'The Hunger Games' prequel kicks off weekend with $5.8M from Thursday previews
'The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes' Begins With Thursday Previews Around $6M - Box Office https://t.co/LkTSRqoMeB
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) November 17, 2023
'The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes' opened this weekend to $5.8M brought in from Thursday night screenings. It's expected to rack in about $45M-$50M at ( Read more... )
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It was stunning.
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Even though it's not a great adaptation of the book (left out sooo much, gutted a lot of the message about trust/love/etc, third act was confusingly sparse, and movie!Snow is IMO much more vulnerable and 'maybe could actually be a good person' than book!Snow, who from the outset is narcissistic and selfish and since we have his internal monologue we know that he's often doing bad things or being shitty to people that he's outwardly nice to) something about it just really stuck out to me.
I feel like there was more of the helplessness and anger from the tributes, more of a rawness, because of how the Games aren't yet a spectacle. Plus we spent so much time in the arena, and the nature of this arena vs. the ones of the later Games, means it's so much more "personal."
The parts where [Spoiler (click to open)]they showed the Capitol people tearing up over Lucy Grey realllly stood out because it's showing both how people end up enamored over the games, and how the people in the ( ... )
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[questions and spoilers]
Was Tigress's role small in the book? It felt early on in the movie there would be a heavier presence/significance to positioning her as Snow's cousin but apart from being positioned as moral foil to Snow I wish Hunter had more to do - I left wanting a whole movie about her
I didn't read the book before this but I loved all of Rachel's singing, I didn't realize it was going to be so music heavy but it never felt cheesy.
And I agree the final act of the film I had no idea where we were going, especially not Knowing the plot going in. I thought snow was going to kill Lucy but so glad that wasn't the case. I do feel though that the movie was running so long already so I understand needing to have this arc as it was.
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As for Tigress, I feel like she had a big role in the books (she sacrificed a lot for Snow, which we get a good glimpse of at the beginning when she talks about his tessarae shirt).
*Take this with a grain of salt bc I found the book boring and daydreamed a lot while reading it lol.
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[Spoiler (click to open)]She had a larger role in the book... sort of. Like, in the beginning, it's detailed more how Snow thinks Tigris may be prostituting herself for money as many women and girls in Panem had to do during/after the war. I will say from what I remember, Tigris wasn't really in the third part of the book aside from us knowing Snow writes to her. There is no moment, like in the film, where we get a sense that she's seen the shift in him with the remark about looking like his father & not calling him Coryo. Instead, Tigris seems oblivious to Snow's changing self ( ... )
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