Who The Heck Was This Movie Made For? Hunger Games Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes Movie Review

you know what I think the problem with this movie was bad writing it was like almost like they didn't review the writing they dashed it off the singing the singing ruins it I'm sorry the story doesn't develop properly or doesn't you know there's some put too much comedy in such a dark thing something like that there's there's dark thing well the question that comes to me in that regard is who was it for I'll tell you what the theater is full of women yeah well that makes sense hero was a girl now how did you feel about when they blew up the stadium like I I didn't care like it just makes no [Music] [Music] sense Welcome to the Real generation gap my name is Shane schm I'm Fred satii and today we're reviewing the Hunger Games the ballot of song birds and snakes before we dive into this review please make sure to give us a like like comment and subscription let us know what you think about The Hunger Games franchise and let's get into this review The Ballad of song birds and snakes I the first of all the ballad the title's horrendous almost as horrendous as I thought this movie was Oh I didn't think it was horrendous but we'll talk about it but yeah the I under I came to understand the song bird part and the snake part yeah ballad is not what any of that means but somehow they they they thought this before we get into this movie just real quick had you seen any of the previous Hunger Games yes I saw the first one okay does it do you remember it pretty well or not really yes it was a movie about teenagers killing teenagers and I said well you seen one teenager kill one other teenager you've seen them all so I wasn't interested in seeing the rest of them but when this one came out I was compelled to go MH and I I was glad I did really because overall I mean I have lots of disp aring comments there was Goofy stuff but overall the story had a lot of elements that I liked and I realized it was not made for meh and I try to keep that in mind same I I really try that cuz I was like a big hater on the first ones so when I was seeing this one I was like be open-minded you know try to enjoy it for what it is and well the question that comes to me in that regard is who was it for obviously a young person or maybe an old person likes teenagers killing teenagers I can certainly see that yeah but but who the heck was this movie made for I don't know it's part but but I'll tell you what the theater is full of women so yeah well that makes sense you know the hero was a girl MH and and uh the original Hunger Games it's uh female driven right right and I do like archery archery is always there was no archery in this one really to speak of but anyway I I thought the movie was well cast mhm you know I I I thought that Rachel zler was was good in her part okay I I didn't oh there you go there's Lucy greybear Rachel Ziggler she came on with a ridiculous outfit yeah and for some reason this movie was very very galic yeah you know it was like they had the Irish jig and the whole Irish scene there and the Celtic stuff and and I didn't quite understand that but one thing you don't know about me is I really like the Tanga banjo and fiddle competition each year and that's all Appalachia mhm and that's that Appalachia is all that really the that's the real country music that's really America you know like a like a dirty secret almost and so I swung with it m you know and she did a good job at that I guess she's a fantastic singer cuz her singing although corny and boring ruined the movie for me any I thought this movie could have been so cool and any chance of it being somewhat realistic to me like pting me in the world like okay this I'm in the world where now these kids got to fight for food you know whatever it was ruined by this broad singing corny songs about what's going on in her life and like it just made it so Disney for me like yeah it just totally ruined it for me it was supposed to be endearing this is no it's supposed to be a scary world where these people who went through a war now like the PE the enemies of the war got to fight for resources and they put in these Hunger Games that's a very dark and violent World in my opinion and it's ruined by this by these Disney songs and I anytime I was like oh this is getting kind of cool she starts singing again right I'm like that's not realistic she did a lot of songs it's not realistic at all right and I get it's a movie and it's probably for kids or something but well that's how those people are it's pretty violent if it's for kids like again who is this for I don't get it I don't get it and like the opening scene they're choosing who's in The Hunger Games right they're choosing who gets sent and they they pick um Lucy gray and she starts singing in any occupied Nazi style whatever they are supposed to be they're not just going to let some girl just start singing they would hit her in the back of the head with a rifle right a slow look at the outfit look at the outfit and there was no meaning to that there was it didn't add to story other than her it was her mom's well it was yeah but who cares yeah but it it just made her a unique character like identifiable instantly ident you can pick her out of the crowd yeah you know and she was a real freak Show yeah and what what you said a moment ago about they picked all the people to be involved they had like a real young little girl then they had like a big strong guy I was like why were they they're going to be combating there's supposed to be kids and then there's bar scenes I felt like that was yeah made no sense right I mean it's an alternate universe that's how those people are maybe they let kids in the that's why they lost the war those heathens yeah and then and then the people who won the war they were no prize either MH they were this like weird high society but they also have their own poverty within their High Society the guy that I know that you loved Jason schwarzman I love J that was my favorite part of the movie that was actually my favorite part of the movie Jason schwartzman's comments what a macabra character he was yeah right like making jokes about all the deaths oh another one dead too bad drag it away I like like I'm goingon to need a drink I'm going to need a drink I love Wes Anderson he's in like all his films right he was just comedy gold you know like he had a lot of like little lines that like made me chuckle what what a great weird character guy we're going to see him he's he's not over the hill I we're going to see him again and again he's going to be casting these kind of roles and that's cool and he he made the really made it even more macabra you know he made it it the fact that he was so lighthearted and he was that like the that the cheesy announcer M you know another one bites the dust okay drag him off and bring in the next batch you know it's like wow what a coldhearted weird monster that's kind of the problem with this movie it's supposed to be this cold carted evil world and uh there's just lots of corny moments they're having too much fun yeah his moments are kind of corny too but I Lov them now now how did you feel about when they blew up the stadium like I I didn't care like it just makes no sense like what talk about upsetting the apple cart right they have the combatants all these young kids that are going to kill each other they're just about to disperse and grab their weapons and everything and the whole stadium is blown up by terrorists and now they can run in different directions and you know you know what's funny some of these the young people they decide to make a run for it because there's chaos and the the the people who are enforcing this thing they shoot them how hard would it be to just round them up they're in the middle of this Center City they're from these outling areas they have nowhere to go and hide or anything they'd be rounded up in no time they shoot the ones running but not the ones singing I don't get it I don't get it you wanted that happened yeah I wanted every time she sang the guys everybody just froze the guys with me in the theater heard me say what the hell's going on in this stupid movie like why is she singing again every time and I I'm just going to bring that up over and over because I hated this movie right even that one time when they were down in the in the basement and they shot each other or whatever he told the girl you're going to go back out on that stage and you're going to sing don't just go upstairs and sing yeah I mean everybody like their gunshots right just go up there that'll do it yeah now another person who was a big player in the movie was Viola Davis and she she's done serious acting Parts she's a legitimately good really good serious actress but you you couldn't be in this movie cuz I hated her in this movie yeah just way over the top right way over overdressed over Made Up character she was like Jason schwarzman doing this part the most Looney like evil scientist cartoony like I don't know just but where her power derived from was never really quite explained so she's a bond villain right she's you know Dr No or somebody she's like one of those kind of characters but they they didn't need her you know she just seemed to have this power coming from God knows where all through the movie she was a philosopher of sorts she had a philosophy about what was going on but you didn't care about that either no so it's yeah I think I'm most upset because I felt there's a lot of commentary and ideas in this movie that could be really good yes you know about like being kind of in a prison State revolting um being against your oppressors and bringing peace you know amongst you know uh class lines I guess almost right yes um I think there's a lot of good ideas yeah when the war is over you don't keep punishing the loser exactly and kind of like you know uh history is written by the winner you know they talk trash about all these people being low lives and scummy but they're just people and you put them in that scenario to make them low lives and scummy so there's a lot of good commentary and especially reflecting on the world we're in you know the world in Israel all the stuff that's gone on in Afghanistan and Iraq and everything throughout my life I think that there's good ideas in this movie that can be related to the real world but it was just a terrible corny movie and and and in addition to that they had the country SE scenes so here are these people this this girl won The Hunger Games she's a very highlevel celebrity but yet she can go out in the country and go miles out into the country and go to the lake and take her shoes off and run around and nobody knows where she is and that would totally not happen no there's not that kind of countryside's not available no yeah so and then she wanted to like well we'll just we'll just go here we'll live here and and of course she wants to live there with the I don't even know if he's the protagonist or what no so yeah that's that's the in this is a prequel to The Other Hunger Games again I haven't I saw the first one I don't remember at all but apparently he's the bad guy in the fir in the other franchise or I think he yeah he's a bad guy I think in the other franchise so it's kind of like how he becomes the villain and again this is my assumption don't tear me up in the comments no get him get him get him him in the comments he need roast in here I looked into it and that's that's what I could find that it's it's it's about his him becoming the villain he's a very Nazi looking guy isn't he he is especially when they shave his head and then and then his friend see that's that's another problem like he had no I mean maybe it can be you know that's his character development but it seemed like he wants to be a good guy then he wants to be a bad guy then he wants to be a good guy then he wants to betray his best friend then he wants to be a good guy again then he wants to Wi the girl over he's like screw this girl and I'm going to kill you and then it's just like I don't see any lineage with him developing his character is just all over in my opinion was all over the place but maybe that's how a manal evil person acts you know once again the mask that you wear all the stuff that we talked about you know a few weeks ago there the Carl Young yeah like like he went through all those phases like he had his feminine side he had his evil side he had his every everything came out of him so maybe there was development maybe I'm being a little biased but to me it seemed a little too cha he was a welldeveloped character but you're right the movie is very chaotic in that regard M so and then Peter drink is a great actor there's no question about it but the problem is I can only see him as Tyrion lanister I don't care who he you know especially in a ro Lannisters pay our debts especially where he kind of dresses the same as you know in that movie in that show he looked like he looked like right out of Game of Thrones in this he looked like the same guy he is a great actor though I I've seen him in other movies mhm yeah so there there's no question about that pretty good in Davis the casting they had the people you know what I think the problem with this movie was bad writing really okay I I think that they didn't the story doesn't develop properly or doesn't you know there's TR put too much comedy in such a dark thing something like that yeah too much Disney dark thing yeah it just lacked continuity of of it was some kind of the violent scenes are pretty cool they're pretty cool you know like people are getting stabbed getting shot I'm like oh that's what I came for and it wasn't a lot of that to be honest no I said it before and I'll say it again you like this movie why are you turning I I liked it because it had lots of stuff yeah I appreciated lots of parts I said well this is an interesting study of human nature and I was Spellbound at times to see what would happen there were a lot of things that were out of character for people mhm and I don't know do you know what the word plinth means no the his the um the Tom BL you know whatever Cornelius or whatever Cornelius s yeah yeah but it was not Cornelius it was like more letters I never could quite get it I had to look it up his best friend was the really really rich kid his father was some big shot yeah and their name was plinth okay and when you have a statue like a guy up on a horse in the center of town the square thing that he's standing on that's the plint oh so so the fact that that was the guy's name like he was the base upon which snow was standing and even snow in Game of Thrones they there was a guy named snow right yeah John snow right like he was so here we had another snow guy so between him that you know the whole Lannister thing and then the snow guy and I just was like this is this A Game of Thrones like are they kind of knock little go thing going on there and that I didn't like that um the movie first of all was 2 and 1 half hours long which is long for you yeah I know I was kind of especially for a movie where this chick keeps singing and I'm annoyed with it yeah and it happened a lot like right to the end every every resolution to her problems was break out every 20 minutes it was like a totally like a thre minute like exactly and then on top of it was 78 million oh was it it's a lot of money to recuperate right you're not getting B back the first night so I I think that I'll be interested to see how it does yeah what the box office is because I don't know who it was made for yeah I'm sure it has a following everyone that was coming out seemed to be like stoked like oh we got to rewatch the old ones and it was so good and like oh like and you heard them refer to Katniss in the movie right when they're like oh I didn't get that so Katniss is the main character from the original series okay so I don't know if this movie was implying that it's that girl's daughter or what cuz why would they bring up the name Katniss but they're referring to a vegetable of some sort but they did bring up her name so I'm probably missing something maybe that it was her mother's dress the weird dress that she had that was just out of this world yeah we're we're missing something but everyone that came out of the theater was pretty stoked and again they're mostly female they're mostly stoked well that's good I wasn't yeah that's they they they made the right thing for those people I guess but those people are easily amused I liked it I liked it I had okay here's an element that I that I liked okay the bureaucrats were miserable and that's how it is in real life so the fact that they they had miserable bureaucrats you know when snow decided to go to District 12 and the guy the guy there was just he was just a military man he was meat and potatoes he's like look you did good we're going to get you out of here we're going to send you to a better place he didn't want to go to better place he wanted to stay with his girlfriend that's why he went there to begin with that guy was a a soul dead bureaucrat mhm he only cared about the troops what what he was what his job was within that system and you could see that all the people involved in The Hunger Games they were it was all bureaucratic when they were training the guys in the university the University was all bureaucratic and now in our social life we have universities that are all bureaucratic there's no place for independent thinking or creative thought or imagination you went in the class you listen to the speaker you finished the test exactly what you were told and this is how this Society was so it was a real post-apocalyptic current apocalyptic illustration of the way we were living and it was ugly yeah you know and the rich people were ugly you know they Ed their money and power and influence to do different many times he said to his friend the plinth kid have your father you know pay off some guys and get out of here going to be fine you're rich right yeah I think there's a little bit of a commentary on like uh reality TV and like how you know how they were trying to be like oh we need to make the audience care about these characters and stuff that's so reality TV you're you're calling in for Survivor because you want your guy to make it to the next round and stuff right if somebody just methodically killed everybody the audience wouldn't react to that but they wanted them to be characters they wanted Lucy gray to be this in endearing weird somebody you could hope or something yeah and they tried to have other people they had you know one guy who was sick right from the get-go yeah and they wanted there to be sympathy one of the things I really did like was they said you you people who are helping cuz everybody had a sponsor a rich sponsor would talk to the person that was going to be slaughtered in The Hunger Games they were supposed to help them in some way so one rich you know what decided to go and to her Hunger Game contestant a little bit they offered her something took it back you know offer something back and when the girl finally got it she broke the bottle and stabbed her in the throat so the rich girl got killed spoiler yeah yeah well that's not a spoiler it happens right in the beginning but but it but it's so great that somebody you know it's like you want a violent caged animal yeah yeah you want a tantalized the you know play with the tiger keep playing with the tiger right and that's with the movie kept trying to say you know like these are people these are people especially with the the other character what you you say his name was uh plint plinth yeah yeah you know these are people these are people these are people we got to stop treating them like they're Vermin um and that was kind of like what happens when you cut people they acted that way right they're eventually going to get pretty violent and you're going to be the through the movie he made decisions about who he was and what he would do yes you know one of the quotes I liked was he said we're going to make a lot of money and we're going to be able I'm going to be able to you know catch up on our bills and his mother said and we'll have chocolate yeah and that was that was such a real like yeah cuz they were really poor and that was obviously a luxury yeah yeah it's a just a Gastly recognition of the dark side of man MH you know and Lucy was no better she had a dark side she she was a real like a scatterbrain she didn't have a plan yeah she was supposed to be some kind of like Gypsy type character or something right just happen to luck out time after time yeah sing her way through it and and then there was the whole snake thing yeah so she was a song bird and the snakes he's the snake the snakes are just something written into the movie no I think he is the snake well that right this is the dark side right like yeah and but it was great that the snakes if they were they were your friend if they smelled your essence and everything and he took the handkerchief with her essence you know and train 500 gallon drum of snakes yeah but it was it was awesome those scenes where they inundated the one guy and he just stoically he knew he was going to die so he stood and let him bite them D they killed the poor chick the poor little girl with autism or whatever yeah yeah the character the people that's one of the things that I really didn't like it would be one thing if they had they had I don't know how many districts there was like 20 of these contestants right if they were all if they were all combatant people if they were Warrior guys and Warrior girls yeah you know if they I think that's the point it's a lottery we don't know who's going yeah but it's so it's so ridiculous to have a helpless person one guy was really ill one girl was really young yeah they had no chance but what it became a lord of the fly situation right four or five of them banded together which makes no sense and they became a team why would you do that one of you yeah yeah exactly only one can survive why would you do that that makes no sense they gave him gladiator weapons so yeah I guess you join together at first and pair down the crowd you know which yeah but you got to start you're going to be betrayed by definition you have to be how do I just be on my own all those things who do you become what do you become what's your real nature how far to your dark side do you go how do you live with yourself afterwards I liked all those things I liked all those you know self-introspection but I didn't see the crowd self- introspecting mhm I didn't see anybody coming out going wow that was heavy man yeah I have to look at my own my own heart and see what would I do would I betray the girl would I betray the guy that's what I'm saying I feel like it could have been such a good movie like so many like real things inside of it like the things you like they're so real right but it was just a cornball somehow the writing it was like almost like they didn't review the writing they dashed it off the singing the singing ruins it I'm sorry and I love a good musical so I don't know yes you do it's the singing or something made it way too Disney they had all these things but I didn't buy it but you're telling me the audience did yeah the audience liked it a lot so well from my perception well we bring it then from a five to a six then for me yeah you know you said you liked it though you're going to give it a six oh oh believe me if I didn't like it it get a two if I could understand who this was for this is the generation gap this is more than a generation gap cuz I didn't like it either it's uh I don't know what it I mean I didn't like it and you said you liked it I I it had a lot of good stuff in it it had it had I don't think it's a generation gap maybe a yeah I don't know what kind of Gap it is so I'm going to stick with my rating of six up from five so how I think it's interesting that you say you like this movie but you give it a six I mean I guess that's better than neutral five is neutral right well I I'm I'm being honest I did like it like I did I was glad I went to it I didn't go out there angry like why did they make me go to this or why would anybody I I kind of accepted it for what it was you know I mean it wasn't Elon Musk fighting Mark Zuckerberg that's the one I'm waiting for you know it was wacky kids or something yeah but anyway enough of that how did what are you going to say um I'm probably going with a four for uhhuh you really didn't like it I didn't like it like I said I wish it could have been such a cool movie I feel like it really had a lot of commentary on real life stuff that could have been really cool but something about it was just too Disney for me too too campy and I feel like we really should have had someone who's a big fan of the hunger the original or at least had seen the originals no I saw the original I remembered it but did you see the whole series one through no no no I just saw the first one yeah I wish we had someone who saw one through four with us to just like kind of explain things and well you know I I talk to people after these movies on the way out I grab a couple of people and I I I they were both girls this time you're right it was really a lot of girls there and I asked them and and they said what you said they went like it was awesome yeah like I'd like to hear a little elaboration on that but I they didn't mhm they just like you know they just I mean look at me they like you don't get it and you never will just you know keep on walking and out to the car it was late at night two and a half hour movie you know that's how it went for me and that's how it went for you and that's how it went for The Hunger Games Ballad of song birds and snakes yeah so that's a review of The Hunger lames I mean the Hunger Games uh ballot of birds and snakes or whatever uh my name is Shane schield Meer I'm Fred satelli and that's a review thank you for watching the real generation gap please give us a like comment and a subscription let us know what you think of this movie if you like the other Hunger Games we're totally off with this movie and we don't know what we're talking about and it's actually a masterpiece let us know what you think burn us give us your best mean comment you can until the next one we'll see you there