The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is unfortunately boring
Okay I’m years late, but I’m going to start doing movie reviews when I feel strongly and I can’t think of any place to post them so here you go tumblr.
I was sorely disappointed seeing this movie for the first time today. It is a prequel that barely sets up anything true to the message of the Hunger Games and feels like a different franchise entirely. The direction and production make the movie feel like a never ending trailer! I felt like every minute dragged on due to a total lack of variety in literally every shot.
Not to mention, this movie did nothing to make me care about Snow. I was expecting a romance that actually brought a semblance of reflection amidst tragedy and turmoil. Since romance isn’t my genre of choice I was very interested to see how it would play out in the midst of Panem being only a decade out of the worst parts of the war. Obviously Snow turns into a freakin evil menace, I knew this going in. The movie did nothing to convince me that Snow was special nor had enough depth to mastermind the art of the games. No offense to the actor, but I did not get the gist that the stakes were high enough for anyone to be staking everything on this.
Every scene in TBOSAS was so flat and lacking of discernment (due to CGI) while having the same musical pacing that I genuinely did not know when a pivotal moment was happening aside from when Lucy was singing. The lack of practical effects and the rushing of literally every scene didn’t help. Every piece of dialogue spoken is unnatural and so on the nose that I can’t find myself caring about a single one of these characters.
Please don’t confuse this as me not understanding the story. I understood every scene. Because it left no room for nuance at all with every piece of dialogue being flat, explain-y, and on the nose.
I think above all, this movie suffers from too much CGI and rushing, although somehow it felt slow? Less is more. I would rather literally half of these scenes be cut out in favor of dialogue and setting that is complex enough to convey more than one thing at once, and gives insight into these characters. By focusing on character work, you get insight into the world without having to just tell us all the time.
This movie relies too much on franchise familiarity that it doesn’t bother giving characters any depth or real story. Did I mention that every shot looks the damn same?? Character in middle of screen with an empty or blurry background.
The original trilogy/franchise makes you care about characters who only show up for a short time. The practical effects were awesome.
At some point in the first act of TBOSAS a tribute murders a capitol student by stabbing her in the jugular. There’s no blood. People are smashed by rocks during the rebel attack. No real wounds. Just embarrassing idk I’m kind of getting mad the more I think about it.
Overall, this movie did nothing to convince me that Snow was That Guy and it was all about love at the end of the day. Again, this is probably due to the 5/10 script.
Shoutout to Peter Dinklage for doing his thing and to Viola Davis for being a legend who is the only one who embodied the Capitol.
Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”
I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.
It’s actually pretty nuts how there is no real mass media coverage of the protests that are happening all over the US. It demonstrates fairly conclusively that the unlawful activities at the White House aren’t just limited to Trump. There’s a lot of wealthy people in powerful positions in the US and around the world helping to support the dismantling of the US federal government.
you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying “racism is a distraction from the class war” when its crackers who are most easily “distracted” and acting out literal violence on us with their votes, policies, jobs, schools, privately in their homes, publicly in their actions. when your people would literally vote to kill us if they could I don’t think your whole “racism is a distraction from the real enemy” bullshit needs to be directed at the PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THE RACISM. talk to YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE about this “so-called distraction” and not those of us receiving harm because whites have continually denied their direct involvement in keeping racism alive well and working for them. we are watching literal Naz!s (reknowned white $upremac!st group!) create and implement world changing policy using money and WHITE influence and there are still those of you so-called white leftists who think if you ignore the fact that racism is the biggest social propeller and focus on capitalism then somehow things will change when they’ve always been intertwined. I’m so tired of y’all.
This is like the perfect storm of Leftism.
They vomited their racist bilge on the keyboard and called it a post.
a) wall of text, because Leftists don't make arguments, they can't persuade people anyway.
b) weird capitalisation - it's a common symptom for mental illness, and it seems like every Leftist boasts of mental illness; it is a badge of honour to be barking mad to their minds.
c) bizarre attempts to evade Tumblr's censor - as if this was a serious platform. "Naz!s"? The only word I found I got in trouble for using was cvnt, and even then it was in reply to a Leftist who used it without the deliberate mispelling - without any consequences.
Tumblr staff are on an entirely different planet when it comes to bias, they will happily shut down a conservative if they can, and turn a blind eye even as Leftists openly discuss murder, but they are strangely blase about the keywords that make reddit et al wet their panties.
d)
"you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people"
Unironic racism. Leftists are the sort who would stab you, then explain that stabbing doesn't count as they have a dictionary where stabbing is "good if a Leftist does it".
in fact, that is the entire summary of their morality. They are about as deep as a teaspoon of oil poured onto a still mountain pond.
e)
"acting out literal violence on us with their votes"
Before, silence was violence, then speech was violence, and now voting is violence. Existing while white? VIOLENCE. Leftists hate you and want you dead, want your family dead, everyone you care about dead. The only thing preventing them from being a threat is that they are mostly incompetent and stupid.
Not to mention lazy - sixty odd years of them saying they would do stuff, and doing nothing. At least the old communists tried things. Stuff that failed. But at least they actually sweated in the pursuit and took a chance it might work.
Spoilers: It did not.
Today's Leftists are scum who would perish from a blister. Most have no idea how working feels like. Either they steal (and oh the shock when that was outlawed!) or they grift or they get the DEI comfy chair.
And they lost the comfy chair. Leftists mad!
I mean, you almost have to pity them. They have no emotional development. No wonder so many of the Leftists here are obsessed with diapers etc.
f) I love how the Leftist finishes with "I’m so tired".
You have to remember, typing - or at least mashing madly at the keys - is hard hard work by their standards, and by the end they are desperate for a doze.
"You're definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying 'racism is a distraction from a class war', when its crackers--"
Cracker hates being called cracker and somehow thinks it’s the same as systemic racism. Tale as old as time. Whites are one dimensional and predictable
you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying “racism is a distraction from the class war” when its crackers who are most easily “distracted” and acting out literal violence on us with their votes, policies, jobs, schools, privately in their homes, publicly in their actions. when your people would literally vote to kill us if they could I don’t think your whole “racism is a distraction from the real enemy” bullshit needs to be directed at the PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THE RACISM. talk to YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE about this “so-called distraction” and not those of us receiving harm because whites have continually denied their direct involvement in keeping racism alive well and working for them. we are watching literal Naz!s (reknowned white $upremac!st group!) create and implement world changing policy using money and WHITE influence and there are still those of you so-called white leftists who think if you ignore the fact that racism is the biggest social propeller and focus on capitalism then somehow things will change when they’ve always been intertwined. I’m so tired of y’all.
This is like the perfect storm of Leftism.
They vomited their racist bilge on the keyboard and called it a post.
a) wall of text, because Leftists don't make arguments, they can't persuade people anyway.
b) weird capitalisation - it's a common symptom for mental illness, and it seems like every Leftist boasts of mental illness; it is a badge of honour to be barking mad to their minds.
c) bizarre attempts to evade Tumblr's censor - as if this was a serious platform. "Naz!s"? The only word I found I got in trouble for using was cvnt, and even then it was in reply to a Leftist who used it without the deliberate mispelling - without any consequences.
Tumblr staff are on an entirely different planet when it comes to bias, they will happily shut down a conservative if they can, and turn a blind eye even as Leftists openly discuss murder, but they are strangely blase about the keywords that make reddit et al wet their panties.
d)
"you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people"
Unironic racism. Leftists are the sort who would stab you, then explain that stabbing doesn't count as they have a dictionary where stabbing is "good if a Leftist does it".
in fact, that is the entire summary of their morality. They are about as deep as a teaspoon of oil poured onto a still mountain pond.
e)
"acting out literal violence on us with their votes"
Before, silence was violence, then speech was violence, and now voting is violence. Existing while white? VIOLENCE. Leftists hate you and want you dead, want your family dead, everyone you care about dead. The only thing preventing them from being a threat is that they are mostly incompetent and stupid.
Not to mention lazy - sixty odd years of them saying they would do stuff, and doing nothing. At least the old communists tried things. Stuff that failed. But at least they actually sweated in the pursuit and took a chance it might work.
Spoilers: It did not.
Today's Leftists are scum who would perish from a blister. Most have no idea how working feels like. Either they steal (and oh the shock when that was outlawed!) or they grift or they get the DEI comfy chair.
And they lost the comfy chair. Leftists mad!
I mean, you almost have to pity them. They have no emotional development. No wonder so many of the Leftists here are obsessed with diapers etc.
f) I love how the Leftist finishes with "I’m so tired".
You have to remember, typing - or at least mashing madly at the keys - is hard hard work by their standards, and by the end they are desperate for a doze.
"You're definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying 'racism is a distraction from a class war', when its crackers--"
Cracker hates being called cracker and somehow thinks it’s the same as systemic racism. Tale as old as time. Whites are one dimensional and predictable
you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying “racism is a distraction from the class war” when its crackers who are most easily “distracted” and acting out literal violence on us with their votes, policies, jobs, schools, privately in their homes, publicly in their actions. when your people would literally vote to kill us if they could I don’t think your whole “racism is a distraction from the real enemy” bullshit needs to be directed at the PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THE RACISM. talk to YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE about this “so-called distraction” and not those of us receiving harm because whites have continually denied their direct involvement in keeping racism alive well and working for them. we are watching literal Naz!s (reknowned white $upremac!st group!) create and implement world changing policy using money and WHITE influence and there are still those of you so-called white leftists who think if you ignore the fact that racism is the biggest social propeller and focus on capitalism then somehow things will change when they’ve always been intertwined. I’m so tired of y’all.
This is like the perfect storm of Leftism.
They vomited their racist bilge on the keyboard and called it a post.
a) wall of text, because Leftists don't make arguments, they can't persuade people anyway.
b) weird capitalisation - it's a common symptom for mental illness, and it seems like every Leftist boasts of mental illness; it is a badge of honour to be barking mad to their minds.
c) bizarre attempts to evade Tumblr's censor - as if this was a serious platform. "Naz!s"? The only word I found I got in trouble for using was cvnt, and even then it was in reply to a Leftist who used it without the deliberate mispelling - without any consequences.
Tumblr staff are on an entirely different planet when it comes to bias, they will happily shut down a conservative if they can, and turn a blind eye even as Leftists openly discuss murder, but they are strangely blase about the keywords that make reddit et al wet their panties.
d)
"you’re definitely racist if you keep correcting black people"
Unironic racism. Leftists are the sort who would stab you, then explain that stabbing doesn't count as they have a dictionary where stabbing is "good if a Leftist does it".
in fact, that is the entire summary of their morality. They are about as deep as a teaspoon of oil poured onto a still mountain pond.
e)
"acting out literal violence on us with their votes"
Before, silence was violence, then speech was violence, and now voting is violence. Existing while white? VIOLENCE. Leftists hate you and want you dead, want your family dead, everyone you care about dead. The only thing preventing them from being a threat is that they are mostly incompetent and stupid.
Not to mention lazy - sixty odd years of them saying they would do stuff, and doing nothing. At least the old communists tried things. Stuff that failed. But at least they actually sweated in the pursuit and took a chance it might work.
Spoilers: It did not.
Today's Leftists are scum who would perish from a blister. Most have no idea how working feels like. Either they steal (and oh the shock when that was outlawed!) or they grift or they get the DEI comfy chair.
And they lost the comfy chair. Leftists mad!
I mean, you almost have to pity them. They have no emotional development. No wonder so many of the Leftists here are obsessed with diapers etc.
f) I love how the Leftist finishes with "I’m so tired".
You have to remember, typing - or at least mashing madly at the keys - is hard hard work by their standards, and by the end they are desperate for a doze.
"You're definitely racist if you keep correcting black people who call out racism and saying 'racism is a distraction from a class war', when its crackers--"
Cracker hates being called cracker and somehow thinks it’s the same as systemic racism. Tale as old as time. Whites are one dimensional and predictable
