The Maze Runner

Where the hunger games fails and how maze runners succeeds is simple in many ways.

While yes it definitely feels like it tries to be a spiritual successor to that franchise but it actual is good or at least its first film where as the hunger games is very shit.
I think the hunger games is a fine premise, its probably even good but it really thinks it can be a somewhat anti capitalistic hellscape while also just being a big budget save affair while also just not having any good writing or even camera work.

I even got a reply on my review on the first hunger games defending the huge amount of shaky cam because we should "feel katniss and her emotions" and fair enough, i think its a shit statement since shaky cam can let me feel emotion and not be dogshit.
Anyway I felt a lot more tension and emotion while watching this.
The writing while flawed gives the cast enough to gain chemistry and its camera is a bit more calculated and restrained then its contemporary.
Its world building is decent and its characters while fitting tropes do those tropes well.
Also this has Dylan o'brien and hunger games does not have Dylan o'brien.

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I wish this was less Hunger Games and more Kid Nation the Movie.

This is one of those times where I wish a story was different, and that's just my problem, and not a reflection about what it actually is. I was a lot more interested in how these kids have been surviving, farming, building structures, and so on than I was in the maze running. It still held my attention though.

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