#so i just hsjkdhflgkhlk

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☕️the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie lol

bonnie i love you so much lol it's like you know EXACTLY WHAT I'M WILLING TO BE SALTY ABOUT. SO OKAY UHHHHHHHHHH

I think it's absolutely whack that they're turning this book into a movie for a few reasons:

The main reason being, the YA Dystopian Craze died even before Mockingjay Part 2 was released. From all the video essays I've watched discussing this very subject, I think it's safe to say it died somewhere around late 2014. There was just this insane influx of YA Dystopia all at once that it sort of burned general audiences out very very quickly.

Because, when you boil them all down, they're really all the same thing at their core. The beginnings are always the most interesting part, because that's where all the unique worldbuilding occurs. But once you get into the belly of the franchises, they're all the same thing: taking down the evil government. So when you get that over and over and OVER, it quickly becomes predictable.

Mockingjay Part 2 suffered from the death, what with grossing the lowest out of the franchise (and not even getting an official soundtrack lmao STILL salty about that one). But I suppose that's better than Divergent just straight up not getting their final movie period.

Soooo for them to drag all of this back out in 2023/2024? I don't know if they think a large break will be beneficial or what, but I can't imagine opinions have shifted too much.

Another reason is that I genuinely cannot see this movie being accessible for general audiences. Like, I can see it being a movie that people see out of curiosity maybe. Like "Oh, I recognize this franchise from years ago, let me go see what this is about." But I can't see it getting great acclaim like THG or Catching Fire did?

Along those lines, the book is just so?? Longwinded and also extraordinarily dark in places? So I don't know how a lot of it is going to translate onto a screen. If Hollywood was too chicken to show Katniss' burn scars, and Peeta's lost leg, and Katniss' mental decline at the end of Mockingjay, are they really going to show all the brutal deaths and what have you in this? I WOULD BE GENUINELY SURPRISED. Like, maybe they'll treat it differently because it's a standalone movie and not part of an uwu twilogy, but I would still be shocked at the tonal shift. And salty, of course lmao.

And finally, it's just wild to me because I hardly saw anyone talk about this book. There was hype surrounding it for like, a week around its release, but then it seemed to fall into the mainstream void very quickly. A lot of my olden days THG friends haven't even read it yet, nor do they plan to JSKDHSLK. And this video sums up the more common reactions I've seen, as well as a good chunk of my opinions towards the book as well jsldkjsldks.

I don't know if they're banking on nostalgia or curiosity or what for this, but I would genuinely be shocked if it did well across the board. I will say that I'm happy they cast a women of color to play Lucy? And the actor they cast for Snow looks pretty similar (not as similar as Cody Fern though smh lol that's still my fancast). Buuuuut idk man idk. Maybe I'll be entirely wrong lol who knows! From my current perspective though, it just seems like it's going to be a flash in the pan.