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Warning: spoilers ahead!Lionsgate knew what they were doing when they released “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” on Nov. 17, just as college students around the country were returning home for Thanksgiving. After all, what is Thanksgiving if not an opportunity to sit in your childhood bedroom and reminisce about simpler times gone by? In an attempt to fully embrace the time machine experience of the film, I brought my parents along with me, and we even returned to the same theater where I had watched the other installments of the franchise as a tween.“Songbirds & Snakes,” base
Rarely in the land of franchise movie-making does a prequel truly stand on its own, but “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” does just that and more.
Taking on the untold history of a villain is no simple task. After all, Darth Vader becomes far less threatening when he’s depicted as a child tinkering with droids. Show too much innocence lost before the downfall, and there starts to be a.