the new Hunger Games movie is kinda dumb...

Most frustrating part of this movie for me was one of my friends walking out of the movie going “did you guys know that snow was gonna be the villain?” Like bro what, lights are on but nobody’s home

I think a lot of what made the book interesting was necessarily lost in the movie, by the nature of the medium. The book was told through exclusively Snow's perspective and things make a lot more sense when you're getting his inner thoughts. Lucy Gray is one-note because Snow is extremely narcissistic and isn't particularly interested in understanding her perspective. His "romantic" interest in her develops quickly because it's more obsessive and possession-based than truly romantic. His shift to working with Dr. Gaul also does not feel sudden in the book, because he was NEVER empathetic and things were always going to go this way since his environment reinforces his worst thoughts and traits. I think the actors try to play things to communicate that, but it's way more subtle and is easy to miss if you're not familiar with the source material. Really unfortunate, because I enjoyed the book quite a lot. Edit: I commented too soon! This was just addressed at the end of the video, lol.

The fact that Lucy was only in the Games because the Mayor’s daughter wanted Lucy’s boyfriend for herself was cold, like the games probably would have ended after the 10th if it wasn’t for Lucy being chosen

Whoever thought of that "snow lands on top" line must have be super proud of it...

Knowing that Lucy Gray wrote "The Hanging Tree" makes it seem like even more of a gut punch to Snow when Katniss performs it.

I think that the character Lucy Gray was intentionally one dimensional. She's a mystery. That's the point. The story is about Snow and his spiral into evil. And she played her part. "Goodbye Lucy Gray. We hardly knew you."

your interpretation of the movie is literally perfect lol. the whole time i was watching the movie i was thinking “this dude is a literal psychopath” but for some reason my entire family kept blaming lucy gray for everything in the movie and saying she caused everything or betrayed him or something. it felt like they were watching a completely different movie!

Alex intentionally mispronouncing Snow's name every time was hysterical in such a subtle way

I think there is a reason we don’t really learn much about Lucy, in the book it is revealed that Snow doesn’t really care about who Lucy is. He wants her to be a certain way, he doesn’t care that what he wants isn’t who she is. We never learn anything about her because this is a story being told from Snow’s perspective. He didn’t care to learn anything about her, so we don’t. To him, she is nothing more than what he wants her to be.

I think the issue is that the movie wasn’t actually supposed to show how Snow went from a good guy to the bad guy. He was always evil even from the very beginning. Unfortunately that’s something that the movie fails to convey, making it seem way more rushed and nonsensical than it’s supposed to be

17:58 They tried to fit a story that was 1.5 times the size of the entire Mockingjay book (Which was made into 2 parts for the movies). So, it’s a classic example of stuffing too much into a limited space. Had they made it 2 parts, or into a miniseries, it would’ve been much better.

Why does snow with shaved hair kinda look like slim shady

Just a wild theory but do y’all think Coriolanus Snow could possibly be President Snow from the Hunger Games series with Katniss? 😳

Viola Davis clearly had SO MUCH fun here and good for her honestly. She deserves to go absolutely insane for once after so many serious roles

This is insane, like the duality of snow and sejeanus is wild. You got a district kid turned rich that wants to do the right thing and then the capitol poor kid trying desperately to to claw his way to the top

"Who's the third?" looks solemnly towards the distance "myself...." "I know what you are" turns to face each other "say it" "vampire"

Fun fact: Lucy gray is named after a poem by Wordsworth called Lucy Gray, a girl who disappeared in a snowstorm. That’s what I found interesting about her character because she disappeared / died at the hands of President SNOW kinda what happened to the girl in the poem

I enjoyed this movie, but the main problem for me was purely because I hd already read the books, which allows you to have Snow's inner monologue. Basically, he had bad qualities way from the start. He constantly talks about how Lucy Gray is 'his' and convinces himself she isn't technically district. He also hates how Sejanus bought his way to the capitol, considering him lower then everyone. When Arachne is stabbed, he immediately thinks that it would look good to run to her, instead of actually being upset.

I have something to add about the symbolism in this movie, because there is some. Snow's outfits gradually become a deeper red as he has more blood on his hands, he starts out in a bright red and ends in a burgundy color with the 4 people he killed. And in the og movies his suit is very dark red. Also I would like to say that he looked like Eminem when his hair got buzzed. Still hot tho

“Corinthians”, “Cleopatra”, “Cesarean Section” IM SHACKING STOP