Almost every book I read is made into a movie. The Maze Runner is no exception. The book was amazing and yeah the movie wasn't bad but the last half of the movie just ignored the book. It was totally different and that was really disappointing. But let's talk about the book first.
Thomas wakes up in a elevator and he can only remember his name. When the elevator goes up and opens above him he sees boys. Only boys. He is welcomed (rudely) by the boys and they tell him that he is in a place called the Glade. As he looks around he sees large stone walls, those large stone walls are the beginning of the maze. They only know that the maze opens in the morning and closes at night. Thomas gets a tour by Alby and learns about the differents tasks that are assigned to the Gladers. Thomas finds out that there are runners and he wants to be one of them. Runners are the Gladers who are going into the maze. They are trying to get out of the Glade and they think that the exit is in the maze. One day the elevator opens and they see the first girl in the history of the Glade. She is unconcious and when they lift her up they see that she has a note that says: "She is the last one". After her nobody will come up the elevator again.
Minho the head of the runners and Alby went into the maze because they were looking for the Griever (a very creepy animal robot thing who's sting can kill, yeah not so pretty) that is dead. They learned that the antidote to a Griever sting revives small bits of memory. Well they find out that the Griever isn't dead and Alby is stung. Minho runs off. Meanwhile Thomas sees everything and runs into the maze and saves both Alby and Minho. After a meeting Thomas becomes head runner.
The runners find out WICKED the creepy people who put them in the Glade. A lot of people die and some survive (WARNING: you will get feels, yeah it gets emotional yay! -_-) But you've gotta find out what happens!
Then the movie... They just abandoned characters and changed plots. It's not a bad movie tho if you haven't read the books but when you did read the books it's just kinda disappointing. Plus they just threw in some special effects. No special effects don't always make the book better. But I have got to say that it was a very good choice to choose Dylan O'Brien as Thomas. I mean he's hot and an amazing actor. I just wish that it was someone's job is to hit the director, the producer and the scriptwriter on the head with the book they are trying to make a movie of when they want to change the plot. I know that they can't put everything in the movie because otherwise it will become too long, but really I don't mind. Yeah I will probably sit in the theatre for 6 hours if that means that every little detail is there.
After all this all I wanted to say was, read the book. Really the books is amazing!
Leave a comment about what you thought about the book or movie or both of course.
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