The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Pitch Meeting

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  • Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
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    Nearly a decade after the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 and the end of Katniss’s’s’ story, The Hunger Games are BACK, with an a kind-of-all-new tale about everyone’s least favorite tyrannical President, Corialanus Snow.
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes definitely raises some questions. Like did they set out to make the longest title possible? How many times do they say Lucy Gray’s name and how many times does she sing? Are we rooting for the guy that runs the kids-killing-each-other competition? Why does this movie feel like two movies?
    To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
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  • @ianweech
    @ianweech 5 місяців тому +8178

    "He sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem"
    That was solid.

    • @gerry40404
      @gerry40404 5 місяців тому +247

      That's exactly what I thought about him at that point in the movie. He looks exactly like Eminem used to.

    • @Flip_Flop82
      @Flip_Flop82 5 місяців тому +69

      Ohh, that was TIGHT

    • @Baronnax
      @Baronnax 5 місяців тому +153

      @@gerry40404 Eminem basically owns the clean shaven white guy + short cropped blonde hair look now.

    • @mr.joshua6818
      @mr.joshua6818 5 місяців тому +71

      *8 Mile theme starts playing*

    • @PanSpaceman
      @PanSpaceman 5 місяців тому +160

      talk about a shady villain. but it makes sense, the odds of him getting away with that were slim.

  • @Mina-hm2og
    @Mina-hm2og 5 місяців тому +3985

    "How to make a child murderer sympathetic? Make him handsome". Ouch, that is so accurate it hurt.

    • @samblack5313
      @samblack5313 5 місяців тому +53

      He’s about as handsome as phoebe wall bridge.

    • @SeenAGreatLight
      @SeenAGreatLight 5 місяців тому +96

      *Anakin liked that

    • @emilygrace8314
      @emilygrace8314 5 місяців тому +128

      No cause the amount of people I’ve seen skimping over and defending him on TikTok is INSANE. Like they’re saying he wasn’t bad in this movie but he literally was??

    • @ceasarsaran8573
      @ceasarsaran8573 5 місяців тому +24

      @@SeenAGreatLight Anakin was handsome, and mace Windu being a douche made him more sympathetic.

    • @Baeraad
      @Baeraad 5 місяців тому +71

      At least in the book, I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to be particularly sympathetic - he's just a ruthless bastard who's also an underdog, so you kind of root for him anyway. People love underdogs, I'm sure I heard someone say that once. ;)
      Though I can imagine that that's a little too much nuance for a lot of people, sadly.

  • @Flipitmixit
    @Flipitmixit 5 місяців тому +450

    4:19 The fact that there was a whole movie after the movie was insane😂

    • @user-ul8xu8sk5i
      @user-ul8xu8sk5i 5 місяців тому +35

      True. Also true that "Part 1" would not have been well received. Sometimes books just aren't meant to be made into movies.

    • @yamanibryant-mccray2243
      @yamanibryant-mccray2243 4 місяці тому +3

      YES I WAS SHOOK

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 3 місяці тому +4

      That'll teach people to complain about Return of the King 😂

  • @OrigamiShinigami
    @OrigamiShinigami 5 місяців тому +180

    "We are SO expendable, my dude! Hold me"
    "I'M IN!"
    That got me. Good sign for the episode

  • @Bizarro69
    @Bizarro69 5 місяців тому +1589

    "you've got a movie for me?"
    "Hitler, but young, and HOT."
    - an actual pitch meeting 10 years from now probably.

    • @Monkchelle_Kongbama
      @Monkchelle_Kongbama 5 місяців тому +80

      for real though, we can seemingly romanticize any of history's tyrants except that guy for some reason

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel 5 місяців тому +51

      @@Monkchelle_Kongbama Give it time, or more exactly give Qatar time

    • @AngryAuditor
      @AngryAuditor 5 місяців тому +64

      "Napoleon" pitch meeting seems to have been "take the guy who brought needless slaughter and suffering to much of Europe but make it EPIC looking!"

    • @debochch
      @debochch 5 місяців тому

      A young, hot, black, bi-sexual girl Hitler ethnically cleansing a certain race "between the river and the sea". Netflix will love it.

    • @thepubknight6144
      @thepubknight6144 5 місяців тому +24

      ​@@Monkchelle_Kongbama
      Hither has been romanticized alot in conspiracy theories
      That's that most unsettling part

  • @vonwux
    @vonwux 5 місяців тому +2726

    _The most effective rat poison to ever exist_ - Said with the enthusiasm of someone working in the naming things department!

    • @lance134679
      @lance134679 5 місяців тому +62

      Hey you referenced that other thing! 👍

    • @user-pq8qn5df7z
      @user-pq8qn5df7z 5 місяців тому +32

      THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!

    • @BrainStormzFTC
      @BrainStormzFTC 5 місяців тому +27

      The funny thing is that rat poison is basically just somewhat concentrated Advil. The writers clearly had no idea what they were doing...

    • @Geek-A-Geddon
      @Geek-A-Geddon 5 місяців тому

      ​@@user-pq8qn5df7z I'm just gonna shorten that.

    • @la_scrittice_vita
      @la_scrittice_vita 5 місяців тому +23

      Weirdly, _Only Murders in the Building's_ last season also used laughably effective rat poison where a sprinkle on a cookie dropped a 190 lb man in 8 minutes. Seems the current crop of Hollywood writers can't be bothered to do a Wikipedia level of research.

  • @craigw.scribner6490
    @craigw.scribner6490 5 місяців тому +404

    "So he sentences him to twenty years of being Eminem." Priceless! Thanks, Ryan, for another Pitch Meeting and more good laughs!

    • @Blake1720
      @Blake1720 5 місяців тому +6

      Lol ikr? I said the same to my husband in the theater haha

  • @sloreo8278
    @sloreo8278 5 місяців тому +887

    "About 6 more times than feels comfortable" is way too accurate. I consistently flipped between 'yah this is a decent movie' and 'was this produced by Disney'. Her singing was good but felt so out of place.

    • @violetlavi2207
      @violetlavi2207 5 місяців тому +120

      The fact that it feels out of place when the rest of the movie is so brutal in tone is the point - Lucy Gray’s singing sets her apart from the others and makes her stand out (she’s a performer at heart, and she’s the first to set that precedent for the Games becoming about spectacle)

    • @AwesTex
      @AwesTex 5 місяців тому +56

      @@violetlavi2207I get that point but having her sing a fun diddy one scene before she says “I still have one foot in the arena” really undermined the point of how much she might have been struggling to adjust. Tonally the whole third act seemed really off. Like they wanted us to get the constant sense of fear without it detracting from budding romance. Just like the original Hunger Games trilogy, the third act just REALLY misses the mark

    • @mxtw7910
      @mxtw7910 5 місяців тому +39

      @@violetlavi2207it was all over the place though. Slave accent and style songs one second, country accent and style songs the next and pop style singing the next. The singing inconsistency didn’t make sense at all and was actually super jarring. Should have been way more subtle and endearing

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 5 місяців тому +13

      ​@@AwesTex I get what you mean but don't you think stuff that are tonally off in this way are still realistic? I'd argue real life is often tonally inconsistent like that. I just wonder where the line is or should be or where most people want the line to be between a piece of art that is realistic and that is congruent enough within itself. I felt fine with that tonal inconsistency because I often perceive it that way irl and it doesn't bother me. I'd like to understand your point of view better because I think most people feel this way whereas I tend to be much more fine with parts of the narrative seemingly being disconnected and chaotic. Like for example I really liked the "too funny" Thor movie and for me the comedy didn't at all take away from the drama. It made it more realistic to me. Life to me feels like a mixture of genres. Maybe it's just this way for people like me who can cry bcs of depressive feels, make a joke, crack at their own joke, then continue crying bcs of depressive feels. I'm just trying to understand the experience and the perception of people who notice these tonal inconsistencies - I only notice after someone points it out like you did.
      Though for me the third act did feel off as well and certain things felt off for me the whole time except maybe just during the games. I never really understood what Lucy Grey's deal is and I'm not sure if we were meant to or not, or if maybe her character is the type of person I'd find hard to read irl too.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness 5 місяців тому +23

      "realistic" does not mean "good writing".
      If you're going to do a song that is tonally off for the situation on purpose, you have to do it tactfully. The original Willy Wonka movie is a great example. The songs are endearing and enchanting, but with an edge of mystery and unease. They're entirely designed to put you on the edge of comfort and intrigue.
      That's a much more deft hand than just jumping from one genre to another in way that feels anachronistic. @@essennagerry

  • @Nabo42
    @Nabo42 5 місяців тому +1616

    "There's still about an hour left though."
    You know someone in the audience had this realization while watching the movie and wept a little.

    • @caitrionamcgee114
      @caitrionamcgee114 5 місяців тому +86

      That was me.

    • @drafezard7315
      @drafezard7315 5 місяців тому +65

      To be fair, I made that exact realization for the new Dune film. Having the climax happen 90 min into a 150 min film brought it down so hard.

    • @raulduke5371
      @raulduke5371 5 місяців тому +23

      I was there. I had this realization. It was like “Prostate Exam: The Sequel”.

    • @Arphemius
      @Arphemius 5 місяців тому +27

      @@drafezard7315 Dune isn't out yet, is it? Or do you mean part 1? In which case, it's the first half of one novel, the climax of the story hasn't really happened yet.

    • @thebatman4279
      @thebatman4279 5 місяців тому +22

      I had that feeling after the Riddler arrest scene in The Batman. Good film but damn, that last hour is brutal.

  • @sonofvergil
    @sonofvergil 5 місяців тому +1952

    Watching a Pitch Meeting for a movie you didn't even know came out is TIGHT!

    • @MrAgentTurner
      @MrAgentTurner 5 місяців тому +7

      Lmaooo

    • @balrighty3523
      @balrighty3523 5 місяців тому +40

      And it’s super-easy, barely an inconvenience!

    • @nour2146
      @nour2146 5 місяців тому +8

      I knew about it but I saved my money from a box office flop

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews 5 місяців тому +16

      Wow wow wow............................................................................................................wow.

    • @nour2146
      @nour2146 5 місяців тому +8

      @@my3dviews oh saying wow multiple times is tight!

  • @jenwil2875
    @jenwil2875 5 місяців тому +148

    Yes! Thank you! They said "lucy gray" like a 100 times in the movie!

    • @thomasboaz9950
      @thomasboaz9950 4 місяці тому +11

      As well as the book.

    • @VSMOKE1
      @VSMOKE1 4 місяці тому +1

      I hate you more than you will ever know

    • @flamingsword7341
      @flamingsword7341 4 місяці тому +14

      Lucy gray is her first name (her last name is Baird). It’s a double name like Lily Rose or Harvey Lee. It just sounds weird cuz it’s a made up name like most of the names in hunger games, but totally understand why you might find it annoying to hear over and over again.

    • @willholland1778
      @willholland1778 2 місяці тому +6

      @@flamingsword7341lots of the names have deeper meanings to them. Lucy gray is a poem about a girl who got lost in the snow . It’s very poetic

    • @flamingsword7341
      @flamingsword7341 2 місяці тому +1

      @@willholland1778 ooh I didn't know that. neat!

  • @user-kr4ly3fu6w
    @user-kr4ly3fu6w 4 місяці тому +97

    In the book, he didn't provide her with the poison. He gave her the compact. She got the rat poison from the zoo where the tributes were being held. He gave her the idea, but not the poison.

    • @user-kr4ly3fu6w
      @user-kr4ly3fu6w Місяць тому +4

      @sergei_mikhailovich in the movie, he gave her the poison. In the book, he gave her the compact and the idea of using the rat poison which surrounded them at the zoo where tributes were imprisoned.

    • @sergei_mikhailovich
      @sergei_mikhailovich Місяць тому +2

      @@user-kr4ly3fu6w oh, sorry, I misread your original post. I haven't read the book yet

    • @Tsukaiyo
      @Tsukaiyo Місяць тому +3

      I don't mind this change. President Snow's preferred way of getting rid of political rivals is poison, so starting this here works

  • @sob160
    @sob160 5 місяців тому +2484

    "Surviving because of how much you smell is tight."
    Well said.
    May The Stench Be Ever in Your favor!

    • @BeTheSpecial
      @BeTheSpecial 5 місяців тому +49

      May The Odors Be Ever In Your Favor

    • @clit_niblr0375
      @clit_niblr0375 5 місяців тому +20

      May the Old Spice be ever nearby.

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway 5 місяців тому +12

      Wow wow wow.
      Wow.

    • @God_Is_An_Atheist
      @God_Is_An_Atheist 5 місяців тому +8

      May the stench be with you.

    • @drbjr99
      @drbjr99 5 місяців тому +7

      20 years of Eminem sounds terrible.

  • @adamjanos2
    @adamjanos2 5 місяців тому +1092

    High amount of pitch meeting lore in this one.

    • @joshuawebster5847
      @joshuawebster5847 5 місяців тому +85

      I just can't tell which of these guys is the boss because neither one has a commanding mustache.

    • @danpsou
      @danpsou 5 місяців тому +28

      Pitch meeting lore is TIGHT!

    • @mipmipmipmipmip
      @mipmipmipmipmip 5 місяців тому +14

      It must have been hard to include so much pitch lore!

    • @69Kevrod2012
      @69Kevrod2012 5 місяців тому +7

      @@mipmipmipmipmip yea yea yea yea... yea!

    • @matthewpatrick7263
      @matthewpatrick7263 5 місяців тому +14

      @@mipmipmipmipmipNo; it was super easy - barely an inconvenience!

  • @Sancyria
    @Sancyria 5 місяців тому +142

    As a Hunger Games fan I loved all of these: The Book, The Movie and The Pitch Meeting :D

  • @lilvenom7876
    @lilvenom7876 4 місяці тому +41

    “Lucy Grey I’ll try to remember that”
    “Don’t worry sir you won’t have too because theirs gonna say her name 10,000 times”
    Lmao couldn’t be more spot on with that

  • @bazilwreckerloughead
    @bazilwreckerloughead 5 місяців тому +904

    I like how they just kept calling that guy 'kid murder man' instead of his name...solid stuff right there!

    • @sayresrudy2644
      @sayresrudy2644 5 місяців тому +19

      😅😂. and “he kid murders”

    • @Surferion
      @Surferion 5 місяців тому

      You mean CoralAnus?

    • @factorfitness3713
      @factorfitness3713 5 місяців тому +23

      I mean, his name is Coral Anus, so probably better that way.

    • @EricaRichter28
      @EricaRichter28 5 місяців тому

      @@factorfitness3713Lmao

    • @EricaRichter28
      @EricaRichter28 5 місяців тому +6

      @@factorfitness3713Fun fact: Coriolanus is a Shakespeare play

  • @SpideyWarsStudios
    @SpideyWarsStudios 5 місяців тому +4759

    This was the first movie I've ever seen where I genuinely wasn't sure what was supposed to be happening during the climax, or why things were even happening

    • @alexanderadams8372
      @alexanderadams8372 5 місяців тому +43

      Same o.o

    • @youngstar312
      @youngstar312 5 місяців тому +97

      ? What are you confused about. Maybe I could explain some stuff?

    • @MegaJestify
      @MegaJestify 5 місяців тому +437

      That’s cause they crammed a huge book that was all internal dialogue into one movie and left you to assume so much

    • @siennaskye_journey
      @siennaskye_journey 5 місяців тому +236

      If you didn’t read the book, I can definitely see why it would’ve been confusing. The book was amazing though! I have difficulty focusing when reading, but I had no trouble with Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!

    • @youngstar312
      @youngstar312 5 місяців тому +71

      @@MegaJestify Kinda, but a lot of stuff is just done very subtle. Like slight face expressions by Snow.

  • @Spence_721
    @Spence_721 5 місяців тому +10

    “That’s a good point no one’s ever happy.”
    I was not ready for that accurate statement.

  • @rouelandrewpulma9799
    @rouelandrewpulma9799 5 місяців тому +19

    That "Oh my god what?" moment when they mention that the movie still had about an hour to it was my exact response when the film dragged on. It felt like that whole "Lucy Gray surviving the snakes while singing thing" was super climactic only for the tension to just flatten out afterwards until the film ended. I understand that this is pretty much how the book also went, but that's also the reason why film adaptations are "adaptations". A visual medium requires a more compact type of storytelling than a written medium.

    • @monmothma3358
      @monmothma3358 2 місяці тому +6

      Yup. Didn't think it was too bad because I was prepared, but there is such a thing as being TOO close to the book, and Francis Lawrence is the man for that. Now the other books are great, and Suzanne Collins is a genius, but seriously, her self-discipline went out the window with the prequel. It was much longer than the other books and had _major_ pacing issues. It would have needed a lot of changes to work as a movie. Instead those issues carried over.

  • @What.99
    @What.99 5 місяців тому +2614

    “Now every fart sounds like a secret.”
    That killed me lmao.

    • @kimreni
      @kimreni 5 місяців тому +60

      Did it kill you because silent farts are deadly? 😏

    • @thePsiMatrix
      @thePsiMatrix 5 місяців тому +23

      A sentence none of us expected to hear...

    • @kinglibra6179
      @kinglibra6179 5 місяців тому +7

      🤣 that part

    • @kevinsantos8439
      @kevinsantos8439 5 місяців тому +8

      the rat poison killed me

    • @SethrenJensen
      @SethrenJensen 5 місяців тому +3

      Same! Good old fashioned gut buster, there! ^^

  • @DrakeBarrow
    @DrakeBarrow 5 місяців тому +310

    That "We're both so disposable" bit was pure gold. Also, sentenced to be Eminem for twenty years got me to inhale my drink.

    • @jimdoherty4108
      @jimdoherty4108 5 місяців тому +8

      I would never risk trying to drink something while watching one of these

    • @mbryson2899
      @mbryson2899 5 місяців тому +2

      It's only bad if you get the first 20.

    • @GuyjinOnline
      @GuyjinOnline 5 місяців тому

      @@jimdoherty4108 I guess it's better than inhaling a little bit of "THE MOST EFFECTIVE REST POISON TO EVER EXIST!"

  • @SamanthaLaurier
    @SamanthaLaurier 5 місяців тому +42

    The amount of times I've been informed of a movie I didn't know existed by the Pitch meeting video for it is more than I expected it to be

  • @pedroteixeira1799
    @pedroteixeira1799 5 місяців тому +183

    The Eminem bit got me laughing so hard I almost coughed a lung. As always genius pitch meeting

  • @deltawolf8636
    @deltawolf8636 5 місяців тому +193

    "We should hug each other after this"
    I'd love to see Ryan hugging himself. Prob be super easy, barely an inconvenience

  • @MyBiPolarBearMax
    @MyBiPolarBearMax 5 місяців тому +1025

    “Coral anus” is a great joke but getting surgery sponsored by unesco is an even better one 😂

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 5 місяців тому +16

      Few will catch that, but 🤣we did. 👍

    • @James-mb3je
      @James-mb3je 5 місяців тому +26

      I liked "my farts sound like secrets"

    • @PM-gf1nj
      @PM-gf1nj 5 місяців тому +30

      Elaborate, please. I am too dumb to get them.

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts 5 місяців тому +1

      I fucking lol'd

    • @hoid9407
      @hoid9407 5 місяців тому +11

      The colon whisper was absolutely hilarious.

  • @georgem3456
    @georgem3456 5 місяців тому +7

    Such a bad idea to have a drink while hearing "the colon would be silent". Apparently, there are many orifices that pop can use to evacuate the body.

  • @Dude-xb3xh
    @Dude-xb3xh 5 місяців тому +18

    1:38 that brick joke was so well connected and written and unexpected that it makes me love the writing of this even more

  • @claireh1508
    @claireh1508 5 місяців тому +76

    "handsome kid murder-man" is not a phrase I woke up today expecting to hear 😂

  • @user-dy3up3ov9o
    @user-dy3up3ov9o 5 місяців тому +603

    This is the funniest one I've seen in quite a bit. I actually laughed out loud when the producer yawned.

    • @ConeJellos
      @ConeJellos 5 місяців тому +13

      You laughed out loud!? You madman!

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic 5 місяців тому +19

      I actually yawned just before he did.
      Then his yawn made me yawn again.
      I'm so excited not to see this movie.

    • @eugenetswong
      @eugenetswong 5 місяців тому +1

      I'm so glad that he did. I was getting bored of this video, but his yawn confirmed to me how boring the story was.

  • @stonehenge5166
    @stonehenge5166 5 місяців тому +3

    From now on when I let out a silent fart I expected to be loud, I'm gonna follow up with "that one was a secret" and then go about my day.

  • @beaudure01
    @beaudure01 5 місяців тому +6

    UNESCO covering the cost of surgery is one of the most wonderfully random yet on point references ever.

  • @ughugh3767
    @ughugh3767 5 місяців тому +510

    I seriously watch anything I don’t want to pay in theatres through this series

    • @noahwhite659
      @noahwhite659 5 місяців тому +16

      I’ll still watch these, even if I do watch the movie in theaters.

    • @carolviclayne
      @carolviclayne 5 місяців тому +2

      Me too 😂

    • @sergiosaunier
      @sergiosaunier 5 місяців тому +10

      At this point, my movie-watching is pretty much all done here.

    • @excellentosunkoya5948
      @excellentosunkoya5948 5 місяців тому +6

      I saw it today. It’s a pretty good movie imo.

    • @Bossfightmedia
      @Bossfightmedia 5 місяців тому +4

      I havent watched any movie in years but Pitch Meetings are Just a must have for e xD

  • @FujioParis
    @FujioParis 5 місяців тому +363

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret 🤫" - they made an entire prequel movie just so this line could be created and said so eloquently. Thank you to the many hands involved

    • @ZootSuitNewt
      @ZootSuitNewt 5 місяців тому +4

      Many hands involved? I'm not sure you know how farts work.

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 5 місяців тому +3

      @@ZootSuitNewt Well, not with that attitude...

  • @Holy_Jolteon
    @Holy_Jolteon 2 місяці тому +3

    During the movie, i never did understand any of Snow's motives. For instance, one second, he turns in his "friend," and the next, he looks shocked that he was killed.

    • @islasullivan3463
      @islasullivan3463 6 днів тому

      Bc he thought Sejanus’s father would bail him out like he always did. He also thinks that bc he’s the one who sent in the evidence the father will know Snow killed his only child, so he’s upset he might be killed soon.

  • @aliibrahim3264
    @aliibrahim3264 5 місяців тому +24

    Every time you say "aweoo!" I laugh heartily at how expressive and carefree it sounds. I hope it becomes a much more frequent catchphrase. Also, the "every fart sounds like a secret" delivery feels like a snippet of a commercial which I would love to see on your other channel. You're an addictive comedy treasure

  • @mrcat3493
    @mrcat3493 5 місяців тому +106

    First Eminem shows up in Mordor in Rings of Power, now he's in Panem. The dude gets around.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel 5 місяців тому +6

      ... please stand up

    • @evanward4303
      @evanward4303 5 місяців тому +5

      He has a driver names Stan

    • @thebatman4279
      @thebatman4279 5 місяців тому +3

      I'm thankful because these films would feel so empty without him.

    • @TheRealJellyBomb
      @TheRealJellyBomb 5 місяців тому +2

      Try to sleep through the night or you'll notice him standing silently over your bed, staring 🛌😱

    • @Ultimatum602
      @Ultimatum602 5 місяців тому +2

      Eminem even took a detour into Fortnite, SlimShady is wild

  • @tranazzi
    @tranazzi 5 місяців тому +294

    Everyone: We’re so sick of these movies unnecessarily splitting into two parts.
    Ballad of songbirds and snakes: Soooo… what do we do here?

    • @NXGGLOBALPRODUCTIONS
      @NXGGLOBALPRODUCTIONS 5 місяців тому +4

      😅😅😅😅

    • @lelouchs
      @lelouchs 5 місяців тому +49

      i thought the movie was great obviously they couldn’t show all the love build up but i would prefer that then two movies

    • @imgonnaputsomedirtinureyedabs
      @imgonnaputsomedirtinureyedabs 5 місяців тому +53

      I actually think they paced the movie really well so idk how much good splitting it would have been tbh. Last part maybe have felt rushed but it was similar in the book so i wouldn’t say it’s the movies fault

    • @dutchmansmine9053
      @dutchmansmine9053 5 місяців тому +3

      Didn't they write the book specifically so they cook make a movie?

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 5 місяців тому

      put a chick in it and make it lame and gay

  • @mazvitaselemani
    @mazvitaselemani 5 місяців тому +88

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the group of kids that for some reason wanted to kill Lucy but not eachother? Or how Snow and his friend got in and out of the arena like it was nothing... or how Snow made it back into district 12 and no one even questioned that he was missing😭

    • @steverliu1886
      @steverliu1886 5 місяців тому +5

      Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!

    • @258Dandaman
      @258Dandaman 5 місяців тому +81

      All those things are easily explained if you paid attention
      Making temporary alliances with enemies in dangerous situations is pretty common. It literally happened in all the other Hunger Games movies. Also some of them did in fact kill each other in this one
      Sejanus got in cuz he went in the middle of the night and bribed a peacekeeper.
      Snow got in cuz the head game maker arranged for him to. Also they barely got out alive

    • @PunoBendito
      @PunoBendito 5 місяців тому +5

      @@258Dandamandidn’t explain how at the end snow didn’t get questioned at all for having been missing and then just showing back up at 12

    • @258Dandaman
      @258Dandaman 5 місяців тому +18

      ​When did Snow go missing? You mean when he went to the lake? It was one afternoon, peacekeepers have days off too.
      Or are you referring to something else? I saw the movie twice, but it's been a couple of weeks now, so it's not as fresh in my memory

    • @PunoBendito
      @PunoBendito 5 місяців тому +2

      @@258Dandaman when he runs away with Lucy.He’s presumably missing for who knows how long and you can’t say it was on his days off because he jumps into a moving truck to move out of the barracks

  • @cn.st.182
    @cn.st.182 5 місяців тому +11

    Holy crap that Coriolanus joke was elaborate as FK. Damn. Three stages, all of them smart, creative and funny. Wow.

  • @LivingGuy484
    @LivingGuy484 5 місяців тому +90

    I love that he brought back the "Oh!" "Oooh!" Catchphrase 😆

  • @kayjacoby290
    @kayjacoby290 5 місяців тому +41

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret." 🤣 Needs to be a tee shirt, w/Producer guy's face & hand from 1:40

  • @tiriana2
    @tiriana2 4 місяці тому +11

    I really enjoyed this movie. It was the first hunger games for me and I'm like 40 years old.

  • @robintitanstudios6455
    @robintitanstudios6455 5 місяців тому +50

    "There's still about an hour left"
    "WHAT?!!!"
    Yeah...that right there. That was me in the cinema lmao
    I for sure thought the movie would end once Lucy Gray was the victor but then suddenly he's in district 12. Then he's suddenly shooting someone, getting a certain someone hanged, shooting Lucy Gray, poisoning Dinklage. Like WTF is going on 😂

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 3 місяці тому +1

      I feel like they really wanted to punish us for complaining about movies being split into two

  • @TamarMebonia
    @TamarMebonia 5 місяців тому +110

    "Injure those kids, handsome murder man!" - This is the kind of writing I'm here for :D

  • @marshallnmoonshine
    @marshallnmoonshine 5 місяців тому +1128

    Ryan watches the movies so we don’t have to.
    Dude is a saint.

    • @annabetht4565
      @annabetht4565 5 місяців тому +20

      Yep…5 minutes instead of 2 hours that I’ll never get back.

    • @kneo12
      @kneo12 5 місяців тому +51

      Ballad of songbirds is good IF you're a hunger games fan

    • @philtess3126
      @philtess3126 5 місяців тому +10

      ​@@kneo12please stop with that rethoric. Liking or not liking a single movie doesnt determine if you're fan of the franchise. You can hate a movie and like the rest of them and you're still a fan.

    • @kneo12
      @kneo12 5 місяців тому

      @@philtess3126 what the fuck are you talking about.
      People who read the original book will probably like the movie because they've had the context while people who haven't will leave confused.

    • @jaxsetbertoncarlism8873
      @jaxsetbertoncarlism8873 5 місяців тому +33

      ​@@philtess3126they didn't say you're a fan only if you like the movie. They say you'll like it if you're a fan. Most fans enjoy to movie because it's a solid adaptation of an appreciated book

  • @CM-pf1xc
    @CM-pf1xc 4 місяці тому +18

    3:07 the hanging tree has such important unifying themes!!! It’s origin story is so central.
    Also I Loved ALL the songs they’re so good

  • @igpx666420
    @igpx666420 5 місяців тому +41

    Dude, I swear to God, “he sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem” is one of the best jokes I’ve heard on UA-cam in months! I laughed so loud I had to roll the video back 20 seconds

  • @ColinFox
    @ColinFox 5 місяців тому +17

    "kid-murder-man" = best villain name ever

  • @SuperBC1975
    @SuperBC1975 5 місяців тому +54

    Great overview of the film.
    From now on I will refer to The Hunger Games as "The Child Murder Games." LOL

    • @poeticdavide
      @poeticdavide 5 місяців тому +1

      I mean, that's what they really are.

  • @alyssafrantz9567
    @alyssafrantz9567 5 місяців тому +82

    It’s so validating having opinions about a movie, and then hearing Ryan repeat those opinions.

  • @splitp173
    @splitp173 5 місяців тому +3

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret"..........sigh.......I laughed so hard at that line.....paused the video, walked away, rewound it, watched it again, and completely lost it a second time.....I think it's the finger next to the chin move that sells it........Anyway, Ryan, you are an insane comedic genius.

  • @Thundernoob98
    @Thundernoob98 5 місяців тому +17

    Him checking his watch towards the end was me in the theater needing to use the bathroom 😂

  • @thatGuywhocared
    @thatGuywhocared 5 місяців тому +85

    Watching the film ✖️
    Watching the pitch meeting ✔️

    • @jameslazaridis4180
      @jameslazaridis4180 5 місяців тому +3

      Weak

    • @museofthesea
      @museofthesea 5 місяців тому +6

      But the movie was good . . .

    • @thatGuywhocared
      @thatGuywhocared 5 місяців тому +1

      @@museofthesea Rachel zegler 🤢

    • @raawesome3851
      @raawesome3851 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@thatGuywhocaredher work in the movie was good, she's certainly not as bad as Bree Larson, and at least works well for the film.

  • @benjigoodrich
    @benjigoodrich 5 місяців тому +14

    Didn't think it was possible for these to keep getting better and better and yet here we are. Pure gold!

  • @projectmc15
    @projectmc15 5 місяців тому +2

    0:59 “actually its going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience” line

  • @bramton1
    @bramton1 5 місяців тому +62

    I'd love to see some old movie pitch meetings. Maybe a Film Noir, or Gone with the Wind. Go black and white on the pitch meeting.

    • @tacenda3250
      @tacenda3250 5 місяців тому +4

      He did that with Dumbo

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway 5 місяців тому +4

      Do it in Black and White.
      Or better….a Silent Movie Pitch Meeting.🤣

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 5 місяців тому

      the pitch meeting wouldnt be in black n white. do you think color was invented when the TV was made................................................................

    • @tacenda3250
      @tacenda3250 5 місяців тому +3

      @@kool4209 Obviously it was. If color existed before then, why would old videos and photos be in black and white?

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 місяців тому +2

      Citizen Kane is ripe for parody.

  • @Nanerpus27
    @Nanerpus27 5 місяців тому +147

    Quick question Mr. George: are there any pitch meetings you wish you could redo because you feel like you didn't do a very good job/you've thought of a few really funny jokes you wish you'd included? Thanks again for the pitch meetings, they always manage to bring a smile to my face :)

    • @ColinFox
      @ColinFox 5 місяців тому +23

      He's revisited old pitch meetings before, and discussed how he feels about them.

    • @jessedupuy4124
      @jessedupuy4124 5 місяців тому +18

      He does something like that. Go to this channels playlists, Pitch Meetings Revisited.

    • @3souris
      @3souris 5 місяців тому +4

      Regrets, he has a few; but too few to mention...

    • @whatdoesthisthingdo
      @whatdoesthisthingdo 5 місяців тому +2

      @@3sourisHe did what he had to do…

  • @AnamiaFan
    @AnamiaFan 5 місяців тому +21

    These just get better and better. The secret fart joke just killed me.

  • @shinigami1357
    @shinigami1357 5 місяців тому +4

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret"
    you cannot tell me this wasnt a random punch line he wrote an entire joke around. you just cant

  • @Insert_Bland_Name_Here
    @Insert_Bland_Name_Here 5 місяців тому +167

    How on Earth does a movie that's chronologically set in the future look like it takes place in the 1970s?
    I do love that Coralanus Snow is just referred to as "Kid-Murder Man" throughout this entire Pitch Meeting, though 🤣

    • @illogicmath
      @illogicmath 5 місяців тому

      Handsome kid-murder man to be more precise

    • @MegaKnight2012
      @MegaKnight2012 5 місяців тому +18

      Because there are certain decades of the 1900s that won't die. Some are trying to kill the 80s, but man, is it a struggle

    • @jlev1028
      @jlev1028 5 місяців тому +50

      Because YA dystopias love retro fashion, apparently.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 5 місяців тому +20

      It’s spelt Coriolanus and is a reference to a Shakespeare play of said name based on an old Roman legend, except this one survives the ending.

    • @MFlack2
      @MFlack2 5 місяців тому

      Fitting title for a completed POS

  • @LordJapos
    @LordJapos 5 місяців тому +131

    Can I just take this moment to appreciate the fact that producer guy and writer guy used to be a bit purple, but are now perfectly color graded and have great lighting on them? Ryan is still improving.

    • @RedCaio
      @RedCaio 5 місяців тому +11

      I've left a couple comments in the past saying "how is it that your eye color is purple?" and now I have an answer, thank you.

    • @imleeanthony2803
      @imleeanthony2803 5 місяців тому +3

      I LIKE PURPLE

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 5 місяців тому +1

      tf you even talkin about

    • @ncapone87
      @ncapone87 4 місяці тому +1

      Don't do drugs kids

  • @EvanSchwartz3
    @EvanSchwartz3 5 місяців тому +4

    This movie is really going to make things hard for kids named Childmurderman

  • @scholarhobbitz8269
    @scholarhobbitz8269 5 місяців тому +13

    Ok this might have actually benefitted from two movies. XD They could have used more of the slow burn romance and spiral that Snow went through. Fantastic as always!

    • @tiberiushazo6326
      @tiberiushazo6326 4 місяці тому +2

      Personally, having just read the book and seen this movie this week, I think a five part miniseries with about forty minute episodes would have been best.

    • @Temperius
      @Temperius 4 місяці тому

      Possibly, they kinda missed a subplot in the Film that could have been included.@@tiberiushazo6326

  • @thedarkemissary
    @thedarkemissary 5 місяців тому +6

    Hey, that reminded me of Hancock. When you got to the point where it felt like a whole second movie was starting.

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 3 місяці тому +1

      OMG, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt like that! 😂 The first half was fun & fairly well-grounded if a little weird/irreverent, and then suddenly it turned into this sterile superhero blockbuster where the main characters threw each other all over the CBD with absolutely no apparent thought for how many people they were killing in the process, and frankly no apparent connection to the laws of physics either....

  • @ScubaFanatic60
    @ScubaFanatic60 5 місяців тому +26

    I'm thankful for Ryan George Pitch Meetings. Thank you!

  • @cathygrandstaff1957
    @cathygrandstaff1957 4 місяці тому +3

    “How to make a child murderer sympathetic?” “Make him hot!”
    I mean they could also have made him a previous candidate in the Hunger Games, making it a parable about how those who suffer from injustice go on to perpetuate it as long as they can be the guy at the top. Also somehow they missed that the point was to watch kids shank each other, not to watch a bunch of snakes do the shanking. If I wanted a movie about snakes shanking people I’d ask for Snakes on a Plane 2: They Fly Now.

  • @Tinette_Izdashit
    @Tinette_Izdashit 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you, Ryan George. I didn't even know there was another Hunger Games movie. This pitch was even funnier because I haven't watched this one, and I don't have to suffer thru it like I painfully did with the older ones. Great job! ❤😂😂😂

  • @GTMQ8
    @GTMQ8 5 місяців тому +85

    “Now every fart sounds like a secret” … I laughed so hard I started coughing uncontrollably 😂😂😂

    • @serenitynow85
      @serenitynow85 5 місяців тому +8

      Farting, uncontrollably

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic 5 місяців тому +3

      I farted while reading this.
      This one won't remain a secret for long. My roommates are only a few feet away.
      Lullabies & snakes...

  • @alexiospatestos
    @alexiospatestos 5 місяців тому +15

    Watching the pitch meeting a few hours after I saw the movie is tight

  • @Conta_Minated
    @Conta_Minated 5 місяців тому +10

    Wow, you've really cranked up all the dials of the Producer Guy this time. I don't think I've seen him quite like this before. Sure, there have been some pretty weird moments in the past, but this time it just feels like he has gone one step further than before.

  • @MrGUnit27
    @MrGUnit27 5 місяців тому +5

    Producer Guy's face at 3:52 caught me so off guard 🤣🤣

  • @GWindMagic
    @GWindMagic 5 місяців тому +62

    It's been twelve pitch meetings and six revisit pitch meetings since Bryan George made an appearance, please bring him back. #BryanGeorge

    • @realitymatters4745
      @realitymatters4745 5 місяців тому

      His shows is always funnier when he does them himself

    • @GWindMagic
      @GWindMagic 5 місяців тому

      @@realitymatters4745 watch the end of interstellar pitch meeting. You'd understand lol

  • @rebeccasteen
    @rebeccasteen 5 місяців тому +139

    Goodness, Ryan is so great I genuinely didn't notice the lack of jokes.

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic 5 місяців тому +4

      "Barely an inconvenience."

    • @jackcrassus168
      @jackcrassus168 5 місяців тому +6

      Like his farts, not making jokes is secret

  • @michaelryan6342
    @michaelryan6342 Місяць тому +2

    I love how Screenwriter Guy picked up "Kid-Murder Man" and ran with it. 😂

  • @jordansimai3372
    @jordansimai3372 4 місяці тому +4

    Hysterical like usual! Honestly found the final hour of the movie the most interesting and believable tbh...

  • @corygreen4916
    @corygreen4916 5 місяців тому +46

    The coral joke may be my new favorite throwaway line ever.

  • @thrbrandao
    @thrbrandao 5 місяців тому +157

    “No one is ever happy”
    It hit me harder than it should’ve

    • @jdzspace33
      @jdzspace33 5 місяців тому +10

      I mean.... he's not wrong

    • @trinaq
      @trinaq 5 місяців тому +5

      A valid point, most of the drama and conflict in this franchise is based on people constantly suffering, which is why the games were created in universe.

    • @colbywilson8790
      @colbywilson8790 5 місяців тому +7

      I’m telling you if they had split the movie in two people would’ve given just as much flak as it’s getting now. People can’t make up their minds lol.

    • @jdzspace33
      @jdzspace33 5 місяців тому +5

      @colbywilson8790 probably. The only reason people accepted it back then is because it was final book in the series, so we all thought they would be better adaptations..... but, you know.... they were just money grabs. So that idea has been burned up due to misuse

    • @Ruddline
      @Ruddline 5 місяців тому +1

      Internet movie criticism is getting pretty ridiculous, no money in ever being happy so lets just blast every movie ever.

  • @tardiscommand1812
    @tardiscommand1812 4 місяці тому +3

    If they hold each other, 0:27 would they destroy each other being the same person occupying the same space?

  • @lhpoetry
    @lhpoetry 5 місяців тому +2

    "You know nothing Coriolanus Snow."

  • @picturebreakdown
    @picturebreakdown 5 місяців тому +55

    “He sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem”
    I’m so dead 💀😂

  • @dozyproductionss
    @dozyproductionss 5 місяців тому +5

    the quick "uh-oh" is so under rated.

  • @libertyjones1451
    @libertyjones1451 5 місяців тому +102

    Pitch Meeting has saved me years of my life avoiding bad movies. Godspeed Ryan George and crew.

    • @aymericmercier7678
      @aymericmercier7678 5 місяців тому +6

      I could be wrong but I think pitch meeting is a one man show, Ryan George do pretty much everything

    • @sugareecereviews
      @sugareecereviews 5 місяців тому +38

      Think this one’s a solid movie tbh but I like watching pitch meetings for good and bad movies

    • @Nekosphere
      @Nekosphere 5 місяців тому +19

      yeah i watched it yesterday and while all critique is fair it is not a bad movie. you can call it "good with flaws" or "average" depending on how you enjoyed it but it is definetly not a bad movie

    • @libertyjones1451
      @libertyjones1451 5 місяців тому

      @@Nekosphere life is short why waste it on movies that by your own admission is "average" at best? Save your movie time for good movies and use that finite time to learn a new skill or enjoy time with friends/family.

    • @tmm4195
      @tmm4195 5 місяців тому +23

      @@libertyjones1451 It's better than average. If you're a hunger games fan it's worth a watch. The main problem is that people went into this movie already expecting the worst, but it really is a good movie

  • @zidahya
    @zidahya 5 місяців тому +3

    ".. and we don't even know if the games will continue."
    Yes... yes we know. They will. And Snow will survive and rise in power. No tension here.

    • @hannahvanhugh
      @hannahvanhugh 4 місяці тому +1

      Wasn't the main tension in the first half whether or not Lucy Gray survives the games?

  • @river-yuki
    @river-yuki 5 місяців тому +28

    So thankful for this Pitch Meeting for giving me a good reason to avoid my family for 5 minutes 🙏❤️

  • @josemarti7487
    @josemarti7487 5 місяців тому +79

    After watching 100 episodes of Pitch Meeting, I vagely beginning to suspect these two characters being one person😅😅😅

    • @KayKayBayForever
      @KayKayBayForever 5 місяців тому +22

      Another conspiracy theorist, eh? Sigh, they’re clearly different people. Just use your eyes! They’re wearing completely different clothes! And one’s a producer, and the other is a screenwriter! It would be too much for one person to have both jobs!

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan 5 місяців тому +19

      That character will need you to get ALL the way off his back about it! XD

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist 5 місяців тому +13

      Being two people at once is TIGHT!

    • @neoroman0510
      @neoroman0510 5 місяців тому +15

      Listen, they couldn't be the same person, ok? The screenwriter guy has glasses and the other one doesn't! 'nuff said!

    • @michelkoerts1409
      @michelkoerts1409 5 місяців тому +9

      How? One wears glasses, the other doesn't. They can't be the same person. They are even in the same room at the same time!

  • @Spider_Gwen112
    @Spider_Gwen112 5 місяців тому +14

    I’ve read the book and was curious if the movie fixed any of the pacing issues (it definitely should have been two books, too)…so of course I turn to Ryan instead of buying a ticket. 😂

    • @AwesTex
      @AwesTex 5 місяців тому +3

      Just like the Hunger Games trilogy the ending was wildly unsatisfying. I also thought we’d get some understanding of what must have made Snow so callous and manipulative but no, he’s just kinda always been that way, apparently.

    • @WhiteRabbitDreams
      @WhiteRabbitDreams 5 місяців тому +4

      ​@@AwesTexSome people don't need a tragic backstory. Some people are just born monsters

    • @lilsriegerson6364
      @lilsriegerson6364 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@AwesTex I thought it was the fact that the war forced him and his family almost starve and loose everything they had. He hated district people because they took everything from him

    • @rokeYouuer
      @rokeYouuer 3 місяці тому

      I'd say the pacing was slightly worse than the book, although they cleaned up the narrative in a few places that made the overall story a bit more satisfying in my opinion.

  • @guyank6138
    @guyank6138 5 місяців тому

    Great video man, can we see more of the phrase "I decided" in Pitch Meetings? Saw it on the mean judge video you made and think it would be a nice addition 😊

  • @kappakumplete
    @kappakumplete 5 місяців тому +103

    Ohhh watching Pitch Meeting instead of spending time with my family on Thanksgiving is TIGHT.

    • @michaelmurphy2112
      @michaelmurphy2112 5 місяців тому +18

      It's super easy, barely an inconvenience

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist 5 місяців тому +7

      It's okay... my entire family died due to mysterious rat poison leaks and a swarm of snakes.

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic 5 місяців тому +4

      ...but wouldn't it be nice to share some farts that sound like secrets with them?

  • @kre4ture218
    @kre4ture218 5 місяців тому +16

    Watching Pitch Meetings of movies you didn’t even know came out is tight!

  • @AWhistlingWolf
    @AWhistlingWolf 19 днів тому

    I'm a sucker for on-the-nose metaphors and comparisons so I love the dynamic of "she's the songbird, he's the snake".
    Well-meant, joyful and artistic VS silent, calm and deadly.
    No, I have not read the book NOR seen the film.

  • @chrisrowe6340
    @chrisrowe6340 5 місяців тому +2

    Love seeing spoiler alerts for movies i never intend on viewing

  • @Arcadio89
    @Arcadio89 5 місяців тому +6

    1:03 I don't know why but the "uuuuuh" always makes me laugh 😂

  • @sentinelstorm487
    @sentinelstorm487 5 місяців тому +38

    The emphatic body language of Director Guy in this episode is on point! 😎👉

  • @af4043
    @af4043 5 місяців тому +8

    One of the funniest in a while, Ryan! Knocked it out of the park.

  • @codybailey855
    @codybailey855 5 місяців тому +1

    Damnit man! You made me damn near spit my drink in multiple occasions! I finally just had to set it down. This was a good one!

  • @PalmelaHanderson
    @PalmelaHanderson 5 місяців тому +11

    I had no idea there was even a 4th book until like a year ago. I didn't know they made a movie from it until I saw the notification for this video.

  • @ryanmarkley1979
    @ryanmarkley1979 5 місяців тому +19

    Well, this just made my Thanksgiving, thanks Ryan!

  • @livelongandtroll9108
    @livelongandtroll9108 5 місяців тому +6

    Can't blame me for rooting for the handsome bad boy when I was there only for the eye candy.

    • @ComedyPlastic
      @ComedyPlastic 4 місяці тому +1

      If I ever watch this, it will be for the eye candy.
      I've never had this particular motivation to watch something and it's weird.

  • @bluecollarmenproductions
    @bluecollarmenproductions 5 місяців тому +2

    “There’s till an hour left” exactly but also I wouldn’t want two movies idk what I want