Hunger Games: The New One – When a Franchise Turns Toxic | Anatomy of a Failure

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes returns to the world of the Hunger Games, 60 years before Katniss Everdeen. And unfortunately, in a pretty meh way. It didn't make any kind of impact and not a lot of people saw it. It wasn't the biggest box office flop failure, but it came and went like a fart in the wind. Why? Because Hollywood's sequel franchises are starting to lose steam. Let's try to find out why.

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The Hunger Games: The Story of Songbirds and Snakes
Experience the story of THE HUNGER GAMES — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.

[marcusstewart]

"It doesn't create entertaining content, it believes the franchises existence in the content, is enough to entertain "
This statement is so accurate its *SCARY* smh

[LeykRoss]

The main actor portraying Snow was excelent, every scene he was in got inmediately better. Sadly, he cant do much more with what he was given.

[thelion]

"Snow lands on top"

"But snow always has to fall"

[gamerman]

I remember someone saying that one of the reasons the movie was bad was because they based it on a book that involved a lot of internal dialogue that described stuff (especially Snow's actions).

[DarkSliderHD]

I actually prefer these type of failure analyses because the movies themselves are not bad but after watching you leave kind of unsatisfied and you perfectly explained why.

[hornmanxx]

"Whats the point of standing on a giant if the giants height cant be seen from where you stand" Someone get this man a culinary degree because he's cooking!

[oyugioyugi]

Imagine if they made a similar remake but for divergent💀💀 they should just run back that whole teen dystopian phase again

[Bullz_eye]

the Hunger Games: the ballad of ultrawide camera

[eggboyuwu]

The Madame Wab video is going to be peek.

[saul]

I think I enjoyed the movie more than most because i had just finished reading the book a few hours before i watched it. Snows internal dialouge was FRESH in my mind and i think most of this book happens in his head. This dude lies to himself and everyone else and its absolutely compelling. That opening segment where nothing happens is FULL of characterization he obsseses about his appearance, we learn about his mental states, his priorties, the fact that his family is starving, and how he views other.

This movie was always doomed to suffer because this dude doesnt shut up, but its all in his head.

[t.k.]

If this movie were actually about how this world became dystopian, and how the hunger games started, that would’ve been interesting. THIS answers none of those questions, making it a prequel that no one asked for.

[Akursedtime]

A miniseries would have done better because I heard the book went into more detail about Snow's perspective and his relationships. It's not enough for a two hour movie to convey. Unfortunately.

[PsycheAnimus]

Watching the movie I kept wondering if our main characters were manipulating each other but there wasn't much give and take on that part. So then I thought, okay, I guess they just like each other but i still don't get why. It was a weird and unsatisfying movie to watch. The wardrobe and acting were superb though.

[anotherman]

1:23 CORIOLANUS SNOW THANK YOU FOR THE TIER 3 SUB LET'S GO!

[isaacmartinez]

I believed that the reason why this movie didn’t make tons of money is because people are not into the Hunger Games like they used to.

I remember that the Hunger Games got hyped when I was in middle school. Now, all the people who used to love the franchise moved on.

[thesean]

I read the book before this came out. And youre right. the whole becoming a peacekeeper thing was a long as epilogue that was like 150+ pages. But like 30 min in the movie. It was a long ass book that got smooshed into a movie

[bobs_sa]

10:50 the other issue here is that there is no inherent tension in ‘Will he save his family’s status/will “snow land on top” because…we know it does. We know he grows to become President Snow so yes, things work out for him. You can’t build tension on a character’s fate when you already know what it is.

Overall the IP was exhausted with the initial movies and this ends up feeling like just a repackaged version of ideas we’ve already seen. Nothing inherently offensive about it, just not new/exciting enough to bring in the numbers the original movies did.

It’s a prequel that doesn’t go back far enough. I thought it would go back to before the Hunger Games as an idea was even a thing, before there was the Capitol and Districts, show what made society fall apart and separate as it did and bring about the rise of rebels and how the Hunger Games were introduced etc. Follow completely new characters who go through all that and right at the end have a younger Snow make an appearance, with a triggering event that can be a “oh shit, so that was the spark that set him on his way to becoming the President Snow we know”

[hannahstarinieri]

Whats too bad is that the book is truly an amazing novel. it really only works in the book form because the personal narration from snow and the time taken to develop the relationships between the characters can't really fit into a 2 hour movie. I think both The BOSAS and the Hunger Games both would work as a show maybe? They just work best as books tho.

[Gamingraptorpro]

The fact he didn't even put the subtitle of the film because nobody remembered it is hilarious.

[zom]

When a movie makes you go "oh fuck shes singing again " and its not a musical you have a problem.

And if its supposed to he a prequel to how Corey became a Hugh Janus in the future it failed miserably.

The coin flip from him being happy to see Notness and then suddenly wanting to kill her as laughable