The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.
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Film Cast:

  • Katniss Everdeen: Jennifer Lawrence
  • Peeta Mellark: Josh Hutcherson
  • Gale Hawthorne: Liam Hemsworth
  • Haymitch Abernathy: Woody Harrelson
  • Effie Trinket: Elizabeth Banks
  • President Snow: Donald Sutherland
  • Cinna: Lenny Kravitz
  • Plutarch Heavensbee: Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Beetee: Jeffrey Wright
  • Caeser Flickerman: Stanley Tucci
  • Claudius Templesmith: Toby Jones
  • Primrose Everdeen: Willow Shields
  • Finnick Odair: Sam Claflin
  • Mags: Lynn Cohen
  • Johanna Mason: Jena Malone
  • Blight: Bobby Jordan
  • Wiress: Amanda Plummer
  • Marvel: Jack Quaid
  • Ripper: Taylor St. Clair
  • Greasy Sae: Sandra Ellis Lafferty
  • Katniss’ Mother: Paula Malcomson
  • Octavia: Bruce Bundy
  • Flavius: Nelson Ascencio
  • District 11 Mayor: Afemo Omilami
  • Rue’s Aunt: Kimberley Drummond
  • Thresh’s Grandmother: Deena Beasley
  • Old Man: Leon Lamar
  • Flower Girl: Mandy Neuhaus
  • Snow’s Granddaughter: Erika Bierman
  • Cray: Wilbur Fitzgerald
  • Commander Thread: Patrick St. Esprit
  • Old Lady: Jill Jane Clements
  • Presidential Guard: James Sutton
  • Gloss: Alan Ritchson
  • Cashmere: Stephanie Leigh Schlund
  • Enobaria: Meta Golding
  • Female Morphling: Megan Hayes
  • Annie Cresta: Stef Dawson
  • District 5 Male Tribute: James Logan
  • Chaff: E. Roger Mitchell
  • Brutus: Bruno Gunn
  • Seeder: Maria Howell
  • Hovercraft Peacekeeper: Judd Lormand
  • Cecelia: Elena Sanchez
  • Woof: John Casino
  • Disctrict 9 Female Tribute: Marian Green
  • Disctrict 9 Male Tribute: Daniel Bernhardt
  • Operator #1: Ravi Naidu
  • Operator #2: Franco Castan
  • Capital Aristocrat (uncredited): Jared Allman
  • Trainer (uncredited): Laura Avnaim
  • District II Citizen (uncredited): Noëlle Renée Bercy
  • Tribute Man District 10 (uncredited): Jackson Spidell
  • Hob Kid (uncredited): Nickolas Wolf
  • Rue (archive footage) (uncredited): Amandla Stenberg
  • District 11 Citizen (uncredited): Moses J. Moseley

Film Crew:

  • Casting: Debra Zane
  • Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard
  • Production Design: Philip Messina
  • Producer: Jon Kilik
  • First Assistant Director: Aldric La’Auli Porter
  • Director: Francis Lawrence
  • Art Direction: Robert Fechtman
  • Stunt Coordinator: Chad Stahelski
  • Screenplay: Michael Arndt
  • Set Decoration: Larry Dias
  • Executive Producer: Joseph Drake
  • Director of Photography: Jo Willems
  • Set Designer: Alan Au
  • Unit Production Manager: Louise Rosner-Meyer
  • Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy
  • Post Production Supervisor: Jeffrey Harlacker
  • Editor: Alan Edward Bell
  • Executive In Charge Of Production: Donna Sloan
  • Second Assistant Director: John R. Saunders
  • Novel: Suzanne Collins
  • Makeup Department Head: Ve Neill
  • Casting Associate: John McAlary
  • Producer: Nina Jacobson
  • Executive Producer: Allison Shearmur
  • Costume Design: Trish Summerville
  • Supervising Art Director: John Collins
  • Set Designer: Jim Hewitt
  • Set Designer: Easton Michael Smith
  • Stunt Coordinator: Sam Hargrave
  • Casting Associate: Tannis Vallely
  • Set Designer: Harry E. Otto
  • ADR Mixer: Robert Edwards
  • Script Supervisor: Ana Maria Quintana
  • Set Designer: George Lee
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Guy Williams
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Janek Sirrs
  • Sound Effects Editor: Joel Dougherty
  • Location Manager: Ken Lavet
  • Gaffer: Michael Bauman
  • Art Direction: Adam Davis
  • Production Coordinator: John Sanchez
  • Visual Effects Producer: Mitchell Ferm
  • Makeup Artist: Veronica Lorenz
  • Music Supervisor: Alexandra Patsavas
  • Co-Producer: Bryan Unkeless
  • Stunts: Bobby Jordan
  • Production Supervisor: Adam McCarthy
  • Visual Effects Editor: Andrew Ryan Turner
  • Visual Effects Coordinator: Kevin McAllister
  • Visual Effects Coordinator: Vanessa Joyce
  • Production Controller: Anne Ford
  • Set Designer: Sheila Nash
  • Stunts: Jackson Spidell
  • Key Costumer: Stephanie Portnoy Porter
  • Senior Animator: Graham Binding

Movie Reviews:

  • Cithü: Good :3
  • thomasdelgado: Awesome movie!
  • Per Gunnar Jonsson: I still do not agree with the 9 and 10 star ratings but I feel this movie is slightly better than the first one. This is primarily because Jennifer Lawrence’s character is more mature and she seems more comfortable in the role. She is no longer an immature, naive and lost child. At least not most of the time.

    The entire setup is still as ludicrous as before. It is a silly and depressing background scenario and it is definitely not my cup of tea. The people running around in ridiculous hair-do, makeup and showing a severe lack of intelligence is not making things better.

    The enjoyment of this movie comes when the games finally start. These parts are definitely better than in the first movie. The various dangers are well done, the effects good and there is an interesting overall theme to the arena and the dangers instead of randomly throwing new menaces at players that seemed to be the strategy in the first movie.

    To me the enjoyment of this movie is in the games themselves. This is probably because I just do not like the rest of the plot. The depressing scenario. The nonsensical and/or oppressive behavior, backstabbing etc. etc.

  • Andres Gomez: More of the same stuff.

    Lawrence is not bad and I think Josh Hutcherson is a great discovering but that’s mostly it.

  • CharlesTheBold: This is a sequel to 2012’s HUNGER GAMES, and is set in the same future world: a post-apocalyptic world where an Empire, called Panem, has imposed peace on the survivors only to decay into brutal tyranny. The symbol of the tyranny is the Hunger Games, a gladiator-type combat where only one “victor” is permitted and the rest of the fighters die. To keep the flow of victims coming, 12 districts of Panem are required each year to supply a teenage boy and girl for the fight, ostensibly as punishment for decades-old rebellion.

    The theme of this movie is the moral issues over how to oppose such tyranny. Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence), the spirited girl who won the previous year’s Games, wishes to stop the oppression, but fears that outright revolution will hurt too many people. There is another character (whom I won’t identify to avoid spoilers) who doesn’t care how many people are hurt as long as the revolution is advanced. Many of the subjects of the Empire are resigned to submitting until some messianic deliverer will appear. Meanwhile the ruthless President-for-life Coriolanus Snow ( Donald Sutherland) is determined to destroy the rebels before they can get organized. Who will win out? Therein lies the suspense.

    There are enough special effects to make the futuristic background and technology credible without overwhelming the movie.
    Aside from Lawrence and Sutherland as the impressive antagonists, the movie has a strong supporting cast: Woody Harrelson as Katniss’s shrewd but alcoholic mentor; Liam Hemworth and Josh Hutcherson as two boys representing the aggressive vs sensitive sides of Katniss’s character; Elizabeth Banks as a kindly but naive woman oblivious to the tyranny; Oscar-winner Philip Hoffman as Snow’s Machiavellian adviser, and Sam Clafin, Jeffrey Wright, and Jena Malone as formidable former victors drawn into the conflict.
    The movie’s only real flaw is that being part of a continuing story keeps the plot from being resolved in the end.

  • Kamurai: Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.

    This is a great survivalist story in a horrible setting (wonderfully set, written to be a horrible world).

    We get all the great fun that we got from the original movie, and then we add in the whole (spoiler) element. It’s really what makes the movie and leads us into the next arc, but I won’t mention it.

    With Snow just on an angry tantrum spree (literally using childish tantrum words) you can tell very early that he’s defeated himself, it’s just a matter of time.

    Jennifer Lawrence is a big enough personality to carry the movie and she does with everyone else playing support roles centered around her. It was fantastic to see Jena Malone come on board as I feel she adds something special to everything she’s in.

    If you can stand the battle royale concept, this this is a good watch for you.

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