18. How To Quash Rebellions - Burn Everything To The Ground
It often helps to cast police forces as malignant and over-zealous in anything that deals explicitly with ideas of rebellion, but the degree to which this is pushed in Catching Fire is obscene. Without any precedent, the so-called peace-keepers are sent into District 12, under the stupendously unrestrained leadership of a leader you just know is going to be important in the third film (since he is given entirely too much focus to reinforce his badness,) and they proceed to turn potential murmurings of rebellion into outright, full-blooded revolution. This is thanks to their horrifically stupid decision to quash any potential dissent (which pretty much doesn't exist beyond a few muted conversations) by burning everything to the ground in a breath-takingly over-reaction that spurs the revolution on. Way to go. You could say that it's because Heavensbee - who advised Snow towards making a show of power - wants that result, but at no stage does he tell Snow to tell anyone to burn and maim. The idea instead was to increase punitive measures, and limit morale. Their interpretation of that agenda is beyond stupid.
17. A "Snow Coat" Is Not Going To Help Those Injuries...
Prim is supposed to be a nurse, so quite what she thinks the value of freezing open wounds would be is anyone's guess. There is some value in icing a cut in order to stem initial bleeding, but never, ever should ice, or snow in this case be applied directly to skin, even if fetchingly called a coat. But then it's fine, as injuries are pretty much easily wiped off anyway.
16. Katniss Is The Most Romantically Impressionable Girl In Cinema
The Hunger Games central romances make Twilight look even more like the badly written circus sideshow it really is, but even with that in mind, there are some serious shortcomings in Katniss' love triangle with Peeta and Gale, which mostly stem from the fact that there seems no conflict in any of the decisions Katniss' makes concerning her romantic entanglements. She appears instead just to love whoever's standing the closest to her, making doe-eyes at her at any given time.