The Hunger Games (2012) is definitely not like the Olympics | First Time Watching

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  @dlweiss · 2 years ago

  I love how, when Rue dies, a lot of people assume "Oh, Katniss is gonna switch on and go super-deadly now" and instead Katniss responds by weeping in grief, covering her in flowers, and offering a salute of respect to the Districts.  She responds with empathy and humanity, and THAT is what galvanizes the masses to start rebelling and rallying.  Just such a lovely twist on conventional expectations.

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  @chibiyumeusa · 1 year ago

  Y'all starting off like "taking a break from horror" "excited to watch something relaxing" had me rolling.

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• MI

  @midofae · 2 years ago

  Not so fun fact: in the books the big dogs were either fashioned after or made from the dead tributes. Like they were strangely human and katniss could recognize the individual tributes. That made my skin crawl.

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  @stefaniefreeman7541 · 2 years ago

  The three fingers is a funeral symbol of respect in the districts. Like they are all saying you're gonna die and we respect your sacrifice for your sister

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• AM

  @amiraitallouache · 2 years ago

  Katniss didnt get an 11 bc she's the favourite of the gamemakers. Giving her an 11 immediately paints a target on her back

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  @MariaRose_ · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMuinSWRm34&amp;t=1405">23:25</a> &quot;get these rich kids in the games! It&apos;s unfair man, this is like a classist thing&quot;.. congrats, you understand the bigger part of the books lol

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  @violetteofthegarden6919 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMuinSWRm34&amp;t=875">14:35</a> &quot;I guess winning the games dint do anything for him in terms of happiness&quot; oh honey you don&apos;t even know 😭

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• PA

  @paolaaa678 · 2 years ago

  primrose getting picked her first time ever in the reaping is such bad luck and ABSOLUTELY something that would happen to me lol

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• WU

  @Wuffskers · 2 years ago

  This is the first time I&apos;ve ever seen literally anyone see Cinna as creepy, it&apos;s really not like that at all lol, he&apos;s just sympathetic and trying to be comforting

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  @Br0nto5aurus · 2 years ago

  They&apos;re not able to explain it in the movie, but Katniss only missed the first shot when she was supposed to be showing off for the rich guys because she was used to homemade bows, which require the user to compensate for imperfections. She&apos;d never used a manufactured bow that shoots dead on.

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  @maizen1335 · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s not explained super well in the movie, but the tributes from 1, 2, and 4 train for the hunger games from an early age, and then volunteer when they&apos;re 18. They&apos;re called careers. The career pack then works together for most of the games to hoard supplies and hunt down other tributes, and win way more often than the other districts. Training for the games is technically illegal, which is why the other districts don&apos;t do it, but the career districts get special privileges from the Capitol and are more well off.

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  @PhedreTheParamour · 2 years ago

  ALSO, the tribute known as “Foxface” didn’t eat the berries until she saw Peeta picking them and she assumed they were safe. She was extremely clever and resourceful and could have won if not for the slight miscalculation of not waiting to see what would happen if the berries were eaten.

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