn't been introduced to yet
it's also important to note that the book addressed most of the issues you had, but the movie was really bad at covering these things, and just sort of assumed you've read the book.
The book explains a few thing but many of its problems carry over into the movie. Not to say that the book was terrible, but honestly it had too many shortcomings for me to completely take it seriously.
AE Hall I think this was about the "random" kids that are magically skilled killers part. In the book his hunch was right, the richer districts have lots of money so they have training centers that molds kids into killer volunteers and win almost every time. Winning gives them more money thus more kids to train. Katniss' district cant do the same because in the book they were extremely poor, and the better-off ones like Peeta came from families that are too selfish to care. Only Haymitch won and his victory was dumb luck.
Also the 11/10 score was meant ro be a punishment. What Katniss did (shooting arrows at the government officials) was a threat so they decided to put a target on her. Once the trained kids know there is a better victor, they'll try to kill her first (or make it top priority) because that would mean the people watching would throw more support and money at Katniss and not at them.
Marga Esperanza the score is out of 12
Marga Esperanza It's out of 12. But I hadn't thought of that - that's actually really clever. Typically in a last man standing situation, it's normal to gang up on the strongest player early on.
Half the contestants had the intelligence of the guards in oblivion
at around 8:25 when you talk about how unrealistic it is for kids chosen at random to be that skilled; Its because those districts are careers who train for the chance at the hunger games for their whole youth. then again, if you missed that it was probably the movies fault as I'm not sure if it was explained. also there's a flaw in volunteering bc the careers want to go to the hunger games, so how does that work for them? wouldn't everyone want to volunteer
whatever lmao. nice points btw
8:35*
Yes, the film does mention the Careers. They don't get to have dessert.
ReloadPsi yeah but i mean about how theyve trained and stuff for the hunger games
jennyeet It's about 38 minutes into the film.
Haymitch: "He's a Career. You know what that is?"
Katniss: "From District 1."
Peeta: "And 2."
Haymitch: "They train in a special academy until they're 18. Then they volunteer. By that point they're pretty lethal."
Effie: "But they don't receive any special treatment. In fact, they stay in the exact same apartment as you do. And I don't think they let them have dessert."
ReloadPsi oh okay
Lost it when he said "What if someone stepped on your face"
Ashley Casey No the really question is what if Katnis stepped on his face? I really wish that had happened it would have been hilarious.
chibidark321 LOL!
*****
That would be perfect XD
+chibidark321 JLAW can step on my face anytime.
*****
OOOOOOooooo kinky :D
10:15 It's even worse in the book. It's divided into 3 roughly-equal sections, and only the last section is the Game itself. The rest is just endless preparation.
Peeble Kitty actually that’s the second book. The first book’s hunger games start at the 2nd section.
Orange Tier I remember that. The quarter quell was a giant case of blue balls too
It's actually the first section as the pre-games, the second section following Katniss alone, and later with Rue in the games, and the third with Katniss and Peeta as allies.
Peeble Kitty mmmmMmMMmmmm one pint deductiooooooOOOON for at-t-tempted murdaaah
It’s a magical thing called “plot”
5:07 Actually I thought the reveal that Prim was the one who was chosen was really well done, at least in the book. I think the typical trope is that the protagonist is usually picked, as though by fate, to undergo the events of the novel. Katniss however, voluntarily shoulders the burden in order to protect her sister, which I think is much more impactful!
A lot of the flaws he mentions in the movie are present in the book. I've always found the hunger games franchise to be highly overrated personally.
Most of the flaws are explained. They hunt illegally food, which is why they are fed well. The upper class drink something that makes them vomit, which is why they are not fat. There are guards on the train, and in the training room. The scoring is out of 12, not 10. And even more I don't even want to explain.
Edit: Actually, you're right. They sucked at adapting the book.
@@daiel1360 fagnerd
I have found my people.
exactly!! i’ve tried telling so many people about the poor character development (ESPECIALLY of katniss and peeta) or how the plot is so predictable and only does things so that the characters can benefit from it in the end, but then they whine and go “UR JUST A BULLY! THE HUNGER GAMES IS THE BEST YOU RAT :((“
Or, you just get a kid with terminal illness who won't live past the game anyways to volunteer and everyone else just joins the lottery a shitload of times.
For Logins he could die before the games or chicken out and there wouldn’t be many kids with terminal illnesses willing to just let themselves get absolutely pounded in the games. He/she might also cling on to life or hope.
And there also is not a guarantee that there will be a kid with terminal illness every year.
Yee ꧁꧂ Sure, in a district so poor you almost can't afford food you have the hope to recover from a serious disease
Sir Jocas El Jocoso Alright that makes sense but the other points are still valid and I believe somewhere in the books it said that you could only enter your name a few times. Not completely sure about that though.
@@yee5163 late reply but yes you're right, you can only enter your name once per family member each year, so Katniss entered her name an extra 3 times to get 3 rations of food for their family
Lmao I love that he's describing literally what some of the other districts do in the book to take advantage of the volunteer system XD Every point he raised really highlighted just how much of the books they cut down on to make these movies
That line you said “I just love being evil. Ha ha ha” sounds like what Butch the Bully said in the Cool Cat movie.
I'd love to give Jennifer Lawrence MY "Winter's Bone", DERHURHURHURHURHURHURHURHUR
Also, have you noticed how, if a person talks normally while a rap beat plays in the background, it almost sounds like they themselves are rapping?
Some of the lines kinda sounded like rapping but some definitely didn't work.
Im surprised Adam because they do deffintatly mention that those kids that are experts did volunteer its just the Katniss is the first volunteer from district 12
What happens if a district has 3 volunteers?
@@dirrdevil Volunteers replace the person whose name is drawn, then it's locked in, was my understanding when I read the books. That is, if you want to volunteer, you _don't_ want your name drawn because you could get sniped out of the running
**DEFFINTATLY**
out of all the ways i've seen people write it, this is by far the best
...in the _book._
@@BirchMonkey857in the movie too. I hadn’t read the book and even I knew this.
Man, I'll always be salty how much people loved the books. Susanne Collins literally wrote a better, 5 part series called "Gregor the Overlander". It was better paced with a much more flushed out world. I'm glad it didn't get a movie interpretation though because damn they probably would've destroyed it.
Update: it's ten months later and I was like "Oh man, I'm definitely going to leave a comment about the Gregor the Overlander series", just to find out I totally already did that exact thing.
Woebegone Kenobi randomly you just decided to come back write about a book series the author of the book the film Adam is reviewing’s interpretation?
Okay cool
yeah I read gregor the overlander series a few years before I read the hunger games when I didnt know they were by the same author and gregor is much better I agree
Flushed out lol
Woebegone Kenobi eh, I personally liked Hunger Games more but then again I was in elementary school when I read both of them so I really didn’t have a taste in any sort of art yet
The thing about volunteering is covered in the movie though, the districts with well-trained fighters are the ones where they do that.
You are better at pointing out movie sins than cinemasins
PK 77 Well cinemasins nitpicks for comedic effect. While yms looks for legitimate problems in a movie.
Reading.
nah. adam is somwhere in between cinemasin nitpicking and legitemate frilm criticism
Hungry Saiyan574 CinemaSins is just shit all together. Their comedy is shitty as hell
I just realized that in the hunger games you could just throw something at the ground near someone's starting point and blow them up
Yeah but u can't throw anything because u don't have anything
+Ice cream Guru They let you keep a token, right? So keep something that would fly straight, then throw it at the strongest opponent.
***** The book explained a story about a girl dropping her token while on the pad and getting blown up (as I remember, it was a ball), so why not take one of those with you and throw it at your toughest competitor?
+Sam Geuvenen Also in the book. It says you are allowed to eat and drink just before you get into the tube. Take the plate and throw that shit
The gamemakers would respond by blowing you up as well. I'm willing to bet the mines can be manually detonated too.
"I got a playlist for that shit now so go find it."
I'm honestly sad that it wasn't just a wall of Darude Sandstorm.
That meme is dead.
WastedUnder21 I wish it was but it's still plaguing music videos. This was the ONE time I'd be happy to see it.
...Why?
No, seriously, WHY? I just want to pretend that song never existed anymore.
Where is the playlist at ?
10:09 "Things kinda seem to just be made up as they go along - something here is very, very clearly wrong"
I don't know that flow was unintentionally insane with the beat so I put in an ending rhyme.
RAVIOLI RAVIOLI GIVE ME THE FORMUOLI
Everyone in the theater lost it when katniss looked down and saw peeta blending into the ground
Believe it or not the super werewolves in the book are actually stupider. They're the re purposed corpses of the this Game's victims. Yes. I'm dead fucking serious. With decorative collars to represent their districts. This was officially the point where I gave the fuck up on the entire series. That was too stupid even for me. And I love Batman and Robin for fuck's sake.
you are the greatest person...dear god.
Arnar Er Besturson Aw, thank you ^o^ I won't deny that this series has its moments and I understand why it has its fans but..yeah. After that I was officially like, "I'll stick to Battle Royale thank you. They didn't need to use sci fi bullshit to be unsettling and powerful"
roarshach13 yeah that's not technically right, but it's still kinda dumb. They're not actually made from the corpse but made to resemble them. The bodies still have to be sent home to their families. It's just supposed to fuck with their minds. None the less it is still not that great. But hey at least it's something younger kids are getting into that isn't as awful and morally terrible as the twilight serious. Though this serious does have its moments with both of those things.
That reminds me of the bizzare dark twist in the gritty Bionic Commando reboot where the lead's arm was being powered by his wife. They turned his wife into the robot arm.
I just pretended that they're rabid dogs instead.
Me having read the book and mostly forgotten the movie: wait this wasn’t addressed in the film? Almost every ten seconds
I feel like most directors don't know how to use Jennifer Lawrence properly. She can do a good range of roles, but the two she can't do are anger and crying. The former in particular results in her getting a hilarious tone of voice that's so over the top that it's hard to take seriously. Same with the latter, but with facial expressions. She can be a great actress, just not with those two actions.
How good is an actor if they can't do anger and crying? Those two emotions/actions are crucial and moment defining in so many good plots.
I always thought the opposite. She's a bad actress because she can only do hysterical crying/panicking but is unbelievably lacking in any emotion that requires subtlety.
3:19. oh Adam, just how horribly incorrect that statement became just after 4 years.
The future!!
When he made the noise for cracking the boys neck I almost died from laughter...
I don't think they would have sex with skulls, but it would be some fucked up lord of the flies shit going on, and the horror within would be something this movie utterly failed to recreate or even effectively comment on.
+Mark L This is why you don't make the movies
Another Kane.
That's pretty neat.
Kane Kerscher Yeah :D
+Mark L Wait... Why would they fuck the skulls?
"This movie didn't rip off Winter's Bone"
You're right, it ripped off Battle Royale.
Nah it ripped off minecraft hunger games
Yeah, because Battle Royale was sooooo original of an idea, it's not like arena style deaths being enjoyed by an audience was never done before that.
@We Have To Go Back No. It's not. Kids being forced to kill each other has been in other storylines, movies, and animes for decades. They just changed some things.
like myth of labyrinth and lord of flies didn't exist before battle royale.
@We Have To Go Back in that myth city of athens was under the control of king midas so every year Athens had to give 12 young men and 12 young women to send in the labyrinth where Minotaur lived and it would murder those young people until Theseus murdered it. THG series is based on that.
And the title of the myth is Theseus and the Minotaur.
Watched the trailer, read the three books, watch the first movie and lost interest. That was my journey.
Elijah Pw fucking baked af eh bud?
You know the next 2 books aren't actually that bad if you're in the right mindset
Okay, almost every comment on this video is people complaining about how _"the book explains it _*_aaaallllllll!_*_"_ and almost every reply is explaining how that doesn't matter since it's a movie adaptation.
Ryan Mayer everyone assumes that comments like that are trying to excuse the film's flaws rather than people being frustrated that those things were left out
Not really everyone, since I have read the books and know they don't explain it all, or even a lot. Almost all Adam's objections still stand, including that one about who is buying the cakes. Yes, it seems there are a few relatively wealthy families, but not enough to support a bakery, unless they're only eating cakes, every day. An explanation =/= a good explanation.
Flora Posteschild you realize bakeries make more than just desserts right? they tend to also make, like, all the bread. you know how the phrase "bread and butter" refers to what someone considers essential? a bakery's going to be pretty important in a basically agrarian, bartering town.
i haven't seen this video in a while, but surely that's the weakest possible argument you could've tried. i think the argument buckley was going for was about peeta's painting skills being a stretch (since there shouldn't be much need for cake decoration) rather than that the bakery shouldn't be doing well. in a town like that, people who sell food are going to be among the most well off
Mason Graye Ironic how a comment above your says "The book explains it all"
And too few of them are calling out how the multiple instances of the movie contradicting the book only weaken that argument considerably.
The problem with these movies is that the entire series relies on the audience hating President Snow. Do you like Katniss and care about what happens to her? Not really. She's dry and bland through most of these films. You just want to see Snow get shot in his smug face because he's that effective of a villain.
I watched 4 of these boring movies filled with mannequin actors just to see retribution
+MrZurata How disappointed/happy were you when you saw Mockingjay Part 2?
+Humbugged I thought the movie was decent in all areas
Jaximous Fair enough, I feel as if they made it way too obvious that Katniss was going to *SPOILERS* shoot Coin instead.
+MrZurata You know, it's funny. While I absolutely hated Snow in the books, I didn't care one way or the other about him in the movies. I found none of the performances in any of the films engaging at all, and sadly Snow was no exception.
Raving Rando Yeah, all the characters with maybe the exception of Peta were cookie cutter and had no character.
To anyone who might watch this review in the future:
*Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli*
you wasted my future time
Ravioli ravioli everyone is dying to a killer virus
Thank you
☺️👏
My favorite thing about your videos is your it seems like you scanned the whole movie and automatically detected all its flaws as if you were a robot or something. You just point out a bunch of stuff that doesn't make sense in sequence and it's hilarious.
The volunteering thing is actually explained in the movie, districts 1 and 2 specifically train kids to volunteer which is why they're all buff as hell.
I agree with pretty much everything else you say but then I never thought this movie was flawless in the first place, I don't think there is such a thing.
TheWatchernator It was the first volunteering in District 11, when Mahogany McGeorgianwig says "our first volunteer" she's referring to the District not the nation.
The fact that Districts 1 and 2 game the system by training people to volunteer is mentioned in the film a couple of times.
That still doesn't explain why other districts don't do the same thing, I've never read the books so maybe there was a reason given in them.
And yes District 9 is full of aliens and cannibal Nigerians.
The idea around 6 minutes is, if I remember the books right, pretty much how the other districts handle it. The more rich ones at least, they all put their names in thousands of times and like, and then train for the whole year, if not multiple years, expecting to win.
i’m SO glad you caught the “is this real?” bread scene. that genuinely pissed me off when i saw this movie with my girlfriend and she didn’t understand why i was so upset at two fit superhero looking people sharing food like they’re starving. i can die happy knowing i’m not the only one who noticed that shit.
they wouldn't have appeared as starving as other people in the district as they are more well-nourished due to their hunting and gathering in the woods that other citizens cannot do. Additionally, all the running around in the woods would build a lot of muscle. However I do think that they should have been thinner and less polished looking, but definitely not near death. Also, she said "is this real?' because it was refined white bread that gale got from an actual bakery which is noted to be very different from the rough whole grain stuff they usually make at home in the book. not implying that they've never had bread.
2 bad things could happen when adapting a book
1. The audience would complain that the book was nothing like this
2. The audience would complain that this is literally JUST the book and nothing new.
3. The movie assumes you read the book and gives you no context to what's happening so new people are confused
I think a good book adaptation would retell the events of the book but with good cinematography and direction that couldn’t be presented in a book. Like a book might spend a long time saying something that a movie could do in much less time by just showing. Also having small but noticeable nods to the book for anything that would get cut (it’d be naive to think everything from a book to its film would be adapted as usually storylines or characters get cut). Imo Scott Pilgrim is a good adaptation cuz of how it stands on its own, has alternate details for very minor characters, and yet still has nods to the graphic novels. I watched the movie first and loved it. I then was interested and read the books, seeing the different character arcs that wouldn’t fit in a single movie. I then went back to the movie and noticed some details that go by in a second but are really neat to discover.
Ready Player One murdered the book so badly, it should be considered a different story in the same universe.
TechAnimation Precisely. Also a movie can help a book get more attention that it deserves.
Am I the only one that just wants to see the book come alive? For me that's the whole point.
I'm surprised how much his demographic is 13-17... From most the bigger channels it shows 18-24 being the largest and the assumption is most the 13-17 year olds have an account with the 18+ age to avoid age restriction... So, again, with that assumption you'd assume that the 13-17 age group is even bigger. I'm surprised so many in that demographic enjoy your content.
Useless Spectator teenagers have more time to watch youtubers then adults since they have to go to work
Tyrannosaurus Debt Mate. You need to watch some jacksfilms.
Its cause teens are edgy and love contrarions.
13-17 year old kids fall for stupid things more easily since their brains are still developing. Despite that, there are some who are able to view all subjects with criticism, even things that they like, but their brains are still developing in other places.
You’re correct about the other districts training kids. I read the book like 7 years ago but they had like ‘career districts’ that’d train up kids from birth(?) to go into the games. It was like the first 3 or 4 districts. The others were too poor
The one thing I remember when the movie was airing in cinema's was that people were shocked that it was rated for kids.
It's a young adult novel.
The author of this book is so talented. She flawlessly ripped off Battle Royale.
I know this was a year ago, but this comment just made my fucking night
Hijacked TARDIS she also ripped off the film "the condemned"
+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
I feel like half this movie is based on the Japanese film "Battle Royale". The kids walking through the forest shit talking dead kids makes a lot more sense when they're all delinquents, though,
Battle Royale was so muchhhhh better.
Not enough people talk about Battle Royale 😭 it's way better
Hey hey hey, what was that about your audience? Come on man, it's pretty obvious that the women watching your videos are not the same who love these kinds of movies... And the same applies to men, by the way.
I know. Was just making a reference to how gender-targeted this movie is. It's more of a "young girl" targeted movie than an "all women" movie anyway, so you're right that I could have been clearer on that.
Yeah... well... umm... it's too late!... Too late for me to keep watching your videos because I have to sleep, seriously, it's almost 2 am where I live. It's cool man, thanks for replying. Keep up the good work!
Adriana Pignolo WTF kind of response is that?
Well my friend, some people call it a joke.
More like some crazy, elaborate, transition about a scenario that shouldn't be typed.
its not like some Facebook chat where you have to respond asap.Time isn't a real factor on google+. just look at how long ago this message was written.
and if you view that as a joke. then i honestly don't understand your brand of humor.
10:08 dude you sound like you're rapping to the music and it's perfect!
Ah yes, The Hunger Games. Where a book about an overbearing government forcing kids to fight to the death is marketed in the movie trailers purely on a hot love triangle that barely existed in the books.
Also, most of the points you expressed against the movie were properly explained in the book. That is the main reason this movie series was pretty bad, especially compared to the books.
Battle Royale was so much better, it actually felt emotional and sad when it was trying to be and you could feel a actual sense of danger. Hunger Games was straight up stupid, half of it made no sense and characters were so bland and uninteresting. The girl in Hunger Games you said was enjoying it too much was a direct copy of the psychopathic girl in Battle Royale who was ACTUALLY creepy. People say Battle Royale's ending sucked but have you seen Hunger Games? It's probably the worst excuse I've seen for a ending I've heard in my life!
Spotify Premium Both of them suck ass BR is for edgy weebs and HG is for 12 year old fangirls who left twilight.
Fat Rat If BR is for edgy weebs then who were its target audience back home? Paedophiles with a snuff fetish? :S
But if we're going down this "bad as each other" angle then I'll chip in: both stories rip off Theseus and the Minotaur.
Battle Royale was repetitive crap with an obnoxious mc. I've actually read the manga of it.
Tbh a good portion of him saying "I guess it was in the book" was correct.
Basically every problem stated is resolved in the books
"Why are these kids so ripped before even training?" Careers
"How did Katniss get an 11 out of 10?" It is stated in the books that it's out of 12
These movies are shit.
Both points are explained in the movie though.
I didn't read the books and still think the movie did a decent job.
I'm sure the books are better because they always are anyway.
@@llel1416 The only movie that I personally think is better than the book is Fight Club
I know this is old but another thing in the books the movies completely ignore is the actual main messed up part of the wolves, they aren't just normal wolves and in fact where described more like werewolves and looked remarkably like the dead contestants as they where basically spliced together with the DNA of the dead contestants and normal wolves
@@phony1551 that sounds way more messed up
@@phony1551 YES dude that was so impactful in the book and they just… really didn’t convey it that well at all in the movie