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Divergent comes out next month.
Are you excited? Do you think it'll be a big hit with audiences like The Hunger Games and Twilight?
Does shailene Woodley have the potential to make this a huge franchise?
Divergent comes out next month.
Are you excited? Do you think it'll be a big hit with audiences like The Hunger Games and Twilight?
Does shailene Woodley have the potential to make this a huge franchise?
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No, to both.
We'll see though, but there have been many YA franchises fail miserably recently at the first hurdle. vampire Academy particularly strange as it got pretty good reviews.
If I had to put money on it, I'd say this one would be another fail, but who knows.
Neither did Kristen Stewart, but did anybody actually go to see those movies for her? As far as I'm aware, all the hype over Twilight was over the male leads. Divergent looks like it's going for that market too, with a lot of the publicity focussing on shirtless pictures of Theo James (who has a lot to do to convince me he is Four, what I've seen in the trailers is leaving me cold).
To be honest the only reason I'm interested in seeing this is to see how similar to The Hunger Games it is. The way they've marketed it is going to invite comparison, which may well not work in their favour given how well-reviewed THG and Jennifer Lawrence's performances in those movies in particular have been.
im a male in his 30s but loved the hunger games trilogy?
Your gender and age shouldn't stop you reading anything
The film looks crap tbh, they casted the wrong actors for Tris and Four, especially Four but I hope i am proved wrong and the film is good
No I didn't say it would stop me but sometimes ive been recommended books that were for a younger age group and they bored me senseless
It's nowhere near as satisfying for an adult to read as The Hunger Games trilogy. Though there are interesting themes that could be explored, they are sidelined for an overblown, tedious and improbable love story. The characterisation also leaves a lot to be desired.
OK thanks that's what I meant, but im curious might give the 1st a go
Currently has nothing like the pre-release buzz that those titans enjoyed, but that could increase as the release date nears. Boxoffice.com predict a $55m US opening & $135m checkout, and it could do similar or even slightly better business abroad.
Nothing groundbreaking of course, but it looks like it'll fare better than other recent wannabe-franchise stiffs. And via the capable hands of Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless), they may have crafted something suitable for an audience greater than its target demograph.
Well as said above your age shouldn't stop you. However to me they were terrible. Such an obvious Christian allegory.
It loos like a rip off of multiple YA franchsies among other things.
The concept was interesting, but it depends on the execution. Shailene Woodley is a great actress, but will need to breathe a lot of life into the character.
I thought the first book was good (got a lot better towards the end), the second book was excellent and the third was good but not as good as the first two. I guess the third book is the hardest to write as I also thought the third Hunger Games book wasn't as good as the first two.
This'll probably the first film I buy advanced tickets for since Star Trek: First Contact.
Also, to the bloke in his 30s wondering whether to read them, do it. I'm in my (early) 30s and I enjoyed them.
I loved the Hunger games trilogy. I started reading Divergent and stopped. In my opinion it's a poor copy! I could see so many similarities between the books that it started to get on my nerves! I wont be viewing the film. I'll just wait patiently for the mocking jay movie
it's very much in the vein of the Hunger Games movies . I haven't read the books , it was ok , but it just felt so familiar , every scene I felt I'd seen a hundred times .
the business with the different factions could've been interesting but they didn't do much with it .
I usually like Kate Winslett but she wasn't very good in this .
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she's not in it much .
Oh well, what a shame.
May not bother then lol.
I would agree with this. I haven't read the book. I had read The Hunger Games before seeing the film so deliberately didn't do the same for this film. So I went in knowing nothing and with no expectations.
I found it at best ok but many times, dull and boring. This hasn't made me want to rush out and get the book, or the next one in the series. I don't care if a sequel isn't made. Unless it does good business I don't think one will be.
The main lead I found bland and unlikeable. Admittedly I'm not female or even close to her age, whatever age that is supposed to be. Although I'm sure she wasn't supposed to be, she did come across as an Katniss "wannabe."
I think that was also part of the problem with the film for me. Why did the main lead have to be female? Before people jump on me for being sexist blah blah blah, what I mean is we have had this, The Hunger Games, Twilight etc all female lead and they all have that common theme of he fancies her, she fancies him, when are they gong to get together kind of thing. Great if you are a teenage girl, but for other people, particularly guys it's hard to really give a toss about.
As I say I've never read the Divergent book but the minute I saw "Four" I said that's the love interest that is the they have feelings and blah blah blah. So very predictable.
Had the lead in this been male we would have at least been spared that stuff. This felt like Twilight meets The Hunger Games.
I'm glad they didn't do much with the factions as that would have made it even more like The Huger Games. You call them districts, I'll call them factions.
I'm assuming that a lot was chopped out of this adaptation because the plot was kind of confusing and poorly explained.
One of the poorer films I've seen this year 4/10