The Hunger Games

Corrected entry: When Katniss leaves Peeta to retrieve the package at the cornucopia, there is no bag for District 1. The girl from District 1 arrives after Katniss, so it should have still been on the table. Another clue to the fact that it was never there is the 4 bags that were there were evenly spaced, with bags 2 and 12 being equally distanced from each end of the table.

Correction: At this point of the movie, there are Tributes alive only from four districts. Clove is from District 2, same as Cato. The girl from District 1 (Glimmer) died when Katniss dropped the Tracker Jacker's nest on them.

Nondaime

Corrected entry: When Katniss is launched into the arena, all the tributes are stood on pedestals very close to one another in a tight semi-circle facing the Cornucopia. However, consider the architecture of the launch room she was in moments before. The room was quite big; we are under the impression each of the 24 tributes is in a room identical to this. The large size of the room underneath the arena would suggest they are all largely spread out, however the pedestals they rise onto are far too close together for what the room sizes are.

Liam D

Correction: Being under the impression of something doesn't make it a mistake. We don't know if all the other rooms are the same size, as we aren't shown. Who is to say the rooms aren't stacked, with the pedestals rising from different levels? In that case the rooms could all be the same size, with different spaces for the pedestals to rise from.

Corrected entry: When Katniss is hallucinating from the tracker jacker stings, she sees and hears Caesar (the announcer) describing the effects of the venom, which he had just done for the television audience. However, as she is inside the arena, she could not have seen him do this and would thus not 'remember' it in her vision.

ohiosierra

Correction: Katniss would not have to "remember" it. She is hallucinating it. Like everyone else, she's watched past televised Hunger Games and knows that Ceasar describes in detail everything that happens during the games. Tracker jackers have probably been used in previous games. It is hardly a stretch that she would hallucinate him explaining about the tracker jackers to the audience, or in this case, to her personally.

raywest

Corrected entry: In the scene where Marvel throws a spear at Rue, Katniss pulls an arrow from the ground to shoot at Marvel, yet nowhere in the whole scene does she ever take an arrow out and put it on the ground.

Correction: She doesn't pick up an arrow up from the ground. She quickly reaches behind to pull one from the quiver that is hanging low on her shoulder. It's hard to see, and it's fast, but she does take it from there.

raywest

Correction: She is picking up her bow from the ground. She put it down so she could cut Rue free from the net she was trapped under. She then quickly grabs an arrow from her quiver.

Corrected entry: When Katniss is being evaluated, she picks up one of four arrows and fires it at the target. When she tries again, she picks up another arrow, but the arrow that she shot is still there. After this happens, yet another arrow appears.

Correction: The stand with the arrows holds five arrows to start with. The next time she reaches for an arrow, there are four, and finally, as she grabs the last one, there are three left. There is nothing wrong with this scene.

Correction: Of course you can see the edge of the wig, because Caesar is wearing a wig. The citizens in the capital dress in outlandish costumes, use garish make-up, have strange hair styles often dyed in bright colors, and wear all kinds of odd hats, ornate jewelry, embellishments, hair pieces, and elaborate wigs. It's not meant to be Caesar's real hair.

raywest

Corrected entry: When Katniss sleeps in the tree for the second time she has a cover over her legs. After camera changes angle the cover is gone.

Correction: The cover we see is is when Katniss is still awake. We then see a shot of her sleeping then another shot where it is daylight and the cover has gone. This indicates a few hours have passed between the shots and she could have simply removed it in that time or it just fell off her.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When we first see the large board with each tribute's odds, you can see that Rue's are 60-1 and Thresh's are 10-1 (moving to 11-1). When the view changes, the odds are 8-1 for Thresh (could be) and 7-1 for Rue (no way she has the same odds as Glimmer!). Rue's name also disappears.

Correction: In the second angle, we cannot see District 12's entries. So we can't tell if the name has disappeared and the odds changed. We can see district 1-6.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: In the wide shot of the supplies being blown up, the mines are placed around the pile. The first few mines go off in the right places, but the explosion comes from underneath the pile.

Correction: This is on purpose. Yes, there were mines around the pile, designed to trigger the explosions and kill anyone around it. But they also put mines under the pile to be triggered by the explosions of the others. Several tactical reasons for this, but most notably to destroy the supplies rather than it fall into enemy hands and be used against the Careers. This was a trap and a safekeeping. Had the trap gone off and the supplies not been destroyed, any tributes not killed by the trap could still get to the supplies and use them against the Careers.

Quantom X

Corrected entry: During the bloodbath, the District 6 girl is seen on the ground looking up at Marvel while he stabs her with his spear. Throughout the rest of the bloodbath, the same girl is seen battling to District 3 boy. (01:08:45 - 01:09:30)

Correction: It is not the same person. The girl from District 6 is the one who is killed. The girl battling the District 3 boy is Glimmer. Both girls have long blonde hair worn in a somewhat similar style that is pulled back, but the District 6 girl has tighter braids and Glimmer's hair is a looser pig-tail style.

raywest

Corrected entry: During the District 12 reaping, Effie Trinket is the only character with a microphone. However, after the female tribute has been chosen, Katniss and Primrose's voices can be heard amplified and echoed as if they were using microphones as well, even though neither are near the microphone. This is only in some shots, and the echoes come and go.

moviemaster101

Correction: When the camera goes down to Katniss' and Prim's level when they are having the emotional moment, their voices aren't amplified or echo as if there was a microphone (because there isn't) - their voices stay at the same level and don't sound amplified. Only when Katniss is actually in front of the microphone is her voice echoing. Also, during this scene, Effie is muttering things to the mayor and such into the mic, maybe that's what is making the echoing.

CuriousKid1

Corrected entry: Clove dies twice. Once at the cornucopia and later when when later Thresh kills her for Katniss/Rue.

Correction: Clove did NOT die at the Cornucopia. She is clearly alive during the entire bloodbath. She is seen grabbing supplies and when she throws the knife at the tribute who is about to kill Katniss. She then throws another knife at Katniss, but misses. The two actresses who played the female tributes from District 3 and District 4 both have similar looks to the one who played Clove, but it was definitely not her. Also, Clove is wearing a dark-colored jacket, and the dead girl has a yellow one. If you look at a cast photo of the tributes, you can see the similarities between the three actresses.

raywest

Corrected entry: After both Katniss and Peeta are healed, they are walking by the river discussing the remaining tributes in the Games. Peeta mentions "Foxface" in reference to the girl tribute from District 5. Neither Peeta nor the audience should know this nickname Katniss created, as she at no point mentioned it to anyone.

Correction: How is it known that she never mentioned it to anyone? Just because she is not heard saying it onscreen, does not mean she didn't previously use that nickname before the games when she was talking to Peeta or the support team. Haymitch, Cinna, and the others worked closely with Katniss and Peeta to prepare them, and they spent much time discussing the other tributes - who they were, what their strengths were, and so on. Katniss could have used that name at any time when referring to the girl from District 5.

raywest

Corrected entry: When Katniss burns her leg in the fire, her trouser leg is also ripped. However, near the end of the movie when she and Peta have almost won, her trouser leg is no longer ripped.

Correction: You can see the rip on many occasions.

Anastasios Anastasatos

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the scene where Katniss fights Clove after getting the backpack with Peeta's medicine, Clove throws a knife at her, and it cuts her forehead. If someone gets even a tiny scratch on his/her forehead it bleeds a lot, so a cut this big should at least blind Katniss with all the blood pouring from it [as the book says]. But after struggling and running for her life, there's not a single drop of blood on her, and when Peeta rubs the medicine on her forehead, it is as if the wound was days old.

eructo666

Correction: While head wounds do typically bleed a lot, it is not a guarantee. Sometimes deeper cuts bleed less and there are places/people who bleed less. Some people just don't bleed as much as others. Also, as Katniss surely has an adrenalin rush going, that alone could also explain the less than "typical" blood flow (adrenalin constricts the vascular system). As a paramedic, I have seen head wounds that bleed a lot and some that don't.

shortdanzr

Corrected entry: When Katniss is sleeping up in the tree before the wall of fire starts, her sleeping bag has vanished - in the shot just before that she had it on.

Correction: Actually, Katniss has the bag on top of her [like a blanket], covering her legs. When she wakes up and sees the fire, she jumps off the tree.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Katniss is in her suite and has the remote in her hand, she gets up and moves to the wall. The shot is of her back and her hands have no remote in them. Yet in the next shot, she has turned off the scenery with the remote.

Correction: The remote can be seen in her left hand during this scene; the room is dark but you can still vaguely make out the remote.

Corrected entry: When the Fallen are displayed in the sky after Thresh is killed by the mutts, he is the only tribute shown, despite that Clove and Foxface both died earlier that day. In addition, the Panem national anthem is not played when the Fallen are revealed even though it's meant to be every time they're shown. (02:01:15)

Correction: Just because we don't see it in the movie, does not mean that off-screen Clove and Foxface's images hadn't already been projected onto the arena's sky to the TV audience who are watching the Hunger Games. We saw Clove and Foxface being killed. Thresh's face is being shown to us so we're aware that he was also a victim. For the purposes of streamlining the movie's plot line and running time, it simply wasn't necessary to show us Clove and Foxface's pictures after we already knew they were dead or to hear the anthem again. It was the movie makers' choice to avoid boring repetition.

raywest

Corrected entry: Katniss awakens on the third day of the Hunger Games and realizes the woods are on fire. This leads her into a confrontation with the Careers who chase her up a tree. Even though it must still be early morning (since it is highly unlikely that Katniss would have slept in), the Careers decide to light a campfire and set up camp at the base of the tree. It doesn't make sense for them to already be setting up camp this early in the day.

Correction: They intend to sit right there until Katniss comes down, however many hours or days that takes. There's no reason at all NOT to go ahead and set up camp since they figure on being there for a good while anyway.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Katniss and Peeta are told there can only be one winner, not two, Katniss drops her bow and arrows by her side and they do the bit with the berries. It is announced that both Katniss and Peeta are both winners, the ship flies overhead, and the camera looks down on the two of them. Katniss's bow and arrows are nowhere to be seen on the ground, even though it's a wide shot and they haven't moved.

Correction: Katniss' bow can actually be seen at the top of the shot right when it changes from the close-up of Katniss' face to the downshot. The bow is visible for over a second before the camera gets too close to Katniss and Peeta.

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Other mistake: In the shot where Katniss walks up the steps after volunteering to replace Primrose, Effie's fingers are waving her forward, but on the giant screen visible in the background, her hand is still. (00:16:05)

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Peeta Mellark: I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Katniss Everdeen: I just can't afford to think like that.

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Trivia: This movie has approximately 1200 shots that are composed of CG animation. The director Gary Ross' previous movie, The Tale of Despereaux, was also composed of approximately 1200 CG animated shots. The Tale of Despereaux was a fully CG animated movie, yet the live action Hunger Games had just as many CG shots.

Quantom X

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Question: This is more for the book than the movie, but how was Rue able to enter the arena with a "homemade" sling shot if no weapons could be taken in there?

Jessica Wren

Chosen answer: The tributes could not take anything in with them, but the arena is filled with different types of weapons and tools, if they can get them. Rue was clever and agile, and she could have found or stolen the slingshot or the tools with which to make one. Also, anyone, for a price, can send "gifts" into the arena to sponsor a favorite tribute.

raywest

Answer: In the book Rue never received any gifts she only grabbed a few things from the cornucopia so the slingshot must have been one of them.

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