First Time Watching *THE MAZE RUNNER* | Chuck BROKE My Heart! (Movie Reaction)
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WHY'D THEY HAVE TO KILL MY MAN CHUCK OFF SOME BULLSHIT
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"i'm rooting for chuck and newt and only chuck and newt" that is literally so real omfg
little did he know
I also did root for only Chuck, Newt (and Teressa later)
(Yes I'm from the minority who likes TERESSA)
But ......
I honestly felt bad for the book Teresa but the movie one was horrible.
Early into the pandemic, this cast did a script reading over zoom and Dylan O'Brian who plays Thomas stopped everything at one point and was like "Is this the first statement I've made this whole time?" 😂
So the reason Alby isn’t thrown out into the Maze, is because he didn’t break any rules. If you remember, the Glade has 3 rules. 1 - Do your part. 2 - Never hurt another Glader. 3 - Never go out into the Maze (unless you’re a Runner). Ben (the boy who got Stung) attacked and injured Thomas.
Also, these books were very popular. They were actual contemporaries of THG, being released alongside them. And the books are a lot better. Some of the characters aren’t the strongest, but plot-wise it’s better.
Since I was such a Teen Wolf fan, I think I actually screamed when the cast with Dylan O'Brian as the main character got announced lol
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''I´m rooting for Chuck and Newt, and only for them'' 😢Oh you poor innocent thing, you´re in for a WILD RIDE my friend...
dont spoil omg
@@katieryan1188 right people who say those type of stuff are like that's not spoil but that make you know that something is gonna happen at some point
Newt, Minho and Chuck are such great characters. I just love em
No other dystopian movie or serie can top the sense of realism created in the Maze Runner.
It's such an underrated trilogy
I think the maze shifts in ways so that you can't get to certain sections, but regardless, Minho says he knows every path extremely well so I think that's how they managed to find their way back
The reason the rest of the night was quiet after the 1 attack, is because there is only 1 griever per section. So because section 7 was open. Section 7’s griever was out. And after they killed it. There was no griever to attack them anymore
The first movie in this series is the best in my opinion. I agree I connected with the hunger games characters, even the ones with smaller roles, more than I did with most of these characters. Thomas is pretty annoying in the beginning lol asking questions they already answered and being super impulsive. The excuse I will give him is being in a high stress fight or flight situation that would make us all behave more erratically than normal. The actor that plays Thomas got hurt very badly doing stunts I think filming the third movie and so there was a big gap between film two and three being released. He had a concussion and a fracture in his face. He had to have facial surgery. Poor guy.
“Oh shit Chuck! Ok. Goddamn” “oh Chuck’s fine” “NO HE WAS SHOT NOOOO!!!”
I feel so bad for cackling at this reaction.
Chuck deserved better
I have never understood the complaints people have about "plot armor". It's a movie. Movies like this are generally stories about a protagonist and how they overcome great obstacles against all odds, with spectacular and thrilling action set pieces. If the main character dies, there is no movie or story worth being told. So would you rather have the protagonist fail and die or have the action set piece be less thrilling to make it more realistic?
I totally get what you’re saying!! I think the problem with plot armor is that it makes it harder to suspend your disbelief. When you see characters in other stories without plot armor, and they get out of situations in realistic (in the context of the story) and inventive ways, it’s really exciting and even rewarding. But when you see characters get lucky over and over, it can feel less earned. It’s like what one of my professors always says: “when characters have bad luck, it’s believable, but when they have good luck, it’s a convenience”
the books are SOOO much better it’s insane.
True but Dylan makes up for it by being sexii.
omg i agree!!! but i kinda like that the movies and books r different because you get a bit of everything in both
Agree I couldn’t put the books down
Me when I lie
@@alyd6598 no but fr the movies are dog water compared to the books.
IF you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," of course. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus. Pre-memory-wipe Thomas, like Daedalus, was a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus also betrayed Minos, just like Thomas did WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas was sent by WCKD into the maze. The Glade and the Gladers are Athens and Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence somewhere of an all-female maze. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure."
The Glade's Athens is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Who can forget the pig that arrived with Thomas, either? Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Things which we do see play out in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute leads us to believe that at some point in the trilogy Thomas will die. Gally, in the first film, probably represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to mount Ralph's head on a pole as an offering to the beast, which represents darkness/fear/the innate primordial savageness of the boys. Despite his sometimes impulsiveness, Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Consider Alby's interactions with Thomas. It's interesting that Alby sees Thomas as different from the other Gladers, a catalyst for change, perhaps? He warns Thomas not to be nonconformist. Alby makes Thomas sign a contract of sorts with the Glade by having Thomas etch his name on the wall. The significance of the names that are the closest surrounding Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies. George's crossed-out name, indicating he's dead, and the discovery of his body is highlighted for us, so perhaps we should also remember it?
When Thomas and the others arrive in the Glade, they're essentially born into it, actually and symbolically. The water (oxygenated perfluorocarbon fluid?) is the amniotic fluid, the glass enclosure represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as newly-minted people. They have no identity except a name and even that was assigned to them by WCKD. When Alby says that the creators only let them remember their name, he's not exactly correct. They don't remember their actual name, only their WCKD name. That's why no two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants of some sort. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off.
The party the Gladers throw on the day Thomas arrives is his "birthday" party. As Newt tells Thomas, the party is in your honour. Once a month, the Gladers have a celebration.
The average Glader is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. Alby maybe reluctant to answer Thomas because he's afraid of what Thomas might do. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is the Glade's holiest of holies and off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas.
Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing the immunes. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, Griever sting virus can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung.
Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. He doesn't approve at all. In fact, it's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him sometimes impulsive. After what happened to Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he runs into the maze after Minho and Alby. Which brings up the question of why Minho is bringing Alby back if he's been stung. The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers hold court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the maze before such a court. Ben was banished by a similar but unseen process because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung per se. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear take over, and Minho abandons both Alby and Thomas to their collective fate.
Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. What to make of all that? She certainly doesn't seem a good harbinger.
After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. At this point the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct code. It seems only those subjects who successfully exit the maze are candidates for the second trial. Survival of the fittest.
Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus.
As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which had precipitated the solar flares that scorched the Earth and indirectly brought about the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of his friends. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over the Gladers. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' eventual betrayal of WCKD precipitated his downfall and the tragic course his subsequent life followed.
Tragic heroes suffer, and so Thomas will suffer throughout the films. Another aspect of the tragic hero motif is that those nearest and dearest to the hero often wind up either in some sort of deadly peril or just plain dead. Most often, it's dead. As you watch the films you might ask yourself: Who's closest to Thomas?
The trilogy manifests several themes. One which we see in the first film in particular is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.
26:09 I used to wonder this, but then one day I just figured that they figured out the general sequence order after they found the numbers, figured out which number a specific day was, and then followed the pattern backwards to what it would've been the first day and so on~
If they gave another explanation for knowing in the book (or even if this was in the book), I don't remember. I read the first book and a good bit of the second one before the first movie came out.
in the book they draw every variation of the maze on the see-through wax paper and then lay the paper on top of each other, forming words. each section (1-8) forms its own word, so for the code they just enter the words in order of the sections. doesnt really explain the movie lol but yeah i just figured that the cycle resets every time a new person arrives
Also when they were using the wax paper in the books they would get a letter show up from tracing all the different sections of the maze for that day or something like that. Then I think there would be a break, where no letter came up, so they guessed that was the end of the first word, then more letters to make more words and so on. After a while I believe there was a bigger break where no letters/words were found from tracing and then the letters/words starting repeating themselves so that's how they figured out the beginning of the code in the books.
So even if they didn't start from the right day they could figure out where it started because of the big gap (it might have been a weeks worth of maze maps where no letters were found) before repeating the same words.
As for the movie I have no idea lol. Maybe there was a similar thing where a day goes by where none of the sections are opened and then it repeats. That's just a random guess though it's not really explained in the movie.
I think at some point in the movie, they talk about how the numbers reset each time a new person comes up in the box? I think they call it a “cycle”? if that’s the case, _and_ each new person comes up once every 30 days, with 8 maze sections, then every 3.75 days or so a new section would open up and they’d also know when the box will come up next bc the cycle resets. Idk, I liked the book explanation better anyway
“Holy plot armour” 💀💀
this is one of the rare book adaptations where I actually love the movies just as much as the books. the story diverges in the second movie and takes a different direction than the books do, but it's not a BAD direction imo and I actually enjoy both versions of the story. in terms of book accuracy the first movie is the closest, and after the first few minutes of the second movie the story shifts to the alternate route but both versions are VERY good and I enjoy them quite a bit. excited to see your reactions!!
I agree Thomas and Tereasa look like siblings si when things happen in the other movies I'm like 😃...
I dont know why but in my mind it seemed that as soon as Thomas and the others left the glade, the grievers attacked the glade like the night before and killed everyone. Gally was able to grab that key from one of their boys but was stung. He used it to get through the maze by its beeping sound and caught up to the office place just as the video was ending 🤔🤔🤔 in my mind 😅😂
fun fact: they’ve all been renamed after historical figures, Thomas/Edison, Newt/Newton, Chuck/Darwin, Gally/ Galileo, Alby/Einstein
I've absolutely adored these movies & dylan obrien as an actor for years and I really appreciate your nitpicks! I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the franchise, I think the 3rd Maze Runner movie might be my favorite but I really enjoy all of them. Newt & Chuck are definitely part of my list of favorite characters, and some future characters you have yet to meet. Loving your videos! :)
nothing could ever top hunger games- it is just to real and too human- the metaphor runs deep, and divergent and maze runner could never compete because they just simply were not that deep. The plot lines got way too convoluted too
I’m so happy I found your channel! Your commentary is always so great
I love these movies because they’re dystopian and i love anything like that cause it has a certain feel, but the books are definitely much better. I would even go as far as saying the second book scorch trials is one of my all time faves along with the prequel to the hunger games.
yes, they really did the second book dirty with the adaptation when to book was so good! they literally took the trials out of the scorch trials.
The maze runner movie is the best movie but for the books I love the Scorch Trials
when you watch the third movie, you should also watch the deleted scenes, or at least the one between newt and thomas because it shines a bit more light on newt's character and imo would make the movie even better had they kept it in
This is a great film series, great young actors to discover, action packed! Awesome stuff
After Maze Runner, a similar series from the genre is Divergent. However they didn't finish the series so it's controversial
I forgot they never finished that. I wonder why
Not a goo quota lmaooo 😂
I think I got through 1 1/2 of the books, I graduated HS though and haven't bothered to get a hold of them again. The books are SO good though. Some parts made me genuinely scared. Highly recommend
Now react to the Pitch Meeting for it! =P the one for this is particularly fun imo, because this is a particularly cliche, silly, kinda inconsistent film.... for example, how do they know what Grievers are? They only come out at night, no-one survives the night, how does anyone learn about them? etc. etc.
Still always fun watching with you!
they can obviously hear their cries. they know something is out there, and that people get hurt by it. it is not that hard to put together that there is a something out there. they also very clearly state that they barely know anything about them. there are many complaints for this movie, but this one is not one of them
@@ranniwolves a quick rewatch tells me that they inform New Kid that if you get stung by a griever then you get infected with "The Flare" which leads to "The Changing".
They may well clearly state that they know barely anything, but if they also demonstrate very specific knowledge then y'know, clearly they do know a reasonable amount. Which conflicts with the aforementioned "nobody survives the night and they only come out at night".
I liked Him for the questions because I know I would have been asking questions non stop. I’m getting out of here or dying trying.
Now that you have watched all of them i feel OK in commenting wow that line was really sad. "Chucks my favorite I like newt too." Oh the series is going to p*** him off.
newt is my favourite character!!!
this was my favorite of the YA book series in this vein lol
Oh yeah, I forgot the movie writers glanced at the novels cover and threw the whole book in the trash
"i'm rooting for chuck and newt and only chuck and newt" Good luck with that lol
you should also watch divergent it’s also dystopian and has the same overall vibe of maze runner and hunger games
That movies are hard pass from me,maze and hunger games are so much better.
It would be great to see you do a reaction for UPGRADE 2018 its a very underrated movie and i can tell you it's definitely one of the best 21st century sci-fi movie. Only just 3 million dollars budget they managed to make something much brilliant and much better than most Hollywood movies these days. I highly recommend for you to see it 👍
Here is some others hopefully that you can do a reaction too
Dark City
Reign of Fire
Speed Racer
Ninja Assassin
Burn After Reading
LA Confidential
Heat 1995
Cube 1997
Exam
10 Cloverfield Lane
Can you react to The equalizer in the future? Really want to see what you think about these movies (there are 2 now, third upcoming). Ps, great reaction again!
It's an ok series
Movies, shows and video games like this that kill off the child character you grow attached to- Rue and Prim from the hunger games, Chuck in the maze runner, Sarah in the last of us, always break the audience. Because somehow we believe, and desperately hope, that they're safe and fine, that somehow they'll live. It just makes their deaths more harsh
W video bro
This sure was a series that happened, trying to ride the Hunger Games wave. This and Divergent. And Mortal Instruments.
Why did the girls in your class go for Thomas when Newt was right there?
Team Newt always ❤
You should react to Papillon
the girls were definitely crazy about him because he was in teen wolf and not this movie haha
You should watch Creed
The books are better than the movies (in my opinion) but the movies are pretty good too
Pretty mcuh everything wrong with the movie is better explained and has way better execution in the book. I was a huge fan of the series when I was younger and I remember how much this movie pissed me off because of how much it butchers the characters. Specifically Gally actually makes sense in the book because it has time to develop him. Unfortunately the sequels might be even worse adaptations but if the story and concept is interesting to you I would recommend the books.
The book is just infinitely better. Especially the second and third book where, in my opinion, the movies failed spectacularly.