I truly collapsed in the cinema especially bc all those scenes with the arena collapsing and Plutarch being revealed as good were in quick succession before this
the “if it weren’t for the baby” line was a fucking reset i wasn’t team anyone but peeta was the moment, i remember reading that and thinking “they have to stop the games now there’s no way” also finnick was actually the only reason i couldn’t watch the last movie 13 year old me did not understand how to deal with what finnick odair made me feel
I was DISSKRAWTTT (distraught) when he died baby ian been that upset in a minute couldn’t even mourn prim properly bc at that point it was fck everybody 🤣😭😭😭🤦🏾♀️
The ratio transition from Katniss in the tube to Katniss in the arena is one of the top moments in cinema history along with the Twilight baseball scene.
I unironically love that filmmaking choice. Visually expands and differentiates the games form the first movie and the whiplash of it puts you Katniss' head considering how jarring those moneys in the story are.
my favorite line from the entire book series was when katniss saw the arena and her only thought was "this is no place for a girl on fire" ICONIC. the only mistake this movie made was not incorporating that line somehow.
no wait thats kind of amazing that line ever existed cause they did want to get rid of her after all, so why not make an arena that goes against everything about her. and the fact that the arena is a clock, like its ticking down time.
@@renoirrr Plutarch designed the arena and was on the rebel's side though, so I think that sorta conflicts with the quote. I think it works in the book because it's told from Katniss' perspective and it shows how hopeless Katniss feels, but it doesn't have the same impact if it's not her internal monologue in the movies and could've made it confusing when the audience finds out Plutarch is on her side.
@@Autumnaul Capitalism : an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. In songbirds and snakes we find out certain rich families control major parts of the economy. So we know it’s almost capitalism with some tweaks. It’s not expanded on the original story, but it’s assumed as many of the families from the start of BOSAS are still prominent in the main story. It might not be our version of capitalism. But capitalism is a spectrum and Panem is most definitely on it.
@@CSGray-nf2hx It's not though. Again at all. You're missing (or leaving out on purpose) so much information. The fact the people of Panem do not have a free and open trade market, or freedom to pick their jobs is evidence enough. Their whole economy is planned by the state (the districts are forced to work in the sectors suited to their natural resources). It is a top-down planned economy that limits individual market activity. you mention certain families controlling industries as if nepotism isn't present in planned economies?
Mike is giving pretentious, rich, snobby private all boys school who is also Italian and he already had a master’s degree but he still comes to the school to visit his old teachers.
they made peeta in the movies so dirty 😭 the way our perception of him "needing to much help" changes when we read the book and find out he doesnt have a mf leg and dont know how to walk with the prosthesis the capitol gave him and thats why he's always the "weak" link and needing that sort of help . im proud of my boy tho
the fact that in the books he does so much for the team just with his charm. He is really smart with people, and that’s a plus when dealing with the capitol.
Ok but I also feel like we don't talk enough about how this movie, THIS MOVIE had the GALL to *switch aspect ratios* mid SHOT?????? They just full on switch from cinematic to IMAX ratio while she's in the testtube being beamed up into the arena and all the colour just sends your eyes into OVERDRIVE because so much more space is being taken up on the screen?????? Iconic down to the damn cinematography
yeah, because it actually made a lot of sense! it was a great critique of capitalism, social injustices, privilege, opression, poverty... i think that the movies, even though the first two ones were good, were still hollywood movies and they (and their marketing that was just sooooo ironic, doing exactly what people from Capitol would do) kind of watered down the meaning. books like divergent or all the other copies were just flawed from the beginning bc they took the dystopia but forgot about the critical part lol
@@lvmln7843 you forgot a critique on reality television with how the participants created personalities to assist them in the games. And then there's the commentary on the exploitation of young 'celebrities' when you look at what happened to Finnick in the capitol.
what I also loved about the thg franchise was how they made sure they were immersing you in the experience. y’all remember the promo pics from mockingjay???? relevant to this day.
For a young adult film I was shook how emotional i felt in some of the scenes. It's not some fancy art house movie but they convey emotions really well in the series. Even a cold heart will have a tear for Rue.
@@Wooplot I think you make a good point that I hadn’t fully conceptualized when I read the books as a preteen. Like obviously it’s outlandish and unrealistic, but tbh it’s kinda realistic you know? Like the connections katniss has with primrose, gale, Peeta, rue, haymitch, Effie, and cinna all make sense. And so on. Like if we were put in this ridiculous situation, you might not expect that different of emotions. And mike made the point that Rose’s third quarter quell is highkey an excellent, clever, and sensible idea lmao that isn’t just evil shit to be evil to move the plot along. I’m guessing this like reasonably understanding of humanity is what made a cool YA dystopian franchise not totally flop lol
Catching Fire was the best book AND film of the Hunger Games franchise. Once again Mike knows what he is talking about. I remember being a wee high schooler and reading the part where they figure out the arena was a clock and I was FLOORED.
The book catching fire is one of the few books I've read that I remember specific lines from. Like how Katniss had referred to how in the coal mines they would bring down a canary to make sure the air quality was safe and if the canary stopped singing that meant there was danger. And she calls Wiress their canary because she kept singing about the clock and then suddenly you realize there hadn't been an interjection by Wiress this whole time and Katniss is like "our canary had stopped singing" Or at the end when Katniss is talking to Gale and she's asking about her mother and sister and asks "They're not in district twelve?" and Gale is like Oh when you shot at the sky the capitol send bombers but don't worry we got them out but it's really not sinking in for Katniss and she's like "They're not in district twelve" until gale responds "There is no District Twelve" book over. It's really an unmatched piece of literature and that's a hill I'll die on.
Did,,, did this book series teach me about the use of birds in mines? It must have. I was 14 by the time Mockingjay was published. I was grounded for constantly reading the year before. It all lines up 😳
mike looks like a new car salesman. what a fancy boy. wouldn’t you buy a nice new car from him? certainly not a used car. he doesn’t look like a used car salesman. he wouldn’t sell you a used car. he just wouldn’t
I feel like he looks more like a real estate agent in a 'trendy' suburb like Fitzroy or Paddington, who expresses their personality by paring vibrantly coloured socks with their stock standard suit.
the way they tried making us swoon for peeta or gale but that all went out the window once they introduced finnick, we were like "what? oh right you have two love interests, who cares, let me see what's going on in finnick's life"
@@annaisntcool i mean, that's because the story isn't about love interests. its about trauma and war lol. peeta and gale represent two sides, the one that wants peace and the one that is angry.
@@annaisntcool yeah, that's the point. Peeta isnt some gallant romantic that sweeps Katniss on her feet, bc he isn't supposed to be. Gale isn't the ultra nice romantic best friend bc he isn't supposed to be. Peeta was the soft, tender emotional support that Katniss needed after the games, gale was the strong support that she needed when she was growing up in the seam. They have their purposes, but being her love interest isn't even the most relevant part of their characters.
I think not enough people realize that when Katniss comes out to the arena, the aspect ratio of the movie changes. The black bars on the top and bottom of the screen disappear. I never understood why I was shitting my pants at the theater at that moment and when I found out that the aspect ratio is different when they're in the arena I shat my pants again.
Except for maybe the third movie that felt sort of unnecessary iirc They shouldn’t have tried to bank off splitting the last book into two movies, just cause it worked for Harry Potter doesn’t mean every series needs it 😕
@@HeyItsNovalee I kinda agree but also not! I feel like an important part of the 3rd book were the inner workings of district 13 and i feel like they wanted to show those in the first part. I just kinda feel like it didn't really work because on screen it was kinda boring
I’m glad I’m not the only one who kinda admired the move made by president snow of cycling through former winners of the games for the quarter quell. Is this endangering the movie’s protagonist yes, but like in a creative way I can kinda respect and get around
The craziest part is that the quell was not made up by snow. It worked out in his favor so he made it worse. But all of the quells were pre-determined for hundreds of years to come in the book
@@Raini2727 In the deleted scenes of the movie (that im pretty sure isn't canon to the book), Plutarch does a bit of girlbossing and changes the slip of paper for the quarter quell to have it be pooled from the victors, because he was already in on the whole revolution stuff. I have no idea why they removed it, seems like a cool addition.
@@max-bm1zf wait I actually kind of love that. I didn’t know about that scene! But it’s definitely giving girlboss and gatekeep with just a dash of gaslight 😌
I was so obsessed with Johanna Mason when this came out. I used to sign letters 'Johanna' and practice throwing axes at trees in my garden. She was an iconic bestie, I was not
The clock arena genuinely touches some primal fear in me. The whole sense of running out of time and the dangers being hidden until they're suddenly _not_ and the fucking poison gas oh man and thE FACT KATNISS LITERALLY GOT TRAPPED BEHIND SOME FUCKING INVISIBLE WALL FOR THE MOCKINGJAY SLICE????? I... genuinely love this. my family watched the movies a few weeks ago and I was like. damn. these were actually good. also I may be a lesbian but even I was like damn Finnick is 👀 but also Johannah... step on me PLEASE- 😳😛😍
Joanna could use me as a trampoline. 😂 But seriously, she's easily my favorite character apart from Katniss herself. I would have loved to have more of her in this movie. I find her backstory really compelling.
Can we just discuss how Katniss’s hair always looks right? The chick gets electrocuted and she still looks like a glamazon ready for the runway, her power is unmatched
and can we talk about the most powerful line in the whole movie when one of Snowsty’s computer peeps tell him “ sir we’ve lost power”, after Katniss blows the entire dome thing up
when i say that i was literally Obsessed with this book at age 13. so many iconic moments packed into one novel. I still remember how the "if it weren't for the baby" line absolutely gagged me. also tbh the movies did peeta so dirty, he was such an icon in the books but the casting was all wrong imo. on the flipside though finnick and johanna are the absolute mvps of the franchise they ate Every scene up and little closeted 14 y/o me was GUTTED when finnick d-worded in the last book
I was obsessed at age 9 💀 I read all three in one summer 2015 I think ugh I loved it but the third book I didn’t rlly understand tbh it was kinda hard for me to read but whatever I still was obsessed
when she said "make him pay for it" AFTER SEEING KATNISS IN HER WEDDING DRESS BC SNOW MADE HER WEAR IT, AND WR KNEW SHE WAS AN ALLY BITCHH I SCREAMED, LIVE FOR THE BESTIES ENERGY
your videos require such a deep knowledge of internet culture and slang to even remotely understand them I feel like if I showed this video to my grandma she would disintegrate
I remember being practically blown away in the theatre during the premier of catching fire. I knew what was going to happen (albeit roughly) and yet my jaw was still on the ground. If cinema had not converted to this “fast fashion meets the movie industry” thing we have right now, I believe catching fire would’ve been an all time classic.
I love how you can tell when Mike has a reaction clip he's currently obsessed with because he keeps using it throughout the video. The editing is always top tier but that Taylor "get a good lawyer" clip had me rolling EVERY TIME
I've never watched the hunger games franchise but Mike makes me want to watch it all, buy all the blu rays, get a degree is filmmaking, find the set, and then recreate it in Mike's image
When she comes out of the tube into the arena, the aspect ratio changes and when I tell you my jaw DROPPED... that's movie of the century shit right there
Team Mags everyday I'm so fucking obsessed with her. She slayed her hunger games and then got slayed in the quarter. The double slayage is too much to handle. Mags and Rue are the only characters that have ever made me cry in any piece of film/literature
I laughed so much with the video, even went to twitter just to see those Finnick odar edits cause why wouldn't you??? But the thing with Peeta is that the producers of the movie did him so dirty, in the books Peeta is literally so good and kind to Katniss and his importance is that, in the months before the quarter quell and after the winner's tour, Katniss broke her ankle and had to stay like a month in bed, and Peeta was the one who toke care of Katniss and stayed with her as long as she needed (cause bestie was having a literally existencial crisis bc she felt useless while being injured), so Peeta helped Katniss development a better emotional intelligence¿? kinda thing, and helped her at like, letting her emotions come out of her and not just compress them inside of her. So yeah, Peeta has a lot more importance in the books but that wasn't showed in the movies and I hate the producers and screenwriter for that
i was so obsessed with the hunger games' political machinations all the time like the part where she came out in her wedding dress?? because she and peeta were gonna get (politically) married??? and she wanted outrage from the entire capitol full of everlark shippers??? i was screaming. that was inspired. they really gave us everything
the fact that i still remember exactly where i was when i read the ending to this book and how i felt says a lot imo. I was on the way to see family and i finished the book just as we pulled up to their driveway and i remember gasping out loud and just going like omg how am i supposed to function normally after reading that lmao
“ If it wasn’t for the baby” line has me so gagged in 8th grade. I was pirating the books on my laptop and I got to that line right before I had to leave for school. I legit could not think of anything else the whole school day.
no kidding, this movie is AMAZING. Jennifer Lwarence was on her shit and so many other supporting actors excelled as well. The budget was obviously huge and they used it the right way, the cgi and general look of the movie great. The music?? Top tier. The costumes?? Slay boots the house down. The storyline?? Plot twist👏🏻after👏🏻plottwist👏🏻 while still making sense. I was a crazy hunger games fangirl when this came out and I legit cried in the theater bc I was so amazed and I still remember the day the movie came out on DVD and I immediately watched it two times in a day lmao
I literally just finished rereading catching fire last night so this was impeccable timing. Anyway: 1. You are not wrong this is the best movie full stop 2. Katniss was real excited in the book that her ointment for her blisters from the fog also had sunscreen. Like yessss spf queen 3. This movie is the perfect example of what it’s like to make correct changes to movies to quicken what is said in the story but without leaving out vital parts. They kept a lot of things exact but changed where needed. An actual masterpiece some would say
I’ve only ever cried at a few movies in my life. Mostly understandable movies but one was Batman. Because. And I quote “Alfred just loves Batman so much and wants the best for Batman.” Idk. I guess I just had a lot going on at the time. 😂😂
one of my favorite movies of all time, to this day. But also don't start thinking about the timeline too much because that will throw your brain for a loop
I literally started this video, remembered how much I love Catching Fire, paused the video, went to watch Catching Fire and then came back and finished the video. Love this by the way; you're hilarious
3:45 “are there actually people whose favourite colour is orange” he says as he wears an orange shirt in front of an orange light before playing an orange filter video of taylor
3:10 btw they don’t have phones in the district, except for the really rich people who have landline phones. When katniss moves into the victors village it’s said that her house comes with a phone that she uses to talk to Cinna and Effie for victor business and whatnot. They probably have cellphones or something like that in the Capitol but the people in the districts barely have anything
The terminology, the humor, the Nicki memes sprinkled in… iconic viewing experience 😂 This is thee best book and best movie of the series. One of the best book to movies adaptions imo…The attention to detail, The quarter quell plot twist, introduction of the victors, the development of peetas and katniss relationship… the ENDING !!??? I couldn’t deal
honestly the best part of the movie is the change of aspect ratio while main character girl boss enters the arena and how it makes us experience the games in full frame IMAX... out of this world
I was 13 when the movie came out and I remember leaving the cinema feeling absolutely blown away and ready to take down the government lmao. I still get chills every time I see it
i personally, am not saying that mr microphone looks like a car salesman, but i will say that he should not have said that because SOME PEOPLE, but not me, would say that he only looks like a car salesman because he said he did and maybe some people would not have thought that if it weren’t stated beforehand
I was OBZEZZED with hunger games when CF came out, and the movie met my every expectation as a diehard fan and I still think about how fucking awesome it was to see it in the cinema for the first time. It makes Mockingjay's disappointment hurt that much more - that movie could have been great if it wasn't split into two.
This was as gripping as how I first read the Hunger Games trilogy. You are a master of this gen delivery of commentary same as how Suzanne Collins is a genius gamemaster writer when she came up with the details 75th hunger games.
in the book, the little sound katniss does for rue that ends up symbolizing the rebellion, was actually something from district 11 that rue taught katniss. not sure if that’s how it is in the movie
Your commentary videos (storytelling? Narratives? Retelling of the actual thingamajig??) are the most entertaining thing on the internet, and the only reason I’m still here. Keep it up mike.
the hunger games fandom on facebook was wild..........basically early version of stan twitter I loved it I had a meme account called "I don't wanna lose the boy with the bread" but it got banned after 2 years bc I was under 13 lmao
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When Gale said "Katniss.. there IS no District 12" and the audience and Katniss were gagged... cinematic herstory.
I remember sitting and reading that like 👁️👄👁️
Hand over mouth energy
I truly collapsed in the cinema especially bc all those scenes with the arena collapsing and Plutarch being revealed as good were in quick succession before this
@@mikesmic I literally screamed right in the cinema 😩 my 14 year old body couldn’t handle this fuckery
@@adinamusrepova1447 omg
Peeta is giving us Cakelight, Cakekeep, and Cakeboss with all these baked bread
truly an underrated comment
Naaaaaaaaaaaaur 😭😭😭😭😂😂
and the best comment award goes too….
DEAD. 😭💀
Not cakeboss 😭😭
outfit giving ratatouille food critic on his day off getting groceries ✨🤞‼️
with some khaki shorts and long white socks underneath °.°
OH MY GOD THIS IS A CROSS OF WORLDS CANT BELIEVE LEVI WATCHES MIKE
💀💀
The accuracy 😩
Not this... Not this...
the way effie didnt get an invite to the 2019 met gala is such a disappointment to society like as if she didnt actually invent camp
And not even a year later corona happened… think about that.
the “if it weren’t for the baby” line was a fucking reset i wasn’t team anyone but peeta was the moment, i remember reading that and thinking “they have to stop the games now there’s no way”
also finnick was actually the only reason i couldn’t watch the last movie 13 year old me did not understand how to deal with what finnick odair made me feel
I was lightly team Gale (because he was pretty) until that moment. Then I saw Peeta's potential. I left the theatre too stunned to speak 😆
Comment of the century.
Ok but those interviews had me like sweeney todd cause I feel you johanna.
I was DISSKRAWTTT (distraught) when he died baby ian been that upset in a minute couldn’t even mourn prim properly bc at that point it was fck everybody 🤣😭😭😭🤦🏾♀️
@@kendrashaaaa devastated and DEPRESSED
“guys these pigeons are obsessed with me” looks like someone’s the bread friend 😳
LMAOOO
SCREAMING
PLSSSS
😡
Your pigeon boyfriend
The ratio transition from Katniss in the tube to Katniss in the arena is one of the top moments in cinema history along with the Twilight baseball scene.
sort of like Eliza's try out scene in Bring It On
fuck yes
I unironically love that filmmaking choice. Visually expands and differentiates the games form the first movie and the whiplash of it puts you Katniss' head considering how jarring those moneys in the story are.
Okay but I feel we as a society didn’t talk about Effie's Butterfly Dress enough. Like I was obsessed with that for YEARS. It was iconic
100% agree
still am obsessed with it to this day, it is just BEAUTIFUL
It’s a McQueen 💖💖
@@olhydrawas about to say but yeah she wears a lot of McQueen inspired dresses throughout the movie
@@olhydra omg wait is it actually
"if it werent for the baby" HAD ME GASPING OUT LOUD, SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOW, HEART RACING, MIND REELING, PALMS SWEATING
I didn’t realize Peeta was bluffing so I was really in my room at 2 am contemplating what position they did it in
I WAS LYING DOWN ON GHE COUCH WHEN I READ THAT AND I GOT TO THST AND I AUDIBLY YELLED *W H A T*
@@TheLastNoel LMFAOO
PALMS SWEATY -> MOMS SPAGHETTI
YES! What a fucking move!
my favorite line from the entire book series was when katniss saw the arena and her only thought was "this is no place for a girl on fire" ICONIC. the only mistake this movie made was not incorporating that line somehow.
no wait thats kind of amazing that line ever existed cause they did want to get rid of her after all, so why not make an arena that goes against everything about her.
and the fact that the arena is a clock, like its ticking down time.
It's giving cvnt.
@@nikemaraje5honey you can say cunt it's ok
@@renoirrr Plutarch designed the arena and was on the rebel's side though, so I think that sorta conflicts with the quote. I think it works in the book because it's told from Katniss' perspective and it shows how hopeless Katniss feels, but it doesn't have the same impact if it's not her internal monologue in the movies and could've made it confusing when the audience finds out Plutarch is on her side.
@@sma4827well Plutarch couldn’t make it too obvious he was on the rebel’s side either.
"Evil capitalist dictator Dumbledore" god what a name for President Snow
and so accurate
He’s not a capitalist, like at all tho lol
him and dumblewhore are on the same level. they would prolly bond over the trauma they inflicted on these teenagers for fun.
@@Autumnaul
Capitalism : an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
In songbirds and snakes we find out certain rich families control major parts of the economy. So we know it’s almost capitalism with some tweaks. It’s not expanded on the original story, but it’s assumed as many of the families from the start of BOSAS are still prominent in the main story.
It might not be our version of capitalism. But capitalism is a spectrum and Panem is most definitely on it.
@@CSGray-nf2hx It's not though. Again at all.
You're missing (or leaving out on purpose) so much information.
The fact the people of Panem do not have a free and open trade market, or freedom to pick their jobs is evidence enough. Their whole economy is planned by the state (the districts are forced to work in the sectors suited to their natural resources). It is a top-down planned economy that limits individual market activity. you mention certain families controlling industries as if nepotism isn't present in planned economies?
Mike hating on the color orange while wearing an orange shirt is so iconic to me
and the light is orange 😭😭
@@cartoon_d0g no, no. Both are light red-yellow
Was looking for this comment 😤
Do you wear your favourite colour all the time? Mine is green, I hardly wear any green.
@@frostyskeletons8950 Bro wtf is light red. That's either pink or orange and this ain't pink
Mike is giving pretentious, rich, snobby private all boys school who is also Italian and he already had a master’s degree but he still comes to the school to visit his old teachers.
And he always wears his pastel sweater ties around his shoulders
@@MamboNombre5 so true bestie, how could I forget
He looks like a voiture sales man.
it's giving Hillerska employee/student
they made peeta in the movies so dirty 😭 the way our perception of him "needing to much help" changes when we read the book and find out he doesnt have a mf leg and dont know how to walk with the prosthesis the capitol gave him and thats why he's always the "weak" link and needing that sort of help . im proud of my boy tho
Oh that'd been amazing
the fact that in the books he does so much for the team just with his charm. He is really smart with people, and that’s a plus when dealing with the capitol.
that’s a great point
thank you!!!! i won’t accept any peeta slander
@@sere_amarilla oo who does he charm in the books?
Ok but I also feel like we don't talk enough about how this movie, THIS MOVIE had the GALL to *switch aspect ratios* mid SHOT?????? They just full on switch from cinematic to IMAX ratio while she's in the testtube being beamed up into the arena and all the colour just sends your eyes into OVERDRIVE because so much more space is being taken up on the screen?????? Iconic down to the damn cinematography
The trilogy was just the pinnacle of dystopian novels.. ever since nothing could compare
yeah, because it actually made a lot of sense! it was a great critique of capitalism, social injustices, privilege, opression, poverty... i think that the movies, even though the first two ones were good, were still hollywood movies and they (and their marketing that was just sooooo ironic, doing exactly what people from Capitol would do) kind of watered down the meaning.
books like divergent or all the other copies were just flawed from the beginning bc they took the dystopia but forgot about the critical part lol
@@lvmln7843 you forgot a critique on reality television with how the participants created personalities to assist them in the games. And then there's the commentary on the exploitation of young 'celebrities' when you look at what happened to Finnick in the capitol.
that and Uglies series …. 🤌🏼*chefs kiss* 🤌🏼
And now the prequel that's coming 😁🔥
what I also loved about the thg franchise was how they made sure they were immersing you in the experience. y’all remember the promo pics from mockingjay???? relevant to this day.
i collapsed screamed and died when the mockingjay promo dropped
They are ICONIC and they are one of the best promos I’ve seen for a movie. I remember the first time I saw them I GAGGED and I HELD on for fear LIFE.
the marketing to catching fire was so good i still feel the teasing the experience and the excitement
For a young adult film I was shook how emotional i felt in some of the scenes. It's not some fancy art house movie but they convey emotions really well in the series. Even a cold heart will have a tear for Rue.
@@Wooplot I think you make a good point that I hadn’t fully conceptualized when I read the books as a preteen. Like obviously it’s outlandish and unrealistic, but tbh it’s kinda realistic you know? Like the connections katniss has with primrose, gale, Peeta, rue, haymitch, Effie, and cinna all make sense. And so on. Like if we were put in this ridiculous situation, you might not expect that different of emotions. And mike made the point that Rose’s third quarter quell is highkey an excellent, clever, and sensible idea lmao that isn’t just evil shit to be evil to move the plot along. I’m guessing this like reasonably understanding of humanity is what made a cool YA dystopian franchise not totally flop lol
Catching Fire was the best book AND film of the Hunger Games franchise. Once again Mike knows what he is talking about. I remember being a wee high schooler and reading the part where they figure out the arena was a clock and I was FLOORED.
Literally GAGGED! And they executed it SO WELL in the movie! Words cannot express how I felt while reading the book at that point, such a moment.
11:58 that “everybody” yeah yeah “move your body, the fog is poisonous” is one of the best things I’ve heard in years
This had me DYING
Came here to say this
You can tell he needed a break after that one 🤚🤣
The book catching fire is one of the few books I've read that I remember specific lines from. Like how Katniss had referred to how in the coal mines they would bring down a canary to make sure the air quality was safe and if the canary stopped singing that meant there was danger. And she calls Wiress their canary because she kept singing about the clock and then suddenly you realize there hadn't been an interjection by Wiress this whole time and Katniss is like "our canary had stopped singing" Or at the end when Katniss is talking to Gale and she's asking about her mother and sister and asks "They're not in district twelve?" and Gale is like Oh when you shot at the sky the capitol send bombers but don't worry we got them out but it's really not sinking in for Katniss and she's like "They're not in district twelve" until gale responds "There is no District Twelve" book over. It's really an unmatched piece of literature and that's a hill I'll die on.
No bc I think about that canary line so often 😭
Did,,, did this book series teach me about the use of birds in mines? It must have. I was 14 by the time Mockingjay was published. I was grounded for constantly reading the year before. It all lines up 😳
Okay but the "there is no district 12" line had the reader on chokehold
@@katjosephperez8772 i read all three books in a week and got grounded😭 that was definitely the start of my insomnia
@@alien_from_andromeda OH! You know my pain, and I love that you did that.
mike looks like a new car salesman. what a fancy boy. wouldn’t you buy a nice new car from him? certainly not a used car. he doesn’t look like a used car salesman. he wouldn’t sell you a used car. he just wouldn’t
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I feel like he looks more like a real estate agent in a 'trendy' suburb like Fitzroy or Paddington, who expresses their personality by paring vibrantly coloured socks with their stock standard suit.
Even if he worked at a used car showroom he would actively deter you from buying any of the cars no matter how much you ask him to
the way they tried making us swoon for peeta or gale but that all went out the window once they introduced finnick, we were like "what? oh right you have two love interests, who cares, let me see what's going on in finnick's life"
the hunger games was truly ahead of its time for having both of the protagonist’s male love interests be underwhelming
@@annaisntcool i mean, that's because the story isn't about love interests. its about trauma and war lol. peeta and gale represent two sides, the one that wants peace and the one that is angry.
@@slowdives851 yes. and both of them were boring and unworthy of katniss’ time, i fear🤷🏼♀️
@@annaisntcool yeah, that's the point. Peeta isnt some gallant romantic that sweeps Katniss on her feet, bc he isn't supposed to be. Gale isn't the ultra nice romantic best friend bc he isn't supposed to be. Peeta was the soft, tender emotional support that Katniss needed after the games, gale was the strong support that she needed when she was growing up in the seam. They have their purposes, but being her love interest isn't even the most relevant part of their characters.
@@slowdives851 yeah, that was not lost on me. hence my original comment
"these pigeons are obsessed with me"
flashback to the pigeon dating simulator
It's insane unfair homophobic unhinged that I never got a prequel spin-off about how haymitch actually won
He's one of the best characters in the entire trilogy and I WILL fight about it
Would be a pretty dark movie bc im pretty sure his family was killed by Snow
I feel like our chances of this would get higher if the prequel movie does well 🤔
But it's gonna be r rated given how graphic the description was during the last hours of his hunger games
read the book! they talk about his hunger games in it
I think not enough people realize that when Katniss comes out to the arena, the aspect ratio of the movie changes. The black bars on the top and bottom of the screen disappear. I never understood why I was shitting my pants at the theater at that moment and when I found out that the aspect ratio is different when they're in the arena I shat my pants again.
It really brought the "shit your pants" energy.
Hunger games is one of the best books adaptations ever
they really took the time and i appreciate it
Except for maybe the third movie that felt sort of unnecessary iirc
They shouldn’t have tried to bank off splitting the last book into two movies, just cause it worked for Harry Potter doesn’t mean every series needs it 😕
So does it tie to the books very well? I havent read the books
@@Wooplot i read the books and yeah it did
@@HeyItsNovalee I kinda agree but also not! I feel like an important part of the 3rd book were the inner workings of district 13 and i feel like they wanted to show those in the first part. I just kinda feel like it didn't really work because on screen it was kinda boring
the fact that they didn't include Peeta's phisical disability is my villan origin story
Yeah everytime i remember i just clench my fist like that one meme
the movies did peeta dirty tbh, he was just way better in the books, more charming, more smart, more strong, more loyal, etc etc
@@stuffwithsoph8264 Then in the movies he's just "B r e a d k a t n i s s"
@@stuffwithsoph8264 literally though he had no personality in the movies it kinda pissed me off
@@danibrooke818 yeah they did him like Ron
I’m glad I’m not the only one who kinda admired the move made by president snow of cycling through former winners of the games for the quarter quell.
Is this endangering the movie’s protagonist yes, but like in a creative way I can kinda respect and get around
The craziest part is that the quell was not made up by snow. It worked out in his favor so he made it worse. But all of the quells were pre-determined for hundreds of years to come in the book
@@Raini2727 In the deleted scenes of the movie (that im pretty sure isn't canon to the book), Plutarch does a bit of girlbossing and changes the slip of paper for the quarter quell to have it be pooled from the victors, because he was already in on the whole revolution stuff. I have no idea why they removed it, seems like a cool addition.
@@max-bm1zf wait I actually kind of love that. I didn’t know about that scene! But it’s definitely giving girlboss and gatekeep with just a dash of gaslight 😌
I remember my 12 year old reading that in the book, saying "ABSOLUTELY NOT" and running with tears in my eyes like Donna in Mamma Mia 🥴
I remember my 12 year old self reading that in the book, saying "ABSOLUTELY NOT" and running with tears in my eyes like Donna in Mamma Mia 🥴
No because Peeta was this movies ENTIRE PR team, like come on nobody gives him credit for how smart he was
The DRAMA of Effie having to reach her hand in the middle the bowl and doing the whole presentation when there’s only ONE option is camp.
I was so obsessed with Johanna Mason when this came out. I used to sign letters 'Johanna' and practice throwing axes at trees in my garden. She was an iconic bestie, I was not
Bestie where were you getting axes from 😅
same, turns out i was just bi
She was such a great character!
finally a cool character with my name 😎
@@Jodiejg76 me too sis
not only was this film THE moment, joanna was everyones lesbian awkening
omfg yes
SO IT WASN’T JUST ME
as someone named joanna... yeah ❤️
yessss
YES
this is the best movie review for the best sequel period
Ahhh Sydney you’re here you watch him I should expect nothing less
syd’s vids vs mike’s mic
The fact that Lenny Kravitz is known as Zoe Kravitz's dad to gen z honestly is so iconic
why? is Lenny Kravitz a big star? genuine question
@@gwena9043 yup. he was a pretty big one in the Rock music scene back in his days.
@@xXxCherylxXxMoxXx his hey days are over time to be known as a nepo babies dad
Didn't know he had a daughter lmfao
@@gwena9043he literally even performed at the superbowl with Katy Perry...
The clock arena genuinely touches some primal fear in me. The whole sense of running out of time and the dangers being hidden until they're suddenly _not_ and the fucking poison gas oh man and thE FACT KATNISS LITERALLY GOT TRAPPED BEHIND SOME FUCKING INVISIBLE WALL FOR THE MOCKINGJAY SLICE????? I... genuinely love this. my family watched the movies a few weeks ago and I was like. damn. these were actually good.
also I may be a lesbian but even I was like damn Finnick is 👀
but also Johannah... step on me PLEASE- 😳😛😍
Joanna could use me as a trampoline. 😂
But seriously, she's easily my favorite character apart from Katniss herself. I would have loved to have more of her in this movie. I find her backstory really compelling.
Johannah was SAVAGE in the books💅
mike continuously reminding us to get a good lawyer while lowkey giving lawyer looks
He IS the good lawyer
bestie you didn't even mention the BONKERS soundtrack??? they got absolutely everybody together for that movie truly
Wait hold on was this lorde’s everybody wants to rule the world moment??
@@Whatsayoutuber yes
AND THE ENDING WHEN THEY PLAYED COLDPLAY ATLAS...I died it legit captured the vibe perfectly
@@kathlinncabanas6743 it STILL makes me cry it was so perfect
if you added a moustache you'd look like a trailblazing journalist for a small town newspaper in a 70s movie
We know he read this and did not like this on purpose😂
@@laxsneha I didn't even call him a us*d c*r s*alesm*n 😔
Having experienced the Hunger Games at its height in the 2010s, it is SO disorienting to hear someone talk abt it using such 2020s vocabulary. I lovee
The fifteen “get a good lawyer” audio plays send me every single time 💀💀
Can we just discuss how Katniss’s hair always looks right? The chick gets electrocuted and she still looks like a glamazon ready for the runway, her power is unmatched
She's a female phenomenon, she's a glamazon
"katniss, peeta, and finnick are having sashimi on the beach"
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY TO ME
sashimi on the beach sounds like a lana del rey song title lmao
mike you sure have a lot to say about the color orange for a guy boldly wearing an orange shirt on camera
and can we talk about the most powerful line in the whole movie when one of Snowsty’s computer peeps tell him “ sir we’ve lost power”, after Katniss blows the entire dome thing up
when i say that i was literally Obsessed with this book at age 13. so many iconic moments packed into one novel. I still remember how the "if it weren't for the baby" line absolutely gagged me. also tbh the movies did peeta so dirty, he was such an icon in the books but the casting was all wrong imo. on the flipside though finnick and johanna are the absolute mvps of the franchise they ate Every scene up and little closeted 14 y/o me was GUTTED when finnick d-worded in the last book
I was obsessed at age 9 💀 I read all three in one summer 2015 I think ugh I loved it but the third book I didn’t rlly understand tbh it was kinda hard for me to read but whatever I still was obsessed
Johannah was my favorite in the whole series HANDS DOWN. She was absolutely feral and also had pretty intense wlw vibes. Respect.
when she said
"make him pay for it"
AFTER SEEING KATNISS IN HER WEDDING DRESS BC SNOW MADE HER WEAR IT, AND WR KNEW SHE WAS AN ALLY BITCHH I SCREAMED, LIVE FOR THE BESTIES ENERGY
@@viquetoriaa when she was like “i got them out for YOU” we all gagged
@@everebecca9868 mama was absolutely fierce, I had to stan
shes a lesbian she told me herself cause im her gf
For being such a boyemployee, Gale really liked to gaslight Katniss.
boyemployee LMFAO u got a point tho
Try showing that sentence to a Victorian child and they will immediately disintegrate
@@jammyintears LMFAO
@@jammyintears STOPJ
@@sleepinginmoss if only he was hustling. On his boygrind
your videos require such a deep knowledge of internet culture and slang to even remotely understand them I feel like if I showed this video to my grandma she would disintegrate
I showed my grandma his Twilight video and all she had to say was 😐
In the future Mike's videos will be used as case studies on early 21st century language and slang
The real cause behind Prince Philip’s death
@@accidentalfrenchfries STOPPP 💀🤚
Honestly that just makes me feel so much worse for getting all the references and slang. Clearly I need to get out more...
I remember being practically blown away in the theatre during the premier of catching fire. I knew what was going to happen (albeit roughly) and yet my jaw was still on the ground. If cinema had not converted to this “fast fashion meets the movie industry” thing we have right now, I believe catching fire would’ve been an all time classic.
I love how you can tell when Mike has a reaction clip he's currently obsessed with because he keeps using it throughout the video. The editing is always top tier but that Taylor "get a good lawyer" clip had me rolling EVERY TIME
the finnick fan edit compilation is exactly what was needed, only complaint is that it shoulda been longer
I CRIEDDD literally was not expecting it
I love how this part is the most replayed according to RUclips statistics
@@zinyaxu4895 its cus ive been replaying it to figure out what that goddamn first song is
@@osamudazaigayasf 7:38 this one is options by doja cat, but if u meant 7:42 is elephant by tame impala hope it helps
I've never watched the hunger games franchise but Mike makes me want to watch it all, buy all the blu rays, get a degree is filmmaking, find the set, and then recreate it in Mike's image
i think they are on netflix so maybe you can watch them there😭
girl you should!!
They're pretty good!
It's also free on Peacock
@@SUCHATYR4NT in my country (brazil) i think they are all on hbo max and prime video and only some of them are on netflix
When she comes out of the tube into the arena, the aspect ratio changes and when I tell you my jaw DROPPED... that's movie of the century shit right there
Team Mags everyday I'm so fucking obsessed with her. She slayed her hunger games and then got slayed in the quarter. The double slayage is too much to handle. Mags and Rue are the only characters that have ever made me cry in any piece of film/literature
I laughed so much with the video, even went to twitter just to see those Finnick odar edits cause why wouldn't you??? But the thing with Peeta is that the producers of the movie did him so dirty, in the books Peeta is literally so good and kind to Katniss and his importance is that, in the months before the quarter quell and after the winner's tour, Katniss broke her ankle and had to stay like a month in bed, and Peeta was the one who toke care of Katniss and stayed with her as long as she needed (cause bestie was having a literally existencial crisis bc she felt useless while being injured), so Peeta helped Katniss development a better emotional intelligence¿? kinda thing, and helped her at like, letting her emotions come out of her and not just compress them inside of her.
So yeah, Peeta has a lot more importance in the books but that wasn't showed in the movies and I hate the producers and screenwriter for that
Matilda's father would certainly be very jealous of the blazer mr michael sir.
this is the best comment
please🤣
Well done random person 🤣🤣
our lord and savior danny devito
(Loud whisper) I don't think he got the reference
i was so obsessed with the hunger games' political machinations all the time like the part where she came out in her wedding dress?? because she and peeta were gonna get (politically) married??? and she wanted outrage from the entire capitol full of everlark shippers??? i was screaming. that was inspired. they really gave us everything
The scene where she enters the arena is literally one of my favorite in all of cinemas. ALL film departments are at an absolute 10.
the fact that i still remember exactly where i was when i read the ending to this book and how i felt says a lot imo. I was on the way to see family and i finished the book just as we pulled up to their driveway and i remember gasping out loud and just going like omg how am i supposed to function normally after reading that lmao
“ If it wasn’t for the baby” line has me so gagged in 8th grade. I was pirating the books on my laptop and I got to that line right before I had to leave for school. I legit could not think of anything else the whole school day.
Ok but you’d totally have a job bc you’d definitely replace Caesar Flickerman and get to interview everyone
i literally scrolled to this comment as he said that
So true my Frankie Grande era
cannot believe you skipped over when the wedding dress turns into a mockingjay... thats the shit
several points were made... none were lies
Favourite line of the video: "If a monkey roared in my face, I think that would be it for me" 🤣
no kidding, this movie is AMAZING. Jennifer Lwarence was on her shit and so many other supporting actors excelled as well. The budget was obviously huge and they used it the right way, the cgi and general look of the movie great. The music?? Top tier. The costumes?? Slay boots the house down. The storyline?? Plot twist👏🏻after👏🏻plottwist👏🏻 while still making sense.
I was a crazy hunger games fangirl when this came out and I legit cried in the theater bc I was so amazed and I still remember the day the movie came out on DVD and I immediately watched it two times in a day lmao
hunger games catching fire introduced us to *THEE* finnick odair so yes, it is the best movie to have ever existed😌
Yessss
and THEE johanna mason
I literally just finished rereading catching fire last night so this was impeccable timing. Anyway:
1. You are not wrong this is the best movie full stop
2. Katniss was real excited in the book that her ointment for her blisters from the fog also had sunscreen. Like yessss spf queen
3. This movie is the perfect example of what it’s like to make correct changes to movies to quicken what is said in the story but without leaving out vital parts. They kept a lot of things exact but changed where needed. An actual masterpiece some would say
YAY another member of the 'Meet the Robinsons' fandom, my therapist was so confused when I told him that that was the only movie to ever make me cry
I’ve only ever cried at a few movies in my life. Mostly understandable movies but one was Batman. Because. And I quote “Alfred just loves Batman so much and wants the best for Batman.” Idk. I guess I just had a lot going on at the time. 😂😂
I’m obsessed with Meet the Robinsons, it literally deserves so much credit that it never gets
one of my favorite movies of all time, to this day. But also don't start thinking about the timeline too much because that will throw your brain for a loop
‘Dude, I just can’t take you seriously in that hat’ has got to be one of the best quotes ever.
I literally started this video, remembered how much I love Catching Fire, paused the video, went to watch Catching Fire and then came back and finished the video. Love this by the way; you're hilarious
3:45 “are there actually people whose favourite colour is orange” he says as he wears an orange shirt in front of an orange light before playing an orange filter video of taylor
Joanna Mason is an iconic legend. She has the most iconic entrance and she did what she had to do.
"pigeons are obsessed with me"
violent flashbacks to the pigeon dating simulator
Crazy viever: "I will not fulfill my contractual obligation to leave a like"
Mike: "Eh, get a good lawyer"
3:10 btw they don’t have phones in the district, except for the really rich people who have landline phones. When katniss moves into the victors village it’s said that her house comes with a phone that she uses to talk to Cinna and Effie for victor business and whatnot. They probably have cellphones or something like that in the Capitol but the people in the districts barely have anything
The terminology, the humor, the Nicki memes sprinkled in… iconic viewing experience 😂
This is thee best book and best movie of the series. One of the best book to movies adaptions imo…The attention to detail, The quarter quell plot twist, introduction of the victors, the development of peetas and katniss relationship… the ENDING !!??? I couldn’t deal
“guys, these pigeons are OBSESSED with me”
-BaddieB Brbtingz
The amount of Mike's Mic Cinematic Universe knowledge required to understand this comment...
honestly the best part of the movie is the change of aspect ratio while main character girl boss enters the arena and how it makes us experience the games in full frame IMAX... out of this world
Literally Catching Fire is in my top five favorite movies. It DOES NOT miss at all. Every second of this film is perfect.
11:58 was hilarious, good stuff!
Going through and binging a lot of your videos, so fun and so slay!
I was 13 when the movie came out and I remember leaving the cinema feeling absolutely blown away and ready to take down the government lmao. I still get chills every time I see it
I used to count how many times Peeta almost dies in this film every time I watched it
literally I just want it to be 2013 and to go see Catching Fire at a midnight premiere. Nothing has made me feel like that since.
girl same
Hunter games is the epitome of pain. The English or French word? You'll never know.
3:18 Mike says “but then I wouldn’t have a job” like he’s not the very embodiment of Caesar Flickerman
3:40 no cus it's the way mike is wearing an orange shirt but saying orange like it's dirt... it's so funny to mebeujuiejijdi
“um get a good lawyer” is burned into my brain now and i couldn’t be happier
i personally, am not saying that mr microphone looks like a car salesman, but i will say that he should not have said that because SOME PEOPLE, but not me, would say that he only looks like a car salesman because he said he did and maybe some people would not have thought that if it weren’t stated beforehand
I was OBZEZZED with hunger games when CF came out, and the movie met my every expectation as a diehard fan and I still think about how fucking awesome it was to see it in the cinema for the first time. It makes Mockingjay's disappointment hurt that much more - that movie could have been great if it wasn't split into two.
This was as gripping as how I first read the Hunger Games trilogy. You are a master of this gen delivery of commentary same as how Suzanne Collins is a genius gamemaster writer when she came up with the details 75th hunger games.
4:10 YESSS GIRLIEEE MIKEY ON THE BEAT❤❤❤❤❤
Mike, you were never more correct than you were when you said “THIS is how you do sequels”
the grip this movie had on society needs to be investigated
The fact that I decided to stan Peeta largely because his favorite color was orange just like my boyfriend
Your boyfriend is orange inch resting
Is your boyfriend fine? Like,does he need psychological help??
in the book, the little sound katniss does for rue that ends up symbolizing the rebellion, was actually something from district 11 that rue taught katniss. not sure if that’s how it is in the movie
Your commentary videos (storytelling? Narratives? Retelling of the actual thingamajig??) are the most entertaining thing on the internet, and the only reason I’m still here. Keep it up mike.
THE movie that made me realize cinematography is a thing WHEN I WAS LIKE 15
I was doing film and wrote a full piece on the cinematography of this film!! I completely forgot wow hahah
the hunger games fandom on facebook was wild..........basically early version of stan twitter I loved it
I had a meme account called "I don't wanna lose the boy with the bread" but it got banned after 2 years bc I was under 13 lmao
Tbh we smashed it
Me and my friends had a Facebook group where we all had admin names based on different fandoms but mainly the hunger games🤭
I don‘t know Catching Fire. I only know Hunger Games: All Stars
im so happy to find someone as passionate about this movie as i am
You are genuinely one of my favorite RUclipsrs. I've seen this video about five times and I'm still laughing