The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials

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#21 Post by weliveandbreathewords » Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:44 pm

Right. Just seen it. And speaking as a die-hard fan.

That. Was. SHIT.
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#22 Post by prettyxcool » Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:52 pm

weliveandbreathewords wrote:Right. Just seen it. And speaking as a die-hard fan.

That. Was. SHIT.
So I was not that far wrong! ;) o/ Anyway, I can't wait to see the next one to see how they have ruined the book? :roll:
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#23 Post by steve9872 » Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:48 pm

Well I've now seen it and can understand that it doesn't go down well with some people, me included.
Some scenes do come from the book but the way into and out of the scenes is nothing like the books. Its as if the scorch trials have been completely abandoned in favour of the death cure storyline incorporating scenes from TST.
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The books have the story as the team being sent out of the wckd complex to a location beyond the mountains. They've been infected with the flare virus and told the cure is at the destination. These are the essentials of the book and nothing like that is in the movie.
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#24 Post by weliveandbreathewords » Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:11 pm

Thank god I'm not the only one. I read on James Dashner's twitter that they had changed the movie to incorporate more of The Death Cure's plot line but I really didn't expect them to have changed SO much.
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#25 Post by alythonian » Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:02 pm

ThAts a mess of a film with what plot?
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It was a mess and really made no sense at all. Shame after the 1st one.
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#26 Post by raj101 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:31 pm

not a good film, shame really, since there were a few really good scenes (action ones mainly) that were reminiscent of MR1. But they were only few and far between. Some of the Krankies looked a bit .....weak in performance. ...they looked like they were attending a silent disco at times just wiggling about lol.

The problem I think must lie in the delivery of exposition (and lack of it at times) that heavily action orientated MR1 was unburdened by. Theres other problems too - plotholes that have been filled in with broken wooden performances. Too many new characters introduced, each with largely with 2D characterisation.

Thankfully I haven't read book2 yet so I thought it was not bad on the whole (but rarely good). I might change my mind on reading TST.

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#27 Post by prettyxcool » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:31 am

alythonian wrote: It was a mess .... Shame after the 1st one.
This sums it up! o/ :D
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