The Maze Runner may not have been a particularly good movie, especially once it decided to move away from being a Lord of the Flies knockoff in favor of a "escape from the giant mechanical spiders" movie - even though that sounds reversed from how it should be. It made a lot of money, though, so it now has a sequel: The Scorch Trials. Set directly after the events of the first film, the second follows Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and co. as they continue on the run from WICKED, an evil organization that wants children in order to produce a cure for a virus that essentially wiped out civilization as we currently know it. If you remember the first film - and nobody can blame you if you don't; I finally saw it less than a month ago and I barely recall what happened - you may be thinking that the cast of the first film already escaped WICKED, and that they were rescued by nice men with guns. Well, it turns out that these people are also part of WICKED, so they have to escape again, only to find themselves in a desert post-apocalyptia, where they have new challenges to overcome. Outside of the elements, they also have to deal with zombies (called Cranks), factions that still exist even in the desert, and WICKED, who continues to pursue them for reasons that The LEGO Movie can explain more accurately than anyone else. Thomas is The Special, and as such all of the important events …show more content…
will revolve around him. The film, now stealing from Mad Max instead of Lord of the Flies, is essentially one long chase movie.
The teenagers from the first film - Thomas, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Minho (Ki Hong Lee), and a couple of others - run from place to place as WICKED chases them, stopping only until the area they're in starts to get dangerous, and then they're on the move again. What should have been reaped from Mad Max was the way that world-building was done without much exposition, and how characters still manage to show us their depth and develop despite the near-constant
action. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials fails at both of those aspects, as did its predecessor. While the characters themselves had memory loss, so we're not going to learn much about them from before The Maze, at least two of them start to get their memories back, and nothing stopping them from growing as individuals based on the near-death experiences they face on a daily basis. But, no, we learn nothing about them and they continue to be bland slates with maybe one or two defining characteristics. Thomas is The Special, Teresa is The Girl, Minho is The Muscle, and Newt ... is there. A couple of other characters exist, and we're even supposed to care about the fate of one of them, but that's nearly impossible to do when we've been given nothing onto which we can latch. It doesn't help that most of the acting is bland and uninspired, with Dylan O'Brien, our lead, being the worst offender. Instead, it's all about the action, which is improved over the last film in that there's actually a lot of action in the film. The chases are kind of thrilling, there are a couple of moments when you genuinely aren't sure who's going to make it out alive, and while zombies may be a bit overdone at this point, their inclusion doesn't hurt. We also get a new character, Brenda (Rosa Salazar, who interestingly enough also had a role in 2015's earlier YA dystopia movie, Insurgent), who very much deserves her fan-favorite status. Each scene she's in cements her as the most enjoyable character to watch; I began to wonder how much more enjoyable a movie based on her life would have been. Unfortunately, a lot of the film takes place at night, and the cinematography has been done in such a way as to make things feel very claustrophobic - everything is a little bit too close for comfort. This means that scenes are underlit and shot in a way that makes it hard to tell what's going on. A couple of early scenes really suffer from this. Things are frantic, but you wind up struggling to tell exactly what's happening. This becomes less of a problem as The Scorch Trials moves along, but it's an issue for a large enough chunk of the movie to be noticeable. These movies have their fans, and if you're not already on-board for The Maze Runner movies, The Scorch Trials isn't going to get you there. But if you say through the first one and want to see the next stage, all I can report is that this one isn't as boring, even if it's still not even technically "good." It'll pass the time, giving you some decent action and at least one relatively surprising twist, even if the acting still has a lot to be desired, the story is still a mess, and the characters have nothing to them. But it's not painful, and it's not going to be a torturous watch like some other young adult adaptations, so it gets a tentative pass from me.
Plot and Foreshadowing: Recently, the United States went through several destructive natural disasters. Puerto Rico, after being hit by back to back Hurricanes, had to exist without clean water, electricity and food supplies. This is similar to what was going on in The Maze Runner. The Flare had destroyed most of the world and its food supply. Maybe WICKED was experimenting on the kids to see if they were competent enough to create a society that was self-sufficient.
Both the movie and the book have many simulators in common. For example, Maniac’s parents died because of a drunk driver. This is how the whole story starts. Without this, the story in the book and movie
The title of this movie is called The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow; it was published in 1949 and produced by Walt Disney. The narrating voice was Bing Crosby and the directors were Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney. The genre was a family/horror animation; the rating for this movie would be ⅘, it had you laughing and some of the scenes surprised you. It was comical when the lady who didn't have a dancing partner danced with Brom Bones. It was also surprising because even though Ichabod’s face wasn’t that glamorous, he still proved to the viewers that he can be the ladies man.
It was cold, dark, and he had no idea what was going on all he can remember partially of his name. He had started hearing conspicuous noises. He then looked at the sides of the chained wall. He saw this terrifying creature, then jolted back as soon as he saw it. Everything had just stopped and the top of the room opened up. This guy had then jumped down and brought him up and said, “Day one greenie.” As soon as he got up he started to run. But after 5-10 seconds he then fell. The guy who brought him up told him, “As long as you’re here you’ll never run again.”
The Martian is a story that involves a visit to the mars, and after that, the astronauts come out of the Mars leaving behind Mark Watney who his real name is Matt Damon. The team assumed Mark was dead after a strong storm. He tried to survive with the remains of the supplier till he was able to launch his way back to the Earth (MacIsaac, 2015). The story is represented in the Novel, and a movie and these two platforms have some similarities and differences. The movie is the representation of what is happening in the book. Therefore, not everything that it is in the book is covered in the one and half film, therefore several scenarios are left out.
Although I will always love the original, the script, the movie was so fun to watch. We got know why lady bracknell is who she is since she apparently was a dancer and got life by having a baby. We found out instead of hugging miss prism got engaged to dr. chasuble which was interesting. Although I want to say what the real change was in the movie compared to the script you got have to watch the movie all the way through. It will be the biggest surprise of your
on a train. The music is very sad and depressing; it is slow and is
The pristine 1933 King Kong was constructed as a movie: to convey a story to entertain an audience. Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake took the substructure for King Kong and expanded upon it in virtually every way in order to “make again” the astoundment of the original for a modern-day audience. Audiences received the first King Kong very well. The stop-motion sequences of Kong were astounding for their time and the movie grossed over $90,000 in its beginning weekend. In order to bank upon its prosperity again, sequels were made and thus in 1976 a remake was made to amend upon the original. Paramount updated the movie to color, altered the story, and cast Jeff Bridges, a widely popular actor of the time, as the lead actor. Although the movie received stirred reviews, it did exceptionally well in the box office and tripled Paramount’s initial budget for the motion picture. Even though the movie wasn’t “as good” as the original, audiences still paid money to view it because of that hope that they would feel like they once did when they visually perceived the first King Kong. The remake add...
The original film was made to educate the coarse, unenlightened masses. The great thing about the original film is that the gorilla is dealt with and addressed and even teaches us a valuable lesson about humanity and race. The new film doesn’t even try.
First of all, the movie is concise and more meaningful than the original book. Take an easy example of Macbeth, the movie
Doomsday. Armageddon. 2012. The end of the world or the apocalypse is known by its many names and has become an extremely viral subject for this generation. But, imagine living in a world not playfully joking around about the apocalypse, but strategically trying to survive it. This is the harsh reality for Thomas, a teenager living in a virus polluted and self-destructing planet. A deadly disease has broken out called “the flare” which causes the most sane and rational people to become raging and hysterical flesh eaters. Not only has the virus taken the lives of millions, but the extreme climates have also killed the few remaining. In the novels The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, Thomas and his friends will have to fight to survive a world taken over by the sick and protect one other from those who say they want to help. The two novels share a touching story of young lives entwined during a difficult time and the lengths the characters go through in order to survive the apocalypse. The ultimate question within these novels is what is one willing to risk in order to survive? Within the novels The Death Cure and The Scorch Trials, Thomas is forced to fight for his survival on a daily basis, and in doing so he is constantly faced with either having to betray those closest to him, or remain the honest and true man he is, in order to survive. Within these novels, relationships are tested to such extremes that the repercussions of each survival based decision the characters make have the possibility of endangering the lives of those closest to them, but ultimately is a test to see who remains true to themselves and does not sell out their friends or themselves.
Hey you, Yeah… YOU! Would you want to live in a society where you live in a box for your entire life, and mean absolutely nothing to the just about anyone? For science right? NOPE! Obviously, Societies fall as a result of a corrupt government, Failing Social Structure, and Sickness. It is due to these factors that many great societies such as Greece, Rome, and the society depicted in the book Maze Runner fall.
In conclusion Thomas is portrayed as a heroic, caring and compassionate character. Thomas proves he is heroic when he risked his life to save both Minho and Alby. He also proves to be caring when it comes to his young friend, Chuck, by acting as a brotherly figure. Minho is portrayed as a brave and intelligent character throughout the novel. Minho can be seen as intelligent when he deceived the entire council of Gladers into agreeing to make Thomas a runner. He is also perceived as a brave character when he ran toward the cluster of grievers, risking his life so he can figure out where their camp is.
Gullivers Travels Comparison Between Book and Movie It is common in today's media-driven society to reach into the past for inspiration and ideas. A trend has developed where original works are transformed into other mediums. For example: books are turned into movies and/or plays, movies are turned into weekly sitcoms, and cartoons will spawn empires (Disney). These things happen so often that an audience rarely stops to question the level of authenticity that remains after these conversions. Perhaps it is only when a project is not well received that people begin to think of the difficulties involved with changing a work's genre.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is a science fiction action thriller film based on James Dashner's novel The Scorch Trials. The film is the sequel to the film The Maze Runner (2014) and the second installment in The Maze Runner film series using the same tittle. It was directed by Wes Ball. It is produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Lee Stollman and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. The original film's casts are Dylan O'Brien (Thomas), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Newt), Ki Hong Lee (Minho), Kaya Scodelario (Teresa), and antagonist Patricia Clarkson (Eva Paige).