Why is he PR-trained? (Hunger Games Movie Review)
Kat and Ryley start another YA film adaptation series: "The Hunger Games!" May the odds be ever in their favor. Contrary to the Twilight series, they've read the books for this one.
Review Overview: Upon rewatching, we were surprised at how genuinely entertaining this movie is. The costume and set design are really cool.
Surprisingly violent. It is about kids in a gladiator death match, so it makes sense that it would be, but the amount of it caught us off guard.
Some technical issues, like the shakey camera, but overall it's fun to watch.
kat 0:12
Hello and welcome to Easy Bake Takes. The podcast where we read you the one star reviews of your favorite movies and more. My name is Kat.
ryley 0:21
And I'm Ryley
kat 0:22
We, you know, we didn't we couldn't have enough when it came to doing sequels of movies that were based on young adult novels. So, we decided to start the Hunger Games. So here we fucking go. You excited?
ryley 0:36
I'm ready
kat 0:37
Ready to go on this journey? It's shorter than Twilight by one movie. And I think that's bearable. Like five was too many.
ryley 0:44
Yeah, no. Five is way too much. And I'm thinking about squeezing the last two together.
kat 0:49
Yeah, I think I think that would be possible to, to do with Hunger Games, for Mockingjay. So before we get started on our opinions of the first Hunger Games movie, let's get into some background information. So, the hunger games came out in 2012, which is the same year that Breaking Dawn Part One came out?
ryley 1:08
is it
kat 1:09
was it one or two?
ryley 1:10
It?
kat 1:11
No, because they did a teaser trailer for Catching Fire at the premiere for Breaking Dawn Part Two. So
ryley 1:18
really?
kat 1:18
Yeah.
ryley 1:19
Okay.
kat 1:19
So the hunger games came out earlier that year, and then breaking dawn, part two came out later in the year. This movie is two hours and 22 minutes long. All of these movies are two hour plus. So yay.
ryley 1:30
The one I watched it, it was three hours.
kat 1:33
Did you watch the extended edition?
ryley 1:35
I guess I did. It's the one on Hulu.
kat 1:37
So the one on Hulu that I watched was two hours and 22 minutes. Wait. I might have watched the three hour one and just not realized
ryley 1:44
Yeah, cuz
kat 1:45
I don't know.
ryley 1:46
I don't know.
kat 1:46
Everyone's on Hulu.
ryley 1:48
they're both long. Both of those are long movies.
kat 1:51
They are. If you don't know, The Hunger Games is a dystopian action film series that was adapted from young adult novel. I can't talk today.
ryley 2:01
Okay.
kat 2:02
This is how it was when we were doing the fucking unacknowledged one.
ryley 2:05
Oh, yeah
kat 2:06
I spent 10 minutes on a sentence.
ryley 2:08
I was I was struggling to read. It was a rough one.
kat 2:12
Reading is not our strong suit.
ryley 2:14
It's not.
kat 2:16
And these are my own fucking notes. So if you don't know, The Hunger Games is a dystopian action film series that was adapted from young adult novels that are a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. Just a fun fact, she actually was on the the writing team for the screenplay of this movie. So she was very involved in this one for the writing.
ryley 2:37
Really
kat 2:38
not not so much in the next ones, but just this one, she was super involved. A quick summary of the Hunger Games: "In what once was North America. The capital of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called tributes, to complete to compete in a nationally televised event called The Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. District 12 tribute, Katniss Everdeen, has little to rely on other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love. It's a lot darker of a concept than I remember if I'm being honest.
ryley 3:19
It's kids killing kids. Like I was watching, like when they went into the arena, and I was like, Oh, well, this is very PG 13. Is that what you said?
kat 3:27
yes
ryley 3:28
it's it's pretty, its not gory, but, it's a lot.
kat 3:33
It's violent. for sure.
ryley 3:34
especially towards like, these are children and-
kat 3:37
Catching Fire is way more violent.
ryley 3:40
I haven't seen it. So, cuz I was watching this one and like there's a part where like, the Cato dude, just completely just snaps and this one kid.
kat 3:49
Like it's nothing
ryley 3:50
like it's nothing and it's it's kind of jarring. It kind of jarred me. I was like what
kat 3:54
I remember the way I found out that Rachel's dad was a Marine was because we were talking about the Hunger Games and she just randomly chimes in and goes, it takes actually a whole lot of strength to be able to do that, so, I don't think that kid could have done it.
ryley 4:11
That's such. That's so funny.
kat 4:13
I'm like, you know, I thought of that because he does it so easily. I'm like, you couldn't have done that.
ryley 4:18
That's so funny. I didn't realize how violent it was, especially like, okay, Rue when she dies
kat 4:24
in the middle of a fucking sentence.
ryley 4:26
Yeah
kat 4:26
it's so heartbreaking. It was heartbreaking in the book.
ryley 4:29
Yeah, I remember being really sad. I think I think I cried.
kat 4:32
I think I did too. But in the movie, just, it's so jarring.
ryley 4:37
It is and she's so little
kat 4:39
she is she's just a little kid.
ryley 4:41
Yeah, it's pretty there's also another little kid, he doesn't have an lines. But it was like right when they release them into the arena and he's hiding and he get he grabs a bag gets up and again that Cato dude just completely like I'm pretty sure cuts his head off. I'm pretty sure, like, something like that happen.
kat 4:57
Yeah
ryley 4:58
like it's it's pretty violent. like it's not
kat 5:01
the book is more violent.
ryley 5:02
Yeah, no, the I remember, yeah, the book being violent, which is so funny that this was we were made to read this in sixth grade. That's the funniest
kat 5:10
eighth grade
ryley 5:11
was it eighth grade? Okay. Still, it's like,
yeah
it's pretty funny tha
kat 5:16
they took us to see it.
ryley 5:17
They took us to go see it. Like you couldn't go see the movie if you didn't read the book.
kat 5:22
Yeah, and that's the only reason I read the book.
ryley 5:24
Yeah
kat 5:25
I was like, I want to go to the movies in the middle of the day. Are you kidding?
ryley 5:28
I don't want to be the kid left at school because I didn't read the book.
kat 5:30
Yeah.
ryley 5:31
Also, it was a pretty entertaining book.
kat 5:34
And it was like an activity filled day to they didn't just take us to the movies.
ryley 5:38
Yeah
kat 5:39
they made us like, break up into like districts.
ryley 5:41
Uh huh. Yeah, I remember that
kat 5:42
I was in. I was in whichever one the fishing one was. That's the one I was in.
ryley 5:48
I couldn't even tell you.
kat 5:49
I don't know why I remember that. but like-
ryley 5:50
That's so I can't believe you remember that? I have no clue. I have no clue.
kat 5:53
That is all I remember. I remember that and then going to the movies. And then someone I was friends with fell asleep during the movie. Or like, it was the camera was oh That's something we will get into when we get into our thoughts and feelings.
ryley 6:05
Oh, yeah.
kat 6:06
I'm gonna get the rest of this information out of the way. Yeah, someone got like motion sickness.
ryley 6:11
Yes.
kat 6:11
from how shaky.
ryley 6:11
Oh my god. I completely understand that
kat 6:13
so much shakier than I remember.
ryley 6:14
Oh, yeah, I will. I'll get into later. But I'll let you
kat 6:18
and not to be dramatic, but it reminds me of the opening scenes of fucking Saving Private Ryan, just how fucking shaky that shit is.
ryley 6:28
In this episode, we're gonna talk about the comparisons of the hunger games.
kat 6:31
This is actually just my essay about how the par- the cinematic parallels between Saving Private Ryan, and the Hunger Games. But anyway, so to get into a bit of the cast and crew, this one was directed by Gary Ross. He also directed Pleasantville, which he also wrote, and I know a lot of people really hate that movie.
ryley 6:52
I've heard the opposite.
kat 6:53
I've, see I liked it
ryley 6:54
I know it's like popular. I haven't seen it. I know. It's very popular, or
kat 6:58
Yeah, it's got Tobey Maguire in it. What could you need?
ryley 7:00
Yeah, it does have tobey maguire in it. I don't I've never seen it. And I've heard I've heard good things about it. I don't know if that's just because they're bits. Like they're joking about it. Because it's ironic. I don't know.
kat 7:11
The screenplay was written by Gary Ross as well. And Suzanne Collins who wrote the novels and Billy Ray, not Cyrus, who wrote Captain Phillips
ryley 7:26
okay.
kat 7:29
and then because of how grand these movies are, I wanted to list some other people. So the production design was actually done by Phil- Phil Messina, who did the production design on another movie, Jennifer Lawrence was in Mother, which if you have anxiety, don't watch that. Yeah, Sheen. Dugall or Duggal was the VFX supervisor on this movie. Next up, we'll get into the cast. Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss, Josh Hutcherson Hutchinson plays Peeta, Liam Hemsworth plays Gale, Amandla Stenberg plays Rue, Woody Harrelson plays Haymitch, Elizabeth Banks plays Effie and then some other people who are in it are Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Wes Bentley and Lenny Kravitz. So this movie had a stacked cast.
ryley 8:15
Yeah, it's it's pretty impressive, actually
kat 8:19
it is very impressive for this, but I think because it was made after like the Twilight series, and how big that got just from being like,
ryley 8:27
they knew how profitable they would be. It doesn't matter like, Oh, they're for kids, or oh, this is dumb. No, you're gonna make money if you're in these movies.
kat 8:35
Yeah. Literally, when it came out. It actually was the highest grossing film that Lionsgate had put out at that point. And it was the top grossing film domestically in the box office four weekends in a row when it first came out. So it just it it went off with a bang.
ryley 8:53
Oh, yeah.
kat 8:54
And then let's see. So another thing I wanted to talk about a little bit was people like since it's a young adult novel, that's dystopian people speculate about what the theme of the book is. So I'm going to read some a list of ones that I found of just different theme ideas that people speculate this movies about. A lot of them I think it's honestly all of them like a mixture of all of them, but it was inequality slash class divide, the evils of authoritarian government, feminist revision of sci fi action blockbuster. My speculation, mainly, and this as the tangent I went on yesterday when I was writing my notes, capitalism, like the evils of capitalism.
ryley 9:37
Yeah.
kat 9:37
And then something something war is bad. I don't know. I just, that's, that's in there too
ryley 9:42
that's a given.
kat 9:43
Yeah. Okay. So the fun facts for this movie that I found were that Suzanne Collins collaborated with Ray and Ross on the script. Some things that they changed from the novel were that they replaced Katniss' inner monologue, because she's the narrator in the book, by expanding on the character of Seneca Crane showing exposition through Him, because they can't externalize her thoughts. And they visualize the command center because you know originally in the book Katniss has no idea what the command center looks like, but, they wanted to visualize it to highlight how artificial this fighting arena is. And then Sheen Duggall and Ross kept like an omniscient view of everything that would justify the deus ex machina experiences that Katniss goes through just to like, make it feel a little more detached.
ryley 10:32
Okay, yeah,
kat 10:34
yeah. And then Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars won a Grammy for Best Song for Safe and Sound for this movie. The Capitol design was based on building designs from the 1939 New York World's Fair and a lot of the political symbols were based on political power symbols from Tiananmen Square and the Red Square. Soirse Ronan, Emma Roberts and Abigail Breslin auditioned for Katniss. Evan Peters auditioned to be Peeta. And then David Slade was considered to direct and he did Twilight Eclipse
ryley 11:07
right.
kat 11:07
The last thing I have is that Jennifer Lawrence was taught archery by Olympic bronze medalist, Archer Katuna Lorig, which I thought was cool.
ryley 11:16
Yeah
kat 11:16
They like got an Olympian to train her how to do archery. And then she, yeah, and then she also trained in yoga, rock slash tree climbing, combat running and lastly, and most importantly, parkour.
ryley 11:30
I mean, I saw those things in the movie she needed to
kat 11:34
Okay, let's get into thoughts and feelings so I can get all these thoughts and feelings out. You go first.
ryley 11:40
Okay. I was very surprised on how entertained I was throughout this movie. I thought I was gonna be bored. Thought it was gonna be way too long. I thought I was. I was I was entertained like it was. God three hours, but it didn't feel that long and
kat 11:59
right.
ryley 12:00
I did want to ask you a question. So I love all the costumes and all these like, I love the makeup. I love the costumes I love. Is it camp?
kat 12:12
I think you could consider it?
ryley 12:16
you could argue, I bet you could argue you can argue anything, but
kat 12:19
I actually had something written down about the costume design. The costume design was done by Judiana Makovski and she and her crew who based the district outfits off of 1950s America. And
ryley 12:34
oh yeah, cuz like district 12 Looks like 1930s like depression era. So it makes sense. Like
kat 12:41
yeah, and they kept it to like gray and blues. And then with the capital, they made everything very theatrical and bright, and they used a lot of flowers and ruffles and face powder. You know, they look they look like they all look like Marie Antoinette. Like
ryley 12:55
yeah
kat 12:56
yeah, it's not the most creative thing on on the planet, to, like, use those parallels for that, but, I think it's really cool that that level of thought was put into it.
ryley 13:07
Yeah. And it made it you know, just visually interesting. I did. I did like it and there was like some makeup looks. I'm like, that looks good. I would wear it.
kat 13:18
At one point, there was like, a makeup look they did on Katniss and I was like, I could see that makeup look being in fucking euphoria.
ryley 13:25
Yeah
kat 13:25
that looks like something people would do now.
ryley 13:27
Exactly.
kat 13:28
Are we in Hunger Games, now?
ryley 13:30
We might be. I love the costumes and the makeup. Thought it was really fun. Stanley Tucci Holy crap, I love that actor
kat 13:40
The fuckin flappers. They make him wear
ryley 13:43
flappers?
kat 13:44
For his teeth. It's like a
ryley 13:45
That's not his real teeth, is it?
kat 13:47
No, it's, flappers are this thing that like beauty queens and like pageant kids use it like it makes your teeth look like you have like just perfect teeth. That's why he talks like this.
ryley 14:01
And why he's so scary looking. I love, he was so good. I was
kat 14:07
he was amazing in it
ryley 14:08
he was amazing in it. I love Woody Harrelson. I just I'm a huge Woody Harrelson fan, so I just love him. I don't think he has the most interesting role, but I don't care.
kat 14:19
Yeah, he's just kind of,
ryley 14:21
he just hangs out.
kat 14:22
He's just there.
ryley 14:22
There is a scene where Peeta is reaching to grab a drink away from his hand and he just
kat 14:27
he puts his foot up
ryley 14:27
bear ass foot on his chest
kat 14:31
well, thats how I want to stop people from doing things to me now.
ryley 14:34
Well, I like I saw that he was lifting his foot up to stop him. I was not expecting him to be barefoot. It was the
kat 14:41
he's in a train
ryley 14:42
it made me laugh so, they were dirty. They were dirty, his toenails were dirty. There's no reason for it to be that funny. It made me laugh so hard. Because that's to me, it's just a woody thing. Like I don't see that man I doubt
kat 15:01
he just showed up on set
ryley 15:02
either? They forgot he did. She was on. They didn't bother to look down.
kat 15:06
No.
ryley 15:07
And they just in that scene, they're like "oh god"
kat 15:11
anything else?
ryley 15:13
I think that's about it. I might bring up something later because I think there was something but I can't remember.
kat 15:19
I'm sure my fucking laundry list of thoughts will spark something.
ryley 15:24
Yes.
kat 15:25
So, I used to think prim was like a little bitch when I watched it. But then I realized that I would have I would probably end up being Prim. I'm not Katniss. I'm not volunteering for nobody.
ryley 15:37
No. Oh, God, no. What's his name? Liam's character, Gale.
kat 15:43
Yeah
ryley 15:44
he he had he's like, Oh, I'm gonna run away. He's a he's a like a Dodge drafter and
kat 15:50
he is a fucking dodge.
ryley 15:51
I would totally do it. I'm gonna not stickin around
kat 15:53
draft dodger
ryley 15:54
Did I say Dodger drafter?
kat 15:56
You said dodge drafter
ryley 15:58
Gotcha. Okay, I guess that doesn't make sense
kat 16:01
that a new car or the Dodge drafter? But, yeah, like Gale. Gale was planning on running off and
ryley 16:09
yeah,
kat 16:10
dodging the draft.
ryley 16:11
Oh, yeah.
kat 16:11
Here we fucking go again. Team Peeta or team Gale? I'm always firmly team Peeta because Gale is just not as emotionally there in the story for me to give a fuck
ryley 16:23
Peeta is so ugly.
kat 16:26
I had a huge, no I had a huge crush on him when I was a kid. I don't I don't know. I just I thought he was cute. And so I don't know. He seems sweeter too I don't know. So you're team Gale?
ryley 16:36
I don't know. I don't- I also agree he is not emotionally there. Yeah, cuz like his character isn't really around that much. Like, it's just kind of like, kind of the love that he's just part of the love triangle that kind of barely, kind of barely exists. In those movies. It's not really played very hard.
kat 16:53
It's a fake relationship and her like childhood love.
ryley 16:57
Yeah
kat 16:58
you wouldn't think you wouldn't think she would go for Peeta, but like they're trauma bonded.
ryley 17:04
Yeah. I watched the- cuz I'm remember in the book. In the books, they end up together.
kat 17:10
Peeta and?
ryley 17:11
Katniss.
kat 17:12
Yeah
ryley 17:12
I'm sure they follow along with the books, but I want to see more of the movies. See where that develops. Also, little shout out. I don't like Peeta's name for a man because my boyfriend's sister has a fat little chihuahua named Peeta, so I can't take a grown man named-
kat 17:29
Is it after? Is it after the Hunger Games?
ryley 17:31
I don't know.
kat 17:32
Or like Pita bread
ryley 17:33
I'm gonna have to ask her. Because I never even thought about that. Because like, I guess I forgot but
kat 17:38
ask her
ryley 17:39
I'm gonna ask her cuz that's interesting.
kat 17:41
My next thing I wrote down that I forgot how intentionally shaky it was. And then the capital people Marie Antoinette thing I wrote down anti capitalist and then I said no matter how dystopian things get money will always equal power. And then
ryley 17:58
You did go into it.
kat 18:00
I did.
ryley 18:00
Yeah.
kat 18:02
And then I said that Peeta looks perpetually lost. He has resting, he has resting "huh" face
ryley 18:07
that's the thing about his character. He's always confused but the second he's on camera, he like turns out a charm like a celebrity. I'm like that is that is not consistent with the rest of this character. And I guess you can say like, oh, that's celebrity life.
kat 18:20
I think that the they were trying to make it to where like, he's just a really genuinely nice person. So he just is like that.
ryley 18:28
Like when he's being interviewed by Stanley Tucci his character. He goes, Can you smell me? Do I sound like roses? Like that is so funny. It just made me laugh. But like to me that was like such a talk show host moment.
kat 18:42
Why is he PR trained?
ryley 18:43
Yeah, he's PR trained. That's what I'm saying. And like, the only PR they get is like in the backroom. They're like, just be yourself.
kat 18:51
Haymitch is like don't be a dick.
ryley 18:52
Don't be a dick. And then Lenny Kravitz, what- is it? Lenny Kravitz? Yeah, his character. He's all like just be yourself. It's just I just thought it was like very inconsistent with his character to be so confident on screen to be like just a lost child everywhere else.
kat 19:08
That's fair. You could think of it this way too, Katniss the whole thing, the whole way she gets out of dying is by pretending to be in love with Peeta. And like, fake a whole whole romance thing.
ryley 19:20
Yeah, keep them alive.
kat 19:22
Maybe that's him doing the same thing.
ryley 19:25
Oh, okay. Like it's a survival tactic. Oh, okay. Yeah, I could buy that
kat 19:29
People can't see a comment if you're acting smart 24/7
ryley 19:33
Yeah, okay.
kat 19:34
The other things I wrote: Haymitch is great, the CGI fire outfits look terrible,
ryley 19:39
oh, so bad.
kat 19:40
And then I used to not like Katniss as much. Or I- and I thought when I was rewatching this I was going to find her annoying. I like her
ryley 19:49
I remember like there was a big hate thing over Jennifer Lawrence.
kat 19:53
Yeah, that's something I didn't add in the fun facts, but like there were like a list of controversies. Literally people were poke, like making fun of her weight. Because she wasn't like rail thin
ryley 20:05
and literally she's like the most like
kat 20:07
she looks like normal.
ryley 20:08
Just the fact that people always have to talk about woman's weight is always just so aggravating.
kat 20:13
Yeah,
ryley 20:14
that's like so and inappropriate. And we've made it so normal to do
kat 20:17
I think also she was like not to be a woman hater, because I love women. Okay. I am one and I love them.
ryley 20:24
Yeah,
kat 20:25
it's a women's month, godammit. She was a little like, I'm so quirky.
ryley 20:29
Oh, yeah, she'd be like, I eat pizza and don't work out. Which is aggravating because she's to me. I always thought she was like, super thin.
kat 20:38
What was mostly like the baby fat on her face that she hadn't like lost yet.
ryley 20:42
Oh, yeah
kat 20:42
I guess. And like, it was stupid shit like that.
ryley 20:45
Yeah, I've heard like, she had some nudes leaked. And for whatever reason this was during that era, where people would just blame the woman. They'd be like,
kat 20:56
Why are you taking pictures in the first place? Like fuck off.
ryley 21:00
People are just crazy. And it's just insane. I just remember like I felt bad for her then. Your privacy was invaded and now people are mad at you because of it like to me that's just so crazy.
kat 21:12
It's like also this weird expectation of it's like you played a character for something that was for younger people. You have to be like this perfect role model
ryley 21:21
forever.
kat 21:22
Forever. Literally
ryley 21:23
forever.
kat 21:23
It's It's like she is a human being
ryley 21:26
no kidding.
kat 21:27
She's an adult human. She can do that. She was she was not expecting someone to hack into her iCloud you know?
ryley 21:34
And steal her private photos. I think I do like her as an actress. I- do I think she's the most like versatile actress? No.
kat 21:43
She does a lot more yelling and crying in the next one. Not to reduce her character down too much like it's it's definitely a step up from how teenage girls get portrayed a lot action type movies, or just women in general get portrayed in like action movies, like she's more strong than Peeta and I always liked that. where it's like he's the weak one.
ryley 22:04
Yeah, that's the that's the best part.
kat 22:06
But the last thing I had on my list was just the fact that these movies are the reason I own a bow and arrow yes, if I can find it I'll I'll post a picture for this episode with fuckin
ryley 22:23
That'll be funny
kat 22:23
me. In my fucking bow and arrow position. Also, my name is Kat so people would call me Katniss as a nickname.
ryley 22:31
Did you like that at that time? Or
kat 22:33
I was like, whatever.
ryley 22:35
Okay,
kat 22:35
whatever. I don't really care what nickname people come up with for me, as long as it's not mean.
ryley 22:40
Yeah, exactly.
kat 22:42
That's everything I have. Do you have anything else to add? Before we move on?
ryley 22:46
Um just this is off topic. But like when you just say like, oh, I don't mind nicknames as long as its not mean. There are people where you just abbreviate the name a little, like and they lose their minds. They can't like they're like, that's not my name. And it's like,
kat 23:00
I changed your whole name for an entire, for four years of high school
ryley 23:04
People didn't know who deb- they didn't know there was the same person named Debbie and Ryley who are meeting me go you're Ryley? I was like, Yes.
kat 23:12
Thanks, Kat.
ryley 23:14
People don't know who I am
kat 23:17
You go by your middle name? Let's call you your first name.
ryley 23:20
I have. I just have the worst first name though. So there you go.
kat 23:25
So, moving on to the critics. Of course, Richard Propes has seen this movie and wrote a review about it so we'll start there with him. Also, he followed us on Instagram, which I think is very sweet. I looked into his Instagram. He's a very like, charitable dude. Like he just seems like a nice person so that's really cool. So this is from the independent critic Richard Propes written in 2012. Initially, Propes was underwhelmed by the trailer and was expecting the film to be a disaster, and says that it wasn't a masterpiece, but it does belong to be like among the best of like film adaptions of like young adult novels, like for example, like Harry Potter, like, he believes it deserves to be up on those levels, too. It was it. It's pretty good for a young adult film adaptation
ryley 24:12
It I mean, I was entertained through it. And as someone who actually did read the book and see the movie, it was I mean, I don't know if they changed anything. It was pretty close.
kat 24:23
It's pretty it's pretty true to the book. It's I do have a review of it that claims otherwise.
ryley 24:29
Oh
kat 24:29
but we'll get there. He mentions that the film reverses gender stereotypes, and believes that it's superior to Twilight and believes that like Katniss is a better character than Bella is and like they couldn't even compete like they're not even in the same realm.
ryley 24:43
Okay, like physically like if they fought
kat 24:47
I guess so
ryley 24:48
it or is the talking like theme/character-wise, like,
kat 24:52
I think a little bit of both
ryley 24:53
Katniss is a stronger character than Bella? He means both. That's so funny.
kat 24:57
I'm interpreting it as both Richard If you ever watch this or listen to this, you could tell you let me know otherwise
ryley 25:07
yeah
kat 25:07
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ryley 25:09
I would agree with him on both, if it's a stronger character yes Katniss is probably a stronger character the Bella I also agree and I also believe Katniss could kick Bella's ass if they were to meet so I also agree with that
kat 25:20
even when she's in vampire form
ryley 25:21
even when she's a vampire I think katniss still has a pretty good chance Yeah,
kat 25:24
She trained in parkour, okay, she could beat your ass. Anyway, so the writers, he also believes that the writers and the director found a good balance with everything they did for the film. Lawrence was one of the best of the up and coming actors in Hollywood. Hutcherson couldn't quite keep up with Lawrence but is a nice contrast to her acting and then Stenberg shines as Rue and then ends the review with quote, "The Hunger Games is a film where both style and substance work together to create one of the year's best action flicks so far."
ryley 26:00
I mean, yeah, it's a decent action movie and by the- during that time, yeah, I bet so
kat 26:05
so the next one is a negative one. That was written in 2020.
ryley 26:09
Very recently
kat 26:10
Written by Patrick Navarro, on their website, P. Navarro. They say that it's a workman like exposition of events in the novel, and then it left no room for virtuosity and it's a literal slash unsurprising adaptation of the novel. Says also that it's a mixture of other quote "largely better sci-fi dystopian stories" and included Blade Runner on that list, if you need an example of what this critic thinks is a superior dystopian sci fi story. There's more of a focus on politics in the film version than in the novel, for example, like showing the riots in district 11, after Rue was killed. The action sequences are disappointing. There was no gore or violence because it was for a family audience. And that the short of the shots are jerky, and the cuts are jarring.
ryley 26:59
Okay, the last bit yeah. I don't want to call him a psycho. But like, come on, like there was enough. These are kids being murdered in a
kat 27:08
Do you need a Kill Bill bloodbath?
ryley 27:09
Yeah, no kidding. Because like, this kid, one of those kids snapped the neck of the other kid. I'm sorry, that's not enough violence for you? A little girl got stabbed. Like it's a lot. And to me again, I think this is something of like, someone who is not the targeted audience is watching a movie, and they're judging it like it is for them.
kat 27:34
What is the point in comparing this like, epic action movie that has a really strong female lead, and going? It's just copying from other sci fi dystopian stories.
ryley 27:46
I'm sorry to compare this movie to Blade Runner. Like, you're reaching you are just grabbing good movies and going it's not as good as this, only no one ever said it was
kat 27:59
every fucking sci fi copies from each other.
ryley 28:01
No kidding. And like something there's like something called Battle Royale.
kat 28:05
Yeah, that one gets compared to, because the story itself is like really similar.
ryley 28:11
Yeah
kat 28:11
Battle Royale came up quite a bit when I was looking for stuff about this. So, the next one is from fantasy and science fiction magazine by Kathy Mao. I think we read one of her reviews for one of the Twilight movies. I don't remember which one. But this was written in 2014. She believes that pulling off Katniss as a character is really difficult. But Laur- Jennifer Lawrence gave Katniss the strength as well as she communicated the horror and the fear really well for Katniss. And that this is- the Hunger Games is a coming of age movie if it involved a kill or be killed gladiator contest. That's all she really said about the Hunger Games specifically.
ryley 28:52
Okay, well, yeah, totally. Like, I think the fear and like the surrealness of what is happening, like,
kat 28:59
yeah,
ryley 29:00
I think they show that very well. Someone would- she's almost like numb, you know, for a lot of the movie. I mean, how else are you supposed to react to this? ya know?
kat 29:07
Like, what in your life is supposed to prepare you?
ryley 29:09
No kidding. Yeah. And like, even someone who grew up knowing that this is a possibility that could happen watching it on screen happened to other kids. They don't know what to do. I mean, yeah,
kat 29:19
of course not.
ryley 29:19
Yeah. So yeah, I think it was very well written for that. So I agree.
kat 29:24
Yeah. And then you know, Jennifer Lawrence did a good job portraying that
ryley 29:28
She did she was good. She was good.
kat 29:30
That was another thing I meant to- so Jennifer Lawrence in Suzanne Collins mind perfectly matches, like, the maturity level, while still being like, you know, a kid going into a situation like this really well. And uh, you know, she thinks Jennifer Lawrence did an amazing job of portraying Katniss how she wanted her to be. And then she was discovered.
ryley 29:52
Definitely yeah
kat 29:53
so the last review I found was from Fort Worth weekly.
ryley 29:57
Oh, nice.
kat 29:58
Represent Texas.
ryley 29:59
Hell yeah.
kat 30:02
This is written by Christian Lin. In 2012. Lin believes that the film didn't adapt 100% well from the novel, but it does an, economically it does a good job of setting up this complicated premise. So you know, it had it had a big budget I think I actually wrote down what the budget was for this movie, a $75 million budget on the first movie of a trilogy.
ryley 30:25
Yeah, cuz How much was the one for Twilight was around I want to say around 60-69 One of them was though, like he was about 68 or 69 million.
kat 30:40
I'm looking at it now. None of them are anywhere near that.
ryley 30:42
Are you serious?
kat 30:44
So the first Twilight had $37 million budget
ryley 30:48
oh way lower
kat 30:49
The second Twilight.
ryley 30:50
Okay
kat 30:50
the second toilet had 50 million
ryley 30:52
Okay,
kat 30:53
so like it that's that's a lot lower than the Hunger Games getting $75 million.
ryley 30:57
Yeah
kat 30:58
for the first movie
ryley 30:58
where did get 69 ?
kat 31:00
I think you're just your minds in the gutter.
ryley 31:01
I'm just
kat 31:02
I think that's where
ryley 31:02
Yeah, I need to clean it.
kat 31:05
Anyway, Lin also believes that the director Gary Ross makes- made a point to differentiate the film from other fantasy adventure young adult films at that time, so it's more of like a natural lighting like gritty rustic setting because it's district 12 is set in the Appalachian Mountains
ryley 31:27
right
kat 31:28
also believes that Lawrence's performance grounds the movie especially during the middle part of it, where it seems like it could very easily lose its way plot wise. And then ends the review with quote "adds up to an intelligent reasonably well made first installment that leaves us primed for Katniss' future adventures."
ryley 31:46
True. Yeah
kat 31:47
yeah.
ryley 31:48
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm excited. I'm excited to see the new one because I can't remember if I saw the second one or not. I think I said I didn't. But I can't- I legitimately can't remember if I have or not.
kat 31:59
There's a lot of stuff I thought happened in The Hunger Games that happens in that one.
ryley 32:04
Okay
kat 32:04
So like I think just. most of my issues with they were I was just confusing which movie stuff happened in.
ryley 32:09
Okay
kat 32:10
but I think that's a pretty good way to sum up this movie. Like it's not the perfect film adaptation of a novel.
ryley 32:18
No
kat 32:18
but it it had the budget and the good, like a good writers and directors to make it like, set up well, for the rest.
ryley 32:26
No, yeah, definitely. And it was entertaining. Like, I was not expecting to be as entertained as I ended up being.
kat 32:33
Oh yeah
ryley 32:34
and like, it was so funny, because like, I was watching it and I was trying to remember details from the book and movie. So I was like googling stuff that I remember googling in like eighth grade, when we read the books only, like, technically could an adult volunteer as tribute in the district in case a parent wants to take their place of a child. They can't do that, by the way. I looked it up, you can't. Or like I looked at like, did- has anyone lost, has no won a Hunger Games?
kat 33:00
I think there was one in like, I think they mentioned in the books or something where there's like one hunger games
ryley 33:06
so many details in the book about just little things that really don't matter but like they were interesting to read, because like the whole history of like, The Hunger Games, because it's been happening for like, what 75 years,
kat 33:17
like I wanted to, after we finish this, I'm probably going to reread at least like the first two.
ryley 33:23
Yeah.
kat 33:25
Because I remember really, really liking the catching fire book
ryley 33:28
I remember really liking them. And then I don't remember the last, I remember, remember liking it
kat 33:32
I read Mockingjay but I don't think I finished it. We can move on now to the audience reviews. So the first positive review that I have is from letterbox and it is titled first Harry Potter, then Twilight, now the Hunger Games: America's next obsession and was written in 2012. "Wow, what an adrenaline rush. I was so impressed with this film, that I created an account just so I could review it. I'm from Hawaii, and I managed to catch an early screening of the movie. First off, let me start by saying that I have read all three books. And I must admit that the trailer made me a bit hesitant. I mean, in the trailer, they didn't get the little details right. For instance, Katniss his backpack is supposed to be orange, and it isn't. But that didn't stop me from seeing the movie, and it should not stop you either. The movie followed the books as closely as a PG 13 rating would allow, and the things they did change didn't distract from the overall movie. I don't want to say too much. But this movie is a magnificent start to what I hope will be an epic trilogy. The actors slash actresses are wonderfully cast and their performances are extremely convincing. Not to mention that there is plenty of suspense and action to keep you glued to the screen even if you've already read the books. Now I know it's difficult to watch a movie when you've already read the books. People already have preconceived notions about who the actors slash actresses should have been, what the setting should look like and how the plot should unfold, but I promise you, the movie does the book plenty of justice. My advice would be to enter the theater with a big bag of popcorn and an open mind. Just make sure it's ready to be blown."
ryley 35:10
That was such a sweet one. Like I just love it. That was just like so like, this is gonna be good. You're gonna like it. Don't-
kat 35:17
so cute.
ryley 35:18
Just be open minded. I love that. Get a big bag of popcorn. And yeah, that's so sweet. I love it. That's a good one. And I agree. I totally agree.
kat 35:26
Now moving on to the first negative review.
ryley 35:29
Now the goblins are comin.
kat 35:31
So I cut out like half of the shit this person listed that was differen because I'm just gonna I'm just gonna mention the few ones that they say in here. This is a two out of 10 from IMDb written in 2012 titled Why "reasons why the Hunger Games was an insult to the novel." "The book has some dark themes, teenage violence, famine and an oppressive government but it also has a love story that creeps up throughout the series. The characters are genuine the tone serious and the message powerful. Unfortunately, the screenplay translated none of these to the big screen. This is how the Hunger Games completely missed the mark." Random- it had random mockumentary style filming. I guess that just means like, you know, it looks like it's on a shoulder mount.
ryley 36:13
Yeah
kat 36:13
sometimes. And then "Katniss finds the Mockingjay pin at the trading area completely eliminating the scene with madge which would have shown the extreme wealth difference in the country." Here's the thing that probably wouldn't have changed much. They can do that in different ways. They're still going to show
ryley 36:29
I'm going to bet most of the complaints this person's gonna make are about little tiny details that really don't matter.
kat 36:36
Haymitch not being enough of an alcoholic for them.
ryley 36:39
Wow. Okay.
kat 36:42
Little references to food and lack thereof. There weren't Oh, there weren't enough references to food or the lack of food. Which
ryley 36:50
are you kidding me?
kat 36:51
And he was and then they said I thought it was supposed to be the Hunger Games.
ryley 36:56
Love the comment. But are you kidding me? There's a part where Gail takes out bread. She goes "is that real?" Like she's never seen bread before. So I'm sorry. I'm gonna say there is a lack of food.
kat 37:09
Let's see. They think that Haymitch over explains the games to Peeta and Katniss in the movie to make it seem like they've never heard of it before. They do think that Jennifer Lawrence did a good job. They said that she did the best acting job she could with what she was given, basically. They said that Josh Hutcherson's acting ruined it though.
ryley 37:31
Okay,
kat 37:32
I think he's gonna be the, the Taylor Lautner of these movies.
ryley 37:37
Yeah, I, I can see that
kat 37:40
That was about it. They just felt that them. It wasn't up to their standard of the novel.
ryley 37:46
Well, that's just a given with any anyone who reads a book. It's like in that the IND IMBD one that you just read, like, everyone's gonna have their own vision of what they think it should look like and you're going to hold on to that you're going to get disappointed. Because it's not gonna be that way. So
kat 38:01
this next one's gonna make you a little a little heated.
ryley 38:05
Okay,
kat 38:05
I can feel it. Just because of the sheer stupidity of it.
ryley 38:10
Okay. I'm ready.
kat 38:13
IMDB. One out of 10 titled stupid, unrealistic.
ryley 38:22
That's funny. Okay. I like that. It's unreal,
kat 38:26
bold, bold claim to make
ryley 38:28
bold claim to make
kat 38:29
Written in 2012. "I can't believe that anyone would think that any world would exist where parents, adults would allow children to be selected to fight to the death." They don't have a fucking choice.
ryley 38:41
Yeah. It's really, it's literally an authoritarian government. They don't they don't get to choose. They can't say no.
kat 38:50
So they go on. "It's just such a ridiculous concept that it defies belief."- There is no way that it could. There. "There is no way that it could exist, ever in any realm or universe. People would rather die than allow this type of stupidity to happen. It is the very basis of its- of existence, where the tiniest animal or insect would fight to protect their young no matter how big the attacker against any odds, no matter how hopeless. I find it sick to think that young children are being killed. I don't care if the book was popular, it's just dumb. How about making something with some intelligence?" It's called fiction, idiot.
ryley 39:34
It's fiction. Also, do they think this is real? Do they think this actually happened?
kat 39:38
This is another one of those people where I'm like, did you think you watched a documentary?
ryley 39:42
Do you? It's a fiction about the future. It's a fiction book, story, about the future of a dystopian- I just there's no explaining this to someone, this person's so out of reach of explaining to them. They're just, not even wrong, Just like you're not,
kat 40:02
You're on. Like, we're all on the same page over here.
ryley 40:05
Yeah
kat 40:06
you're reading a different book.
ryley 40:07
You're on a different planet. You're, you're gone.
kat 40:10
You are reading the Divergent series on another planet right now.
ryley 40:14
Yeah, exactly.
kat 40:16
Another fun fact about since I just mentioned the Divergent series.
ryley 40:19
Yeah.
kat 40:20
The Hunger Games s- book series actually inspired the writer of the Divergent series to write divergent
ryley 40:26
I remember hearing that, yeah, I bet I bet it did for a lot of young adult writer or writers because gosh, those books were everywhere
kat 40:35
And the divergent book was so good, but the movie was so fucking bad
ryley 40:39
I remember seeing the movie. I never read the book, I remember seeing the movie and hating it.
kat 40:42
I read the book. I was fucking pissed. It's just one of those things where the way that things are described in the books, and how much time they spend on the different I think they were called factions. There's so much detail that they just you can't turn into a movie
ryley 40:57
Yeah,
kat 40:58
from that book.
ryley 40:59
Yeah
kat 40:59
Also, I don't like Shailene Woodley.
ryley 41:02
I don't think she's a strong actress. I'm sorry. I was I was literally gonna make that comment. But I didn't want to sound too mean. But I literally agree. I don't think she's a strong actress.
kat 41:12
She's widely disliked as an actress.
ryley 41:15
Yeah
kat 41:16
She's kind of like Chloe Grace Moretz, people just don't like her.
ryley 41:19
Yeah.
kat 41:20
Shailene Woodley is a really big environmental activist though.
ryley 41:23
That's good. Yeah.
kat 41:25
Because she's not a bad person, she just her acting is awful.
ryley 41:28
I can't name a movie where I like her. Like, I can't. I gotta be honest. I can't think of another movie that she's in.
kat 41:38
White Bird in a Blizzard where she tarnishes the name of Katrina and I'll never forgive her for it.
ryley 41:42
I remember you always saying that, yeah.
kat 41:44
Well, because the whole, the other people in it are good premises bad and she sucks. It's literally her boyfriend fucks her dad.
ryley 41:54
Oh, I remember you telling me about this. Yeah,
kat 41:56
the main character has my fucking name so I'll never forgive her for that
ryley 42:00
Geez.
kat 42:01
But anyway, the last one from IMDb is a one out of ten, 2012, titled. (burp) That's the title. It's titled "way too many close-ups"
ryley 42:13
agreed.
kat 42:17
"This movie was 90% close ups. There was no opportunity to explore this world with your own eyes, the director kept telling you exactly what you should be looking at, which was usually a close up of someone talking. The movie had close ups of everything, including the faces of horses, followed by close ups of their feet, trotting. Add a shaky camera and blurred out backgrounds and you have a movie made by an editor rather than a director that knows how to compose shots." Ooh, that is a burn, editor had to save this shit.
ryley 42:48
Yeah. And I'm not gonna say the wrong they're pretty. Like that's the thing about this movie. It's not visually great. It is. It's shaky, shaky footage. Way too many close ups. It's hard to watch. That, yeah, so that's a that is a genuine critique that I agree with. Definitely.
kat 43:07
Okay, they have a few sentences at the very end, where they say "this world that this movie took place in looked fascinating, but each shot was only a few seconds long. There was no long shots so that I could study their clothes, hair and how they moved. A very disappointing movie experience."
ryley 43:24
I always see Katniss' like hair and how it was braided. And I'm sorry, just like a train wreck.
kat 43:29
Yeah
ryley 43:29
Her hair is braided in the weirdest way possible.
kat 43:32
Yeah, it's like,
ryley 43:33
like looped around in the back is so messy. Like I don't understand. So that was another critique I had.
kat 43:41
You could say it's realistic.
ryley 43:43
Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Cuz like if I attempted that, that's how it would look. Probably not as good as the movie but
kat 43:49
we can move on to the letterbox reviews. They're not as spicy as the Twilight ones. But they're still they're still decent. So this first review is from 2020. And it is a star and a half it goes "I read the book in 2009 or 2010 and hated it, so I never read the others or watched the films. Turns out my taste is pretty much the same today. And it remains a truly dismal story that never takes any sort of risks while becoming further muted by the PG 13 rating. I really never can stand this YA garbage dreading the next four." So you're watching them anyway.
ryley 44:26
You don't have to. You don't have to watch them dude. I love and this isn't - this one isn't an example of it. But when you read like, Oh, it's a one. One star, one star and a half right? On letterbox, it could literally be anything, though. You could read the rating, but that comment it could be anything it could tell you. Oh my god. It's so funny what people will write
kat 44:50
Five star reviews of somebody just decimating a movie
ryley 44:53
Decimating but they'll say like they thought the actor was hot. So five stars.
kat 44:58
Sexy. Five Points for sexy. Okay, so the next one is from 2021, is one star. "I never fell asleep during a movie. That is until I watched Hunger Games. What a dull piece. The characters are forgettable and as bland as stale bread and the very little action that's there is followed by practically nothing of value. The main idea is not top bad is oh, is not too bad. But the execution is extremely lacking." I don't think it was that bad.
ryley 45:27
No.
kat 45:29
It was entertaining.
ryley 45:29
That's the thing. I thought this movie was entertaining. So I don't understand where people are going like really. Like the last one said like it took no risk, I was like to does it have to? Just go its just going by the book. What do you ?
kat 45:42
what did you want them to do?
ryley 45:42
Yeah, What do you want?
kat 45:44
Where are your ideas?
ryley 45:45
No kidding. You should've directed it then.
kat 45:48
I want to see one of these fucking critics.
ryley 45:50
Yeah, you make a movie. And then I get to critique.
kat 45:54
Yeah, I'm not making no movies.
ryley 45:55
Yeah,
kat 45:56
I don't want you to critique my movies.
ryley 45:57
No, my feelings will get hurt.
kat 45:58
Yeah. Okay, this next one is a half star from 2022 from four days ago.
ryley 46:05
Oh my god.
kat 46:06
That is, that just says "white woman spotted."
ryley 46:11
Oh my god, I love letterbox
kat 46:13
Me too. This next one is from 2019, Three and a half stars. And it says "Peeta cosplaying as a rock will never not be funny to me."
ryley 46:22
Okay, that was really really funny
kat 46:24
When he fucking grabs her leg.
ryley 46:27
I just like, do they say where he got the paint to do that? Or the materials to do that? No, they don't do they? Also, how much time did it take? That would've took hours. And he did to his own face.
kat 46:39
I noticed something whenever they were in like the little training sequence and everyone was like doing their skill. There was a girl just sorting leaves.
ryley 46:46
I know on the computer. I was like, what is that gonna do for anything?
kat 46:51
All you need to know is this is poison ivy, this is not
ryley 46:54
and it's very ironic because that character ends up being poisoned by the berries, so
kat 46:59
maybe that's why they did that, she was too focused on leaves
ryley 47:02
too focus on those video games.
kat 47:05
You and your damn video games. The next one is three is a three star from 2019 and it says "it's been seven years since this movie was released and 11 years since the book was published and here I am still laughing at how Katniss and Peeta's ship name, is fucking penis."
ryley 47:22
I never heard that. That would have been the thing to hear in eighth grade, but I never heard it until just now.
You never heard people call them penis.
NO, this is the first I've ever heard of that.
kat 47:32
Did you ever hear anyone call her cat piss?
ryley 47:34
I heard that one, yes, I do remember that one. But penis? God that's funny. It's like maybe I heard the same penis I just didn't know it was related to Hunger Games.
kat 47:42
Okay. I think they're like actual ship name. Or their family friendly when his Peetnis
ryley 47:47
Oh, that's so close to it though. That's not who thought of that. I thought it was okay.
kat 47:52
Someone on Tumblr.
ryley 47:53
Oh, geez. No. Too close.
kat 47:57
And then the one for her and Gale I think was kale
ryley 48:00
such 2012 humor. And then penis is just funny. Always timeless.
kat 48:05
It's, it's perfect.
ryley 48:06
It's perfect.
kat 48:07
The perfect ship name. penis, are you kidding me?
ryley 48:09
it's so poorly planned
kat 48:12
Very much so. So I'm going to read this one star one from December of 2021. "I really don't understand how they've managed to make it so incredibly bland script, colors, sets and just about everything else is so painfully boring and rather cringeworthy most of the time. The god awful decision to do so much shaky handheld camera work was unnecessary too, to say the least. But without this I probably wouldn't have been able to play Apex legends, so I guess this movie has was like going for it."
ryley 48:42
Yeah, a lot of people do not like that shaky camera. And I agree.
kat 48:45
It's it is a little like, disorienting.
ryley 48:48
I think it's so distracting. Like, I mean, I mean, you just don't see anything. It's so
kat 48:53
yeah. And then the last one I have is from 2017 is four stars. "Very unpopular opinion. This is the only truly great Hunger Games movie. It's the least glamorized adaptation of the books. And that's what makes it so good. Unlike in catching fire when the games begin, it's truly terrifying. This isn't a popcorn summer movie like the other three Hunger Games films. This is straight up horrifying. Like it should be. Every time I rewatch this movie. I look for all the problems people say it has. But every time I find myself liking it more and finding it more compelling. I like it every time I watch it again."
ryley 49:30
This is my first time rewatching it. I liked it. I probably liked it more than it when I first saw it.
kat 49:35
I think this was only like my third or fourth time watching it.
ryley 49:37
Yeah
kat 49:38
cuz I didn't. I didn't really watch this movie a whole lot. That was because streaming services weren't as big of a thing. I didn't own it.
ryley 49:44
Yeah, I saw it in theaters. Didn't like it. Had to watch it for this. I liked it, I thought it was entertaining. Thought it was fun.
kat 49:51
Yeah, it was that like weird space between no more blockbusters and like
ryley 49:56
well, Netflix had started
kat 49:58
but it didn't have big stuff like this.
ryley 50:00
Yeah. Well, you had to m- they mailed you what you wanted then mailed it back.
kat 50:04
Yeah, that was when they were still
ryley 50:05
so it wasn't quite a streaming service like what we have today.
kat 50:09
And you had to like walk to fucking Redbox if you wanted a movie
ryley 50:12
Yeah, that too
kat 50:13
what a weird time
Yeah, so I didn't I don't rewatch this movie a whole lot. If my family really really liked the movie, we would either buy it on like iTunes, or buy it on like, DVD.
ryley 50:23
Yeah
kat 50:23
but like, I guess the Hunger Games, the rest of my family was not as much of a fan as I was, apparently
ryley 50:28
Yeah, they didn't make the list.
kat 50:29
All the Twilight movies did though.
ryley 50:30
That's hilarious. I love that.
kat 50:32
But that was all that I had for The Hunger Games. I am just going to preface this with the fact that I do like Catching Fire more, but I think it just has more stuff going on. It's kind of like how it is with Twilight like I will always love the first Twilight but Eclipse is still my favorite one to watch. Like Catching Fire's my Eclipse.
ryley 50:52
Okay, I can see that.
kat 50:53
And It's my favorite book of the of the three. Like I think it's the best book personally,
ryley 50:58
Mm Yeah.
kat 50:59
What do you think now? Like, has anything changed?
ryley 51:02
uh, no. Cuz I I know what I'm walking into. And I was actually really surprised by how much I liked it, it was entertaining
kat 51:10
you were defending it more than you thought.
ryley 51:12
I did I defended it. I was like, getting mad when people didn't like it. And like there's a lot of points made that like I totally agree like the c- I mean, the shaky camera is just it's bad.
kat 51:22
There's none of it in the next one
ryley 51:24
Okay
kat 51:24
they don't do the shaky camera anymore.
ryley 51:26
good
kat 51:26
If they do it's short
ryley 51:27
because I bet that was a huge complaint when it first came out
kat 51:30
overall, positively received it was just the shaky camera that got people
ryley 51:35
Dang, so if they just didn't do that, it would gotten
kat 51:38
yeah
ryley 51:38
probably just better reviews. I feel like I think it's still entertaining. Yeah, I defended a lot more than I thought I would.
kat 51:43
Yeah, we both kind of acknowledged the technical issues that it has. I still I love it. It deals with some pretty heavy shit for the audience that it was targeted at. Like, I don't know, it just feels nice to watch movies that you've read the book for.
ryley 51:58
Yeah, it does.
kat 52:00
Especially when they go relatively well. But anyway, I you know, I still I love these movies. I also am fine with defending them to a lot of the critics in here. I don't think they're boring. Like, I think that, I don't think it needs to be like at 100 the whole movie.
ryley 52:16
No. And like, I like it for what it is, you know?
kat 52:20
Yeah. And when you watch the other ones or like if you've read the other books, this there's so much other shit that's going to happen. It's just the first one. I feel like we're we're not at we're not at Hunger Games level dystopian but I feel like there's so many things every day where I'm like, this is a very fucking dystopian,
ryley 52:40
we're taking the baby steps for it. Definitely. If not, if not
kat 52:43
fuckin NFT's.
ryley 52:44
Yeah, no kidding. Well, that's the whole thing like it
kat 52:47
Metaverse
ryley 52:48
Every year. It's growing. It's getting closer, and it's frightening at this point.
kat 52:53
It is
ryley 52:53
pretty freightening
kat 52:54
So we were I think like this movie every time you rewatch it because it is a dystopian movie. I think it's the beauty of sci fi and dystopian movies. It comes with a new context.
ryley 53:04
It's bad if it doesn't, you know?
kat 53:05
Yeah. So next week, we will be reviewing Catching Fire. And then after that, we'll be doing the Mockingjay Part One and two, probably be combining that into one episode. But watch along with us. Let us know what you think we you can reach us on Instagram or Tiktok @easybaketakes, we also have a YouTube channel. We haven't started posting on there but I think you can find us if you just look up Easy Bake Takes. we'll be posting clips from the show on Tik Tok and just announcements on Instagram. Our DMS are open. So let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for us. And thank you so much for listening. This has been Easy Bake Takes I'm Kat
ryley 53:42
and I'm Ryley.
kat 53:43
Easy watching out there. Bye
ryley 53:45
bye