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- Ooh, trailers.
- Is this gonna be the Catching Fire trailer?
- (Caesar) Ladies and gentleman... - Catching Fire? (squeals)
- (Caesar) ...the victors of the 74th Hunger Game,
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark!
- Another one?
- I haven't seen this yet. (crowd cheers)
- I'm so excited.
- I'm so excited for this!
- I'm so excited!
- (President Snow) She just wants to save her skin.
Simple as that.
She has become a beacon of hope for them.
She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
- (Plutarch) I agree she should die... - (giggling)
- ...but in the right way.
- Okay, I don't even know what this is about
'cause I didn't read any of the books.
- (Plutarch) We don't have to destroy her, just her image.
Show them that she is one of us now.
Let them rally behind that.
- Is that even the right--? (crowd screams)
- (Plutarch chuckles) They're gonna hate her so much,
they might just kill her for you. - (President Snow chuckles)
- I love that line.
- [Bleep]'s going down.
- (Effie) Chins up, smiles on!
- (Caesar) There she is, Katniss Everdeen!
The girl on fire!
- ♪ That girl is on fire ♪
- (Gale) People are looking to you, Katniss.
You've given them an opportunity.
They just have to be brave enough to take it.
- This looks really good.
- I'm so excited.
- I'm so excited!
- Okay, honestly, I saw The Hunger Games and it was kind of good.
- (Katniss) They will kill us.
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- Wait, what boy was that?
- Ugh, it's gonna be another Peeta/Gale thing after this.
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(cocking gun)
- (Katniss) Go ahead. - She has some balls to say that
when you have a gun right in your face.
- (President Snow) Her entire species must be eradicated.
- (Plutarch) Her species are-- - (President Snow) The other Victors.
Because of her, they all think they're invincible.
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- (chuckling) - (Finebros chuckles along)
- You don't understand. You don't. You just don't.
- I'm just gonna fangirl this entire episode.
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- (Finebros) So are you excited about the next Hunger Games movie?
- Yeah, I'm pretty stoked for it.
- I am really excited.
- I'm not a hardcore fan like a lot of people are, but I like it.
- I've never read any of the books,
or even seen the first film, so... meh.
- I'm so excited because it's a new director.
No offense to the guy that did the first one.
(flames rage) - (Finebros) Burrrrrn!
Did the trailer do a good job at telling you
what it's going to be about?
- I think it gives you enough information
so that people know what's going on, but then, at the same time,
it doesn't give anything away.
- Honestly, they could've done a better job explaining it.
- It doesn't really explain it because they're just kind of banking on
you having seen the previous movie.
- (Finebros) And what, in the new movie, are you most excited to see?
- (gushing) Liam Hemsworth!
- The whole love triangle.
I want to see how it plays out on screen.
- The games because the way it was in my head,
I was reading it and I was like, "Oh my god!
I cannot wait to see this in movie form!"
- Spoiler alert: I'm super excited to see the arena
because it's like-- really big spoiler--
it's a [prolonged beep].
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- (Finebros) Out of a score of one to ten,
what would you give the first Hunger Games? - A five.
- Six?
- Seven.
- 7.3.
- Seven and a half.
- I'd say like an eight.
- Maybe a nine.
- Nine.
- (Finebros) What was something specific in the first movie
that you thought they didn't do well?
- Honestly, I can't really think about it.
I was a sucker for it.
- There was no violence in it.
There's no gore, there's no blood.
Like, that's what got me into the books.
- They focused a lot more on the love triangle
in the movies than they do in the books,
and it wasn't so overwhelming that it made it not as good,
like what it did with Twilight.
- Peeta is supposed to have a prosthetic leg on now,
and they're like, "Oh, it's just like a cut!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, just put some cream on it. You're good."
- They cut out a lot of important things.
The mayor, and then the mayor has a daughter,
she's the one who gives Katniss the pin!
- There's a really important story behind that Mockingjay pin,
and they really [bleep] up.
- (Finebros) Have you read the second book? - Yes.
- Yes!
- Yes, I've read the book.
- I haven't read any of them.
- Those books are, like, this big.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
- (Finebros) Why, when you liked the movie,
would you not read the next book to find out what happens next?
- Yeah, but that requires work!
You can just go to the movies,
be lazy, sit in a chair, and have a good time.
- Movies kind of summarize it all up
in a short amount of time, instead of me reading it,
which would probably take longer.
- (Finebros) What would you say to people out there
that loved the first movie, but then never read the second book?
- Read a book, people!
- That's, like, pure laziness!
- Are you crazy?
The book, compared to the movie, there's no comparison.
You have to read the book.
- Normally, I'm just like, "Wow! That looks so good!
I can't wait to see it!"
Then someone's like, "You should just read it."
I'm like, "(scoffs) No!"
And I was just like, "Dude, I can't wait.
There's no way I can wait half a year, or a year,
to see the next movie. I'm reading it now.
I'll make up the story in my head."
And that's what I did.
- (Finebros) Is there something that you're really hoping
that they don't cut out of the second movie?
- I wish-- like, I'm hoping, for a more intense... more blood.
Bring on the blood.
- I hope they just don't skim over, like, [prolonged beep].
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You know? So I hope they, like, do--
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- (Finebros) And why do you think The Hunger Games
resonates so much specifically with teenagers?
- Probably because it has the whole aspect of lying, murder.
- And it also has Jennifer Lawrence in it,
who is a really big star right now and everyone loves her.
- There's a lot of violence too, so that captures the guy's side.
And then there's love. Girl's side!
- I feel like when the main characters are kind our age, we relate more.
Like, if they had stuck a 30 year old in Katniss' place,
I don't think it would've been the same.
- A government would take people of our age,
and do this thing to them.
It gets you interested in seeing how they would survive
because you don't know how you would survive.
- The majority of teenagers only see the love aspect in it,
when you have this completely other totalitarian government
taking over what is their world, and killing off people to maintain order.
It's the kids that get it get it and love it,
and the kids that don't still love it because there's something there to love.
- The thing that people try and say about books and movies
is that it's so-- like, teenagers can relate to every aspect of it,
so that makes them love it and stuff.
I disagree completely.
I think the reason we love these extravagant things
is we can completely lose ourselves in it
and NOT remember the things about us that are like that.
- (Finebros) If someone has never read or watched The Hunger Games,
what would you tell them? - Me too! (imitates high five)
- If you haven't read or seen the movie, you're living under a rock.
- I'll give you my Kindle. You gotta read it!
- My whole thing is give everyone, everything, a chance first
before you judge it.
I would just tell them to not be so closed minded.
- (Finebros) And, finally, when do you plan on seeing it?
At the midnight screening, opening weekend,
sometime in the theatre, not in the theatre, or not at all?
- Midnight.
- At midnight.
- Sometime in the theatre.
- I'll just wait for it on DVD.
- Midnight screening!
- At home.
- I would see it at the midnight premier.
- Not at all.
- Well, I'm gonna be camping out for the World Premier again,
so that will be, like, two weeks in advance.
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- May the odds be ever in your favor.
Did I say that right?
- Happy Hunger Games,
and may the odds be ever in your favor!
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