Was the Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes a bad movie or was it me?
I absolutely love the original movies and watch them often enough. I went into the Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes with little to no context, never saw the trailer and didn't know what to expect. I've also never read the books. But this film just seemed.. hollow? I didn't connect with any of the characters. I especially did not buy whoever played Snow. There was nothing menacing at all about him. I didn't buy his descent into madness towards the end when he's chasing Lucy in the forest. A lot of the plot just felt rushed and empty. I felt Viola Davis played her character inconsistently. I didn't enjoy a lot of the awkward dialog and just how cheap this seemed to be compared to the original movies. The way Snow had a reaction to Lucy mentioning katniss, the plant, when there is no need to at this stage. I get that was "for us" but took me right out of it.
However I will say I've just watched the trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping and that looks more like what I expected. It was just a trailer I know but the world just looked better and the casting seemed better too for some reason. It looks like it has life to it.
I dunno what it was with this movie but I just wanted it to be better in almost every way possible.