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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| October 15th, 2014 at 10:00:43 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Specifically, I was thinking of Young Adult films. Almost no one over the age of 30 can sit through a twilight film. You are correct that most of the good animation has stuff that adults enjoy. Disney went a little overboard with Wall-E, as the film was more appealing to adults than very young children. |
| October 15th, 2014 at 10:07:19 AM permalink | |
| TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
Ahhh... I sat through the first Hunger Games. Won't bother with the rest. I do know one guy (yes, a guy) who sat through all the Twilight movies. And not because he was on a date. Young Adult fiction appears to go much further than YA films. I quite like Young Adult fiction... the stories are often more imaginative than sci-fi and less $5 words than some novels. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
| October 15th, 2014 at 10:38:07 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5126 |
Torches! Yay! I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| October 15th, 2014 at 11:42:06 AM permalink | |
| Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 | We saw an indie crime film on Netflix called Blue Ruin. Short (90 minutes or so) and very taut, it tells the story of a homeless man caught up in a revenge plot. Very good. Also, yesterday we saw Gone Girl. Whack as hell, if you ask me. Both Mrs and I liked it. |
| October 15th, 2014 at 3:31:14 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I'm going to put my replies in spoiler tags, as they give away some of the movie. Much of the beginning of the movie is everybody in the maze wondering who made it and why. The answer is given at the end of the movie, although it may have been a false answer. Thus the need for part two. I think it is safe to say the whole maze is a Twilight Zone kind of experiment.
A lone girl does enter the maze towards the end of the movie. It isn't explained why very deeply.
First they erase the memory of the boys and then send them up to the maze on an elevator that begins under the maze. About a day after arriving the boys will remember their names but that is about it. None have much idea about their pre-maze life, until the last boy, who has some flashbacks to it, which he explains to the rest, which sets up a power struggle about whether to escape or stay put.
Before the last boy enters most are content to live in the middle of the maze and leave the the maze alone. A few boys are called "runners" who explore the maze during the day. The rest are not allowed to even enter it. The runners have a special hut with a diagram of the maze. The leader is content with this set up. However, the last boy to enter shakes things up and increases interest in escaping. Precedent had it that the monsters never came in the middle, as they are nocturnal, and the gate closes before sunset and opens after sunrise. However, that doesn't mean things can't change. I don't want to reveal too much. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| October 15th, 2014 at 7:18:25 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | I'm sensing a, "Lord of the Flies" vibe. Is there a fat kid everyone calls, "Piggy"? |
| October 15th, 2014 at 9:19:57 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4977 | My wife and I tried to watch a movie called A Million Ways to Die in the West. Turned it off after 15 minutes. Horrible. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| October 17th, 2014 at 4:16:51 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
One could certainly make comparisons but there was no "Piggy" character in the Maze Runner. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| October 20th, 2014 at 7:57:57 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |   There has to be an archetype of a piggy. You can't tell a story like that without having at least one slightly intellectual but athletically inferior character. |
| October 20th, 2014 at 9:42:00 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Yes, I guess you could make comparisons between Piggy and Chuck. However, Chuck was a pretty minor character. The Maze Runner was not trying to imitate Lord of the Flies. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |