Unless the change removes a steamy cave scene with an expectant baby-daddy Highlander and then that change should never be accepted.** You know we’ve written many posts about “accept it now!” wherein we talk about how you should build a bridge and get over it? Well, you should. I was even more excited that they had pieces of pipe and baseball bats attached to their backpacks, because it’s JUST LIKE A VIDEO GAME! I was excited when they found the underground cache so they could load up their backpacks and head out into the Scorch. Those last two sentences are the most succinct summary of Scorch Trials that you’ll ever find. Along the way they pick up tools, skills and allies. The characters are shoved into an “impossible weirdness” and they have to survive. Most good games have a cut and paste format similar to YA dystopian movies. Specifically The Last of Us, which is no surprise since the director had his start as a visual effects artist. I have no doubt in my mind that Dylan O’Brien can actually fire a gun, run full tilt and slide under a door. One particularly awesome sequence has O’Brien and newcomer Rosa Salazar – my new girl crush – climbing through the interior of a crumbling skyscraper that’s leaning against another building, being pursued by several “full-term” carnivorous Cranks.ĭuring those action sequences the actors appeared legit. The characters sprint, climb and generally flee in terror from agents of the mysterious WCKD organization, zombies and even other survivors. I don’t think even the most adamant Bruce Willis/ Die Hard fan could claim this film is for sissies. Then Dylan O’Brien contracted the flu, was out for two days, and came back only to break a leg in the middle of a scene. Dexter Darden was hospitalized with sickle cell anemia. Filming was located in the New Mexico desert where nighttime temperatures dropped rapidly, sometimes into the single digits. Shooting was no vacation on an Italian riviera either. I was also inordinately thirsty through the entire film … sympathy pains. At one point Teresa’s lips looked so dry and cracked I had an instinct to put Chapstick on in the theatre. They looked sweaty, hungry, smelly and sun beaten. The Maze Runner kids did not look glamorous on the run a la Tris’s somehow perfectly coifed mane and eye makeup in Insurgent. He likened the movie to Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back … you know, the one where Luke lost an appendage, found out his dad was a sociopath and Han was frozen in freakin’ carbonite!* Let’s just say that Wes Ball delivered. The director, Wes Ball, made it no secret he planned on the characters being tortured during this second film. The Scorch Trials is a 131-minute chaotic sprint from start to finish, so strap on your yoga pants and prepare for the anxiety attacks. ** This is a mostly spoiler free Scorch Trials movie review so unless you live under a rock and have never seen the trailer – in which case you won’t know what I’m talking about anyway – you’re all set.**
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