Honest Trailers | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

[@Humphking]

"All dystopias are cursed with their own unique James Corden." This is the most horrifying thing about any of this

[@Neurodivergent-j1f]

The best one was Killian in Running Man(Richard Dawson)

[@Starwebs]

We got a character who actually becomes the villain that he is supposed to be, instead of randomly turning him into a hero for no reason. I'm impressed!

[@thatonkgau5221]

Same here

[@chadcognac5626]

Took them til the last 20 minutes to remember that was the point of the movie though.

[@ambival1]

What about Metal Gear Solid and Big Boss?

[@Chrismcredmond]

Yeah but why? He was good right up until the last 2o mins & suddenly was bad for no good reason.

[@utopia19876]

Eh? I remember it extremely differently

[@ethankillion786]

The concept of the Jabberjays picking up and endlessly repeating the screams of people moments before they’re hanged is horrifying

[@MsBuchnerd]

That's the Mockingjays though. The Jabberjays are the one that record things.

[@mariposa9506]

@@MsBuchnerd both are the jabber Jay's. The mocking Jay's sing only.

[@jeffertbillings7835]

The concept got used too many times in the book

[@monmothma3358]

Sure is. Thought it'd be even more creepy in the movie. And yes, it's the jabberjays. The mockingjays can't form words.

[@yossarrian]

@@jeffertbillings7835 couldn't be more wrong.. the evolution of the mocking jay and the yet to be revealed origin (the 50th hunger games) of the mocking jay pin, the symbol of the series arc.. unintended consequences developing in closed systems, like birth defects from inbreeding, or breeding resistance from authoritarian control, the mocking/jabber ARE the story. Katniss is the swamp potato that feeds hope, The songbird is the churchbell tolling for an empire in decline, Suzanne Collins has shown patience and vision in revealing her story, all threading fluidly and from chapter 1.

[@DiscGolfHunter]

Epic fail: Snow should have been named 'PanEminem' in the 'Starring' section.

[@JustinPrindle12]

Seriously when Slim Shady showed up in the third act, that’s all I could think about.

[@MSinger4472]

omg that's really good lol

[@margarethmichelina5146]

Yeah, he kinda look like Eminem on his Slim Shady era with that haircut .

[@tumblingartist]

Paneminem 💀💀💀💀 That’s hilarious xD

[@mikem1457]

Reply foe the algorithm. That s funny af.

[@XxxXDream]

"Peeta is probably hiding in a log somewhere" I CAN'T BREATHE

[@George_Fl0yd]

Same 😒😔

[@niclaswa5408]

I can breathe 😐

[@MalissiaCreates]

Thought he said in a log somewhere

[@SassyRamen117]

@@MalissiaCreates It was in a log

[@XxxXDream]

​@@MalissiaCreatesooops fixed it, ty!

[@Justin-sj5of]

"Even Hitler had a Girlfriend" made me cough up water I was drinking.

[@Lonovavir]

I'm sure that relationship will end well..... 😏🤫..... 😆🤣😆.

[@rosa104]

you have rabies!

[@fcukgogle9213]

Women sure do like the bad boys don't they?

[@darthkek1953]

@@Lonovavir in the end she ditched him.

[@mbyerly9680]

She was his cousin.

[@redfive7201]

Lucy Gray - "...then attack any unguarded microphone within range" I CAN'T - I DIED LAUGHING

[@vanyadolly]

They could have cut 20 minutes of singing from the movie 😫

[@favoritemustard3542]

Made me miss the whistling...

[@TommonSensePro]

0:58 Correct. It's not a musical. But it is also called: "The BALLAD..."

[@mamabear2613]

“Now kiss.” I nearly choked 😂😂😂

[@21anusha]

😂

[@MaxModded]

"Even in the future, nothing works!" So true.

[@vanyadolly]

"Watch him drip with contempt for everyone he meets" 😂 I'm so glad they bring up that he's clearly a sociopath from the start. Way too meany people seem to miss that entirely.

[@monmothma3358]

Untrue? No. A simplification? Yes. Even when he's framed his best friend, quite far along on the villain journey, he breaks down in tears and says sorry.

[@singenstattatmen5096]

​@@monmothma3358 Yeah, made up by the movies. He was never really his best friend in the books, and his breakdown was mainly about thinking he'd be caught because of the guns etc. He never cried for Sojanus in the book.

[@cassie668]

Did you call him the nepo-lutionary holy crap that killed me 😂

[@hallowedground4101]

Singing is her superpower, in a world where getting the crowd to love you is the difference between life & death

[@marieroberts5664]

Sounds like a call back to Gladiator: Proximo to Maximus - Make the crowd love you, and you will win your freedom.

[@giuliac9735]

​@@marieroberts5664it makes sense, considering the hunger games are based on the gladiator's fights

[@fredpalladino6189]

Singing that way is a straight way to getting haters😂

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Sure, yet she continued to sing even after she won.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@fredpalladino6189 Lmao

[@thethriftstorecowboy1102]

Rabies does make you scared of water, it causes intense spasms when trying to drink, eventually escalating to happening when even thinking of drinking, causing the host to avoid it or even being afraid of it

[@monmothma3358]

In the movie it was just a water bottle knocking him down, though. He didn't have time to be scared of it😂

[@favoritemustard3542]

He's never heard of hydrophobia 👍

[@SSM654]

The rabies thing is actually true. It’s very uncommon for it to happen, but there is a certain type of rabies a human can get from an animal and every time you try to drink water it’s like your body convulses rejecting it. Very scary.

[@disturbed157]

It's not uncommon. That's what rabies does

[@muraalia]

Yeah, it makes your body reject water, but it doesn't make you *literally scared* of water, like the guy in the scene seems to freak out at the sight of it.

[@SSM654]

@@muraalia Ah that's the word. Yeah, I knew it was "scared" but wasn't sure how to phrase it.

[@NashmanNash]

The rabies always make me wonder:How on earth has such a virus not only managed to develop,but to stick around...@@muraalia

[@angelfox8]

​@@muraaliahydrophobic that's the word you're looking for(or at least the scientific term) rabies makes the body hydrophobic because it's transferred via saliva and the less water you have the more foamy your saliva is and more potent the contaminant so a bite is more likely to transfer the virus that's why foaming mouth is the most recognizable trait for rabies

[@91doctorj]

The prequel we wanted was seeing how hymitch won his game

[@greyskirana6996]

Thissss!!!!

[@Lyca31]

I wanted to see the 11th games.

[@madamehoefyre1808]

We already know how he won his Game though. The book literally states he used the forcefield to throw the District 1 females axe back at her. All we'd really get is more backstory on his life and some stuff leading up into the Games but like we generally already know what we need to know from him. It's better to focus on stories that haven't been told like the 25th Games.

[@wittyjoker4631]

​@@madamehoefyre1808by the logic of the book covered it why bother making the movie at all since the book covered it already. Dont be so dumb for the sake of being contrary.

[@HelTra91]

@@madamehoefyre1808 Exactly. The BOOK states it, not the movies, hence why you make a movie. Why make any movies at all if it's already a book? Don't be dumb.

[@kzcreationzmore]

2:10 “a shirt allergy” got me 😂 I’m stealing that for sure

[@nickit7655]

He goes from shirt allergy to Eminem real quick

[@richardbaines5740]

I loved the call back to the starving games with the Hugh Janus 😂

[@lt530]

"Now kiss" fucking got me lmao 😂

[@tumblingartist]

4:43 pushing the snowjanus agenda haha :D

[@xoxoalyyy]

Same😭😭

[@instantromy]

I actually liked this movie. Probably more than I would have, since I'd seen so many people not like it more than like it.

[@undercoveerse]

i read the book and i loved what they did here !

[@Harley_idc]

Movie is fantastic. This channel is so picky lately. I watched their take on another movie (I’ve forgotten it gonna check now 😅) and they were completely wrong about it

[@jacksont9455]

Yeah. I never really was into the hunger games originally. Never saw the first movies or the books before seeing it, but I liked this movie so much, it got me to read all the books (still haven’t seen the other movies tho)

[@wolfishpotato6978]

I did too, I thought they did a pretty good job adapting the book. Especially considering it could (and probably should) have been two movies

[@erakfishfishfish]

I enjoyed the first two parts, but once he became a Peacekeeper, the film just dragged on and on. (No, I haven’t read the book yet.)

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

"From the studio that wishes the 2010's could last forever." *pictures The Twilight Saga, Hunger Games, and Divergent* Divergent: *didn't even last long enough to cap off its own series* 😅

[@ObsessiveGeek]

Ending on a cliffhanger was an improvement for that franchise, actually made you care what happened next (for a few seconds anyway)

[@theonebman7581]

I mean, the studio's wishes are pretty relatable ngl

[@88porpoise]

But the first one was at least a moderate financial success for Lionsgate. Not something Lionsgate has had much experience with since 2015. John Wick is the biggest franchise these days and, while profitable, it isn't a big cash cow.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

​@@88porpoiseBecause John Wick is not about YA, it's about action movies about a guy who lost his dog who lives in a complicated world where everyone is assassin.

[@88porpoise]

@@margarethmichelina5146 still the best thing Lionsgate has had going for nearly a decade

[@notyouraverageharleyquinnstan]

Young Snow looks like Slim Shady😂

[@Nasser851000]

Say: "Do you hear that? It's the sound of Snow....Falling"

[@erakfishfishfish]

All the snow puns in the movie were so dumb and glorious

[@zkarebear]

This movie suffered from the same problem the hunger games trilogy did. So much of the books has to do with the main characters inner thoughts and conflict- it really difficult to translate that on screen in an entertaining way. I still enjoyed the movie 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@chimera9818]

Jennifer Lawrence made it work while the actress of this didn’t

[@CavishBeka]

​@chimera9818 The book is entirely written from Corialanus' POV so the actress of Lucy has nothing to do with it. We actually never learn about her thoughts. We only see her through the distorted eyes of Snow.

[@ia490]

​@@chimera9818 tell me you didn't read the book without telling me you didn't read the book lol

[@rumpelstilzchen7871]

I am honestly surprised to see the hate for the movies here. I always thought them to be better than the books tbh

[@jeffreythomson3789]

@@rumpelstilzchen7871 it's been a while since I read the books, but I remember hating the third hunger games book because it just felt like we were following an irrelevant character doing nothing while all the action was happening around her. Which was actually sort of true - but in the book it was just awful and boring but in the movie you could better see all that was happening around her and it worked so much better. I would probably say I think the first book was better than the movie, and the second was so/so, but the third movie(s) were definitely much better than the book. haven't seen this newest one or read the book so no idea bout them!

[@Lemonnn2505]

4:40 so real. the fact that they didnt start snogging at some point considering how close their faces were for so much of the movie is probably the most suprising thing about the movie

[@bridgetbinion8494]

The Hunger Games: Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend!😂

[@Lonovavir]

Rumor has it they lose him after the bunker scene and his secretary's last seen riding a bicycle west.

[@favoritemustard3542]

That was a very _Brown_ joke lol

[@claytonrios1]

Given how done Honest Trailers was with the Hunger Games movies, I'd imagine none of them were interested in the prequel!

[@KneppaH]

The only good Hunger Games movie is Battle Royale.

[@claytonrios1]

@@KneppaH Which directly inspired it.

[@TheJerbol]

@@claytonrios1 Yeah and if they ended with the first movie it would have been great inspiration.

[@CM-pf1xc]

Yeah which is not really a fair review!

[@MalissiaCreates]

@@CM-pf1xcwell to be fair, it’s called “Honest trailers” not “Fair reviews” lol

[@warrirornunluv801]

I think it is a low key musical, only that Lucy Grey is the only one singing or starting a song We are just missing the villain song.

[@04nbod]

He sings Gem of Panem in the book

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

@@04nbodwell technically Grandma sang it for a sec so does that count?

[@possomt6211]

Theres lots of songs in the book, its cool they kept them

[@szasza3273]

I love the word 'nepolutionary' 💀

[@shuramcgill3599]

This was the best movie adaptation I'd ever seen. So much of it is exactly how it was in the book. The bookworm in me gave this movie 10/10 😃

[@ThandoNdlovu-zr3ld]

Same I loved it

[@dragonpokemonlover237]

Me too loved it

[@T1ddlywinks]

You gotta be high dude, that movie mixed everything up and it wasn't even close to the book.

[@TheYoutubeTick]

same, i thought they fumble in last 20 min untill i read the book and found out so did the book

[@user-sk3ql4yg5s]

Book is way better imo

[@jenschi3833]

"Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend" 😅😅😅 That one was so good it hurt.

[@spezifisch4468]

7:15 except rabies actualy can make you afraid of water, thats usually more a fear of drinking itself (also fear of wind)

[@umi2751]

Yeah, i knew exactly what that guy had once he shown to be afraidbof water after being bitten by a bat. It was so obvious, idk why HT said it was wrong. It's right.

[@nolamedgirl]

100% this; hydrophobia is a well documented symptom of rabies.

[@virgilhawkins5680]

@@nolamedgirlbecause it's not fear of the water, it's fear of the acute pain caused when drinking any liquid while rabid (the throat spasms and constricts under the influence of the virus so that the virus has a better chance of spreading through saliva).

[@spangelicious837]

It's because the throat gets so inflamed that swallowing anything hurts too much. They're not actually afraid of the water.

[@spezifisch4468]

@@spangelicious837 while that is true, drinking can also lead to cramping, making some rabies patients instinctively afraid of water

[@toric6005]

The songs are integrated into the movie fairly well in my opinion. Better than the book at least. Songs in books are the WORST. Literally just skip them every time

[@lportalcarus]

What about Misty Mountain on the Hobbit or Rains of Castamere in the ASOIAF books, both of those slaps. Also the hanging tree song is actually pretty good.

[@hair4571]

yeah i love the song about snow and the one in the arena

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Jon was so done with this franchise last time, and the apathy is stronger than ever. These are such good characters in the books, but the way the books are written, it's really difficult to adapt the story to screen, and this prequel is no exception. Still, this is one of the better attempts at reviving a franchise I saw last year.

[@watershipup7101]

Very much agreed

[@SimonBuchanNz]

"he" 😔

[@Lonovavir]

And some people thought the films were bad adaptations of the original trilogy.

[@FMFvideos]

that's a lot of words to say it's crap

[@lavieestlenfer]

The book was crap, too.

[@herrypottier4201]

Omg the "I killed a guy with a trident" you can quote anchorman for everything 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AngryAuditor]

True story: quoting Anchorman helped me win $100,000 on "Who wants to be a millionaire?"

[@EstherMburu-k3r]

It wasnt an unnecessary prequel .We needed Snows story. In fact we need all the hunger games that were written but not brought to life through film .We need Haymitch games, We need Finnicks games,We need Annies games .We need the hunger games after they mockingjay revolution where Finnicks and Anniee child wins . We need it all

[@caroline7420]

Normally I’m a “stop while you’re ahead” kind of person when it come to franchises but Suzanne Collins is so good at it. Haymitchs but especially Finnicks games would be so so amazing. We don’t get any information about finnicks games at all and I’ve always thought that was such a shame.

[@giulia6344]

Johanna’s games!!!

[@thatboybear]

Part of what I think makes her writing so enthralling is the fact that you don’t get to see everything. It makes it truer to real life: all the people we meet and who come into our lives, whose stories, however impactful, we only know pieces of. Because we’re all of us living our own stories and are just characters in somebody else’s.

[@adidi7789]

Wait, what? The hunger games continue after the revolution where finnick and Annie's kid can win? I thought there was just one more games with the capitol's children and then it was over

[@hadleyjulca733]

@@adidi7789and isn’t that even not done bc Katniss kills Coin??

[@Azalea.fleur27]

"Casterly rock bottom" at 6:45 nearly made me choke on my water

[@2rachaelm]

LOL That Peeta in the log bit was great 5:23

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

Love the shade thrown at rage-bait channels!

[@CelticVictory]

I expected him to scream in frustration after she wouldn't stop interrupting him with singing.

[@OnlyRose99]

I would give so much to watch you roast Saltburn…

[@dp2901]

"It's Hollywood, baby." Carve that on the tombstone of your career, Rachel.

[@vipin_thegame]

“Attack any unguarded microphone in range” 😂

[@bane2risejoker]

Unpopular opinion: This was actually one of the better movies released last year :D I even liked it better than the other Hunger Games movies which I did not expect.

[@DenLim123]

You are just programmed to accept mediocrity 😂 The only redeeming thing about this movie was the actor portraying Snow, the other characters were so forgettable that only thanks this Honest Trailer that I remembered "oh yeah, these idiots were in the movie"

[@retluoc]

Even though I haven't seen it yet, I'm inclined to agree. I'm still waiting to see which movies are up for "Best Picture." I think they should just skip that award this year and just pray for next year 😆

[@kaleb5436]

@@DenLim123 Bro it's his opinion, don't hate on ppl for liking movies you might not like, and I'm sure you're a fan of plenty of things other people might not really like, so don't be an asshole to people who have different opinions.

[@SwordsmanMercenary]

@@DenLim123 You are just programmed to auto hate anything mainstream because your favorite influencer told you to.

[@DenLim123]

@@SwordsmanMercenary this was hated by a majority of people so I'm the one programmed to hate anything mainstream? Good one clown.

[@benwasserman8223]

That weird moment where you grow up reading/watching the original Hunger Games stories back when dystopian conflict was fun... only for real life to become a real dystopia by the time the prequel arrives. Very good/bad timing.

[@symmoneg]

It was definitely intentional. That's why suzanne wrote the books in the first place. She wrote the prequel because she had something new to say on society

[@Lonovavir]

We just need a Hunger Game in a Thunderdome with Tina Turner helping Judge Dredd pick tributes while replicants build off world colonies for us. At least we'll get flying cars out of it.

[@Hypotetiskt]

​​@@symmonegi like the Hunger Games novels, but they didn't explore new territory at all. Battle Royal (The book, not the movie) did an excellent job of telling a similar story earlier.

[@benwasserman8223]

@@Hypotetiskt Yeah but I don’t know how well known Battle Royale was in America back then. Hunger Games supercharged that plotline in the West, no doubt about it.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@symmoneg Except it says nothing new at all. fascism, consumerisms, reality TV, oppression have always existed in this world. nothing deep or new in this prequel.

[@Aramyx]

"And purely by coincidence, broke" lmao.

[@anubusx]

To be fair this is one of the better films i saw last year.

[@TheIqram12]

pretty much lmao

[@kingace6186]

Wtf have you been watching? Cus you must not have been watching: Spider-verse, Oppenheimer, They Cloned Tyrone, or Boy & the Heron. Even Super Mario Bros was better than this. Despite the strikes, 2023 wasn't that bad. There were a handful of great shows, too (Loki, Last of US, The Bear, and One Piece Live Action). + Several blockbuster anime came out of Japan: One Piece(Gear 5), JJK S2(Shibuya arc), Zom 100, Oshi no Ko, end of Attack on Titan, etc.

[@angelantayhua3096]

@@kingace6186I liked this movie more than Mario.

[@mk6rfc1]

You should have watched more movies then

[@bottomless_pit]

Oh no sagacious cinema goers have invaded, please take you uppity taste elsewhere

[@OscarMPG1]

5:33 pitch meeting voice: that's the character from the original movie!

[@WolfgerSilberbaer]

Is it just me, or did anybody else think Peter Dinklage was Mark Hamill at first? Bearded and full of get-off-my-lawn energy

[@erakfishfishfish]

While we’re at it, have you noticed how much Jack Dorsey looks like Dinklage ever since Dorsey went full Rasputin?

[@JoeHawkins-p9d]

I love how everyone complains about the songs, when the Title literally has a "BALLAD" on it 🤣

[@krustomer]

Right LMFAO like sorry one of the main characters is a singer? Were they tired of Katniss shooting arrows?

[@BabaCorva]

And also they were excellent and made sense in context 🤷‍♀

[@TheIqram12]

ig people can't differentiate musical vs movies with several songs in them TBOSAS movie only features like what, 6 songs?

[@JoeHawkins-p9d]

@@BabaCorva Exactly the songs are good and work in every scene, don't understand the complaint honestly

[@JoeHawkins-p9d]

@@TheIqram12 Yeah, I really miss when movies has more songs in their narratives

[@kevinmark2146]

I wanted to hear some Malfoy references for the Snow guy 😂

[@trackydoo]

Right? He looks like Malfoy and Eminem had a baby. Not Kiefer Sutherland.

[@galaxylucia1898]

Same!!!

[@CarolineLisy]

And Eminem.

[@shethjrebbell]

“Woke and completely coincidentally, broke” 💀

[@_Smarf_]

Oh My God, I feel so honored! My puppy Jake totally turned to the screen when you said his name. Thanks you for praising my pup, I really appreciate it! ❤🐶 (◠‿◠)

[@gregbrown3082]

HEZAGOODBOYEE!

[@lukesolsbery9760]

Give Jake a boop on the snoot for all of us.

[@BobBob-ds1bd]

The jokes in this one were ON POINT

[@jamielondon6436]

Not really.

[@hbdragon88]

@@jamielondon6436no, they were.

[@trent2219]

Maybe if you actively hated the movie.

[@kateb5233]

I can hardly wait for the bad lip reading songs that are coming off this movie (hoping there are songs)

[@moviewolverine89]

This movie definitely reminded me that YA Dystopian Sci-Fi/Fantasy used to be a thing of all time.

[@dango6266]

Unironically loved this movie though. Shows how absolutely brutal the games have always been, and how it was turned into a specacle. Seriously loved it

[@tcchip]

I watched it completely cold, and I enjoyed it much more than the last two Hunger Games movies. It dials down on the YA tropes, and amps up the social commentary.

[@dango6266]

@@tcchip ah yeah the social commentary was spectacular. It moved me way more than I thought it would

[@tcchip]

@@dango6266 Yeah, I think it's a smart decision to recognize that the original target YA audience would have already grown up, so The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes has a more mature take while still being accessible enough for a new YA crowd. I don't know why this movie (and Rachel Zegler) was getting so much hate. While it's no Oscar contender, it's very solid overall, and I'm not even a fan of The Hunger Games to begin with.

[@dango6266]

@@tcchip honestly the hate seems very disingenuous. I came out of the movie, moved by a beautiful story. And there wasn't a thing (besides MAYBE some pacing issues at the end) that I could call bad. And the hate towards the actress itself is really terrible. She was AMAZING at her job and the singing was beautiful. Also, why are so many people hating on her singing? It's LITERALLY CALLED A BALLAD. Plus her singing is amazing so who cares.

[@tcchip]

@@dango6266 when I told friends I watched this movie, they were almost aghast at the idea. I told them to just leave their preconceived notions at the door and watch it for what it is. I had no expectations for the movie, and I actually came away quite impressed and feeling it was one of the better films from mainstream Hollywood in what's otherwise been a very formulaic year.

[@geekdiggy]

usually by the end of a trailer i've decided not to watch the movie. but here i made that decision in the first minute. thanks again, honest trailers

[@mexicanspec]

The prequel I wanted to see is how the country was divided in the first place.

[@toogoodvisual1123]

Surely epic voice guy needed to sing 'i killed a guy with a trident" in the style of Katy Perry

[@favoritemustard3542]

Apparently it's an Anchorman quote, but singing it would have made for an awesome double reference!

[@benwasserman8223]

Hunger Games is basically a strong indicator of one's millennial/zillenial/Gen Z pop culture upbringings. Those original films feel like a lifetime ago.

[@andrewhaase1826]

Say: "No. You can't has cheezeburger. So stop asking. It's a stupid meme anyway."

[@vgtrp]

I didn’t think Lionsgate had enough IPs to open a theme park.

[@svetoslavkrastev228]

7:00 - Damn - the saddest part - he DID have a girlfriend.

[@reddy272]

Love how absolutely brutal this Honest Trailer is!

[@khonshugodofthenightsky2159]

Except it's wrong. This movie was amazing. Honest Trailers have become just hating on everything. Even when it's good, they just say everything bad

[@KneppaH]

@@khonshugodofthenightsky2159 lol it isn't

[@teddybear2418]

the movie has songs. It's automatically bad jsjsjsj​@@khonshugodofthenightsky2159

[@mariposa9506]

@@KneppaH yeah it is

[@Jewbacca9000]

@@mariposa9506 The only people I've seen say the movie was good are those who read the book and can fill in all the gaps the movie left. For the average movie goer, it didn't make much sense

[@elaz925]

I feel like its kind of stupid to complain about songs in a movie called BALLAD of SONGBIRDS based on a book that contains songs that is the prequel of a book series that contained songs

[@jamielondon6436]

One of the many stupid things in this video, but probably one of the bigger ones. :-/

[@teddybear2418]

I feel like they should've advertised the songs more. They reached a lot of the wrong audience.

[@yvfk]

yeah it's literally on the title

[@miatownend]

@@teddybear2418 i thought the joke in the video was that they didnt advertise it essentially being a musical which probably left people confused when watching

[@Steelburgh]

I lost it at the closing title. So perfect.

[@caitlinkurvink1135]

The character in the book is literally a singer. Tell me you watched the movie without knowing anything about the book without telling me.

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Tigris Snow probably has less than 20 minutes of total screentime, but she still somehow manages to be the most likeable character in this movie.

[@szbszig]

She is a kind and selfless person. I feel really sorry for her, especially when she realised what type of man her brother had become. And of course the fact that she had helped him all the way. 😢

[@favoritemustard3542]

"it"

[@mattwo7]

2:33 Chilling in various rooms (closing the doors after entering them so no one knows I'm there) doing nothing is how I usually spend most rounds of Fortnite (sometimes I use the closed doors to set up ambushes) so I am certainly not in a position to mock her for it.

[@Penguinfilter]

Hydrophobia is actually one of the signs of rabies. Weird one, but true.

[@kentloofbourrow7358]

⁠Words can mean more than their basic meaning. Hydrophobia is both a fear of water (psychological) and a specific condition caused by rabies that is not the “fear of water” but instead a physiological reaction characterized by painful spasms in the throat when drinking or thinking about drinking water. Rabies devours the nervous system and causes the symptoms. While a person with rabies-induced hydrophobia might develop psychological hydrophobia, they might not (and the character in the film had not shown the development of such a fear). The statement “rabies causes the fear of water” is just a misunderstanding of the term, similar to yours. Unfortunately the writer/director didn’t look into rabies any beyond the surface level and therefore portrayed the condition incorrectly on the screen.

[@Penguinfilter]

@@kentloofbourrow7358 Good to know, thanks for the breakdown.

[@kimberlyterasaki4843]

It’s called the BALLAD of songbirds and snakes and you DIDNT think there’d be music?!

[@caroltawil]

6:38 that was a sick Gru impression I love it

[@silaspetersson-jeldez2123]

That was from I love lucy.

[@JoeyGDude]

You should do Big Trouble in Little China lol Can you say "It ain't happenin, like a loaf of bread" in your epic voice?

[@prometheusmultimedia]

UGH! Even you guys couldn’t make this movie bearable

[@arkryder1421]

The hunger games: ballad of ricky bobby.

[@DarkWarriorShadowClaw]

"Get full immersed in the world of the Hunger Games" - I think someone could make many jokes about killing here

[@gil801]

Say it’s just a theory, a film theory in epic voice

[@Anderson_Se7en]

People for real watched this huh? What a world.

[@benzaiten933]

so should I ever find myself in a dangerous situation, the solution would be to sing?

[@notyouraverageharleyquinnstan]

Loved the book and movie. I loved learning the background of Snow. Regardless, this honest trailer is great😂

[@lostlegend2197]

Please do an Honest Trailer for Echo

[@patj.scahill979]

I’m sure that’ll be next

[@aloysiusmaina2625]

Great title sequence 😂

[@joshuahartman3132]

I mean...the movie is literally called the BALLAD of SONGbirds and Snakes, and you're surprised it has a lot of singing in it?

[@CoralCopperHead]

So every movie with "Ballad" or "Song" is expected to have excessive singing in it? Huh, guess I missed all the singing in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

[@joshuahartman3132]

@@CoralCopperHead ...there WAS singing in Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Buster himself sang a song in his short and in the last one they sang a variation on "Streets of Laredo." A ballad is a song which tells a story. Having that in the title of your movie doesn't make it a musical, but it does suggest thematic ties to storied music. In other words, if "ballad" is in the title, it doesn't HAVE to be a musical or have musical themes, but one should not be surprised when it does.

[@djcasey16]

This feels quite harsh and mean! The film was surprisingly good imo, and I like when zegler sings!

[@TheIqram12]

If you watched other HT videos about HG, this is kinda normal. But yeah still harsh xD

[@mk6rfc1]

Felt easily the worst hunger games film, had good aspects but a lot of stuff that didn’t work

[@YaBoiDREX]

@@mk6rfc1No the worst movie is mockingjay part 1

[@mk6rfc1]

@@YaBoiDREX that’s not even the worst film in the original 4

[@YaBoiDREX]

@@mk6rfc1 what is

[@NitsuaBZ]

At least the 2010's movie theme parks will age well.

[@wesleyoldham4222]

Please say "Happy 70th birthday, Dad."

[@shayliakara]

Things I never knew. "Catnis is a Swamp Potato." LOL

[@CarolineLisy]

Swamp potato Everdeen

[@adruvail]

I think my biggest shock is that someone made a Gods of Egypt ride.

[@kefinkamed]

"Did I miss something here?" Yes, the book :D This movie continues the tradition of solid book-to-screen adaptations of the entire series, and I am 100% here for it. Not sure how people who haven´t read the book felt about this movie, but I was very impressed by how they managed to turn a story with so much inner monologue into a decently written and exceptionally well-executed movie.

[@jamielondon6436]

Yeah, HT really has given up on any kind of actually honest criticism a while ago. :-/

[@gmfreeman4211]

Never read the books, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this movie. Snow's arc is amazing. It really helps you understand how he becomes who he becomes. Perhaps it's just me, but I believe the actor playing Snow purveyed those inner monologues I never read perfectly. I felt his struggles. I felt his mind changing. If I may ask, why did she leave him? That's the only part I don't understand, I think.

[@jamielondon6436]

@@gmfreeman4211 She realised that he could go back to Panem and the capital after finding the guns (the only incriminating evidence) - and that he would, leaving her. Which also meant that he would have to silence the only surviving witness: her.

[@mariposa9506]

​@@jamielondon6436she also realized after his slip that he killed sej

[@gmfreeman4211]

@@jamielondon6436 Thank you. I guess I didn't believe he would go back, but I understand now.

[@curtisallen4639]

Love the Mr. T Experience reference at the end.

[@SubKween]

We need a trailer for Saltburn 🛁

[@Dynaman21]

Lionsgate - Home to things that were best left in the 2010s. Looking at you Naruto movie rights.

[@danknfrshtv]

Between Pitch Meetings and Honest Trailers I haven't needed to spend one cent on movies in years. Thank you dudes!

[@caroline7420]

You mean you take these seriously?😂 This movie was one of my favorites I’ve seen recently but I can still find the jokes in this funny. They aren’t supposed to be serious reviews.

[@bottomless_pit]

I feel like you just crapped on this movie just because you didn't like the original trilogy. The book and the movie had actually evolved a lot since then

[@chaossalad3243]

“PanemBA draft” 😂 ok that was good

[@clachdhearg2109]

all dystopias are cursed by their own james corden.. damn i felt that one

[@karinakawano924]

I haven’t seen it yet but based on the trailer it looks exactly like the book,even all the singing 😅

[@Zeltaris]

I’m lucky I missed that “gem”.

[@Vertasoie]

The book is actually better.

[@sidhe3303]

Dill was poisoned when she was dying and drank a large amount. The book was a bit more descriptive of how she died. Also the singing was Lucy's way of being marketed and Corio wanted to capitalize on it so that she would succeed since she didn't have any other skills that would allow her to win.