The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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2023 · Sci-Fi / Action

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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@REEL_DEAL2026-01-14 00:00 UTC

Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes knows its audience.

@ROW_F_REGRET2026-01-07 01:00 UTC

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.

@ENDING_LEAKS2026-01-03 08:00 UTC

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes should come with a complimentary pillow for when the third-act CGI soup inevitably kicks in.

@SCREEN_SHADE2026-01-01 06:00 UTC

The script for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes feels like it was entirely written by an algorithm fed nothing but energy-drink commercials.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) is praised with a low burn score on Roasted Tomatoes with a Burn Index of 30/100. 64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes scores 30/100 Burn — Roasted Tomatoes recommends it as a confident watch.

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r/TrueFilm · u/ExpositionDump🔥 4.9k points

Unpopular opinion: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is the most overrated film of the decade

Rewatched The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.

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r/flicks · u/ExpositionDump🔥 1.5k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actually is?

Director clearly thought The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/flicks · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 4.8k points

Hot Take: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece

Honestly, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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