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Today's film review from Judgmental Basement Losers...

  This is my personal review for the movie, The Maze Runner. For all of those who read the book before this movie's release (way back in 2014 :b), I could tell you were all excited for this movie. With a perfect story-line made for action and adventure, and mixing in an almost flawless science-fiction feel, with a dystopian influence to the plot right at the heart-breaking conclusion...   It all makes The Maze Runner the perfect best-selling book we know it as today, but what about its movie?
  The movie, just as the book, follows the story of Thomas, a teenage boy who awakes to find himself, without any memory, trapped in the Glade, a small shack-town formed by themselves, surrounded by a giant, ever-changing maze, in which deadly, bionic, poisonous beasts named "Grievers" live. He must learn to assimilate himself to this new reality while the "runners", the best of their male population, search for a way out of the maze. However, strange events begin to happen as soon as Thomas arrives, from the arrival of their only female and the antidote for the disease, to Thomas becoming the only (along with Ming) to survive overnight in the maze. Their reality begins to crumble before them, and with the dire situation of Grievers invading the Glade, it is up to Thomas to lead the Gladers to escape the maze and remember what he can to find out who is behind all this.
  I'd say that, both plot-wise and scenario-wise, this movie is okay. It matches the main plot of the book very well, and it does a great job with special effects to set the grand, futuristic theme of this movie. Not to mention, this movie succeeds greatly in Pathos, it really gave me "the feels" when watching this. I admit, (HUGE SPOILER!) this is one of the few movies that I cried watching, as Chuck dies when Gally shoots him just as they make it to freedom(?) from the maze.
  However, there is one part of the movie that really bugs me, along with all other Maze Runner fans. This movie forgets SO MANY details from the original book! I know that movies are different from the books to be interesting to watch (get a hint, Divergent!), but it seems like the only information from the book they used in the movie was just a quick summary some random child made! In the book, the maze has a "virtual roof" (as in later books, we find out it is underground), so it never rains, not to mention the fake sun eventually dies out in the book, but the book seems to completely ignore this, as it rains in the maze, the sun stays perfectly fine, and we see them escape via helicopter to reveal a final scene looking over the maze, which wouldn't be possible if underground!!! In the book, Thomas manages to kill a griever when in the maze overnight by tricking it to run off a cliff into a huge pit located in the maze, which is the same way they escape, but in the movie, the moving walls just "squish" the griever, and they escape through a normal exit from the maze, which isn't as exciting! In fact, they couldn't even get right the fact that Thomas, at first, only remembers his name, because it takes him about a day to realize his name in the movie! Believe me, this is just a quick overview, as there are many, many more forgotten details in this movie. Also, don't even get me started about The Scorch Trials, the sequel book and movie. They couldn't even keep the basic plot-line correct!
  So... with that ranting out of my system, I would say that this movie is overall very good, one of my personal favorites, but it kills me inside to see such little effort into bringing the book to life. For great, emotional acting, great special effects, a good plot, but so much ignorance to detail and in-depth thinking, I give this movie a 7/10.
  Remember to tune in next time (jk), where we will give a quality review for the greatest, most clever, popular movie of all time, Foodfight!.
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