Everything GREAT About The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!

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Catching Fire! Hunger Games 2! You asked for it over and over and over and I finally did it! See? We have a healthy relationship. Whoā€™s going to see The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes? Let me know if itā€™s worth it! I avoided the trailer as usual. In the meantime hereā€™s everything right with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!

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29 thoughts on “Everything GREAT About The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!”

  3. Effie wasn't entirely wrong, though. They did earn that, even if by killing people; it was a terrible situation they were put in and they made the "best" of it.

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  5. mr cinemawins, you just earned yourself a big SIN for the heavy 'team gale' propaganda!!

    hearing "i've always been team gale" is crazy since there isn't any competition, it's always gonna be peeta. after all these years, i'm still very convinced that team gale exists only because a hemsworth is playing him, people were too young to realise peeta's worth, or they just love themselves an emotionally immature toxic man. that's it.

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  8. It's wild how much better this film is than any of the others. The first felt a like, well, a YA book trying to be a serious and dramatic dystopian story.
    Catching Fire actually just feels like a genuinely good dystopian story that sheds the YA stink.

    But Mocking Jay 1 & 2 are both slogs.

    No idea why this one film got the elixir right and the others didn't.

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  12. Best book, best movie in this series. I mean the first one is a close first because of the excitement of finding out about the world but if you take that away this one is way cooler, way more fun and definitely more rewatchable

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  13. Spoilers for the rest of the series…regarding the topic of "Team Gale"
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    seriously, do not read if you don't know how the original series ends…
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    I am definitely not Team Gale. Never entertained the idea. He has strong "the ends justify the means"/authoritarian vibes, and he has some possessive traits as well. We see bits of that trickle in in this movie, and in a bit of the first. Still, he is largely alright in these, but once the ball starts rolling for the last films…no. The man repeatedly justifies war crimes, more or less, and helps orchestrate one. The man helps bomb civilians and proposes and justifies a plan to risk the lives of even more in another covert action. At one point, early on in the series, he compares killing people to hunting wild game…I understand he was trying to offer some comfort to Katniss in that moment, but it is a concerning thing to say given the further context provided his character. He performs a "stolen kiss" (he kisses without consent) and engages in a lot of passive (hold the passive) aggressive emotional manipulation. As part of his manipulation and general possessive attitude, he gives ultimatums and repeatedly questions the character of Peeta and Katniss's relationship with him. Ultimately, he just is so caught up in what he thinks the right way is that he allows himself to justify some horrible things and support a woman who would continue the very cycle he wants to end….all while actually justifying it. He only ever stops to consider the deeper consequences of his beliefs and actions after he caused the death of Prim…And, given everything else, if she hadn't died and it was just Captial Civilians, I doubt he would have felt so bad about it. No, "Team Gale" is not a thing I entertained. He may have been a good friend for the start of the series, but his character (as in his qualities as a person) really heads down some questionable paths as the series moves on—which is portrayed perfectly in the films, I would say. It starts subtle, and eventually culminates in an ultimate, horrible, terrible betrayal.

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  15. I genuinely can't tell if you're playing it up with some of these opinions abt the hunger games of if you truly just Don't Get It with some of these opinions about Gale vs Peeta. The whole point of these characters is what they represent – Gale is the fight and the rebellion and leadership, and Peeta is peace, safety, and love. There's a reason why the story ends with her having children despite not wanting to originally – the world is finally at peace and she feels safe bringing children into it.

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  23. Some fun things I noticed after repeated viewings:

    1. When the fog is approaching Katniss, if you listen, the sound of animal life (frogs, crickets etc;) is silenced – this is a nice foreshadowing that the fog is poisonous.
    2. When Beetee is talking about his plan and Plutarch is listening in, knowing he is a part of the rebellion, I feel that Beetee is talking directly to him so he knows to keep an eye on him.

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