I read the Maze Runner book, and I really really liked it... still haven't finished the series, but I really do like the first book. So obviously I had to see the movie! I was pretty pumped about the movie because a lot of the things in the book were hard to picture... but I really wasn't expecting too much from the movie. I really wanted to see it, and I even saw it the day it came out cause I was so excited, but I still wasn't expecting it to be anything amazing or anything. But my mom did say it got good reviews, so that excited me too!
And then like immediately when the movie started... I was super SUPER into it! The book begins with Thomas just kind of thrown into this world with this maze and he's brought up into the world through a little elevator type of thing. And the way the camera is and everything, you feel like YOU'RE THERE WITH HIM! Like we as an audience enter this crazy dystopian society when the main character of the film enters! That immediately sucked me in, I was on board. Already this movie was awesome. I'm sold!
The one thing I did like was actually seeing this visual world that the book created on screen. Everything in the movie was like 10 times more cooler than I imagined. For example, there are these creatures that live inside of the maze called grievers that are basically giant robot bugs that can sting you and will give you back the memories you had before entering this world. That's a hard thing to imagine really because its equally bug like and robot like. I pictured it more as a giant Beetle that made the sounds of a robot. My friend was more imaginative and pictured a better robo-bug hybrid but still the movie made it this really cool scary looking robot bug that was just absolutely perfect. It was really great and really suspenseful and amazing.
The one thing that I was slightly upset about from the book that wasn't included in the movie was the relationship between Theresa and Thomas. In the book, they could read each others minds, and even when Theresa was asleep, she told Thomas some of the information that she knew about how they got here and what they did. The movie didn't show that. Which you know didn't make it any worse or anything, and really I don't think its that important of a detail to include... but it's a cool thing from the book that they didn't really convey in the movie. They sort of tried to do that, but it didn't really come across very clear.
Also Theresa as a character is better in the book than she is in the movie. She isn't really in the book very much but I wanted to see her a little more in the movie than she was. The girl is a very good actress and I think she'll go places. But yeah, just slightly disappointing.
I actually thought all the acting was great. For younger kids mostly especially. A lot of them haven't done too much besides this movie. Like Chuck, who is a pretty big character has not been in much else and I thought he was great in it. Its really good.
I feel like a lot of people see the trailer for this movie and don't really get what its about. It's basically like a hunger games type of thing mixed with Lord of the flies. They all live in this universe where there is a maze and the only way out they think is through the maze, but the maze has the monsters called the grievers in it so its not easy to solve. It's good. If you like the hunger games you'll really like it.
Also random and tell me if this has ever happened to anyone before, but I read the ENTIRE book in a Scottish accent. Like that's just how I imagined the book being told and I don't know why. I'm not from Scotland, I'm from Jersey so it makes no sense... but it made me happy that there was someone with an English accent in the film. It just made sense to me, so that made me like it even more! lol.
Anyway definitely see this movie. It's sooo sooo good. One of my favorites of the year so far and it's worth reading and seeing the movie... but I did kind of think the movie was better for a change. Not that the book wasn't bad, I really liked it... but I didn't completely LOVE it and I really did love this movie.
Byeee!
-Shannon
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