The Maze Runner (2014)

[Rick Kitchen]

A really good movie with a lot of action, although the sequels don't sound that they can be nearly as good, though I will withhold judgement.  But I'm very confused.  Why was Newt, of all of these English actors, the only one allowed to keep his English accent?  Teresa, Alby and Gally are all English.  Was it just that he couldn't do an American accent?  He plays the voice of Ferb, but does a British accent on that, too.

 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I just got back from seeing this, and while it's no Hunger Games it was good IMO. I didn't recognize any of the actors except for Kaya Scodelario (Theresa), and once they got to her part in things Patricia Clarkson, so the accent thing didn't occur to me. I do wonder about the potential sequels, since we don't know where that helicopter was off to. The whole thing seemed very Umbrella Enterprises.

[Rick Kitchen]

Dylan O'Brien (Thomas) is one of the stars of "Teen Wolf".  He's huge in the teen and tween world.

[ShadowDenizen]

Funny, I thought Dylan O'Brien was sub-par in this; he seemed very uncharismatic and wooden. Having seen "Teen Wolf" I defintietly expected more.

And the lead female (who I can't remember the name of currently) seemed very "Poor-Man's Kristin Stewart", which is saying something....

 

Otherwise, I thought the supporting cast was good (I've been a WIll Poulter fan for some time, so it's alwasy good to see him on the screen!!), and the CGI for the monsters was good, but the movie itself just kinda limped along, IMO.

 

[88Keys]

A really good movie with a lot of action, although the sequels don't sound that they can be nearly as good, though I will withhold judgement.  But I'm very confused.  Why was Newt, of all of these English actors, the only one allowed to keep his English accent?  Teresa, Alby and Gally are all English.  Was it just that he couldn't do an American accent?  He plays the voice of Ferb, but does a British accent on that, too.

 

Newt is specifically described as English in the book, IIRC.  I don't think any of the other are.

 

I really liked the first book.  The second and third...not so much.  Confusing and kind of boring, IMO.  I liked this movie adaptation, though I thought it moved a bit fast.  In the book, Thomas was in the Glade for a longer period of time before everything started going crazy.  Also, Will Poulter did a good job, but he did not fit my mental picture of Gally.  And Gally wasn't mean enough in the movie.  In the book, he was scary crazy.

[NoWillToResist]

I liked this movie; didn't realize it would be a 'to be continued' kind of thing though. Thought the guys all had good chemistry with each each other.

 

The main thing that bothered me was that they never tried to get to the top of the wall; that seems to me to be the path of least resistance.  Easier to map and, theoretically, they could just walk along the top of the walls to freedom.

 

I mean, they kept sending boys in to map the fucking thing and I truly have no idea how they managed to do that from inside, when the pattern kept shifting. They could have scaled the wall, sat on top and drawn from a bird's eye view.

 

They could either have built their little wooden platforms higher from their home base or climbed all that ivy to the top from the inside, no?

Edited December 4, 2014 by NoWillToResist

[methodwriter85]

I finally got around to seeing it...they changed a lot, am I right?

 

I do think they were wise to keep the movie shorter than the Hunger Games or Divergent. (Which did NOT need to be a two-hour film.) What I really liked was that you actually got to see how these guys were friends/enemies, and there was good chemistry there.

 

I do like how this little, 34-million budgeted film without much expectation actually managed to to become a pretty big hit, especially globally. Good for Dylan O'Brien.

 

Although this movie did get skewered by Honest Trailers:

 

 

I really did appreciate that this movie avoided the love triangle crap that plagues so many YA movies.

Edited February 13, 2015 by methodwriter85

[Chrissytd]

First Look at The Scorch Trials

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/10/first-look-dylan-obrien-meets-world-danger-maze-runner-scorch-trials

[methodwriter85]

Looking forward to it. Dylan O'Brien can do no wrong.

[Chrissytd]

The Scorch Trials trailer

[methodwriter85]

Maze Runner parody from SNL:

 

 

And a Quiznos ad:

 

[Haunted]

I remember pausing and thinking about the purpose of everything after watching this movie lol.

I really liked the movie, I could even say I preferred it to Hunger Games.

[LeighAnne]

The fantastic people at Flicks and the City recorded the Maze Runner:  The Scorch Trials panel at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Yr4Dy_cp8

[beetnemesis]

Another teen novel turned movie. Not bad at all but nothing incredibly profound. Think Enders Game, I am Number Four, The Hunger Games, Percey Jackson etc...

[Rick Kitchen]

It was pretty good.  I haven't read any of the books, so I'm looking forward to the next one.  I hate what they did to Theresa.

 

And Newt sure didn't have  much to do.

[BetterButter]

‘The Maze Runner’ Reboot in the Works with ‘Transcendence’ Scribe Jack Paglen in Talks to Write

[methodwriter85]

On 5/3/2024 at 7:44 PM, BetterButter said:

‘The Maze Runner’ Reboot in the Works with ‘Transcendence’ Scribe Jack Paglen in Talks to Write

They did a fairly decent job with the world building so I think the idea of this could work. 

Although I don't think it's an accident that this is getting "rebooted" now that Disney owns it. Disney is in a seriously desperate place. Hopefully they're smart and keep the budget low.