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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben o'she on ninety six am

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Speaker 1: ben o'sha, good morning, Good morning guys. The Hunger Games,

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Speaker 1: the Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes, what do you chan?

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people who don't follow The Hunger

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Speaker 2: Games very closely might be thinking, do we even really

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Speaker 2: need another Hunger Games movie? Most of the films, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: most of the films weren't really that amazing if we're

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Speaker 2: being honest. The first one in twenty twelve, of course,

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Speaker 2: you know, Put Jennifer Lawrence on the Map wasn't a

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Speaker 2: great movie. It was a bit silly, based on a

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Speaker 2: young adult series of books by Suzanne Collins, which were

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Speaker 2: mega sellers. You know, we're talking about the era of Twilight, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Harry Potter, when young adult fiction was just you know,

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Speaker 2: the thing, and there was a bunch of movies that

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Speaker 2: they were made from these types of books, like The

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Speaker 2: Maze Runner and some others that I've just blocked out

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Speaker 2: of my memory. And The Hunger Games was probably one

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Speaker 2: of the more successful, along with Twilight and Harry Potter.

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Speaker 2: And they made four films, and along comes this fifth one,

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Speaker 2: which is a prequel based on the origin story of

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Speaker 2: Donald Sutherland's character, so he played the sort of the

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Speaker 2: President Snow Cory Alana Snow who fans of the fans

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Speaker 2: of the book series were actually quite ticked off that

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Speaker 2: the author Susan Collins did a prequel book based on

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Speaker 2: his story because he's such a despicable character. I know

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Speaker 2: it's her books, I know, right, But it's a bit

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Speaker 2: like you know, the Star Wars prequels that were sort

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Speaker 2: of the origin story for Darth Vader, because sometimes these

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Speaker 2: villains are actually the most fascinating characters. How did they

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Speaker 2: become evil? And you know, maybe they started off pretty

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Speaker 2: good people, And so I think there's some interesting narrative

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Speaker 2: meat to pick off the bone here, and that's what

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Speaker 2: we've got with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. It

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Speaker 2: tells the story of a young Coriolane Snow who's in

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Speaker 2: the capital of pan m which is this fictional nation

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Speaker 2: that said war with the districts and the Hunger Games,

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Speaker 2: which is for people who have forgotten, is sort of

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Speaker 2: a battle to the death. Each district in this sort

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Speaker 2: of fictional world contributes a boy and a girl and

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Speaker 2: they have to see who's the last person standing. And

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Speaker 2: it's a way to kind of punish the districts and

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Speaker 2: keep them in line and make sure the capital sort

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Speaker 2: of retains control over everything. And this is the tenth

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Speaker 2: installment of the Hunger Games, so it's very different to

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Speaker 2: the Jennifer Lawrence version, which is very elaborate. This is

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Speaker 2: fairly basic. They basically just put them in an arena

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Speaker 2: with a bunch of weapons and have at it. And

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Speaker 2: Corie Alana Snow is a university student as part of

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Speaker 2: the ruling elite, and he believes that it can be

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Speaker 2: done better, it can be done more humanely, and.

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Speaker 1: He twenty twenty of Hunger Games, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twenty exactly exactly, and he sort of falls for one

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Speaker 2: of the contestants played by Rachel Ziegler, who if you

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Speaker 2: saw Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, she played Maria. She's

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Speaker 2: phenomenal talent and of course a great set of pipes

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Speaker 2: on her and so she's the perfect person to play

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Speaker 2: this songbird who is supposed to be fighting to the

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Speaker 2: death but instead tends to sing all the time and

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Speaker 2: wins over fans and people don't want to see her die,

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Speaker 2: and Snow's character, Snow falls falls for her and then

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Speaker 2: maybe turns his back on his own responsibility in his

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Speaker 2: own country to help her escape, and it sort of

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Speaker 2: goes from there, and there's a bit of intrigue along

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Speaker 2: the way as we start to learn why this Snow

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Speaker 2: bloke maybe starts to become a little bit evil. I

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Speaker 2: guess you've got Peter Dinklage in this film as well.

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Speaker 2: The Game of Throne staff, who plays a university lecturer

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Speaker 2: and sort of arch rival of Snow himself, is played

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Speaker 2: by Tom Blythe the English actor who is Billy the

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Speaker 2: Kid in the Billy the Kid TV series and and

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Speaker 2: probably wasted. Viola Davis Oscar Winner, just phenomenal actress, plays

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Speaker 2: sort of the designer of the you know, sort of

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Speaker 2: devious and dangerous games in the Hunger Games. Probably a

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Speaker 2: little bit below her pay grade being in a film

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Speaker 2: like this, But the big, the big surprise for me

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Speaker 2: is it's actually not terrible. Okay, it's not terrible, like

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Speaker 2: and you might say that's not really the greatest compliment

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Speaker 2: you can give a movie, but it's like I was,

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Speaker 2: I went to this film. I went into this film

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Speaker 2: expecting it to be absolutely unwatchable. The last couple of

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Speaker 2: Hunger Games films were, you know, we're really just grim slogs,

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Speaker 2: and you got to the end of it and thought,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, I never want to see another one

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Speaker 2: of Leaving Game. Where this strips it all back. It

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Speaker 2: strips back some of that over the top of filmmaking

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Speaker 2: and world building and brings it back to s something

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Speaker 2: a bit more human and grounded and a story of

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Speaker 2: two young people sort of fighting the system and you know,

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Speaker 2: the lengths that they'll go to for love while maybe

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Speaker 2: also not trusting each other completely as well because they

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Speaker 2: come from such different backgrounds. The cinematography is fantastic. It's dark,

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Speaker 2: clearly like dark in terms of its themes and tone.

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Speaker 2: Clearly they know that the people who were reading these

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Speaker 2: Hunger Games books and watching the movies, the kids you

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Speaker 2: know back from twenty twelve onwards, are now much older,

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Speaker 2: so this film is aimed at a much older audience.

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Speaker 2: If you take young kids to see this, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you're taking them to see people getting their brains

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Speaker 2: pashed out and stuff like that. So it's a bit

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Speaker 2: more Yeah, it's a bit more heavy, a bit more heavy,

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Speaker 2: and I would say overall pretty solid.

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Speaker 1: Movie comes a lengthy tour here.

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Speaker 2: Could be shorter, Yeah, be a little bit shorter flight.

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Speaker 2: John Blythe is great like and he could be like

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Speaker 2: at one point he's got his head shaved and reminded

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Speaker 2: me of young Keanu Reeves. Oh really, ok yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think he's got a bright future in front of him.

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Speaker 2: If you can get out of the Hunger Games.

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Speaker 1: Well, how many are you giving it? Well, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how many calories. How many calories are you giving?

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Speaker 1: How many snows on?

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Speaker 2: Johnstowe, John Snow Johnstone is definitely still superior. But I'm

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Speaker 2: going to get this one a very solid three stars.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks Bat,