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Hi and welcome to De Filmkabouter.
My name is Julie-Renee and today I will tell you all about
The Hunger Games 2, I have a list of a very underappreciated car accessory
and I will test a gadget that makes you hungry.
Are you ready? Can you ever really be ready?
REVIEW
Dear viewers, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is part two in a series...
so if you haven't seen part one, which you must...
you should scroll past this part.
Scroll down to the picture of my cat James in the YouTube bar below, and all will be fine.
Spoiler-time!
Whoop whoop, Hunger Games 2 is finally here!
And we've had to wait a while because part one was released in 2012.
But it's finally here and in part one we saw Jennifer Lawrence as...
Katniss Everdeen in a sort of ghetto coalmine...
how brave she was, how smart.
Part one ended after Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark both won the Hunger Games.
But only one is supposed to win, so the Capitol's President Snow is not very pleased...
and wants to take her out.
Because Katniss made the Capitol look like an idiot,
people in the Districts have rebelled.
That's not supposed to happen.
So President Snow thought of something, namely to make the 75th Hunger Games...
the Quarter Quell...
consist of past winners of the Games, so a man and woman from each district.
And Katniss is the only woman from District 12 to have ever won...
so tough luck for the girl on fire.
The film is much better than part one, which has several reasons:
Katniss is much more expressive in this film.
In part one she was all like, what is happening to me...
I must wear a poker face for the cameras. She was a bit of an empty-headed zombie.
In part two she's more expressive, she's crying and yelling and stuff...
that's positive, right?
The themes of the film have broadened, it's not just about a television show...
in which teenagers *** each other, but there are uprisings and rebels everywhere.
danger.
The Arena for the Games is much cooler, because in part one it was mainly the tributes...
so the threat that someone with a bow and arrow is going to destroy you.
But in part two there is mist and monkeys, so yeah...
chances are you will be killed by the Arena itself instead of someone else.
Katniss is also much more active, she's not just sleeping in trees anymore...
or making out with someone in a cave, she really undertakes things.
They have finally moved away from the wibbly wobbly camera.
It was like [...] Blair Witch Project.
Thank God they stopped that!
The Capitol citizens were very colourful in part one, almost like a different species.
In part two they've dialled that down, and they have become more human, which is good.
And this film ends with a big cliffhanger.
In part one it was like, oh great, the Hunger Games, wait, is this a trilogy?
But this time you are really looking forward to the next installment...
it's almost awful at what point this film ends.
Part two is much better than part one, and there's also a new director behind this.
Francis Lawrence (no family of), but he has done a very good job...
and is true to the book, so thumbs up for you, Francis Lawrence.
Or actually...
The film is not entirely perfect, because in the books...
the character of Finnick Odair is described as super hot...
but he is less than medium hot, which is too bad.
And the part that takes place in the Arena, full of action and awesomeness...
is pretty short in comparison to the rest of the film. That is also too bad.
But all in all the film gets a 8,5.
Spoilers are now over, this is my cat James...
he is very sweet but naughty too.
And now it is time for a Top 8, of air fresheners this time.
To keep your car fresh and hip.
We start off with #8, and this air freshener shows...
that you have perfect taste on the internet, and that you have a good sense of humour:
It is a gnome, because: Filmkabouter.
He doesn't hurt a fly, except if someone in the car says
that Ben Affleck will be a good Batman.
#7 is Bigfoot, an American mythological creature.
It smells of pine tree, which is fresh and pleasant.
You can give it to someone with big feet, but that means you are not so nice.
#6 is a disco ball, so you can dance and sing along to your favourite song in style...
the style of Saturday Night Fever.
#5 is your favourite actor from the television series The A-team: it is Mr. T.
Very suitable if you drive a black van, but also very cool in every other car.
Now someone will think twice before stealing your windscreen wipers.
#4 is an air freshener of my favourite children's film...
The Brave Little Toaster.
Now you can fulfil your childhood dream and take him with you on your travels: yay, adventure!
And it smells like toast.
#3 is for the person who loves chicken, crystal *** or Breaking Bad.
There are two ways to decorate your car with this one:
the first is a picture of Los Pollos Hermanos, as you can see in the series...
and the other one is just Walter White as Heisenberg.
Always stylish with his hat on.
Tip of the day: if one of these is in a car, and the car is parked in front of an old people's home...
leave right away.
Guys, this is still an internet show, so #2 is simply bacon that smells like bacon...
even though I am a vegetarian.
Merry and Pippin eat bacon in Lord of the Rings part one...
this is ridiculous.
And #1 is a very cute and random animal that took hold of the media in 2012...
It is a very cute IKEA monkey.
There was an American who took this photo of a monkey wearing a winter coat in IKEA's parking garage.
Huh? What was he doing there? Did he want a Billy?
In a world full of smartphones, Skype on your iPad and Red Panda GIFs on Tumblr...
it is hard to realise people used to do things without internet.
But that the world is still a beautiful place with analogue stuff
is proven by my gadget of the month...
the cheeseburger phone.
It is cool.
You order it from megagadgets.nl for 24,95 excluding delivery costs.
It is sent to your home like this, with another part of which I don't know what it is for.
All you have to do is plug it into a modem, apparently. What is a modem?
You go through your room, looking for the modem...
You plug it in and apparently you have to restart your modem...
otherwise it won't work. We found out after half an hour.
Now you can hear a tone and you can call your mother...
or the pizza place. Awesome!
I recommend this gadget to hipsters, because if analogue cameras are hip...
then so is this phone.
Also to people who don't keep their modem in their meter cupboard.
That's the case for me and I can only use it from inside the meter cupboard.
The time has now come to leave you with the credits.
No weird video of a weird animal this time, because YouTube's terms and conditions are my new best friend.
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