The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

It's set at the end of this regime of Panem, right? Yes, yes.

But then with this one, you're in the 50-quarter quote, which I'm gonna be honest, I've been waiting for this particular story since I read Catching Fire in college.

And so I said, well, I wanna see this, either in a flashback or whatever.

And we did get the flashback, but this is now like a full movie, so we're getting a full meal on something that I've been waiting for.

We have this great, group of people, I feel like it's such a huge part of my life already that I just, I can't imagine letting it letting it go

i love this i love your love for this yeah i mean i have to

say look when when i did catching fire in the mocking jays that was three and a half four years of continuous hunger games i was ready for a break yeah but now that we're in this zone where we're not even sure if she's like gonna write another book and we get surprised it's great because i can go off and i you know i can do a long walk and then another you know hunger games and now go do something else and hopefully there's another book at some point and you know and so you can do different things i think that's important if it was just hunger games back to back to back to back to back like it was with those my original three I don't think I could sustain that.

But because I can do things like the long walk, then it's like great to come back into this world with everybody.

I think maybe I had to wait for that to come out.

But I definitely remember reading Catching Fire on holiday in Portugal in, I think, May 2010.

And it was when we got stuck an extra few days because of the volcanic ash cloud.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And I was in Lisbon and Sintra and Porto.

And I remember sitting on a balcony in Sintra where we were staying, reading Catching Fire.

I have such a clear memory.

It's like a three-hour movie.

My favorite book and movie is Catching Fire.

That's most people, yeah?

Probably.

Oh, you know what

pissed me off? Off low key, high key, you know what pissed me off bad? In Catching Fire, it was like the all-star season.

It was like all the winners coming back.

I wanted there to be a winner.

And so like I remember reading.

like sitting in class and instead of paying attention to the lecture i was reading hunger games then i was reading catching fire then i was reading mockingjay and i'm pretty sure i had finished the series by the time the movie actually released um because i remember i went to the midnight premiere with my sister and that is still like the most memorable cinematic experience of my life.

We have inside jokes with each other about the things that the people who sat around us said that we can just like say.

And because Suzanne keeps cranking stuff out, we keep revisiting the series of all like every couple of years.

Like, I had read the book twice before this reread, but I don't think I had actually watched the movies in full since I saw them in theaters when they first

came out.

I think I've watched, like, the first Hunger Games and Catching Fire a decent amount of times, but I was surprised how little I remembered of the Mockingjay Part 1 and 2 because I feel like I must just not watch these very often.

It is, and I said this last episode talking about Part 1, I do think that this is the weaker of the, like, the weakest of the first three, the original trilogy.