Phixius

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 destroys the supplies and the mines are going off, one explosion comes from directly underneath the pile. Even if the Careers had the sense to make a hollow cavity keeping it from touching the gear, there's absolutely no reason they would place all their supplies on top of a mine, considering they moved all the others. It can't have been intended purely as a trap on that scale, otherwise when the careers return they'd be happy the trap worked, not furious that all their supplies were destroyed.

Brainiacazoid

Correction: They were angry that the supplies were destroyed for nothing, since the trap was tripped without killing anyone. They were willing to sacrifice some supplies if it meant the death of another tribute. But this was just a waste, and showed they'd been outsmarted. I'd be angry too.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Katniss first obtains the bow from the dying Glimmer beneath the tracker jacker tree, its quiver is half-empty, with only four or five silver arrows left in it. However, in the next scene, when Katniss wakes up near Rue, her quiver is full of silver arrows, as if the arrows magically multiplied. Furthermore, during the remainder of the film, Katniss shoots at least six arrows (two at the bag of apples, one at Rue's killer, two towards Clove as she runs towards Katniss at the "feast," one at the first genetically engineered wolf "muttation," and two at Cato from atop the cornucopia). But despite shooting at least six arrows from her originally half-empty quiver, at the end when the gamemakers revoke the rule change, Katniss still has arrows left in her quiver, so she's forced to decide whether to shoot an arrow at Peeta.

David Watson

Correction: While the half empty-to-full quiver may be a legitimate mistake, the fact that she doesn't run out of arrows is not. She simply collects them after she fires them if she can. She does so in the book, and she is clearly doing so in the film, even if it's done off-camera.

Phixius

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