Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials:
After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of
challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable
obstacles.
Director: Wes Ball
Writers: T.S. Nowlin
(screenplay), James Dashner (novel)
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya
Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Storyline:
In this next chapter of the epic "Maze
Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their
greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful
organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate
landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance
fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its
shocking plans for them all.
Movie Reviews:
What the Hell?
Short version: Read the book, but don't see the
movie. OR, go see the movie, but don't read the book. Just DON'T do both.
Long version: There really are no words to describe
how far away this movie was from the book. It was like going into a theater
expecting to see The Terminator, and seeing Braveheart instead. Both great
movies, but NOTHING similar about them. Besides the character names,
lightening, and some sand, NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING about this movie resembled
ANY part of the book. Nothing. I read the book in one day, two days before I
saw this movie. I was so excited to see this fantastic book come to life, and I
left sorely disappointed.
I'm not sure if the author of the book was involved
at all in the decisions that went into the writing of this movie, but they
completely bastardized, completely changed EVERYTHING about his story. Even the
core motivation behind the 'who and the why' was different.
It simply was not the same story at all. I've seen
many books made into movies and I'm familiar with the huge and often
disappointing changes they inevitably make, but this was off the charts. I've
never seen anything like it.
If you haven't read the books, then go see it. It
was fun enough. But please don't bother if you enjoyed the original story;
because it's a completely different one.
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