#tmrmovietalk

well i have a tag here talking about all my general weird and wonderful musings on the movie 

in short though, i loved it. like i completely get what you mean, it’s not perfect and i would have definitely loved more character development but with all the stuff they had to put in it i can understand why there was a lack of it (there’s supposedly a lot more in the second movie though, so lets look forward to that) and i don’t mind it. everything else made up for it really and i wasn’t expecting it to be some kind of deep movie, i was expecting action and fun (which i got plenty of)

i don’t think the intention of the deaths (besides chuck’s) were really to hurt rather than to show the brutality of the situation though. like for example alby, you’ve seen him talk about how he has been there from the start and you can see how much he cares about protecting his friends, his family if you will, and when he dies his last words are ‘get them out’ even after being stung and all the stuff he went through with that. it’s not meant to be sad or hurt, it’s showing the strength of his character and establishing the whole ‘anyone can die’ trope. 

but in my opinion there wasn’t much character development or deaths that hurt in the first book either really, so i suppose it’s not even that far off. i don’t think you get any substantial depth to any characters until the story progresses because their characters are pretty static and have one set goal and as soon as things change there is too much going on to stop and have heart to hearts. 

ben's banishment in the movie?

he's not dead really?? will's said multiple times that he'll be in the scorch trials and also vince, a member of the right arm with gally, is going to be in the scorch trials, so i'm pretty sure gally wouldn't have been killed off. 

oh man there's lots i think about the tmr movie in general, you'll find a lot of it in this tag (this one if you want to start from the beginning and see my initial reactions) 

THOMINHO HOLDING HANDS AND THOMAS FALLING INTO MINHO'S ARMS AND MINHO SHOUTING DON'T LOOK BACK AT THOMAS WHILST LOOKING BACK TO MAKE SURE HE'S OKAY um i mean thomas and minho escaping when the walls were changing that was so amazing and exciting 

THAT WHOLE PAN SHOT WHERE MINHO PUTS HIS HAND ON THOMAS' CHEST AND THEY STARE AT EACH OTHER LOVINGLY AND MINHO IS ALL CONCERNED ABOUT THOMAS' SAFETY GOING INTO THE MAZE AND SO HE GETS A WHOLE TEAM OF PEOPLE TO BE HIS BODYGUARDS um i mean the whole going in to find the squished griever scene "griever pancake" hahah 

BEN ATTACKING THOMAS chris sheffield is amazingly talented holy hell and that scene was so great wowza 

"give this to my parents" "you can give it to them yourself" ~"i promise" haha kill me 

the last scene in WICKED hq holy shit?? it was so amazingly emotional dylan and blake's acting were a++ i cried all three times i've watched it tbh

AND FOR HECK'S SAKE Alby was killed!! The ONLY black guy. EVERYTIME I TELL YOU. Okay, calm. OMG AND THE MED JACK TOO. SEE! calm calm calm

I completely get what you mean in terms of the media in general. Being half black myself I do think that representation is important and although I adore Nathalie part of me did hope for and expect someone closer to the books description of her. 

However in terms of The Maze Runner’s casting I really don’t think the decision would have anything to do with only wanting someone lighter, I think it would be purely down to the acting skills. We don’t know who went up for it, and as we learned from the ‘Dylan’s hair seemed too MTV’ fiasco, Wes doesn’t want little things like hair to affect his casting choices if the person is really perfect for the role, so I’d assume that the tone of her skin would be similar to that idea if everything else she did was amazing.

I don’t think comparing it to other YA movies is very fair because I think TMR did very well in casting POCs, considering there are a lot of characters whose race wasn’t mentioned in the books, including Winston and Frypan, who were casted as POCs, unlike other YA movies that whitewash the characters whose race was actually mentioned. Compared to other movies and TV shows aimed at the YA market, I’d say there’s a lot more diversity in our movie than in others.

newt's limp IS in the movie

i know there's even a clip with it somewhere but i can't remember which one it is. it's there, but it's not clear unless you are looking for it. it's not over exaggerated, it's realistic. newt has had the limp for years now, he'll be used to it. they didn't talk about it, but it was there.

you're not the only one, but i am not one of those people 

wes said ages before the movie came out that it wouldn't be included, and there are good reasons. it would look very weird on screen if thomas and teresa just sat there not moving their lips but you could hear them talking. some things that work in books don't really work on screen. you could tell they still had a connection due to the dreams thing, though i'm not sure how they're going to work that into the second movie. it'll probably just have thomas falling asleep more again.