THE HUNGER GAMES: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes MOVIE REACTION!! Full Movie Review

this video is sponsored by liquid IV more on them  after the reaction [Music] people citizens of the   reject Nation it is time to get our hunger on  with a ballad of songbirds and snakes John how   are you I'm excited that's good to hear John I  think you're doing a reference I've only seen   the Hunger Games movies one time but I'm ready  to catch every Easter egg in reference baby I'm   going to do it all watch guys we're going to  nail it what do you guys think of this movie   did you like it is it good does it live up to the  previous Trilogy leave your thoughts down below   you know what to do leave a like that'd be great  also thank you to prepper for helping us set down   these highlights full length Reaction watch long  and where you sync up with your own copy of The   Hunger Games the ballot of song birds and snakes  we cannot mention this movie without mentioning   the whole title so anyway The Hunger Games the  ballot of song birds and snakes that is available   for our super sex reix at our patreon page and  over there we cover some things exclusively   with highlights and watch songs included ready  to get your game on I'm ready to watch Hunger   Games with ballot of song wordss and snakes me  too let's Hunger Games Ballad of song Words and [Music] snakes whoa the dark dark days 3 years prior oh   man and 10 years before the first  Purge there's some food over here quick who damn it's like a Warg threat eliminated oh man the [Music] butcher  why is he doing he's starving [Music] cannibalism come in ignorance and want  your father is dead cor elanus it was   a rebel will they say trap out in the  forest that's why he hates rebellions   and especially why he hates 12 it's up to us  now to make him proud and he was just out in   the snow yeah actually ooh finally going to  learn about my favorite dictator a child of Fire 3 years later you got to grow up fast in  this Hunger Game streets where's the shirt you   don't need a shirt look at you yeah don't insult  us man look I did it I I did something and you   should really eat something today save them for  Grand that you looks so handsome oh it's going   to be a tragic downfall of him yeah it's going  to be real sad when she dies horribly future   president of PanAm We Salute You just she is  a real array of bright energy though about the   grades never miss class 10 years is that why he  even Dean High bottom can't deny us this now High   bottom High bottom what's the first thing you'll  spend the prize money on new dress more bleach   for the curtains chocolate chocolate something so  simple the plen prize will be able to pay the rent   snowlands on top it does it does gravitationally  speaking but do flowers grow in the snow D this   looks great yeah that's a badass [Music] statue  there's something excited about returning to the   world of The Hunger Games yeah are you sweating  it's reaping day we gave driver the morning off   that ingr should be begging to show for you around  today just don't forget I was your class partner   while you're gloating over the plinth Pride I  volunteer as tribute sorry he said driver so   that's a snazzy shirt what are those buttons Tess  that's why they remind me of the maid's bathroom   have you tried this land that's scandalous only  the Vault that he not teach a table manners maybe   he would have if he wasn't so busy running the  country hey they called us here for the plint   prize right I hate all of you guys plint and look  at his spawn who would have thought that you could   buy your way into the capital I mean of course  you can I don't like him or acne I tolerate him   his district as I do with all plees I heard one  more time how immoral these Hunger Games are I'll   put them in the arena my oh so Janus you made  it to the reaping for once and you made it to   graduation Festus we're both shocked burned Hey  listen I know you have high hopes for this but   there is no price today not anymore what is  that supposed to mean got some inite insight Intel oh oh Viola I am Dr volumia G your humble  head game maker in charge of the war department   and all its affiliated cond con certain that is  a credential I've broken free of my laboratory to   examine you the leaders of the next generation  seems like an evil scientist cross with like   an eccentric old witch or something yeah I am  honored to introduce to you the creator of The   Hunger Games themselves here we go Dean Casa High  bottom is he a drunk does he know things I have   summoned you all here today for the 10th Annual  reaping ceremon in which we choose two children   from each district to throw into the capital Arena  to fight to the death in The Hunger Games he does   not seem proud of this and here sit our own 24  top prospects all waiting to hear the results   of hard study in this prestigious institution  eager to learn who's won that plin prize no   doubt it's all they can talk about I am here to  tell you that there has been a change this year   one final assignment to prove your worth a tri  wizard tournament the esteemed citizen of the   capital have grown bored of the games and simply  aren't watching anymore and if the games are to   continue at all there must be an audience head  game maker Dr Gul has stepped in to spice things   up the plain prize will no longer be determined  by who has the best grades who is the best Mentor   in the Hunger Game oh he's going to Mentor someone  in the Hunger Games dang as the reaping progresses   live I will allocate each district tribute a  capital Mentor behind the scenes one who must   just persuade them just to get them emotionally  involved obviously the best Mentor will be the   one whose tribute wins the games what if I get a  pathetic run girl from one of the poor districts   like8 or 12 no he's going to die in 2 minutes  like they did last year and the year before   don't be strictest Your Role is to turn these  children into spectacles Miss crane victory in   the games is only one of our consideration your  entire future rests on this last project that's   how much they connect with a contestant that  anyone caught cheating to give their tributes   an unfair Advantage we'll just have no future at  all cuz you be dead that's a death threat Coro is   going to get a 12 let the reaping ceremony begin I  love Peter Dinklage man yeah he just so great boy   everywhere go to Livia cardo I got a good one how  boy goes to S Janice plen hey we got the pick of   the letter you forget I'm part of that letter so  brooding you never forget oh oh he's going to get   Rachel Z okay yeah oh that's right she right now  10 boy Deisha whims oh he's going to get 12 he's   got to he's got beef with them District 12 oh he  does belongs to corena snow look out you get the   best looking one man yeah and she could sing Lucy  gray bear wow this looks like like when you wait   in line for a ride at uh Six Flags yeah it's  one costume character and the rest of us pants   talk about the architecture sing your way out of  this one Lucy gray oh look out that girl got beef   what is that dress she's some sort of clown hey I  didn't know I didn't know I'm sorry her makeup is   on point got to be even now you have to be playing  to the people snake oh and she's the song [Music] bird a [ __ ] I got a troublemaker  help her help not Emma Stone whoa damn this movie is so woke hit  women now yeah gone that far   into woke territory I only want to see  people hitting women or B [Laughter] [Music] oh he's gonna be good there is a power to songs man power of Harmony there's a  Unity some prayer singing she   out of her mind she's already doing the show man [Music] oh the solders like let  let just don't tap your feet just   just don't Capital says keep rolling I  know dude he locked out she's going to   be a star yeah exactly oh this mic is  is here who who who who put this mic here he's falling in love you can kiss  my ass H feisty got Moxy there's a response what sup [ __ ] Lucy graybeard out proud  I see like your father you knew my father he and   I were best friends BFS 4 L your makeshift shirt  and your two tight shoes trying desperately to   fit in when I know the Snows don't have a Pott to  piss in oh no wonder Dad and aren't best friends   good luck with that poor little song Lucy gray  won't survive a minute inside that Arena so that   means we have to make every second before then  count I'll get her to sing again I wouldn't sing   a note for you if I was her she's District  Tigers she knows we hate her and she wants   us dead how am I supposed to get her to trust  me manipulation imagine it was your name that   they p and you had been ripped from your home  don't discount her just because she's distra   you might have more in common with her than you  think he's going to play the G game that he's   going to end up falling in love with her yeah  he's going to go against everything he believes in the Roses the white roses I mean she  seems like she'd be smart enough to see   through any [ __ ] though yeah she seems  like an already well established [Music] Rebel I'm Lucy Gray you must be  snow welcome to the capital when   I was little my mama used to bathe  me in buttermilk and rose [Music] petals I eat your rose petals I eat it  up I'm your Mentor a rebel what does   my mentor do besides bring me roses I do  my best to take care of you no good luck   with that gorgeous hey you got spunk  excuse me can I can I borrow your gun hey seeing the ugliness of the system you  help to [Music] perpetuate you really stand out Ain going to eat you alive boy you in  the wrong cage no this cage is delightful   will kill you right now he'll do it too Reaper  killed a peacekeeper back in 11 I say we all   kill her I'm in yeah this is a wild idea y'all  got family back home kill them if you hurt him   besides he's my mentor I might need him  how come you get a mendor you each get one oh no oh [Music] no protect her whoa what  the Jesus oh right in a cage oh Jesus Sportsman   oh is he young Stanley Tui he's young Stanley  Tui flickerman I'm lucious lucky flickerman a   man who needs no introduction you'll know me as  your favorite weatherman then amateur magician   hey the capital Zoo where this year's tributes  will be held here on display Behind These Bars   for your viewing pleasure oh that is sick  a human dis yeah hello sir yes you in the   red who are you and why are you in there with  them we're live be there their Mentor OH you   could use the relationship to help Elevate Own It  sing to them may I introduce you to my neighbors   response would be appreciated but anything would  be nice he's going on back there hello can they   not hear me in there sound barrier hi how do  you do oh my name is Cory Elena snow and this   is my tribute Lucy grey bar from District 12 hi  there what's your name my name is punches and   I'm from kids interview fans.com where did you  find that snake oh he found me must have been   a music lover must sing and calmed him WRA down  no one who might you be oh you don't know who I   am don't laugh not everyone has televisions out  in the districts wow this is like if the purge   succeeded yeah seriously I'm not actually from  12 know my people are cvy we're like a family   we're musicians by trade and we travel from place  to place it's the fancy takes us at least we used   to before the peacekeepers rounded us up she's  got such personality do you know my mentor his   name is Corina snow and clearly I got the cake  with the cream cuz nobody else has even bother   it to show up yeah I like you a lot she's  running the show the game makers did tell   you to jump in the cage with them they just  said that it was a mentor's job to introduce   our tributes to the citizens of panm if Lucy gray  is brave enough to be here then why shouldn't I   be too for the record I didn't have a choice yep  that's important to note so come down to the zoo   and see these tributes before it's too late and  I mean too late before they're dead I'm lucrecias lucky flickerman that is a hell of a trick yeah  how'd you do that I mean she seems very capable   and I she kind of treats it like she's getting  exposure yeah for her music career yes she's been   planning this great way to get some followers  your little Excursion is in violation of about   five different Academy rules Mr snow you I'm  moving for the game makers to disqualify you   as Mentor immediately wow what a jerk and you  ucing her to people you make it look as if one   and the same as those animals a tributes are  human beings just like us shut up dude you're   harshing the vibe snow fell down in the cage down  in the cage but wow what is she doing everything   maybe one day you'll be a game maker like me what  are the hunger games for they're to punish the   districts for their Uprising they're for Ratings  commemorate the end of the war commemorate the   dull dull dull punishment can take Myriad forms  we need the emotion we be asking ourselves whether   or not they're right in the first place we have a  problem with my game were 2 years old when the war   ended the oldest of them were only eight you're  not going to be a good Mentor yeah the capital   is supposed to be everyone's government now it is  supposed to protect all of us now making children   fight each other to the death is protecting  anyone that sort of sympathy might interfere   with your mentoring assignment maybe s Janus is  on to something here maybe we should be viewing   those tributes as human beings what I just wanted  to get to know Lucy gray like wanting to get to   know a lion yeah doesn't mean you let him to make  the stakes personal who will watch the games if   they care what happens to the tributes everyone I  watched American Idol people need someone to root   for and someone to root against against we need  them to invest and if we bend a few Capital laws   we could even have them place bets wow you really  instrumented everything yeah a whole vision for   how this could be even better and even worse how  to create engagement with the hunger canes I'd   like you to write up a proposal of these thoughts  tonight Mr snow wait you you might you might   actually use his ideas if it'll help the ratings  why not corus and I are class Partners we do all   of our assignments to what a snake jeez dude  it'll be an interesting test I mean what's the   har they're saying The Hunger Games aren't working  so you got to try something different yeah why not   emotional investment this is the future right they  should learn their lessons from prior marketing   tips yeah but why does this experience leave him  so cold my classmate back in too it's not your   fault to I know I'm so blameless I'm choking on  it father bought him for me you know at the raping   just so he could show me that I could never go  back to T your father sounds like a yeah but being   capital is going to kill me so do something about  it eat this bread eat your bread sandwich quite   the rebel I am I'm bad news don't waste your time  the boy's bad news is that for us it's lber spread   I'm not hungry you think I can't hear your stomach  growling just a big you can't eat pred alone man   what happened to his neck bat bot oh first night  on the train he thought i' give him superpowers   man bat he didn't sleep away the whole journey  cuz he was keeping the bats off me so I get some   rest what the what one thing I learned in 12 is  that hunger is a weapon your friend over there   sure knows it that's why I keep all the host here  starving yeah I might have a chance to help you   I might even be able to get the audience to send  you gifts in the arena food and water to keep you   going microphones a recording studio you just have  to try singing again to win people over I don't   sing when I'm told I sing when I have something  to say we'll find something to say the guards   say you get money if you get more people to watch  and you say you want to help me which is it both   yes by helping you it helps him you seem like  a good man Corina snow you have no idea you're   a good man Draco Malfoy sure would have been  nice to meet you under different circumstances   one of your shows maybe yeah you could have  had a drink oh could have done it yeah knock boots wow dude oh yeah go for it Jesus  who that was great whoa it's okay hold   on hold on look at me hold on it's okay I'll get   out this is not going to help your  whole thing with Jesus yep so she did and the narrative will make it look like  that a Savage killed her yeah this is how we   Begins the war it was my fault I suggested we get  closer to the tribute it wasn't your fault she sh   like a [ __ ] this was bound to happen somehow  she's not a rebel Grand she's just a girl trust   me that one hasn't been a girl in a long time wow  oh is she hunter from Euphoria I've been wondering   she looks familiar she will use you you must use  her or you'll end up dead in the trees like your   father yesh such like a soap opera whatever we  cut to anyone who's not part of the the players   in The Hunger Games yeah you're in like the most  Gody places dealing with like the most Upper Crust   issues yeah half these people probably do have  like a missing twin brother back from the dead our   president has decided that the games must go on  of course show everyone the capital is unafraid of   such acts of Terror that be given into Rebellion  later this evening there will be a special telev   presentation of each tribute to our audience to  you know get to know them have an hour to discuss   strategy I love how he just playing Tyrion again  I know just an American accent Tyrion dress like   a freaking monk you may begin I like his attitude  though it's is funny there's like a divide between   him and col and but he's probably going to end  up more like him than the others yeah I'm going   to win and for that to happen we need to make  you more marketable attractive we need a glow   up for you oh rule number one cover your mouth  people really ain't old up that are you okay   wearing my mama's dress is the only thing keeping  me together here it's like she's wrapping her arms   around me I cannot tell how sincere she is or  if she is intentionally playing him yeah I need   you to sing in these interviews later it's the  night before the games and your last chance to   win people cheapers this move's quick can't send  you gifts in the arena without their money maybe   a guitar could persuade Me Maybe you really want  to take care of me in that Arena corus give me   a fender start by thinking I can actually win no  death coat I know for some reason Rachel zaggler   is a controversial figure but I think she's  the best part of this movie oh yeah I mean   she's really I don't know yeah she's just full of  this uniquely specific distinct pointed life yeah oh these are the creatures in early devel  early in development that they would put   in the games yeah come and see my new  babies so she is like an evil scientist yeah my laboratory straight out of a cartoon DD  I know she was just back there stealing Ariel's   voice real quick and now she's in here your  proposal which one of you actually wrote it   well there was was inspired by corus yesterday of  course his little wedding idea yeah yeah so it's   your s writing on that page unfortunately  my assistant was St it there you go there   mhm in line the shelf of this very terrarium  with it oh boy so miss Dove coat retrieve it   for us won't you all consider your inspired  idea really smart really smart to speak up   canot canot read the room could you doel get  those they can trust hey some smart people   are dumb as hell if you've handled their  food for example or if they've inhaled the   sweat of your palm on a page retrieve it  why don't you admit the truth yeah dude seriously yeah wowe I want my enemies to  see a rainbow of Destruction engulfing   the world will she die the pleasure in  breaking ground in one's researches one   gets to find out you better keep  Miss Dev coat's fate between us I   don't think her mother would be happy  to learn how she'd CAU the sudden flu oh sorry I'm late enjoy the show I'm enjoying  the weird experiences I'm enjoying the plot a   lot I'm enjoying being back in the world a  lot technically I feel like everything is   really cool I'm still yet to really connect with  any of the characters yeah that's the one part   that I'm like I really need that right sometime  soon it's kind of like a fantastic Beast kind   of Rachel Ziggler's the closest I'm coming yeah  but right now I'm the part emotionally I'm most   compelled by is just what's happening there's  other things emotionally I'm I'm latched on to wowe welcome to the arena for  the 10th annual Hunger Games you   have 15 minutes to survey the space  and discuss strategy D you stick by   me understand sir yes sir hey Lumberjack  how Gladiator like this feels actually just you forming their alliances please please  don't let me die in here tomorrow wowe or   today Jesus while the mentors are there  yeah this is all part of the plan I bet wow is this really happening right now yeah survey the space wow whoa oh  help me oh how crazy damn in your   position back for help who will the real Mentor be oh and she goes back to help him she's the  one I'm connected to she's the best come on   the gate's open come on he would have saved  you a scrypto has some like really cheesy   dialogue though they were on set like this  is really going to get to the people really   emphasiz is that you it fluctuates the script  in the dialogue yeah yeah look at her go oh wow oh no Maloy who is she gray where is she  she's alive what happened it was a rebel bombing   oh they must have been planing it for months  four tributes were killed everyone's terrified   cor B is the last that gives her better  RS oh yeah she's winning right now Felix   Raven Still's on my so boy not Felix Raven still  released a message they said they wanted to tear   down the symbol of The Hunger Games on live TV  you think he's giving them inside knowledge oh   I bet he is he's the only one peacekeepers are  hunting him in the streets but at least he has   a better chance out there than he would tomorrow  tomorrow they're not still going ahead with the   games oh no Lucy gray this is exactly what you  didn't want to happen but she saved me love how   they always say Lucy gray I know she made it clear  can't just say Lucy not Lucy Lucy gray Lucy gray   come out here with that guitar you song bird hey  what' they get her what' they get her did they   get her a hummingbird I do like the oh my God  he's actually she's going to sing I wrote this   song about a boy back in 12 and I hope he hears  it [Music] uhoh 100 donations donations 15,000 [Music] donations got some pipes [Music] man I love Dark Country  [Music] yeah oh damn it's a Johnny   Cash tune yeah Sting here thinking do  they write stuff for this or are these covers wow who she got the 1500 but you know  still not bad pretty close send is that a d   no this is a regular guitar now I don't love  your odds but may they be in your favor oh way   to own that line own that line how wonderful  is it tonight that we all get to be here for   someone's final performance wow dude go to  bed get a good night's sleep you got a big   day tomorrow got a big day to die tomorrow what I  love about the Aesthetics that they've done it's   still futuristic but they've taken like how the  50s imagin the future yeah as like retr futurist   yeah and it feels appropriately like in the past  of the familiar world but still futuristic to now   yeah it's pretty cool just nothing beats  Jennifer Lawrence fing at the mouth in tears for a whole trilogy you know yeah yeah  yeah you know it's the real heart and soul of the games but hey man maybe Rachel Ziggler break  down and do like a crazy ass crying scene she's   great I love her character no ideaone else just  about her I love her she you're alive they have   them sleep out there yeah I guess so there's  no other like doors or anything there's a hole   down in the floor leads down to some tunnels  I've tried it and you can disappear down there   what moment you hear that bell rang you ignore  the weapons in the middle and you run as fast   as you can for that hole wow I can't let you  die I love you you saved me let secret maybe   she saved you because she knew she needed you  still hopeful during the daytime but when it   gets darks okay when it gets dark I'll suum  to the darkness me it's okay I really hope   they got this shot authentically I am going to  get you out of here promise back to the Cy okay oh oh oh he now ready is this real yeah thank  you good question that song that song was payback   that's all my old boyfriend Billy to he was  cheating on me with the mayor's daughter whoa   yeah she got crazy jealous she had her PW read my  name up on that stage and now everyone will know   what they did to me damn she must be using him  or something in some way I mean she just seems   so much kind of sharper and and kind of detached  from the [ __ ] of this than anyone else it is   not a gift it's alone don't touch it don't even  breathe it in because small amounts can be deadly   and there will come a time when you need this  when you need to act we all do things we're   not proud of to survive yeah is Lucy gray doing  that we going to win this she C this a different   shot of her we're going to win this together  it's the electric company Hunger Games Hunger Games chapter two oh got a yellow flower today that friend  of yours plin you might want to find him a seat   near the door whoa cuz he's about to be called out  put on blast I'm lucious lucky flickerman oh he's   perfect CU you can still see he's trying to prove  himself yeah in my hand an envelope my prediction   the winner to be opened by me upon the Big Show's  end but how old Stanley Tui supposed to [Laughter]   be how long of a glow up was that really how  much plastic surgery did he have done enjoy the show I do like like Rachel Z is my favorite colon  Iris colonoscopy snow is great he's he's good I   do feel like we still needed some stronger  scenes with them before I feel like we need   feel a little bit by the Numbers they with them  glue to stick all this together but specifically   between the two of them yeah was the part where  I'm like I know where the plot's going but it   kind of just seems like the mov like we know  where the plot's going but they're not there   a little more meat on it yeah or that way I'm  like o I hope I hope she's not using I want   to I'm more just like I don't know I wonder  instead of like oh I hope more time to test   their actual relationship through other means or  or like have other things intervene that force   them to act off the cuff yeah cuz that's like  the core heart of the struggle here the real conflict and I do like how like downscaled  these games feel by comparison uh yeah by a   lot they're in one room oh no a symbol out  of him yeah Marcus guess we can all sleep   better now knowing he's off the streets  oh he's going to lose his [ __ ] yeah   you're monsters all of you I'm on your side I  thought he was the kid from strangers when we   saw the trailer he does look like thought  it was the whole time game mazzo shouts out 2 1 [Music] sing O then the movie get  begin yeah what are you doing FR nah man   she can't leave her dude behind oh how  barbaric this wide angle lens too it's   just like a Royal Rumble in here yeah  who nice yesh ah Trident what's his name oh the bow and arrow so many  Easter eggs that was an instant   vomit seems like it's going to be  a very short Hunger Games oh Jesus jeez just wandering around over there wow what a  great [Music] shot I killed a man with a trident   Rick killed a guy uhoh oh what you're seeing  now is a live feed of security cameras come   on oh boy oh boy high and soft NE other side  pining in on Lucy graay pining very tactical   oh she can squeez through can Jessup damn it dude  pull him ah no no no no kick him kick his faceing high oh you can feel that like what the  hell happened her where they stab her I   would have stabbed her right in the butt this  my one opportunity see what this is like six   tributes gone in minutes if they keep it up at  this page we're going to be out of here in no time wow oh my dude is he asking for death yeah send your money now once they get your  money Mentor can choose to send in food or   water reprogrammed with facial recognition  this shures that your package goes directly   to your tribute isn't that right Pap Herington  yeah yeah the hell out of my face the first   drone [Music] oh cut her hand off wow yeah what  the [ __ ] they did not master drone technology   hey the facial recognition do it did its thing  so we don't have to worry about that anymore   what do you want from that girl nothing I  want her to live and the plen prize would   be a happy coincidence I suppose I believe I'd  be entitled to it prize the girl how convenient   you don't have to choose between them ouch who  do you think makes that final decision for the   prize you so covet Mr snow wake up even if Lucy  gy beard somehow wins it all I will do everything   in my power to Ure that you don't see a dime  why do he have against this guy yeah what' he   do to you how much how much do you care if  she lives now more is that the answer more   what did you sacrifice to make sure she could  live and then she betrayed you I just want to S oh boy you know what's in that water what  have you done to it I didn't do anything   Jess you okay I did I did Endeavor to save you  and to share this space with you s breadcrumbs   I believe sustenance for a fallen comrade on  his final journey of District 2 Superstition   whoa I need someone to get him out right now  you should send peacekeepers in only to have   him bolt and hide like a rabbit ug Felix  Raven steal his fighting for his life in a   hospital Mr snow I will not have these Rebels  make a further mockery of my games oh you get   them out unscathed I whisper your name in his  father's ear uh-oh and he has more power than   Peter Dinklage I'll freeze the feed for an hour  I estimate that's all we have until the people   notice whoa all the manipulations and minations  of high society I think Gary Ross directed the   first Hunger Games movie and Francis Lawrence  directed the rest and I kind of feel like this   needs a touch of what Gary Ross's Direction was  yeah where you really feel like you're there on   ground observing this yeah I think I need a  little bit of that grit that Gary Ross brings but this movie does prove that you can continue  on The Hunger Games movies and World Without You   Know Jennifer Lawrence yeah you still make  this is still like an interesting film yeah   and you know you get your social commentary  in there sort of same social commentary the   other ones more overt slightly updated  to include drones and facial recognition technology I mean no they they just dro  Dro drones in the they did the drones in   the other one this is like the origin of it  yeah or something right they Che them yeah   they have those little like thingies that'll  bring you stuff they work you need to go Coro   I promise to get you up I have to do this  I had to go where the cameras are you think   anyone's watching this do you want to fight  these tributes or fight for them because if   you want to make real change you need to  stay alive how can I make any change from   out there you're rich you're the only one who  stood up to go in that class right yeah you   got to lead the Rebellion out there dog better  hurry up man come with me spend your father's   money do some real good I'll just be another  dead body in Gs one trust me come on man go go oh jeez wow enjoy the show oh my God you can't   you can't kill him yeah oh  no I don't want to hurt you yeah dude in the face dog oh  he mad whoa dude this is bad   this is very bad move over the gate oh maybe theate maybe that was a hint of the disdain  that he actually does feel towards them my   father my father let the buying begin I feel so  bad for these spoiled Rich Kids yes who clearly   understand the full extent of the system within  the which they exist it's weird when the people   from The Districts got when the people from  The Districts first got reeled in they were   portrayed as humans now that the games started  they portrayed as like Savage villains what the   [ __ ] just happened or is it intention that  when you switch perspectives of that you know   I don't know you get what I mean they stop being  human and all us they were just Savages yeah yeah   yeah where they all just kind of feel like a  big gang of like rabid feral people villains   yeah no I did definitely I I remember in the  other movies like them having this sort of   you know nasty gang mentality here and there but  yeah it felt like we were fighting morlocks just   now yeah see how quickly civilization disappears  yeah fight or flight those tributes don't have a   choice I was talking about you oh all your fine  manners education background she witnessed she   witnessed with the club who beats another boy  to death to stay alive yeah was a test you want   to protect people Mr snow protect the games  to govern them like your father oh and it's   essential you accept what human beings are  animals and what it takes to control them television oh oh got to make enough Hunger  Games money to save the rec center they sent   me into the Arena tonight tigers are you okay  I killed one of the tributes damn and it felt   like a release powerful oh yeah look out you  got your first taste I'm going back in yeah I   got to get back in there you don't have to pay  the same price just to survive people can be   good you can be good you are good okay it's your  villain origin story man something scintilating   occurred bobin from District slaughtered wow  people cheering they aren't showing us what   happened to that little boy he clearly was killed  right there there's cameras everywhere they said   there were old cameras liy probably just another  one of corals Fus sit down they haven't moved an inch or hunger dementia what' you do to me ly what  is he doing something's wrong he he wouldn't turn   on her like what did you do to me what did who do  to you someone must have done something folding it   in itself wait look the phone I think it's rabies  oh my rabies it makes you afraid of water send him   a drone scar him yes away from her oh my Vick's  going for her community pad early I don't have   any idea fly a drone right into him what's wrong  with me I guess that's what I mean is like here   they specify oh oh yeah oh and then we offered her  water yeah like Mary Magdalene oh look out yeah   they specify drones from the war here I feel like  that's that's more pointed oh yeah well that's   the thing is they do have like gladiator weapons  too like at least inspired by the different casts   of Gladiators in ancient Rome packing it in Lucy  gray swarmed cornered M propeller sending a drone   his community I'm going to flood the room hey  Crow do you mind if I take this one not a chance wow wow Jesus hey free water water hydrate they must have should  have stipulated something it's   a that's a little too much involvement I think yeah develop the telepathic link it's a terrible hiding spot  yeah it's not a good high ground do now oh [ __ ] me she seems like a good  person yesh oh that trident is very effective whoa oh damn so smart oh you're cruel oh you real cruel I legit get  out of these balls wake up grab and   put a little wake up let me go up here  they'll want to get their water yeah   what she can stab through that oh damn did  you get a finger in there you really think   you deserve that water now Tanner let's all  share the water look you just said watch the beam H Coro it's w a [ __ ]  what oh no why did she step   out yeah come on now seven tributes remain that's annoying oh she's going to  try to drink the water damn it oh that is sad he's just going to lay down what happened maybe they'll all  just have a sip of the water and just   all over I got to hydrate my brain so I can think straight how could they not be viewed  as humans before I don't know well I   mean that's what classism does to you as  long as there is a ladder there will be   someone there to look down it and say  not you or is he going to give them a [Music] p yeah man a little Mass grave are you   going to punish me now my dude he's  cool Felix Raven son of our beloved president sustained in the rebel bombing wow no  Phoenix Raven still they will be celebrating this   young boy's death as a Triumph wow not allow  my games to give our enemy such a victory they   will not spoil the fun before the sun goes  down tonight a rainbow of Destruction will   engulf our Arena the rainbow of Destruction it's  back there's to be no Victor in these game dude   what oh boy what is the motive here got to show  absolute power so this is a very pivotal [Music] game there a Tracker in him I need to see  Dr G immediately yeah she's taking uh she's   completely open schedule right here that  announc video her phone's not been ringing   off the hook no one's tried to this first one  to try to see I thought I would have visitors   out the door no my stitches they broke  close come sit hold down your shirt yeah   Seducer song birds and cages this might hurt  what are we doing here they got to transport   that to OC Corp Tower jabber Jays we called  them Ming J sent them out during the war to   pick up Rebel conversations squawk it  back to us word for word wow whoa cool   that's really cool was there a bird in in the  arena there must have been a failed experiment   but an instructive one I'm rounding them up  District by District now to see what better   purposes they might serve what a great form of  surveillance failed experiment but an instructive   one so are they fully organic or digitally  integrated or both uh it's the hunger gam Ser both o i mean maybe I wouldn't be right next to  the vent yeah you got a whole lot of space like   you should at least check that out over the one  the one stabbing spot baby you don't want to be at oh yeah put the hanky in there  so they know her and they love her that's not a bad plan it's one  little thing everyone's going to   pass it around yeah good mcgu snakes  are all going to pass that one little   C it smelled as [ __ ] man SM I  smelled you before just smell as [ __ ] how much more heroin do  I have oh damn what's wrong with Treach woo boy oh boy Jesus oh boy [Music] no of the snakes yeah buddy Snakes on a drone did every snake get a chance with that hanky a oh yeah oh wow what a way to go oh oh oh Jesus super snakes they kind of look like uh the candy yeah like uh  the trolly uh uh Creepy Crawlers candy snakes it's   not matter it's not I can't have killed them all  for nothing wow that's what the system will do to you Creepy Crawlers and is goodbye to Festus  Creed have a nice summer now all colors lead to Gray he's like he's proud of himself  that's a good one it's a good one flickerman we worship you oh [Music]  graybeard oh no you're going to make   her martyr if you let her die man before I can f of don't you go she won it's over  let her out wer yeah why aren't they   attacking her must be the singing  it's calming them she can't sing forever she got to sing with that accent [Music] too she's moving everyone dude yeah go girl oh damn she she's scaring  me goosebumps like twice man oh that shot oh this is like like what legendary  stories are made of yeah big sacrifices   I wonder if they sang if she sang this like  on set in camera cuz it's like so performed   through the emotion of her character  get her out get her out you're going   to make her a goddamn enemy call dude  what are you doing yeah dude make the   call call yeah get her out there go get  her out get her out there was Lucy gray yeah get she's won Lucy gray for  let us know is the winner of the   10th annual Hunger Games but Cory Elena  still loses his mentorship competition   yeah there's still like an hour left of  the movie I know what else is there to do then he became an evil dictator elect this man  let him lead us uhoh oh damn it uh oh you cheated   H yep cheating will be punished yep yep yep isy  gray where is she I would be more concerned with   your own Survival if I were you we both know  that child from 11 in diet disease and that old   handkerchief founded in the snake tank condemning  you with your father's own initials so it was   still in the tank yeah a handkerchief yeah they  must have just all passed it around didn't get   like Swept Away in any of that just left it right  there on the bottom I've decided banishment to   the districts will you serve your capital in exile  for the next 20 years as an anonymous peacekeeping   grunt damn he's going to make you a stormtrooper  dude you hear that boy finally the sound of snow   falling hey it falls on top yeah snow falls top  chapter three snow falls on top whoa oh buddy   a full on prisoner yeah so James what are you  doing what do you think what I did in the arena   my father had to buy the academy a brand new gym  just I could get my diploma begged me to stay but   once I found out where they were sending you I  couldn't get out fast enough my man figure I get   through basic and then maybe I become a medic  make a real difference out here just like you   said a it's good to see you smile man I cheated  save Lucy Gray from the snakes and I do it again   do you think they killed her she was a big hit if  there is a games next year they're probably going   to invite her to sing at the opening ceremony a  she's going to love that when the girl you risked   everything for might be waiting for you at the  end of this trap my friend don't give them the   satisfaction your life has just begun you're going  to do great she has a whole family name yeah how   does a guy like this climb back in power I mean  he must wind up being some in some unique position   to mediate between the furthest reaches of the  rebellion and the innermost core of society must   exploit something welcome to 12 for the next many  years brothers and sisters in your immediate Squad   will become your family you will train together  sleep together eat together you will rise together   and you will fall together touch yourselves  together and it will be your duty to report   anything suspicious you see because if you do not  you are as good as a rebel yourself Burn Gorman   a peacekeeper and two mind bosses were shot dead  that this man all out chance is guilty oh run run ah you're murderer the birds are listening spy Birds  yeah jabber what were you thinking back there   she didn't do anything Coro what do she kill  to you being directly associated with Rebels   if she had gotten through the crowd I don't  think I would have been able to shoot her you   need to find a way to make peace with our life  here now W H's giving us all leave passes for   the weekend boost morale we're going to Hogs  me yeah they need a morale boost yeah these   guys clearly downtrodden yeah does make sense  though like he would this whole experience   allowed him to get the most involved with  understanding the full breadth of the whole   society from Top how to govern well how to  govern over yeah how to Wrangle and maintain oh there's music Lucy Great Bear  could be here [Music] here cuz   we're planning on heating it up a let's go no one here we go get that new guitar you need a bird you need like a  hummingbird or a dove like there a lot   of bird themed guitars I bet you never  expected to lay eyes on me again and let   me tell you that goes both ways but I am  back oh come on y'all you know I gave up   drinking when I was 12 I wonder if she's been  brainwashed or like controlled by the capital   in some way yeah leveraged and or more  likely leveraged than indoctrinated but [Music] yeah [Music] oh she got a great  voice God damn all them blue not like   every song she's been given yeah when  she's going to bring that Soulful bluesy   quality with like Broadway Precision are  these original songs I don't know if they   yeah I don't know like they sound like they  could be just like you know songs passed down it's go take I feel like the lyrics  kind of suggest that it's a it's an   original song like written recently but  it sound like they could be about her it   could be about they could be about snow like  Snow's perspective get that accordion boy oh   Jesus swear you wouldn't play with  them again Billy to B Jesus oh dude save the accordion ow I know you missed  me Luc keep your hands off me right now   oh that's the xoh uhoh uhoh I will snake I  will oh dude yeah get off get off what are   you crazy come on we got here wow was that close  to her this is really interesting there's like   three different movies in here yeah each Act  own little movie each chapter really [Music] interesting around the Hanging Tree swaying  in the breeze I love every kind of song she   was given yeah still got one foot in the  arena God how beautiful the country there   is a bit of like a classic southern tale they  tell with her breaking their rules saving your   life but I gave them my last scent so that  I could come here to 12 because I had to try   to find you cuz I love you my Dean he told me  the strangest thing he said he was glad that I   survived you what ouch I didn't have a choice  that little girl D I know I thought it'd be   one of the others maybe you are not a killer  Lucy gr yes I am did what I had to do you're safe I don't trust anything around her there are no bars preventing you now your Peacekeeper friends I'll handle this  hey they can't see us together there's a lake   out in the woods a nobody knows much of it  except usby meet me here tomorrow we'll go   it'll be our special place it's a romantic drama  between them it's funny it's it would have been   cool to see some of this perspective on her life  in the earlier part of the story but I get why   you can't really put it there but I feel like  it might have been a good thing to do earlier   on for her character figured you'd be a while  so I decided to Spore town with Billy to who's   the other guy with him I remember that the  academy watching watch everyone oh carefully   choosing when the way in are you trying to help  these people don't you think they need help they   lost the war s Janice before they started that  made your family Rich throw away any chance I   might have of getting home someday just because  you feel a bit guilty good point turn [Music] coming I wrote this song about [Music] me   oh my God they're in like casual  garb one by the Drone Just Hits him the Forbidden Love red on black  friend to Jack I guess she just wasn't   using him or something I guess not  it's just an actual romance between them D I'm going to get the soundtrack yes it's  great I love I love the songs Mocking Jays we call   them mocking everyone cheered in the theater  stood up and threw their po that's part one   and that's part two I'm sure she's out there  somewhere she's a Survivor but it's a mystery   sweetheart just like me whenever you look down  in the sand and see one set of footprints Lucy   gray was carrying you the whole time would  you really go back though if you could to   the capital I have to you have no idea ug but I  hope you'll come back with me capital's not for   me is it civilized has Ord The Hunger Games  are order yeah what cuss of course not what   if this was our life corus not here it's not  coralus it's Slim Shady now I got a new name   all right it's a little early at M Ivory early  for what to eat the roots pretty little thing   but it's determined J all just like you  some people call it swamp potato I think   Katniss has a much nicer ring don't you catniss  everyone took out their guns and fired into the [Laughter] theaters oh where where's  the everin Now find an everan he misses   Billy tote do you this right here  eat up bread there's a gale coming down hey Mitch could you pass me that you can trust me I promise you that if you  can trust anyone in this world you can trust me   no those wide lenses I maybe I don't know one  of the best things about what's happening with   this movie is I cannot predict what is going  to happen that leads to him becoming the snow   that we know yeah yeah there's the one thing  I I can't I was like obviously going to live   whatever but I I have no idea what it leads to  I received the results from your aptitude test   this morning over your training records too  your performance is exemplary well the other   recruits can't read sir you're General crus SS  boy crus what did you do to end up here I made   an enemy sir I've made a career out of ruining  my enemy's plans I'm going to help you son yeah   I'm going to reassign you to officer training in  District 2 you'll real wage no nope train leaves   in 10 days keep a clean record you'll never see  anyone from District 12 again as God intended   this is an honor private not option yes sir that  that's actually a really good line yeah totally   said honor not an option really speaks to the  the tone of this Society especially where are   you great we're fine tigers where are you we're  underground we had to move out we're renting   this place just for right now they evicted you of  course they did Grand's fine I really don't want   you to worry I think I found a way out of here  I just have to make it through officer training   and two and then I can make my way back to  the capital I will fix this don't make me hope what HOH who you talking to I  think that girl who's caged Oh Yeah from before them special Birds I saw you talking to  that woman in the jail if I don't report you   now you don't know anything to report they know  we're friends you're going to get us both killed   you told me I could do something you told me I  could make a difference well you're rebelling   though you're not using your power they're going  up north to start a new life far away from PanAm   they need money for supplies they told me I could  go if I got it for them you could come with us   you're giving money to the locals do not record  this dog they're not planning on doing anything   dangerous okay it's all dangerous they're just  doing what anybody else would do Coro the leader   Spruce he wants to get his sister Lil out of  jailon Base Hoff is going to execute her just   because she knows the man that they killed dude  you're totally betraying him what if they catch   you bringing this woman off base it's worth  the risk to do the right thing for you it's   never worth a risk play the long game and don't  get anything done in the process don't make me   rescue you again I don't need you to rescue me  Coro boy damn dude now just leave the recording   on for the whole transport process like max out  the memory on this poor bird they're just doing   what anybody else would do cor you the leader  Spruce he wants to get a sister out of jail on do he like trim it down or is he just going  to send it as is he didn't do anything wrong   well yeah and she knows about him going in  already she suggested that so I guess he's fine but it's these kind of Acts that would  make her not trust him and not want to be with   him Lu right yeah oh 100 100% I mean this is  going to drive them apart [Music] completely   a she's sicking to you [ __ ] that's my girl  up there she sing about me that's my woman   talk about me up there now I'm now part of  District 12 just let me get one last look at you a snow is born what are you doing guns sanus  I know there was going to be weapons Coro they   lied to me you thought they'd be honest are you  crazy there are peacekeepers right out there   there's another one in here now too okay oh yeah  it's okay Spruce he's with me he I I told him to   come in here he's going to he don't be wor she's  okay Spruce she's joining us too she's with me she   what quiet down neor I'll explain later it's my ex  I'm trying to get her back man she be C my rebound   making me look stupid what do you think Lucy gray  mom talk no action hey how' you enjoy the capital   by the way what did you do see yall at the Hanging  Tree whoa yeah buddy oh my [ __ ] yeah hell's   breaking loose now what did you just do well you  just shot the mayor's daughter son what did you   just do want a rebel before you are now freak  Dam this on Me Maybe I said pop down C surprise   coming Capital boy if I'm going to swing for this  you swing with me oh no dude wow [ __ ] it's The Departed look at me you're going to go back  out on that stage and you're going to sing   you're going to get your goddamn [ __ ] together  yeah my hand never shakes you're going to sing   like nothing is wrong and I'm going to find us a  way out of this okay okay I I swear I swear get   rid of these guns now he's got to clean up this  mess if you breathe a word now both of us we're   finished so we go back out there and act like  nothing is wrong you have to pull it together you   came here for me right we're brothers so whatever  you've done I swear I will keep you safe wow he's   making a promise that he knows he's not going to  be able to keep up yeah those guns were the only   loose end besides the four of us so we're going  to be okay not a word okay okay at the end of   the day he's only going to look out for himself  it's like that Mentor ship slingshotted him into   just being a manipulator and a plotter H is losing  his mind mind the mayor's daughter got shot in her   boyfriend too he's sending out every grunt we've  got to find the guns that did it oo my palms are sweaty on my uniform already we shall find their  murder weapons if the killers are still in PM's   grasp they will hang before the week is out oh  boy you okay mayor's going to get me killed G   lus you already think it it's me Billy tote  mayther both dead they cat Spruce no sanus to   the Jus won't talk how do you know that trust  me he won't yeah I'm so sorry I should have   dealt with those guns myself I have to run north  that really hope and the others talked about if I   stay here now I'm as good as de what about the Cy  they can look after each other just wanted to say   goodbye be targets without me I'll come with  you I just learned Hoff is sending me to tube   for officer training but none of that matters  now you were going to leave it's all PanAm as   soon as they find that gun they'll hang me  no matter which district I'm in I think we   got one 3 years I fought for the capital during  the war oh I was going to let someone else take   it this is the first time I felt ashamed oh get  the other one up here yeah it's a big old Gap there Capital has received word via Jabba  J that these two men conspire to break   into our basis jail and flee North a you  messed up dude expect this of a reel but   not from one of our own this is treas  does he know who that's who's his son   is the leader Spruce he wants to get his  sister Lil out of jailon Base oh that is bad oh wow they played it but they  they didn't play his a part of the   Audio I feel like everything post  The Hunger Games of this has been   the most [Laughter] interesting this is  the part that's breathing the most and   also like doing something completely  different from the other ones yeah yeah dude you like straight up  betrayed him yeah dude this is all on you this man is like Master at sneaking  I know there's a whole bunch of dudes [Music] around I love the songs in this movie  they are all so good and they they've naturally   found a way to like weave them through  the whole thing and it's like not quite   a musical but still kind of cuz like it's yeah  it's such a strong element there's emotion to   it man there's movement it's like completely  rooted in the story and it creates a tone to   the film yeah it's rooted in her emotion sure  will be nice not to have to kill anyone else up   north though huh three's enough for me dude  why that phrase who's the third what person   you killed lanus he said you killed three people  I only know about two do not lie to me oh yeah   my old self I killed him so I could come with  you clever yeah speak poetic she don't buy it   though very clever man we're going to need  food let's catch some fish while we're here   storm clouds gathering over your relationship  if you want to fish there's rods under the floorboards I brought you this delicious  bass it break to you guys there's I like   I I like them both individually they're is  a lack of like romantic chemistry with them   though yeah it's like fine it's like passing  great you know but I really feel like this   has to be compelling yeah you got to like  love the romance enough that it's going to   be completely heartbreaking when the inevitable  happens the one you fired at Mayfair Spruce must   have known about this place if we destroy  that gun you're free you can go back home   no besides me ug you wouldn't tell anyone of  course not song birds for singing I'm just   going to go dig up some catness yeah down by  the lake thought it was too early for that the   world changes awful fast that grin it's still  raining well I'm not made out of sugar I would   love if this just became an evil dead movie  right now St was in there with the guns he did it come you'll see m a scarf I do like the  trajectory of oh my god wow damn is that poisonous I said are you trying to kill me after  everything I've done for you he did do a lot for   you it's turning into like a tense domestic  threr yeah there the movies doing something   really interesting where he starts off as like  you know that pompous arrogant first class and   then the more he becomes like the dark villain  the more human he actually seems yeah you watch   him flirt with the different ideologies until  finally we get here but he seems like more like a   guy now than he did at the beginning even though  he's worse yeah he's like becoming like full a villain wow what a shot went right for for it wow uhoh something to remember  you by that's enough Lucy great   I said birds whistling along is it a  recording I don't know I guess must be oh oh that's what I spend my time doing in Red  Dead Redemption damn Birds he got to shoot the birds it's like the saturation tone down there then Jason comes upks it's the only thing we haven't done  with Friday the 13th yet Jason gets a gun gummy berry juice I mean he got rid of the loose  ends of the guns but he would need to kill her   yeah especially now how's the arm private medic  said you took quite a bite nothing that I won't   have forgotten about by the time I reached tomb  there's been a change of plan private snow what   we're creating a special district and putting  you in it it's 15 congratulations Mr snow you've   passed all my tests so you'll be studying under me  now at the Capital University what was the rest of   the test I can't afford University a certain Mr  stro plinth has offered to pay for everything you   need while you're there wow all for being such  a good friend to his s Janus he doesn't know   quite how good a friend you were of course yeah  you sent your only friend to the Noose just to   get impressive that's not what I did are you sure  because I think that won you the plin prize after   all wow whoa what a curse president has agreed to  another year of the games people watched we got   picked up but before I take you under my wing  after everything you've seen out there in the   real world let me ask you one final time what  are The Hunger Games about what are the Hunger   Games for I used to think that the Hunger Games  Were punishment for the district then I thought   they served as a warning to us here in the capital  about the threat the districts posed little bit   each now I know the whole world is an arena and  we need the Hunger Games to remind us all who   we truly are we need the annual Purge who are  you do you determine the Victor welcome home Mr [Laughter] snow wow the world is The Hunger Games you look just  like your father corus in the end he became his   father and we know what she thinks of his father  we know she wasn't talking about the clothes he   was wearing talkinging about the hate in his  eyes your Twisted Soul wake up sanus plint   personal effects from District 12 what's going  going to return this to his parents tonight as a   gift would have been his 19th birthday but I think  they would prefer just this H Jesus best friends   forever you grew a heart in the districts no not  in the districts in The Hunger Games I should be   thanking you credit for the Hunger Games goes  to your father half of it at least I only jumed   them up as an assignment whoa oh no oh my God I  was drunk devise a punishment for our enemies so   extreme they will never forget how badly they've  wronged us no one could actually agree when I   sobered up I wanted it destroyed but your father  my best friend sto from me wow damn put both our   names on it taking it to G to rise up himself she  put it in a snake tank I hope the games might die   out I tried to stop them however I could but  then you came along now the blood of so many   more Generations will be on my hand hands yeah my  contacts informed me that she's disappeared that   the mayor might have killed her out there but  there's no proof it's mystery she is a mystery   her daddy's name look at you air to the plint  fortune Nothing in Your Way snow lands on top   God damn right got to respect the game yeah  that's true respect the game don't knock the hustle oh no Peter Dinklage man he did seem like  he wanted it the from very beginning or like yeah surrender find your peace whoa that was a good effect actually the  way they made him go like cold and purple and   bruis around the eyes yeah it's really good  color fading from his face snowfall symbolism   he's changed the entire weather pattern  of the capital soon this Fountain will be   covered in ice and a rainbow of Destruction  per it's the things we love most D Tri us oh look out and you love Lucy gray the theme awesome we  did it we made it wow all right reject Nation so   today I want to share something with you that  has been a wonderful addition to my health and   fitness journey that I discovered during the  holidays and that is liquid IV's hydration   multiplier I'm down to my very last packet  and I'm freaking out but it's okay I got more   in the mail now a lot of you have been so kind  to notice how 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we   just literally moment to go finish watching  Hunger Games Ballad of song birds and snake all righty well um before going into it my  expectations were they were tampered well like   there was a good trailer and then there were not  great reviews mixed reviews I would say but then   a really good audience score and then the box  office ended up picking up on it so I was like   all right well this sets my expectations I feel  like that's all I really knew I didn't watch any   reviews so I didn't know what people thought about  anything in particular and then I just was able to   take this one down now just little reminder like  I've only I think I might have seen the first one   twice I think I saw the first one twice yeah  yeah I definitely saw the first one twice and   then I saw the other ones just one time and uh  I really love the first two a lot I remember uh   really loving them yeah this isn't going to be  really a comparison uh to them there's no real   point in doing that uh but there were there's a  lot about this movie that I really really liked uh   quite quite a bit and there are some things that  I'm like H I feel like maybe they wor maybe two   and a half hours is actually not enough to tell  this epic spanning tale that they want to tell and   then it seems like it even ends at a point where  they would still do his equal yeah to the the the   rise of snow I think they were smart enough to go  we'll just try this one movie that we jam-packed   out and then if people like that then we'll do our  corol is snow Trilogy yeah yeah yeah instead of   announcing it ahead of time I mean but what did  what are your what's the first thing that comes   to mind for you John oh goodness I mean I guess  Rachel Ziggler is the first thing that comes to   mind uh yeah I quite enjoyed this too uh in an  interesting way cuz yeah like The Hunger Games   franchise for me you know I I like I probably  had the same experience that I think about it   like I might have seen Catching Fire or the first  one again at home you know on home video at some   point but I feel like I the first one was a pretty  vivid experience when it was out the second one   like I'll never forget the IMAX experience of that  yeah and then the the the returns you know kind of   diminished across the mocking Chase uh but yeah  so I I I came in kind of in a in a middle space   you know sort of being like yeah I'm I'm happy to  go back to this world I'm not expecting the moon   and I've heard enough mixed opinions some people  really positive some people kind of met that I   was like yeah this this is a fun Prospect to me  because it could go any number of directions and   it sounds like they're at least trying something  and uh and yeah like it's interesting because   those two performances at the center of the movie  are so much of you know what makes it compelling   I mean like the the the world and the way that  they talking about snow and Lucy gray yeah okay   Lucy greybeard uh you know those two com I I I  I agree when you say that this could have been   longer just because I feel like we really see  from the perspective of snow we really get to   know snow and I wish we could have maybe done that  for Lucy gray as well because Rachel zler does   have this fascinating presence in the movie as it  is presented because she is kind of like a bird   flying through everything uh because she's removed  from everything like she comes from these people   who exist outside of and sort of in between the  different districts and then you have the district   setup that we know about but we're largely seeing  from the perspective of somebody who is from that   Upper Crust and who you know has even if he's  got you know uh shambled Origins is certainly   Arisen to you know the kind of the heights of  privilege and whatever else in this society and   so like when they first meet and she enters the  plot like she is such a presence and such a force   but I feel like there it's like the problem is  we need our own like Katniss everine Style movie   to show her life outside of this too cuz like the  way she enters the movie she does have this kind   of like magic presence cuz you know she's going  to teach him but she's also got to survive the   Hunger Games but she also just has this just sort  of effervescent wiseness in in all situations that   sort of places her I don't know yeah just in this  interesting plane above it all while still very   much entrenched in it all so yeah I feel like some  of the character things could have benefited from   the kind of breathing room the third chapter gets  which I'm glad they put it there because it's what   you're going to leave people off you know it's  the last taste you're going to leave in their   mouth and it's certainly sort of a very tangible  uh sequence uh that part of the story and you do   get more of that sense of like the life that this  girl comes from and and the way he looks at that   and all those interesting things but but the  performances I thought were really terrific the   performances were I thought everyone was great  in this movie yeah even to even Viet Davis are   usually can't do anything wrong with me she's the  only one I was questionable about did she did she   for sure know the world the tone of like yes there  are HID in characters in Hunger Games for sure but   there's kind of like a time and a place for where  they are placed she's not doing like hoyy toyy   heighten she's doing like she something else yeah  she's doing like a whole other she reminded me of   Charlie there in Snow White and the Huntsman  where she's just like way elevated and chewing   scenery in a way most other characters are not  yeah but I found it very amusing she was very   entertaining and she had her scenes where she  was effective yeah and I I like I think for me   you know while we're on this subject of all them  yeah like I think the individual performances of   both of them were really good who plays Snow yeah  what is that guy's name i' never I don't know if   I've seen this guy before probably have he's one  of those guys probably I'm like oh yeah I have but   I didn't I didn't remember has he done a game of  throne or something I don't know this guy's name   yeah Tom blle Tom ble that name sounds familiar  does he maybe get like thrown out there for lots   of things no I haven't seen anything this guy's  done actually looking at looking at his list of   stuff I haven't seen any of this yeah damn first  time this is first time for us yeah first time   for us uh yeah I mean I thought he did a really  good job and I thought she did a really good job   and I think like the missing piece for me between  the two of them uh really was just and a lot of   it comes down to the writing the breathing with  then your first um because there's three parts   to hear so three long acts is what they're doing  and and I think like in the First Act especially   they really could have utilized building that  relationship up yeah with them it's more about   like the qualitative treatment that you give them  with The Spar time they are allowed to see each   other you know and they're talking about like oh  Mentor mentee uh Dynamic and they don't really I   I don't feel like we really did enough with that  that the part where I felt like they were really   missing something when it seemed like that would  have been your most compelling story to element   to build the relationship between the two of them  because they want to do two things right they want   to tell the story of the origin of snow but also  the origin of how The Hunger Games came to be I   think the one thing I was misled by and I kind  of blame the trailer I think the trailer makes   it feel this way that this was going to be the  first Hunger Games yeah I thought I thought this   would be the first that was the impression I was  left with was oh we're going to watch the story of   the very first Hunger Games yeah and what did that  look like yeah I didn't realize it' be 10 years in   we still get the origin of how it came to be and  and how it even correlates more with snow haha in   a way that was uh pretty surprising and it like  that reveal at the end of he is a special yeah   your dadicated these games your father was Obi-Wan  Kenobi yes you are monarch son yeah yeah there was   there was the a nice little treatment there uh  but I I do think that what they did miss out on   was really capturing that to hide in everything  tension Stakes the that prequel fear syndrome   where you're like I know he's going to be bad but  I don't want him to be you have to like tug at   that you know and that's where I thought some  of the qual where where some of the emotional   heft was missing some of its zest yeah oh good  word personally that's just my personal take and   it's kind of odd to say that when the individual  performances themselves like isolator or I thought   were really good Rachel zler especially I thought  was a scene stealer and and I I know you keeps I   understand your perspective there of wanting to  see a little bit more from Rachel Ziggler's POV   but I I this choice to keep it this whole thing  feels like it's entirely in Snow's perspective   even when you cut to Rachel zegler in the arena or  hiding out I'm like well there's cameras on there   that he could be watching you know so it's still  his perspective so like even choices like that   make sense to me I don't I can't recall a scene in  here where you actually cut away from a scene that   he is not either privy to or uh like he has to be  in the room in some way yeah yeah and and honestly   I don't beg grudged the movie I understand that  the structure they've chosen necessitates that   and I don't think that's the only way to do it I  feel like yeah if the First Act and by extension   the second but like one thing the later games the  earlier movies do which I get is not fully formed   yet that's part of the point of these but you  know you spend a distinct amount of time with   the mentors you know so like and then they become  distinct characters and so I like the idea of them   being thrown together and them essentially like  meeting as she's getting off the train then being   thrown into this truck and then being thrown into  the zoo and I feel like if we could have stole in   a few more moments to it's weird it's like there  are a lot of things about it that necessitate that   quickness of pace and we're rushing into this and  there's not really much time anyway but it would   have been nice I think to have a couple of scenes  that just made it so that we maybe didn't have to   spend so much time wondering if she is you know  being straight with how she's expressing herself   cuz there are certain times and and I and I think  there's a certain amount of time you're supposed   to be wondering oh are they both playing the game  um and and you know seeing from his it's weird   yeah it's it's good like I think they've given us  a good amount of like kind of Rich stuff there but   yeah like some more intimate beats early on that  breath the little that allow them to establish the   chemistry and allow us to Care just about them  being together Beyond all of this well the the   issue I think with the movie is is another even  though it's a long movie I mean nowadays it feels   like the standard for films are like two and a  half or three hours and I think this should have   been three hours because unlike the other Hunger  Games movies specifically referencing the first   two those first two that Fe like mocking jay  does not have a Hunger Game in it those first   two movies have a Hunger Game in it and the  structure with that is introduce characters   lead into the h games the fun ceremony stuff and  whatever and then you're in The Hunger Games and   there's like a a 5 to 10 minute wrap up at the  end yeah those are both those movies yeah you   know and then here you're do it all that and then  another hour whole movie The this is the rare time   because people used to roll their eyes about the  whole like oh split the last one into two but I'm   like you could split this in two and really stack  up all the because all those happen to favor one   side or the other there's always one half that's  a little more action-packed there's always one   half that's a little more emotional a little more  story and stakes and so like I feel like here you   could have had your thrilling first installment  of like oh man we're getting to see the both of   them we're getting to see him learning how this  world works and his place in it and the moral   implications of all that plus them just bonding  over getting through this Hunger Game and then   the next side okay they're free they're back in  the district they're about to gear this up again   you know will he you know we know where he's  headed but then you can spend that movie going   oh will they remain you know together yeah cuz I  didn't even feel I I don't really care for um I'm   not one of those people who really thinks that a  movie needs to do commentary I do think that when   you are I'd rather just get a character-driven  narrative honestly more than anything else and   then let some commentary speak via through that  which is how I think commentary generally should   be ex it's called subtext yeah exactly because  there's a lot of textual talk in here yeah whereas   uh here I'm like the concert doesn't really do  anything that new for The Hunger Games world uh   not really like everything that they touch on  with uh oppression classism and War all that   people as animals and you yeah like prisoners the  the way they've explor all these Earth yeah we've   seen all that and and honestly that's the thing  with Francis Lawrence who I feel like is on the   unlike unlike David Yates because David okay for  those who don't know David Yates made Order of   Phoenix I think that was his first one and then  he just made every Harry Potter fantastic Beast   he didn't take a break to do anything else yeah  whereas Francis Lawrence has at least done stuff   since the last Hunger Games movie and and then  this one right but at the same time it is like I   feel like we kind of needed a fresh director to I  do feel like because the first two acts while not   bad I don't think they're bad I don't feel like  they're anywhere near as interesting as the last   act because there is a certain element of kind of  going by the numbers while they do some different   things even like the new stuff that they're  introducing kind of feels like yeah this is   about the Beats you expect them to hit with the  origin of snow in this early Hunger Games story   it it does feel a little bit like in terms of  outlining and and that's where the richness   would come in with just stronger scene work or  or really be like even not being like I don't   even really care about that stuff being like  the outline being a little bit what I expected   it's but the scenes themselves really shine and  and so that's where predictability versus uh you   know actual storytelling you and and to me I'm  like yeah it was kind of weaving in and out uh   for me of being really connected whereas like the  third part three of of this post The Hunger Games   is when I felt like Francis Lawrence finally like  lit up yeah I was like okay I get to bring some of   that stuff I've probably been raking in from  more recent experiences and apply it to this   yeah I got to do something different cuz to the  movie's credit one of the best things about and   and and I keep forgetting it's actually based on a  this one's based on a book you're forgetting that   but to the story of it is there's been a lot of  origin Tales of people that just seem unnecessary   or I I don't even like that word necessary you  know when people say that this fil is necessary   I don't really like that word necessary um that  the the origins feel so predictable the origins   feel like well we know we're going to go here  we know is going to happen we know and and the   only thing we really that was a obvious is that  he's got to end up a bad guy by the end and B um   it probably something to do with the Heartbreak  here that he experienced with this but the way   that unfolds while some stuff you can sort of  telegraph like a like several minutes before   it happens for the most part I really was like  I don't know how he's going to end up to being   the snow or or at least end up on the path of  being the snow that we know him to be by the   time he becomes Donald southernland yeah and I  thought that was a strength that kept me watching   because I was because I could not see it really  I'm like I don't really know and by the time we   got there it actually really clicked for me it I  thought it was great on how they did it cuz they   took Avenues primarily in the part three act they  took Avenues and directions that kind of let plot   points unfold in ways that don't actually feel  cliche and I don't think they are cliche they   took different directions that I thought were  actually really unexpected of why he does what   he does or how he lands where he lands where he  does come to the lesson of the world is not the   Hunger Games are merely a mirror you know and I  thought that was kind of powerful I thought that   was great it's a distillation of everything that's  going on all over this place because we isolate   the Hunger Games but they are a reflection of us  in a in a way right and so I actually really like   the third act really bumped this up a lot for me  whereas the first two Acts were I I'm I'm picking   and choosing what I really like well the first two  acts of that Blockbuster thing that happens where   you have like a bunch of talent and not enough  you know time to really let that spread out yeah   and and Ian even the hunger game itself was like  just yeah it's a little It's Kind honestly it's   this a weird word to say a part of it feels like  it's kind of cute to me of oh yeah it's like an   older version oh yeah look at that it's the older  version that's how a lot of it was sort of reading   yeah instead of really having the suspense and  stakes and the Menace people finally the most   violent [ __ ] that happens is someone people  fall you know like and I thought oh we're in a   more like barbaric setting where usually we're in  this like giant landscape yeah and I and and and   I and I thought it actually completely didn't have  the no I want to say completely it was void of the   grit that the other ones had even especially the  first movie's grit like the first movie I remember   not knowing what I was going to go watch and sure  there might have been like the shock Val of it of   someone who had no idea what the Hunger Games was  about and be like these kids are married like but   see but it was still captured in a way that  I remember being like this is really violent   these are like kid like the way it was being sh  even pg3 Humanity of it all yeah yeah like bord   personally it borders on R and and and and this  I thought really should have towed the line and   it The Hunger Games themselves were like yeah fine  that's that's the thing about so much of the first   two chapters of this and why I do honestly think  that if any of these should have been split into   two this would be a good candidate because that's  the thing is I yeah it's like I think it's a neat   idea of doing like okay so it's like the 10th one  we've done a couple of these enough to know that   it's not going to be like completely makeshift but  yeah it's not what you are used to in the future   that's a cool Prospect because you can play up  the humor like with the drones but I feel like   the half that they are missing is the way which  that's totally more barbaric or it would lead   to a games that is a lot more feral and Scrappy  and like that there are glimpses of that like the   weapons do like hearken back to like old Gladiator  stuff and you know it's not super Hightech but I   feel like surface though it it it is yeah and and  so you have these cartoon you know all the other   competitors fell into their cartoon you know  archetypes and you have like a literal puppy   killing with the one girl with the tuberculosis  and the one guy over here who's just like you   know The Chosen hero and everyone in between the  problem with the runtime is that you you're now   short in like the other two movies that's most of  the runtime is the it's the game and here you're   like we got to condense that runtime because yeah  see again not I guess I'm just gonna Embrace that   these are the ideas the movie is giving me not to  like totally rewrite but I feel like it's good to   keep it in Snow's perspective I I like what  they tried to do with The Hunger Games I feel   like you could have done a lot with the tension  like you could show her perspective in the games   to a greater emotional degree and and ride off  the simultaneous nature of the fact that he's   in one place around the establishment watching her  and can only do so much to help and she's you know   literally stranded in Lord of the Flies right now  so like there's so much Mutual tension and cutting   back and forth and stuff that you could do in the  moment to really make that gripping and and again   like one thing those old Hunger Games movies did  do was at least take some time to like okay we're   meeting all the other contestants in they get  their intros in front of the city but then we   do like the behind the scenes like oh this is  what they're really like and this is you know   who I'm up against and who might be an ally and  you get to wonder about all these things a little   whereas this is moving so quickly that it it just  doesn't give you time for mystery or wondering   much of anything that isn't clearly going to be  end of the movie Reveal stuff and that's where I   think to your point of where some of the stuff of  because we're focused on snow Snow's perspective   not um uh Lucy's perspective where Lucy gray  whereas the movies are focused on Katniss's   perspective who is in The Hunger Games yeah so  you you're more connected to it you're you're   more connected to the entire thing and so I think  the idea was to kind of flip perspective but it   was trying to have its cake and E to two a little  bit you know and and I think that's where some of   it and because of the fact that it's this number  installment movie the only people who are going   to watch I most people who are going to watch  this this is going to be the fourth Hunger Games   movie they're watching no the fifth this is GNA  be the fifth Hunger Games movie because there's   the MJ's two parts right yeah yeah this will be  the fifth Hunger Game movie you're watching and   not uh their first one so you naturally well yeah  know it does and that's the thing is there is an   awaren too so yeah cuz yeah I think too it's like  it rushes pretty quickly past them their initial   distrust and the spirit they suggest upon their  first meeting just doesn't seem like someone who   would warm up to him that fast so I feel like they  needed to earn moments like that and yeah you can   do a lot of things still within his perspective  but that develop that that's what made him uh   that's what made me like question her but back to  her I mean I think that her Rachel zler again and   I feel like that it's become like this hot Buton  keyw word to talk about her um I don't really   care I mean I I thought she was the absolute  standout in this movie I came in here to watch   the origin of The Hunger Games and the origin of  our favorite dictator and Rachel zler I I forgot   she was in it till a moment before they showed  her I was like oh yeah Rachel zler is in this   movie I was not expecting her character to be such  a standout her the songs that they I don't know if   they wrote those songs I don't know if they're  uh at um covers I don't know what regardless I   thought they helped serve the narrative and help  develop her character and her voice and the mood   how it creates an atmosphere around her and it's  something that I think could have really failed   at how they executed it to be in here is just  something that feels completely cheesy and silly   uh yet you can see how that is also the start and  origin of uh of something theatrical to endear you   to the audience in terms of like in The Hunger  Games world of how they do that the theatrics   to make them a little bit more performers who are  tributes the tributes make them more performers   and and uh but but her performance overall like I  was most concerned about her like I didn't she was   the only one where I was like oo I I don't want  her to die and the stakes are really real for for   you cuz you're in district 12 at the moment and  you're also you know part of a traveling group of   people who seems to be on the fringes of society  anyway and and I like that they use the music like   the music does I think a good amount to bridge  some of the gaps because music does just speak in   ways that words don't always and and a lot of the  lyrics kind of are directly about situations that   happen but I feel like you know the emotional  rousing that music can provide is put to good   effect here and I like that it also plays into the  tradition of like yeah in rebellions music plays a   big part both for morale and for this sending of  messages and other things like that and so like   that's a nice astute detail to put in there that's  perfectly in line to do what often happens in in   earlier Hunger Games installments where it's  like okay this is technically a rebellion but   you can warp it into being part of the show too  you know the the one is part part of the Matrix   you know yeah uh and so yeah like that was like a  cool thread that they didn't have to commit to to   the degree that they did I thought that was like  a nice artistic surprise they put on this it was   a really nice artistic surprise and I like The  Descent of snow where he normally in these movies   where someone becomes a monster you just watched  them become less human and more cold by the end   and I thought the choice to actually do do kind of  an inverse where he actually seems more detached   honestly in the beginning to in the be in the very  very beginning of the movie he seems a little bit   more detached and I get it his family was once of  prominence and he's putting on sort of this like   posturing Act of Elegance that even Peter Dinklage  calls him out on yeah and then so then you're   slowly getting to see like oh he's actually but  some of his earlier on scenes I didn't really I   feel like he was cast for what he did in the later  half sure and not so much what he did in the first   half and in that first half um yeah cuz I I think  his real strengths were in that last half and in   that first half of the movie you you are watching  as he's becoming more human right from falling in   love to the fear and paranoia even when he starts  doing villainous Deeds or corrupted Deeds that are   out of just selfish gain it where he's playing his  own Real World Hunger Games like as someone who   was a mentoring he playing Real World Hunger Games  he actually feels like he's becoming more and more   human as he becomes quote quot unquote a monster  I guess you know and I and I thought that was   actually a nice way of doing an origin for like  oh look at him he's a good guy and we're going to   watch him become bad and they did it in a way that  was different it didn't feel like he completely became sometimes in origin movies they they really  Telegraph very early on that this is who they like   oh you're going to see them become bad and is  Right streak was always in them yeah yeah they do   that or they uh I don't know there's there's all  other kinds of versions of cliches and I haven't   quite seen it done this way like when he's in the  woods trying to shoot her he still feels like a   very multi-layered human in that moment who is  experiencing paranoia heartbreak fear of loss SW   like I thought he embodied the multiple layers and  he felt that's what I'm trying to say I felt like   he actually became multi-layered and multifaceted  um at the as the movie went and by especially by   the end and that's why I feel like he's more Human  by The End even though he's more cold whereas in   the beginning I didn't really feel the multiple  layers of this character and it took me a while to   get actually interested in who snow this version  of snow it it really took me some time like Rachel   zler was kind of right off the bat whereas um  her uh him took me some time and then the other   performers too of course like Peter Dinklage was  you know Peter D was kind of doing something we   were familiar with Peter Dinklage doing but it  was still like he still committ he still Peter   nckl he's still great yeah he's still great he's  still doing the performance and Jason schwarzman   as just call him young Stanley Tui always forget  that character's name lucky flickerman or whatever   I liked how you know the comparison differen is  Stanley Tucci is is very much he's a superstar   you know um he's Regis filbin and then this is  Young Regis filbin you know gu's working his way   up yeah he's holding the show together but he's  also singing for his dinner yeah yeah totally I   thought J Sportsman was excellent and yeah think  performances costumes all look great and the   aesthetic of making it like retro sci-fi where  it feels like how the 50s and 60s imagine what   the future would look like uh so I thought that  was really cool and and yeah the third act to me   was um that that's when I felt this movie really  sang a lot and and had the most amount of actual   tension to hold on to and and concern and worry  and I like that you don't find out what really   happened with her you keep it a mystery with Lucy  G even as The singing's Happening the wood just a   thing that the birds are recalling above him is  this just an echo in his mind did she really you   know yeah did she even really exist The Hunger  Games head yeah but like no like like I guess   that's the last thought that I kind of have is is  is is yeah I think the the most important thing   this movie had to do for itself given what it's  set out to do is sell the character journey of   Cory elanus snow and I thought the most graceful  thing about it was the way they did sort of weave   in and out of moral gray areas and you can see  him in multiple in in almost in you know the   same scene at times you know like swaying more  toward a benevolent side swaying more toward the   machinations of the capital you know right right  you know for for as kind of straightforward or as   surface level as certain things were it felt like  that part of the story they really always managed   like I love that thing with Peter Dinklage because  yeah you think he's just being a Snape about it   because like I knew your dad back in the day  Potter like you know I'm going to stick it to   you whereas you know you come back around and  it's like oh this guy and that's at a point in   the story where Coro is sort of seemingly flirting  with more of a humanist perspect or is being drawn   more toward a humanist perspective so that gives  you more cause to suspect that uh the the um what   high bottom or whatever his name is like is a bad  guy and then later on oh you find out he's helping   out the rebels and he did this because he thinks  you're just like your dad even though you've like   tried not to be throughout this movie but now  you're still being set down that path you know   and it's and I think we needed some depiction  of the dad that would have been nice yeah cuz   there was all this emphasis on him and I was and I  didn't really if they still kept it so vague just   something we don't like for me you don't even need  to see his face necessarily but like show a window   into the moments where he did have time with his  dad to form any association cuz we first meet him   as like a kid out in the snow like getting taken  in from you know squalor so like where was how old   was he when he knew his dad like all there's  questions there I think what I never really   latched on to with the movie is why snow cares to  get this [Music] far cuz he's the special and his   dad created The Hunger Games but you know like at  the very beginning like of course I'm not going to   relate with this there's got to be something there  to relate with the motivation like I think they're   trying to tell me that all this stuff with this  and his grandma he really loves them so he wants   to take care of them is what the movie's I think  trying to tell me yeah will never be evicted again   but that wasn't I don't know I like this specific  thing you going to lead this place this specific   thing yeah he was aspiring to at the very jump  of this movie and why are you so inspired with   ways to make the games that much better cuz this  whole thing is predicated on like oh he's got this   crazy ass plan for how to make the games great  and I feel like we glossed over that cuz I think   there was something there in the text about  um and maybe I missed it but feel like I paid   attention to everything the the because it seems  like the family was once respected yeah and once   of regality in some regard and then now they're  not and he wants to reclaim that good name I think   maybe but he also seems very detached to cult but  it also seems like everyone who finds out who his   dad is other than Peter Dinklage was like your dad  was an all right guy you know yeah man he gave us   this so I don't know I mean but he didn't know  that right not until later I don't I thought it   seemed like he didn't know his dad gave him till  the very end yeah seems like uh he took somehow   for some reason that it's been lost yeah not even  orever or maybe just he was never in a position to   have it revealed to him or something like that  but even such yeah it's like that's right it's   cuz the hunger gam hadn't even happened yet cuz  we started off 3 years before he gets taken in   yeah 3 years before when they're like little kids  and then and then so sometime I I guess what is   it he's taken in by the guy who would eventually  create the Hunger Games that like that part kind   of confused because we don't really ever see him  and we see Grandma or whoever that is uh but yeah   and then we cut to 10 years later or whatever  yeah because the movie starts off three years   before the first Hunger Games yeah right it said  the first Hunger Games yeah um and then I guess   they had that conversation through a few years  before the first Hunger Games like like that's   the thing is yeah like it would have been even if  this is not about the first Hunger Games it would   have been nice to check in with the first Hunger  Games like I feel like that would kind of almost   be important for how close the part of the point  is like we've only been doing this for a little   while and you know they're flailing out here we  got to figure out a way to really beef this up and   and get everyone on board and I think that would  have been I think it's be a really challenging   it's like the first the movie The of The Purge  franchise and there's there there are correlations   I think you can draw parallels in terms of  the story and what they're talking about and   what they're doing between what the Hunger Game  stories are about and what the purge movies are   about even though they're very different movies  there's a lot of similarities at the same time AB   um in terms of some contextual things and and I  think that would have made for in terms of like   a a thematic piece the a more interesting thematic  piece yeah because you would see how people like   were reacting to when this was first announced  and when they were going to do it and then how   the response went over when it went when when it  uh when it does go down yeah and then the unknown   of how how this is supposed to work and figure  it out see that's the thing is you could have a   Hunger Games again and and again do you know the  part of any you know continuing franchise where   we do the thing from the first time again but you  can give it a whole new you know uh veneer and a   whole new kind of you know set of circumstances  that could make it fresh and interesting in a   more rudimentary and rough kind of way and tap  into you know like the signature aspect of like   what Drew people to this franchise in many ways  like yeah some some pretty straightforward but   you know very invested commentary on society in  various ways and even this like it flirts at the   end with they they either reject Society leave  and go someplace else or they try to climb to   the top and and fix it and all that and like yeah  things were so bad and these wars happened and we   split up all these districts and stuff and it was  so bad we had to create this game right to to make   an example but also just like Sate people's anger  and keep people complacent and whatever else and   like and yeah like it it is odd to me not to  at least touch on that like I feel like maybe   they're just keeping that Ace up their sleeve so  if they you know want to in another five or six   years or if this Trilogy doesn't work they can go  first Hunger Games let's get cycle three going um   but it I don't know I feel like again for drawing  it so close to that and doing some of that I feel   like you could have just made that stuff even more  Rich by at least touching on the first games well   uh overall n you know I'd probably give this movie  uh like guess there's a lot of things I really   liked about it though man like whenever Rachel  zler was on screen and I really did find a lot   of suspense in the last hour of this film yeah  and uh and I'm glad they put it there like you   know again in the math I I would rather be left  off on an interesting note oh yeah rush through   act three it feels grounded and gritty and it  feels like the real world allegories are even   more present and you put snow in a position where  there are Stakes where you like you start to semi   forget like oh yeah you're supposed to somehow  get back to the capital and be he's stripped   down I think that's another thing that helps with  the character he's stripped down he's vulnerable   he's taken away from everything and he's traversed  all levels of this society and he's been in favor   he's been out of favor and and in that last  half you're able to kind of live I think one   thing doing this perspective allows you to do  is live in the banality of the daytoday of this   [ __ ] which the third act really does do cuz he's  he's a stormtrooper the other thing I really liked   that I completely forgot to touch on was that you  actually get a sense of community from District   12 where in in this like movie that feels is  dystopian future you you normally don't get   something that feels joyous celebratory in any way  and you get that there when they are and that was   one of the elements of the musical side where that  connection when they are singing and dancing and   and uh and Lucy Grace performing I'm like oh yeah  there's a real there is a community here yeah and   you are connected and endeared to that at least  I was and I don't that's something I don't feel   the other Hunger Games mov you know just felt like  they were everyone's broken throwing bread in the   mud you know dreary and dirty all the time which  is part of that life but also yeah show contr yeah   and and I thought that like finding having that  kind of community with the with with the southern   flare to it was actually pretty cool and also  you know and and to get Rachel zegler who I I   don't think she's Caucasian uh she something she's  like Latina or something I don't know what she is   but she's obviously she's not Caucasian and to to  see someone who who embodies such a Southern bell   kind of vibe who is not Caucasian I thought was  actually kind of was like different and refreshing   and it balances things out cuz she is singing a  lot of like very bluesy spirituals which I think   would be kind of extra tacky if it was just like  a white girl yeah and I think some people might be   like what the hell uh you know but I'm like all  all that has to happen is someone just grows up   around that you the voice of the cad it's matters  and the culture you know it's like when you see   like I don't know a Japanese guy who grows up in  Australia he has an Australian accent yeah yeah   yeah yeah exactly this is this is clearly a place  in which people have been all Just jumed Around by   War in class and now you know wherever you wind  up especially her is like a nomad you know like   wherever you wind up is sort of whatever culture  you're going to pick up like I know we see that   in life all the time uh but in movies and shows  you really don't you know there's a uniformity   that that often happens whereas here I thought  that yeah they they they managed to make the   district feel alive and feel like yeah despite you  know the thing that all like many places in Squad   there still can be senses of community and ways  to find joy and respit whilst also never kind of   being unaware of the fact that you're always under  the boot th% and yeah you can feel yeah it's like   I I liked like I liked getting those bits where  you do at least just have sort of like life's   happening and people are breaking out in song and  they're dancing and you really kind of feel like   what a day in the life is like over here you know  and what we're fighting for yeah I can't help but   think like even though I like the third act a lot  the that there are I can't help but at times be   like I really feel like half hour would have added  this in and maybe it's there in the book but even   even with his friend that that's where the part  I I forget his name surgey oh so Soju something   like that the the the the the best friendship  there could have been a heartbreaking thing if   at all he did feel compelled to help him out if he  did think like the if there was a debate with with   them truly of potentially helping out the rebels  and stuff yeah and that way that creates a real   conflict you see him actually making a choice  that and even would drive home that desent that   character art that he has more when he does go  like no he's shutting the [ __ ] down he's not   going to help you know yeah and giving that car  again it's that breathing room thing of like man   just a couple more scenes showing these guys in  a joyous moment and in a moment where you can see   how his buddy is is rubbing off on him because he  they establish that he's his only friend you're   the only guy who sticks up for this dude who  clearly has a sympathetic side for the plees   out there you know and he speaks to his humanity  and I think you you said something early on about   certain scenes feeling kind of soap opera esque  because the emotion has to be high because it's   the important scenes that we're cutting to uh but  I feel like especially with a character like that   like they managed to get a good amount of the  tragedy but I feel like some of it some of the   real contrast and the real weight of it is a  bit garbled like they kind of make they kind   of streamline it in a way where you're like  yeah he's gonna betray him whereas like you   want to feel like uh will this be less of a direct  betrayal and more of like a choice made under one   pretense only to be like oh God no what did I do  you know there could have been more debate there   and there could have been again just a a greater  detailing of that kind of swaying of corus's Soul   between two states and two ideologies you know  yeah and I think in a book when you're reading a   bunch of additional texts yeah but in a movie you  you got to do a little more creative work to do   some scene work you do some sew work a little more  to drive home the plot and cuz cuz he especially   uh uh sojourn whatever his name is is very much  a a themes character I'm here for the to bring   the themes in the text of the them and to present  those to you cor snow and I'm like cool good like   that's you need that and I like that you know  they have a whole argument kind of their whole   ideology is like do we do direct action or do we  play the long game and and you know what are our   motivations really and yeah it's like that stuff  could have felt a lot more lived in and you could   have felt a little less you know the the a little  less of that puppy killing feeling when it really   does come down you know on on his head th% and  the weight of that broken promise I'll protect   you overall 7.5 for me John yeah yeah 7.2 all  right give it a s Point all right either way I   think we were both like pleasantly surprised and  like the the good stuff was better than expected   and the stuff that doesn't work could have worked  stuff I did not show up for all were the things   that I thought were the best parts great surpr  great surise all the stuff I did not care about   before end I was like oh damn this is actually the  most interesting well of all the people like just   bound to a franchise well done Francis Lawrence  and Company yeah but I think you should move on   uh I think all these dudes need to move on I think  you should all righty guys leave your thoughts   down below what you thought Hunger Games ballot of  song birds and snakes and and uh hey before we go   let's end this with a p Ana Oliva 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Length: 131min 23sec (7883 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 17 2024