# The Hunger Games: Catching Fire teaser trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817 "2013-04-16T04:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/1 "2013-04-16T04:32:35Z")
I’ve read the books, but [this is the only trailer](http://youtu.be/jyPnQw_Lqds) I’ll watch until it’s released. This looks pretty good to me though. I love the haunting Rue whistle at the end of the trailer. I thought the first movie and the first book were equally good in their own ways, and I’m thinking that the movies Catching Fire and the two Mockingjay movies will be even _better_ than the books (though I plan to skip the 2nd Mockingjay movie). For those who haven’t read the books, but liked the first movie and don’t want to be spoiled at ALL, I’d suggest not watching this or any other trailer, and don’t read reviews or articles. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/2 "2013-04-16T05:50:51Z")
It looks very promising although I was rather amused that the District 12 greeting looks like the Deutscher Gruß. As for the books I always thought _Hunger Games_ was rather slow but _Catching Fire_ and especially _Mockingjay_ went much faster. Why don’t you plan to see the second _Mockingjay_ movie? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/3 "2013-04-16T05:57:02Z")
WTF? They’re going to make _Mockingjay_ into two movies? For fuck’s sake, _WHY_???$??? Goddammit, this is going to be a fucking _thing_ now, isn’t it? I bet Peter Jackson is pissed he didn’t think to do it with _ROTK_ (but that’s probably why he felt the need to do _The Hobbit_ in three). Shit. :mad: Damn you [whoever made the decision to split the last Harry Potter book in two]. Just damn you straight to hell. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/4 "2013-04-16T10:09:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > WTF? They’re going to make _Mockingjay_ into two movies? For fuck’s sake, _WHY_???$??? > > Goddammit, this is going to be a fucking _thing_ now, isn’t it? I bet Peter Jackson is pissed he didn’t think to do it with _ROTK_ (but that’s probably why he felt the need to do _The Hobbit_ in three). > > Shit. :mad: Damn you [whoever made the decision to split the last Harry Potter book in two]. Just damn you straight to hell. I don’t really understand the problem here. Does it just bother people that they will make more money? I for one want everyone involved in the entertainment I enjoy to be paid well, and I get more of the stuff I want to boot. I understand if you think it makes the movies worse, but I disagree with most of the current examples. I’ll grant you that The Hobbit is stretched all to hell and the pacing is probably not as good as if it would have been a single movie (and thus much more suited to the actual book’s length), but I don’t think it actually hurts the quality enough to counter how much better it will be to have just a lot more of it. The last two LotR movies actually felt quite rushed to me and I really wish they would have had the breathing room they would no doubt get if they were made today. Harry Potter though, that was absolutely the right decision artistically as well as financially. The first movie may have been a little slow, but the big finale was the best film of the franchise I think, and it absolutely would not have been if they had to spend the first half of it setting everything up for the big battle. I feel the same way about Mockingjay, there’s just so much ground to cover that I think it absolutely necessary in order to to the story justice. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/5 "2013-04-16T12:17:53Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Why don’t you plan to see the second _Mockingjay_ movie? Because I hated it with the passion of a thousand suns. It was a terrible, terrible ending in so many ways, I would have thrown the book across the room except that I was reading it on my iPod Touch. It was bad enough in my imagination. I don’t need to see it played out on film. In this case, I’m very glad the book was split into 2 movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/6 "2013-04-16T12:36:59Z")
I think splitting _Mockingjay_ is a good thing as well; it felt way too rushed. There’s no way Panem would have been that easy to penetrate. _Catching Fire_ seems very faithful to the book. It implied in the book, but I don’t think outright stated, that the 75th anniversary “Hunger Games Survivor All Star” theme was the idea of Snow rather than the “sealed in an envelope (kept in a mayonaisse jar on Funk and Wagnall’s front porch) since the inception of the games” official version; this movie seems to state it outright. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/7 "2013-04-16T13:30:06Z")
Oh, boy. Come on, November!!! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/8 "2013-04-16T14:37:13Z")
I’ll see them all but if I had to skip one it’d be Mockingjay Pt.I Isn’t the whole first half of this book spent underground and they venture out twice maybe? Not much of a movie there. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/9 "2013-04-16T14:44:04Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Because I hated it with the passion of a thousand suns. It was a terrible, terrible ending in so many ways, I would have thrown the book across the room except that I was reading it on my iPod Touch. It was bad enough in my imagination. I don’t need to see it played out on film. In this case, I’m very glad the book was split into 2 movies. Given that _Mockingjay_ ended with Katniss being deflowered by Peeta (except the epilogue, of course) that 2nd MJ movie is the one I’m **most** looking forward to. 😉 But seriously… how _are_ they going to end it? They surely can’t end it with _that_?!? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/10 "2013-04-16T14:49:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > But seriously… how _are_ they going to end it? They surely can’t end it with _that_?!? The wording is so subtle that there’s an equal chance Collins was writing about their first kiss after the end of the war or their first “date” or their wedding. I imagine they’ll go with the wedding to tie it into Catching Fire. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/11 "2013-04-16T14:51:02Z")
At least it looks like they have a larger budget to work with this time. The Cornucopia in the first movie looked like they went over budget and only had enough money left for plywood and black spray paint to build it. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/12 "2013-04-16T15:27:15Z")
no actually, this is a second chance at re-writing the third book. i hope the movie is different. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/13 "2013-04-16T20:36:03Z")
One thing I think is interesting about the teaser trailer is that it doesn’t at all reveal that (spoiler for the book and movie) Katniss has to compete again Which, in the current climate of trailers that give away 90% of the movie’s plot, is a welcome change. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/14 "2013-04-16T20:48:53Z")
I think it was on SDMB that I read Suzanne Collins herself wasn’t happy with _Mockingjay_, but she had contractually obligated to produce exactly three books with the approximate length of each spelled out, which was why the battles for the capitol seem to be only slightly more horrific than a Greendale Community College pillow fight. Since the scene where she stripped Peeta was missing from the movie version of _Hunger Games_, I am hoping that in the name of artistic integrity they’ll strip him in the new one. And please don’t let the crowd in District 11 break into a Harlem Shake. Yes, I get that it would be a nice tie in, but the meme will be over by then and I think it would dishonor Rue’s memory. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/15 "2013-04-16T20:51:29Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > One thing I think is interesting about the teaser trailer is that it doesn’t at all reveal that (spoiler for the book and movie) > > Katniss has to compete again > > Which, in the current climate of trailers that give away 90% of the movie’s plot, is a welcome change. I think they just wrapped filming on that part, so maybe they don’t have it edited all nice and presentational yet. I’m sure it will appear in the full trailer, I don’t think they’d keep those visuals completely under wraps. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/16 "2013-07-22T02:40:49Z")
[A new longer trailer is out now.](http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-hunger-games-catching-fire/trailers/) I broke down and watched it, and it looks good. I don’t know why I said I wasn’t going to watch anything else in my OP. I’ve read the books, several times (except the ending of Mockingjay, which I’ve read once and never want to read again) so it’s not like I’m going to be spoiled or anything. Sorry about that Yahoo link. The trailer isn’t up on YouTube yet. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/17 "2013-07-22T03:03:10Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > It looks very promising although I was rather amused that the District 12 greeting looks like the Deutscher Gruß. I think that’s the idea. “Catching Fire” was by far the best of the three books. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/18 "2013-07-22T03:30:45Z")
I am so stoked for this movie, which surprises me because I didn’t much care for the book and actively disliked the third one. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/19 "2013-07-23T19:18:46Z")
I don’t get the hate for the third book. I think it was the most realistic in that Katniss became a complete mess as a result of her trauma. I also liked the inevitable corruption of the movement to overthrow the Capitol. It was horrific, which is good, because that’s what war is. I’m looking forward to the movie, but I’m not as excited about it as I was about the first one. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817/20 "2013-07-23T21:38:29Z")
I thought the third felt incredibly rushed, killing Prim was a way to end the Gale/Peeta triangle, and no military would have put up with a crazed Peeta during the assault. He was a liability and would have had an “accident.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-teaser-trailer/655817.md?page=2)