Excuse me, WTF was that ?
Less talk and more suspenseful cat and mouse scenes would have helped this movie greatly.
Calling out discrimination and preaching tolerance? The X-men have gone woke!
-some clueless idiot.
Absolutely outstanding, while I really liked the characters in episodes 1 & 2 i felt like this was the episode that made me fall in love with the majority of them, while also getting more attached to the actual plot. Music, action, acting, cinematography and special moments like the final scene there make this episode a 10/10 for me. Incredible stuff!
There were two factors that made me question the necessity of "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" beforehand: Firstly, it's a prequel, and secondly, it's also an origin story for a villain. These are both things that often make the plot more predictable than it should be because you know exactly where the journey is going. Even though this is also true in this Hunger Games prequel, I nevertheless quite enjoyed the movie overall. Panem is an interesting world. Because the action here takes place shortly after the war, you learn many reasons for the state of the world 64 years later. The eponymous "Hunger Games" are also very different from what we've seen before. Here they are much more scaled-back, grittier, and somehow also more brutal.
The casting of the main characters is also very successful. Tom Blyth is quite convincing as the future dictator Coriolanus Snow; above all, he manages to let the cool, calculating, and dangerous nature of his character shine through from the very beginning. Particularly strong, however, is Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird. Recently, there has been some very strange online hate against Zegler, but personally, I've found her good in everything I've seen her in. In "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes", it's not just her acting talent that's required, but above all her enormous vocal skills, and she masters the task effortlessly. Of the rest of the cast, I would also single out Viola Davis, who, as Head Gamemaker, puts her stamp on every scene she's in.
Now, this all sounds pretty positive, but unfortunately, I didn't enjoy the last third of the movie as much. While the first third manages to introduce the characters very efficiently and the actual "Hunger Games" take place in the second third, the movie loses all momentum in the final act. Naturally, the characters had to be positioned so that they fit into the previously known story, which brings us back to the disadvantages of a prequel. Overall, however, I stick to my recommendation for the movie, even if the ending is perhaps a bit disappointing.
Margot Robbie is a gift to cinema. This movie is a gift to our society. It's enjoyable and fun but part way through it become a pretty good commentary on our society and how men and women treat each other. It talks about capitalism, consumerism, feminism, the patriarchy, men's mental health, and how wrong we get the simple act of living sometimes. I'm sure there's gonna be people who think this is ultra woke, but maybe (and ironically), that's some people need.
An Intel knock-off from before the year 2000 has a BIOS, where the internal date and time can be set manually toe let‘s say Dec. 31st 1999 23:59. One minute later it should reset according to the writers of that show. :rolling_eyes:
Boy, I wanted to love this. The first hour and a half to two hours are amazing, 4.5 / 5. But boy does this film crash hard. The final act (or final two parts) are extremely weak. This film is an hour too long, and often there are shots that go for too long. I'm all for long shots but they are done too often here and don't add anything.
As good as Phoenix is, the script is really poor for his character and by the end, he achieves nothing.
How is this only rated at a 78%? I just watched this for the third time to refresh my memory, it has been years since I last watched it. What an amazing movie. The tension built up until the last five minutes. The best horror movie in my opinion.
Just a good show about life and loss and how people deal with that shit. The casting, obviously, is great. Harrison Ford steals every scene he’s in, imho. I really enjoyed it, it’s nothing ground breaking, but just a wholesome little show. Which is nice sometimes. On board for a second season!
Just as unapologetically sentimental and sweet as I remembered, I’m so so glad this show is back.
A great start with good humor, characters, and heartwarming moments, so right on par with the previous seasons. Really great writing and strong characters who just continue to get more depth. I'm excited to see what happens with all of these characters this season, but Ted and Nate grabbed my attention right away with where they're at this episode and am interested to see where both of them go this season. Despite being so unlikable right now, Nate is definitely one of the most compelling characters in the show.
That's a very solid first episode. It's actually kind of promising after last mediocre season.
The tear!!!! That moment was so out of la rosa de guadalupe!! A lot of telenovela vibes this season!
I’m glad Clark finally told Lana his secret and that she was so accepting, but I also feel like if he had told her before this season (especially the wedding, the baby, and all of lana’s tragedies) she wouldn’t have been so understanding and she would’ve accidentally told Lex. And I’m not worried about her death cause in these shows the romantic interest is not dead unless the lead character is there to witness it and say NOOOO. I guess this was Lana’s revenge, faking her death so Lex can ROT. I just wanna publicly say that Lex is disgusting pathetic embarrassing and a poor excuse of a man and he’s gonna rot forever in hell all alone! And I’m gonna dance on his grave and then shit on it! Daring to hit Lana??? And then he has the nerve to deny the fake pregnancy thing????
I don’t care about Wes but when Lois started crying my heart broke!!!!! Lex you are gonna pay for every tear you made Lois shed!!!
I don’t understand Lana’s endgame, I guess she’s playing spy but it physically hurts me that she’s staying with Lex, and that she has to apologize and he just threatened her!!! I want him gone!!! But also it’s really funny how Lana rejects him, like he thought he got the girl over Clark and she won’t even let him be in the same room as her, that’s a good revenge too.
I just don’t understand why chloe didn’t tell lana what lex did to her and her mom??? She had evidence!!!!
And what?? Lana was never pregnant??? and fck that doctor for telling lana all that nasty things!
A moving true story that evokes the setting of the Great Depression well. It's not always as impactful as it might have been as it rushes through certain moments but it's still worth a watch.
Thankfully not as vapid as I expected. The movie is further evidence of the dangers of social media and the false approvals people gain from using it. #deleteyourinsta
Episode more focused on the "dark side" than the other way around. Maybe if you expect always a happy ending in every story it will be a little bitter, but seeing it like it is, it's a great episode. Lionel is an excellent character he's really at a mentor level compared with Lex.
A super telenovela like wedding!!! This literally was a telenovela episode, with all the drama, the chatolic wedding and the awful dress!!
What can I say... Lana made the biggest mistake of her life, and the mistake wasn’t even marrying Lex but since she moved in with him, and Chloe can’t blame Clark for it, cause having a shitty boyfriend doesn’t translate in getting married to the first bald creepy man that crosses your path! And I’m glad she heard Chloe say she’s gonna be trapped in a loveless marriage with a monster!!
And how can Lex get married in a church AGAIN??? Is everyone gonna ignore that he killed his first wife???
And Aunt Nell has a lot of nerve finally showing up after 6 seasons!!!! For real if she hadn’t abandoned Lana none of this would’ve happened.
I was gonna say that I miss good Lionel or the Lionel that supports Clark, but then he slapped Lex and that was hilarious! But Jor-El needs to posses him again.
And on the bright side at least Lana knows the secret! 120 episodes and 6 seasons later.
If you cut Lana out of every tense scene between Lex and Clark it would seem as if Clex is the ultimate ship! The way they looked at each other outside the church, yeah there’s something between them.
I live for the Clois interactions!!!!!! Even if both of them were high on something.
This was the funniest episode ever!!!!!!! I couldn’t stop laughing! It’s the way Clark can effortlessly humiliate Lex and there’s not a thing Lex can do about it, and then Clark just moves on and keeps living his best farm boy life with his friends while ruining Lex and Lana’s relationship!!
Lex for real is a piece of shit! The way he hijacked Lana’s pregnancy, first by telling Clark, then doing the nursery by himself, and now obviously doing something to her baby/body, I guess injecting it with kryptonite? And then he dares to say the guests never thought about settling down WHEN THIS IS HIS SECOND MARRIAGE!!!! And didn’t he kill his first wife??? The doctor he threw out the plane??? And then Lana was hilarious when she said “Clark you humiliated me in front of my friends” THOSE WERE OLD PEOPLE!!! She didn’t know anyone but Chloe and Martha!
Lana admitting she would accept Clark’s proposal reminded me of the episode when Jonathan dies and Lana indeed accepted Clark’s proposal but then Lex killed Lana and I have no doubt that outcome would still happen today. So I understand that now it isn’t a matter of Clark trusting Lana but realizing he would put her in real jeopardy by telling her and the main threat would be Lex. But also I feel like Lana is playing dumb, cause like if I were her my guess would be that Clark is a meteor freak or that his biological family is shady and those are the only options.
And can we talk about how petty Lex was bringing her the newspaper with her breakfast???? Instead of just bringing her the bf and making merits to win her heart and then the way he dropped that child bomb to Clark!!!!! So petty and miserable!!
But the writers are overplaying this situation when obviously 14 years ago this network wouldn’t allow bastard babies or abortions, so obviously Lana is gonna marry him or lose the baby or I was expecting for Clark to be all like “Lana I will raise that baby as my own” Almost like a telenovela! Cause we can beat that he is gonna scrapbook that newspaper article.
Chloe has been good these last two seasons and she’s more mature and respectful so I actually got mad when Lana doubted and accused her of leaking the story.
And now to what really matters, Clark’s reaction when Lois said she’s in love with Oliver!! And then their kiss!!!! BYE BYE MISS LANA LANG!!! Clois is finally rising!!
This one was kinda boring, especially because we know we probably won’t see that girl ever again, and if we get one more episode with her she’ll probably die like every kid Clark takes care of.
And Lexana (is that the ship name?) were so ugly to Chloe!! And Lex was all bitter like “you’ve never been in a relationship” but Chloe’s had her flings! While Lex can’t maintain a relationship with women his age cause they are only using him! So he’s not the one to talk about relationships.
JONATHAN KENT THE WORST MAN IN ALL GALAXY, why on earth does Lana have to explain her sexual life to him??? Lana and Clark are both 18 and in a relationship and Lana has to give explanations to that creepy disgusting man???? And why was he so mad with Clark?? They had safe consensual sex, what was the big deal??
Lex is becoming a creep too, breaking into Lana’s apartment at 7 am in the morning??? But I’m gonna give it to him that Clark’s resurrection was a little too much, I don’t think he could’ve come up with a good enough explanation as to how he was dead in a hospital bed and then he was in an explosion and survived after being dead and then went home?? This time the writers took it too far!
I’m so mad that was the first Lexna? (Is that the ship name?) kiss!! And that Lana found out this way about Lex’s feelings.
It was a great performance by the actor playing Lex and it was interesting seeing the real/evil Lex in full force cause I don’t know if the show is ever gonna give us that.
I’m gonna miss “good” Lionel cause you never knew what he was up too and if it was all an act, and this evil Lionel is too obvious.
I’ve never hated Lionel Luther as much as I did this episode, great acting from the both of them
Clark as Lionel was funny and you felt worried about him but Lionel as Clark was the creepiest most disgusting thing ever, but great acting on both ends!!
I hate that everybody knows that there’s something weird going on in Smallville possible meteorite related but somehow Clark can’t explain to Chloe and Lana what happened to him? Just say that Lionel used the meteorite rocks to switch bodies. And how many times has Clark been possessed or lost control of his body/powers?
Ah, I love it when I genuinely have fun when watching a murder mystery! I hope they'll manage to write another extravagantly entertaining adventure for Benoit Blanc's third screen exploit!
Oh, by the way, with everything that's been going on with Twitter, was anyone else eerily reminded of the mercurial "Chief Twit"'s antics when witnessing Miles Bron's chaotic decisionmaking? I don't think this was originally intended, but that character now definitely feels like a parody of Elon Musk lol
Apparently you need to go into this movie not seeing any marketing since most of the negative reviews talk about how it was "mismarketed". I had no idea what it was about, had no expectations, and I thought it was pretty good. I guess if you went in with expectations of something it isn't, you'd be disappointed.
“There’s no booze on this menu.”
“There’s kombucha.”
“Fuck off.”