Everything Wrong With The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes In 20 Minutes or Less 

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="977">16:17</a> now I want someone to re-edit the whole hunger games trilogy and replace the name "katniss" with "swamp potato"

i'm surprised there was no sin for him looking like a knock off eminem

The book doesn't translate very well sadly - the movie rushed a lot of the story and that is part of the problem, but the main thing is how much the story is about Snow's inner thoughts. Like how much he hates the districts, and keeps thinking of Lucy Grey as not from the districts, and just how sorry he is for himself the whole time. It's quite chilling to read him think his classmate lucky to get paired with someone he knew as a mentor, the lack of empathy grows throughout and his "good" actions are all just self serving. He has that high kill rate, but he thinks he's the victim in all of it, a perfect set up of his character in the original trilogy!

every "whys he call her lucy gray" sin is null and void bc there is a scene where she explicitly requests to be called her full and proper first name, which is lucy gray

Would have been better as a series, so much of the story is introspective. Snow was never ‘good’, he just became worse because when conflicted he always chose self-preservation.

Why does everyone not seem to understand Southern/Appalachian culture? Two first names are incredibly common here.

this is why I'm so mad they took out the explanation of the naming scheme in the covey.... ALL of them have two first names and it's a really important thing to their culture. their first name is from a ballad and their second name is a color. in lucy gray's case, there was an actual ballad about a girl named lucy gray, so they hit two birds with one stone with her name. it's very important to her that she's lucy gray, not just lucy. even rachel zegler has spoken on this, I wish they explained it in the movie like they did in the book.

I think the producers are way hungrier than the characters in the movie

The director got burned by splitting the third book into 2 movies, following Harry Potter and refused to split this book that is obviously 2 separate but related stories into 2 movies. Consequently, the first half was missing some of Snow's most important character developement snd the second half was just missing most of that story. They cut everything but the callbacks, which made them feel unnecessary. In the book, the only one of the callbacks that felt shoehorned in was the katnis.

The reason they call her songbird all the time is because she was a part of a family of traveling performers/singers.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1038">17:18</a> CINEMA SINS SIN: They did show a map during the Hunger Games portion of the movie, "Lucky" Flickerman was doing a weather broadcast when it was slow and showed a map that has Panem as basically all of North America

Personal preference, there should have been a bonus round every time he said Lucy Grey

shocked there wasn't a sin removed for Lucky Flickerman's lines. Man was hilarious

There better be a joke about snow looking like 2000's Eminem. I watched this and actually said "Will the real Slim Shady please stand up" when I saw his shaved head!

"Movie doesnt give me a map" THERE WAS A MAP WHEN LUCKY REPORTED THE WEATHER YOU JUST CHOSE TO IGNORE IT!

They do in fact give us a map of panem

District 12 is supposed to be in West Virginia(the coal belt of the US) but Lucy's accent is soaked in Texas whiskey and dried in the Mississippi sun.

He jokingly said that this is a musical but why wasn't it? The books had a ton of internal monologues that a movie can't translate but a musical could. (And their singing the whole time anyway)

Take that sin away for the shirt because Tigris had to sell herself to get him that nice shirt 😢

Oh no, the movie called the "BALLAD" of "SONG"birds and snakes has singing!?!?!?! What a baffling concept

I was surprised they weren’t sinned for calling the snake poisonous.

Fun fact: Suzanne Collins gets a good portion of her names from Roman stories and Shakespeare plays. Coriolanus Snow gets his name from the Shakespeare play Coriolanus, or the Roman general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. Vipsania Sickle gets her name from Vipsania Agrippina, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and in the other movies, President Snows grand daughter is named Agrippina

I think that a lot of these would not be sins to people who have read the books, but for some reason they insisted on not splitting this book into two movies and as a result anyone who watched without reading was left in the dark on a lot of very important information

The “I didn’t kill them all for nothing.” Wasn’t selfishness. She was forced to do horrible things and in the end it did not pay off. A lot of these are not sins. Those that are sins are hilarious.

I know this is cinema sins, but moments sinned here like Gal's monologue to Snow and the covering of the tributes seemed incorrectly interpreted. Like you weren't actually paying attention to the movie. Gal's speech to Snow about "Leaving a boy with a club..." Wasn't scolding him. It was to make a point about how desperate measures can turn even the most "proper" of people into savage beasts. And the covering of the tributes wasn't about how well you know/care about the tributes, themselves. It was about the guy basically calling out the fault of the capitol while simultaneously giving dignity to the victims, something that would've been seen as defiance to a society which runs on pride. I love cinema sins, and maybe I'm just nit picking, but that particular commentary seemed like it didnt actually understand the point of the movie.

I'm shocked there wasn't a joke about Snow looking like Eminem later in the movie.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="888">14:48</a> Upon enlisting in the peacekeepers, you have to serve a mandatory 20 years before you can leave. People in the capitol often do it to avoid debt and the ones in the districts do it for a better life or for the “honour” of fighting for Panem

The slew of bleeps at the end for the snow pun! I love when Jeremy gets so angry at something like that.

i was so looking forward to being able to explain almost all of these sins with. book reference i was not disappointed

this movie feels like advertising for Rachel's singing career.

am i the only one that feels like he maybe just didn't comprehend the movie very well ? lol

"Omg this is a musical?" And "what is happening?" Were my exact reactions 😂 And the lucy Grey thing too😂😂😂

Lucy Grey is her first and and she explains that in the film, it’s expanded more in the book but she does specifically correct people who call her just Lucy.

My little brother has a friend named Anne Marie. And he has never once called her anything less

They actually do provide you with a map, when a Lucky is doing the weather report.

The Hanging Tree callback gives me chills it was amazing, not a sin in my book lol

snow lands on top is still such a cold line

They called him Coriolanus because he had a spinning bumhole.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="156">2:36</a> “Wanna get bit? Jump around and wiggle. Agitate the danger noodle” lmao

To have any idea what’s happening in 90% of this movie you have to have read the book at least 3 separate times.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="83">1:23</a> No, more ancient Rome like a lot of the other Capitol names. I mean, the main character’s name is Coriolanus.

Didn't expect to find a description of this movie as good as "written by a hammer"

I will be calling them danger noodles from here on out.

Ok, but milk with peanut butter crackers absolutely slaps so there’s that

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="166">2:46</a> Between Wonka, The Marvels, Wish and this, Thanksgiving/Christmas 2024 is the season of musicals.

Damn usually I'm so into Cinema Sins but they way they very much do not understand the book (or Appalachian culture: see double-barrel names) makes this one a hard watch lol. Ballad is in the title lol of course she sings?

Monty Python woulda gone with "Dr. Volumnia Buttocks"

It was when they made an Honest trailer that I learned they made a book that's a prequel to Hunger games, and made a movie.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:05</a> hahaha, i literally thought the same watching this line. I was like "what is really going on here? Did they actually leave snow with a club?"

It’s not really about her being the best singer ever. The circumstances are dire. No other contestant sang for the whole nation to see. Lucy gray stood out. Anyone watching would remember her for singing. And singing also seemed to calm her in times of stress. Some of these sins are kinda lazy. I been a fan for years tho. I respect the consistency and dedication y’all put into the craft.

I mean she specifically requested for everyone to call her Lucy gray

I read this book and had so many questions. I watched the movie to hopefully answer some of those questions. I was left with more questions

Oh yeah, and if this is the 10th annual games, and he's 17-18, that would have made him 93 by Catching Fire, so either they really effed up the timeline or he's super spry by then.

I've never been so excited and so early in my entire life for a Cinema Sins

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">8:00</a> Lucy Gray is her proper name, she corrects/calls out people who only call her Lucy

I mean, she sings in the novel too

Think Cinemasins would ever sin that old movie Zathura? The movie that was basically Jumanji but in space? lmao

If you're going to use Firefly clips in the outtakes, your arsenal really need Mal's line to Jayne from "Our Mrs. Reynolds" - "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

“Agitate the danger noodle.” My single most favorite thing you have ever said 😂

Also the reason that girl was crying and yelling about having killed them for nothing was because she did what she had to to survive and only did it in order to survive and realizes it meant nothing and she dies a killer

in the books she makes a big deal about how her name is "Lucy Grey" and makes sure everyone, especially Coriolanus, calls her by her full given name. One sin off

Forgot to mention during the initial bloodbath scene. Panlo (the male tribute from district nine) fell to his knees after tanner attacks him and then two seconds later when lucy gray collides in to him... tanner attacks him the same exact way resulting in panlo falling to his knees in the exact same way.

Funnily enough, when we came out of the theatre and it started to actually snow

The people who say Hunger Games ripped off Battle Royale have yet to read The Long Walk or hear about Theseus and the Minotaur

"agitate the danger noodle" made me cackle 😂😂

They aren’t forced call backs btw, Swamp potato/Katniss was in the original book trilogy which were written before the Ballad of S&S. The hanging tree was an old song passed through the generations of district 12 and was introduced in the original trilogy too.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="891">14:51</a> in Panem all Peacekeepers serve a twenty year contract and forgo marital relations as part of their obligations to the State.

It's only a musical if random people join in. You really got me with that Lion's Gate jab. lol

My mom and I saw this a few weeks ago. It was good

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="493">8:13</a> literally ignoring the whole theme of "the people in the capital live in such luxury they forget what being human is like" to make a lame non-joke of a sin.

The one thing this movie proved to me is that Francis Lawrence as a director is the one of the better ones out there with regards to how they creates atmosphere. The Hunger Games movies have done very well with that kind of thing and I even love how much better he did it with a film like I am Legend. This is why I am very happy he's the one directing the BioShock film for Netflix if that ever gets made. With the writer of Blade Runner 2049 and Logan might I add.

Also Snow didnt remove the initials from the hankie bc in the book they matched the color of the cloth and he didnt notice that his father's initials were embroidered on the hankie

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

oh i have been waiting for this

Note to self: check out the zeer pot method for no electricity refrigeration. Thanks!

The sheer baffled contempt in the laughter at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1140">19:00</a> made my week

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1161">19:21</a> pov every Single human in the Cinema 😂

Been waiting for this one! Loved this movie

I’ve been waiting for this one

Yeah, Tigris was a woman in the novel, not a "thing". And that lead actress should just resign herself to being passed around from producer, to director, to anyone else that's willing to keep a straight face while telling her she really can sing. I mean, for the older gentlemen in the industry, it definitely makes more sense than Pornhub, I guess...

I really enjoyed this movie. I think he went a bit too hard on it

This movie is super good actually.

a missed sin is that the film opens with young snow and tigris running through the streets looking for food and they just find some on the ground??? the first line of the film is "there's some food over here" and then the next thing they see is a man resorting to cannibalism because there's no food and he's starving... yet there is also food randomly on the ground for these children to find and pocket for later???

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> taking a Joke from the good place and passing it as your own! 😊

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1038">17:18</a> we are actually shown a map of Panem in the start of the movie on Lucky Flickerman's segment

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> A drunken short person + names like "Wovey" fighting for their District: Hunger Games+ Game of Thrones + Harry Potter = a total mess.

The stab in the heart that was the Firefly reference *sob*😭

'To show the world america can take Koushun Takami's book and make an inferior copy?' I think that's the loudest and most involuntary laugh I've laughed to one of these videos in a while

he was complaining about so many easter eggs, but this movie is a prequel! that's the whole point of it, to tie this movie to the original three. And most of these sins aren't even worth sinning, it's just the cinemasins guy using his own taste and preferences.

i wonder if snow could've said the third person he killed was Jessup and explain to Lucy Gray that he was the one who had the water sent

I had low expectations and I ended up liking it a lot.

Hunger Games version in Canada is South Park.

A lot of the sins you named would've made sense if you read the book

An an HR manager, I mentioned the DOL right after his HR joke and seconds later he literally went on to joke about the DOL 😂

“There will come a time when she’ll need rat poison?” YES SHES GONNA FIGHT TO THE LITERAL DEATG

the buffalo bills comment threw me off guard😭

I'm so impressed by all these stunts she's been doing, like singing at snakes

Also if you paid attention to the Panem map shown in Catching fire the map is slightly different than the map they showed in the ballad of songbirds and snakes. District nine has completely moved places.

I feel like they expect everyone to have read the book before watching the movie😅

The tables are triangles to poke the tributes in the stomach if they try anything