The 5th Wave Ruins Aliens and Wastes Your Time | The Book Was Better
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We call him book Jesus because he suffers for humanities literary sins.
And the hair. Mustn't forget the hair
No. He's turning into a heavy metal literature teacher
@@Megatron_95 Sign me the hell up for that course
I must add book Jesus to my list. It belongs with buff Korean Jesus (real statue) and hot renaissance Italian Jesus (Western depiction based on Cesare Borgia).
I am Catholic, but have a sense of humor.
This is the word of the Lord...
"Does for Aliens what Twilight did for vampires."
That was the first quote I read about this book and all interest was dead.
Not true, at least twilight did start making vampires mainstream for good or bad again.
Aliens arent everywhere, it looses even to twilight.
@@marocat4749 I just remembered that Twilight's author also wrote a book about aliens conquering the earth and using humans as hosts. (And of course the LOVE TRIANGLE is the focus.)
The first words out of my mouth hearing that was, "Was that suppose to be a compliment?" I'd take them as fightin' words.
@@kylesodyssey8591 My first words were "Nope, Nope, not going any further."
@@CoolG97 At lest she doesnt make ptetenses of that ever mattering XD
Cassie doesn't get on the bus because the scene of two siblings getting separated makes for a good trailer. That's the simplest explanation I can think of.
@@arcahmwinters70 Point is the trailer needs to be interesting to trick people into thinking the film is to. (I mean they could've had it so her brother was on the bus and she didn't know until it was too late, but nope this is fine.)
reminds me of "Fountain".
Seriously, that was probably the movie I enjoyed the least.
Talk about false advertising.
Basically, it's like what Ryan George would say:
"Why doesn't Cassie get on the bus?"
"So the story can happen!"
"Fair enough!"
I have a better explanation. Cassie doesn’t get on the bus because the plot needs her not to get onto the bus otherwise it would’ve been a short movie.
I'm with you on "The soldiers at the camp must be infected by the aliens" because if my CO told me that the aliens infect people, then gave the order to just start indiscriminately start killing people, my first thought would be "You're the one. You're in charge, the obvious choice to infect."
Yeah honestly why infect fucking nobodies with shit physical abilities and no positions of power or charisma by the standards the aliens shown already no one should think an alien would be stupid enough to stay in that camp when the soldiers came if they really are humans
@@feritperliare2890 or some are and they are to scared to speak out not knowing if they are the only non infected
How to get fragged as a CO 101
Order civilians to be fired on.
Sounds like you're ready to survive a better movie. 😎
Sadly many soldiers are just "well, we do what they tell us to do" people. Capital punishment for disobeying orders, IE being shot, helps in that. But likely, some other officer would question this guy's motives soon.
No, no. Your hair is impeccably shampooed. She is followed around by a personal stylist.
...That could be a pretty interesting idea for a horror movie. Kinda using the same body autonomy stuff Krimson talked about in this episode.
Every single day, the protagonist wakes *bathed.* And with full, must have taken hours *make-up* too. And nobody cares, because s/he's so 'pretty' that way!
With the right script, actors and director, I think that could be pretty dang chilling stuff even without a drop of gore, honestly.
@@LORDOFDORKNESS42 screenshotting so if I ever write this movie I can give credit where credit is due
@@LORDOFDORKNESS42 This could be a great movie 😱
Perfectly iron curled and laid. For real I need her apocalypse hair routine
@@LORDOFDORKNESS42.....And then it turns out that her Home was just haunted by a well-meaning but slightly weird Spirit! 😆
Who else is reminded of "Terrible Writing Advise" when you hear something like teen soldiers or loveinterest?
And LOVE TRIANGLES.
ah yes! the love triangle-man.
LOVE DODECAHEDRON.
@@Rabbit-uc5kg Like House of Night
Why have love triangles when you can have love dodecahedron?
My man just pulled out multiple words to describe his disgust of this book/movie.💀
I would've used some...less than polite words.
Her hair really does annoy me while watching this movie. It's literally always perfect while in the tail end of an apocalypse
My hair doesn't even look that good in the middle of a pandemic
After a week, my hair is usually greasier than a bucket of KFC
Maybe she’s trucking a crate of shampoo where ever she goes
Apparently hair oil balances out on its own eventually, BUT.... even if her hair was naturally ungreasy.... if you're fighting for your life and survival I'd cut it, or at least tie it up to ensure it didn't become a problem with line of sight or bag straps or etc etc etc.
Deffo not loose and flowy
I also love how she found time to put on lipgross while sneaking into the army basr
Those cats in the bookstore weren’t in any danger. My father is a firefighter and he has told me that it is standard procedure to not go into a burning building to save cats. Why? Because they must have some portal to another dimension to hide in. Him and his rig once had to completely demolish a building because of how much was destroyed, and there was a cat inside. Around 15 minutes after they left the cat came out of the rubble.
Thank goodness for that-the cat making it out.
Cats access The Warp and hide inside of some poor Chaos Daemon until such a time as the fire has passed.
cries in yellowfang
Actually, us Chaos Demons offer the kittehs refuge. Because they are fluffy and purr.
@@alameachan Must be Slaaneshi
About the explosion: gasoline burn, it does not explode.
That's why cars don't explode in real life, older cars tank exploded because of the pressure of the gas resulting from combustion, but for decades now every tank has a part with plastic or other material that in case of combustion let's an opening for gas to exit.
So the explosion is just that they put too much explosive.
Or the wrong type of explosive.
Edit: The same type they used to blow up the base.
Today I learned...
gasoline can explode in it combust rapidly
@@justarandomtechpriest1578 Combustion it's not explosion... the resulting byproduct of combustion and increase in pressure causes explosion, like I said.
It was a charter bus, so wouldn't it more likely be diesel (not gasoline) which is even less likely to explode? Maybe they fucked up and had a natural gas powered bus.
When Krimsonrogue uploads I know it’s gonna be a good day
Hell yea
Same
Good for us, bad for him. 😂
"You probably played football. You might have even been team captain." Yes. That is definitely what that build tells me. He definitely looks like someone who is good at tackling people.
Technically only defensive players and linemen need to be able to tackle. Everybody else is focused on throwing, running, or catching
@@Masterchief0521 The running would still need enough mass to push past them if they try to get in the way though.
When you asked "what do you think they call the aliens" I actually said "The others?" as a joke right before it was confirmed in dialogue
I thought they were called Wavers or The Fifth Beings.
@@marvinsteven3874 that might be what they were revealed as in the book but in the movie they are explicitly called "the others"
@@wilsonkierankitsune I think they’re called The Others in the book as well, at least at first.
There's a reason why the book, War Of The Worlds, referred to the invaders as 'Martians' is because humans didn't understand their language so they nicknamed them since they're from Mars. But the book and the movie of The 5th Wave just have the aliens named themselves 'Others', which is just stupid for calling themselves that, and yet they can somehow speak and understand the native language.
@@prehistorichero2755 Honestly, as far as a human-given name for them goes, it might have been somewhat ironic for them to be called "the Deluvians" in reference to the Biblical Deluge, or Flood, since the topic of God does come up a few times over the course of the series. It still wouldn't make sense for the aliens to call themselves that, unless they were trying to purposefully lean into it, but it's better than just calling them "the Others."
in regards to the army dude giving the speech. my thought was that he was letting the bus get out of range of the gunfire noises. and he was just talking to fill time without it seeming suspicious.
But then why accurately explain the whole bodysnatchers thing? I mean you're about to kill all these people anyway: give any old nonsense speech. Tell the victims about how the Marines are successfully standing up to the aliens, hooray. Heck, "vaccinate them all against the Red Plague" and avoid a bunch of gunshots and chaos altogether.
Peter Anspach's Evil Overlord List #7: "When I've captured my adversary and he says, 'Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?' I'll say 'No' and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say 'No'."
Krimson Rogue. Krimson, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Long Time. Good to see you again old friend!
I think my uncle knew him. He said he was dead lol
Naw I’m kidding... I was hoping for Rogue to make another Book was Better video
Lol, good to be back! XD
This movie manages to make a somewhat close up plane crash look boring and dull
It actually looks like stock footage of a real, famous crash.
*I remember watching The 5th Wave.*
*I don't remember The 5th Wave.*
Give me a month and I'll only remember the bus explosion.
@@KrimsonRogue Considering the amount of content you seem to read/watch, the thought that you'll remember anything about this is surprisingly high praise!
Same. I know I've totally watched this movie because this video just jogged hidden memories. But I seriously don't remember like anything about it.
" Were the US army" They say wearing the marine uniform.
First Sign that they're actually Aliens. 😆
Uniform shortages? Although I doubt they even thought of that
The base they go to is Wright-Patterson AIR FORCE Base too, they really shouldn’t be the army they’d be the Air Force
@@mackenzierd army/marines are used to defend air force bases it was probably the closest base it is not a sign
but the isignia is incorrect even for marines
@@justarandomtechpriest1578 True, but if most of all of the enlisted (not to mention humanity in general) are gone, I think it’d be likely the remaining members of every branch would join together, so why even bother with a branch distinction? Why not just say military or armed forces in general?
What struck me was that in a dystopian future with humans on the brink, someone somewhere is still manufacturing make up and women who are fighting for the survival of the species appear to have at least an hour a day to spare putting on said make-up. Could not take any of the characters or the plot seriously due to that.
Apparently,I think some people were hoarding/trading various pre-apocalypse makeup as barter..and- _Sorry to sound OBVIOUS here,but_ - I'm guessing,due to popular demand..I'm guessing that the *_oldest profession's still going on,long and strong_* in the wide dystopias,my dude of the Internet...
I barely put on makeup in our current dystopia, I can’t imagine keeping up an edgy Smokey eye in the actual apocalypse
I'm a dude, and I can tell you that a lot of men are oblivious to the impact of makeup. Yeah, we notice "she looks good today," but can't put out finger on why, much less the exact details of eyeliner, mascara, blush, foundation, contouring, etc.
Heck, I ^^^just blurted out all the kinds of makeup I could think of. I don't actually understand their application.
In other words, you're but supposed to notice, just like how all actors have impeccably white teeth, regardless of the character they're playing, the setting, it the genre.
You're not supposed to notice, but you might go "ew gross" if they didn't.
“I guess I’m just grumpy.” I can relate to that on so many levels.
A thesaurus within 30 seconds?
(cracks knuckles)
Oh this is gonna be FUN!
This is what I like to call a "nothing movie" a movie that does nothing to you, it's just 2 hours of time wasted, which is worse than just being bad.
I mean...it’s not quite even bad enough to watch ironically.
@@Rivenlore99 exactly, you get nothing out of it. If a movie makes you angry for being bad, you're at least reacting to it, and you can make fun of it.
Ugh, Ringer. Y'know over the years I have come to find these types of characters really annoying. The Jaded, pessimistic know it all who "Tells it like it is" and is right about all their snap judgements. They can sometimes be funny in the hands of a talented comedic writer but do you want to know WHY this character is presented as always being correct and always has people who hang around them even though they treat others like shit? Because plot says so. They're just the other side of the coin to the optimistic protagonist who always pulls through just because they believe in themselves and the power of friendship. This wouldn't bother me but often times fans of this archetype don't recognize this. They genuinely think being a dick and being smart go hand in hand and it emboldens them to act like assholes
Truthfully, cynical assholes often are the most enlightened irl.
@@lalehiandeity1649 they certainly walk around believing that, that’s the problem
@@MadameTamma Life sucks.
@@lalehiandeity1649 doesn’t have to
@@MadameTamma Life is a roller coaster. There’s good and bad. What sucks is knowing that roller coaster is inflexible.
You know the Young Adult Dystopia Craze peaked where it started at Hunger Games and was down hill from there.
And it was just an okey book to begin with
@@oliviawilliams6204 good idea in my eyes at least with the movies boring execution first movie was great than the rebellion began but all the focus was on 1 girl who defied the Capitol in the most minor way I'd say
@@feritperliare2890 My issue is more with the world building the district mono industry make no sense, their system would crumble within a single decade
@@oliviawilliams6204 if the system was actually distributing the resources in a more sustainable manner it could've survived but the inequality apparent for all to see combined with the need for all areas to give all they have to the capitol makes this system not only unsustainable but also confusing as to what populace would create one like that
The best thing the hunger games is that Katniss didn't single handedly stop president snow, she inspired a movement. that would be like a group of 14yo kids killing Kim Jong.
"Grab the caffeine pills. This is the 5th Wave."
Me, who has just taken painkillers: Well, good night then.
simple but brilliantly handled twists in media: SCHOOL-LIVE!, Zombieland SAGA, The Sixth Sense, Bioshock.
incompetently handled twists in media: this.
God, "SCHOOL-LIVE!" I saw episode 1 of that in college anime club. Now, the guy in our club who brought it in, Dom, loves cute anime that are dark. So, we're like 15 minutes in, and I'm thinking, 'Something's wrong. This is anime- What's going on here.'
So I just pulled my phone out and googled the title, and was like "Oh... Yep. That sounds right for a Dom anime." Then just sat back and waited. Whole club freaking lost it when the reveal happened.
That was good one though, only reason I suspected it before it happened, was because of the guy who put it up to watch. Only reason.
@@NavigatorBR yeah the sudden bombshell of a zombie apocalypse that was underway outside was a shock to a lot of people first time viewing it blind.
When I first started reading this book, I genuinely thought the romance plot was just a red herring and the guy would turn out to be some kind of serial killer. I thought he was way too creepy to be taken seriously, and the girl would kill him and get back to the alien story. But then the romance just went on and on and eventually I got sick of it and stopped. I picked up the book expecting it to be about the really interesting-sounding alien invasion, so it was super disappointing when I ended up getting tricked into reading Twilight.
SAME! I was so confused when it pivoted from being an alien movie to a romance so suddenly and jarringly.
Same, and my mom had bought me the full series so I felt like I had to read them 😭
It's just the Host all over again, why write about the interesting alien invasion when you can write about pointless romance? Because sure, people waste time on romance during the apocalypse.
You should go read War Of The Worlds as it did focus on the realistic alien invasion scenario. It has no forced romance plot, just a sense of horror and suspense, and scenes of action, destruction, and carnage. The Thunderchild scene is the most highlighted. I highly recommend reading it.
The problem with the Silencers is that you would think that they would see some psychiatrist or get therapy when they hear voices in their heads that tell them to murder people, but no, nobody even questions it except Evan, and that’s only after he killed a bunch of innocents before seeing Cassie and going ‘ohhhh pretty 🤩 😍’. Also, how tf does the 12th system not get detected? If the doctor is blood testing them or they’re getting their brain scanned then they would probably question the fact that there are thousands of nano bots in their bloodstream and in their head.
Aliens should be called gamemasters imho, because that is what they seemingly are. The masters of a survival game they unleash unto humanity. Bonus points for using gamemaster in the much more common misunderstood sense of the word.
They are also eco terrorists...
Every time I hear Gamemaster I think of Captain N, which brings back war flashbacks.
So, um. What exactly is the aliens plan? Why have they traveled from ... wherever to do whatever it is they're up to?
@@nickwilliams8302
They want to throw humanity back to the stone age in order to protect all the animals on the planet.
Yes I think the author stole the invasion plan from a better author and then added the eviromentalist bs that no intelligent being would consider sound.
@@Raximus3000 wait that's the reason? I thought it would be more...uh...selfish, or cruel or something. Why would they care for the wildlife of another planet they have nothing to do with?
ALL HAIL BOOK JESUS, FOR HE HATH GRACED US WITH HIS PRESENCE AND SNARK ONCE MORE! 🙏
He ain't Jesus 😆
@@sierracook3343 Its a joke😒
Now if only that Jesus battle royal becomes a reality
Literary _Testify!_
Please don’t call him that for that may seem like your mocking Christ.
“ But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement.” Matthew 12:36
God sent his only son so that you may have eternal life. Believe in him and you will be saved. He suffered so that you may live.
One of the few things I like about the book was how Ben got his nickname. They called him zombie because of how he was affected by his depression/ptsd. It actually made sense, but the movie just steamrolled over it like every other detail that made the book readable.
What's with the young-adult novles that cast teenagers at the center, but it's against getting their hands dirty?
I suspect some form of wish-fulfillment in many YA novels, But I think it's generally just incompetence.
I think its supposed to emply that most teens are kinda too cowerdly to really do much
Like how they dont always report theyer siber bulling. Or how they dont always defend theyer girl friends.
Or how they get perdpresured into doing drugs bc theyer socially accword
And quite a few teens have stated if they were in some charters situations they respond with "id probily cry."
"Id be like "oh shit"
"Id freez."
"What the F!"
IDK
So yeeeah even tho I find it really annoying when charters main or side are not as badass as they are being spoon fed to us I think writers just try to make them more realistic.... but that makes sence for like the first book or maybe one moment of vulnerablety but most teens dont want to always read realistic.
Bc they’re written for young adults, and basically assume teens are as smart as the characters they’re reading, so they won’t question the events or logic in them. It’s annoying, and makes the ya genre seem stupid and contrived (which it is a bit) but there are some really good books in it.
I think there are very interesting plots and plot ideas ya books come up with, but since the main characters are teens I think it’s assumed all teens care abt is romance and love. It’s depressing.
Moral high ground. Edgy story about apocalypse/dystopia good, making the demographic of people reading the books be the heroes in those scenarios good, confronting the reality that for those scenarios to have a happy ending you're going to have to drop some ethics and make your protagonist sweethearts do some morally grey shit bad.
They want to have their cake and eat it too-the Hunger Games books were popular and honestly insanely good + intelligent in their social commentary, but imitators who ALSO want a hit YA series only saw the dystopia-love triangle-danger part.
Even the movie producers of the Hunger Games films themselves fell into that superficial trap. (Which ironically is touched on in the Hunger Games books itself. People see the drama, the romance, the thrills, the glamor, and completely skate over all the political themes. It's almost a bad joke that the books predicted the future so accurately.)
@@kimawhitehawkjordan7714 jesus christ dude
"We are the 5th wave." Is just, "What are we? Some kind of suicide squad?"
Yeah or, what are we not the important reinforcements in this thing or just cannon fodder after the heavy weapons go in? Also by the 5th wave, you’d think there would be like perfect defenses, hence the name because if an alien invasion takes 5 waves then they SUCK!
I'm surprised calling them the "Others" wasn't because there would be some heavy-handed symbolism about how humanity was just being prejudiced toward an otherwise friendly alien race.
That'd be way too smart for this book
Ya know, Twilight maybe could have worked if instead of vampires they really were flamboyant pixies. 😉
The sparkle is mentioned three times across 4 books. Its not really a big deal. the problem with Twilight is every other character except for Bella and Edward are FAR more interesting and oddly fleshed out than them. The world is fine the vampires are fine. The sparkling is not mentioned much other than to just explain why they don't do out in sunlight but not give them an obvious weakness.
This is done over and over in the books. None of the mythological creatures can really ever be harmed by a human, just one another. Children of the Moon are only mentioned really at the end of Breaking Dawn and are confirmed to not have any weaknesses other than beings with similar strength. Shifters can be literally half crushed (Jacob in Eclipse) and heal from it (yeah they needed someone to set the bones right but still they survived the injury).
Personally I would have just made it be an inside joke. All the Cullens call themselves vegetarians because they only eat animals. Having them take every sunny day off be just another inside joke. Especially since its only the cullens we ever see in the direct sunlight.
i remember reading this back in middle school and enjoying it. it has aged like fine milk.
I think I was like... 15 maybe, when I read this. I think this book was the turning point where I actually looked at a piece of literature I read by choice and thought "damn, this so boring it doesn't feel worth it"
I'd only really been super bored at large sections of a book at one point before this by a book I'd chosen to read, when I was 9 and reading Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, namely the Roran? sections of the book (i.e the bit that wasn't following Eragon). And that was only because 9 and REALLY gripped by the Eragon parts, otherwise I probably would have been just as engaged. Apparently others who read it said those non-Eragon sections were the best part, but I haven't gone back with an adult eye.
Anyways, The 5th Wave was boredom because there was this really long romance section in the middle that wasn't engaging in the slightest. I was really engaged with the plot before this point but those sections made me not want to read on. Only the perspective shifts to the soldier bits kept me going, but even then the plot points introduced there I remember being kind of confusing and not explained well
"That was a gift for all the Marines watching this video." Awwww, thank you, Krimson!
A ton of kids in my 8th grade English read this for Independent Reading, I don’t know why. Well, let’s go Book Jesus.
They obviously read it out of Obligation
You know, the way you summarize the start of this book reminds me of Throne of Glass, which starts off establishing an interesting low magic fantast setting, then devolves into a love triangle halfway through.
Fun Fact! I read the 5th wave twice without realizing it. I checked it out from the library, read it, and then forgot about it so much that a year or so later I checked it out a second time. I didn't figure out that I had already read the book until I was half way through. Hell, it even took me until half way through this review to remember that I had read it.
Maybe 2020 is turning around. Krimson uploaded.
Don't jinx it!
He was doing Empress Theresa at the beginning of 2020 though
About the bus blast scene,
My first reaction to seeing it in this video was actually "Did they seriously play this straight?" Because in this post-Mythbusters era (Mythbusters ended after this movie released, but this is about a pre-2010 episode) we know you can't just shoot a gas tank and make a car explode. Now, I still like it when they literally do this with an actual stray shot or Hail Mary and it works in a story, because it invokes some idea of being aware of how ridiculous this is. But when you try to do it like this and make it seem realistic by using an explosive, I just get offended that they hadn't thought this through.
Essentially, you burn fuel, not explode it. Liquid gasoline causes fires, not explosions. This is down to the roughly-mathematical-explanation (it's rough because it's not the most rigid rule) that explosions react exponentially more as they continue, instead of a constant burn. A fuel-air explosion *can* be made from gasoline, by allowing vaporization to happen and setting a fire to the gasoline vapors (just like in your car engine, actually, thanks fuel injectors) which then cause air expansion that exposes even more gasoline vapors to more and more oxygen. You *could* shoot a fuel tank into an explosion, but *if and only if* there was a sufficient opening to fresh air from the tank, and if the amount of gasoline in the tank was juuuust right to allow enough gasoline vapor to rise to the opening, but not too much that the air pressure in that tank messes with the gasoline vapor concentration in the rest of the air. (And of course you needed a special bullet that sets fire to things, like a tracer round.) It as actually that complicated to find a sweet spot that it does boil down to luck or God. But that last part is also what kinda makes it cool to see when modern stories kinda play it up as a one in a million shot, because it pretty much is.
Grenades do not bypass that, do not give you more oxygen, and so would probably be a *worse* object to start a fuel tank explosion because they start their explosion inside the liquid gasoline, not the gasoline vapor. (Unless grenades float in gasoline, I guess, but you would still be at a disadvantage because the "water line" is a terrible place to rely on that sweet spot gasoline vapor concentration.)
But at the same time, to also speculate on why the stunt/pyro fucked up in the shooting of this movie, this also means I don't believe it was the issue of a full fuel tank. Fuel tanks are again, really hard to make explode unless you set it up juuuust right. I would instead suggest they doubled up on explosives or something. Like what they said, two windows and the door; but maybe they placed it on more windows or something and messed up the locations and doubled up.
Oh man! The Fifth Wave! I remember even when I was a tweenager I read this book was like 'I mean, it's kind of interesting' then read the sequel and ditched it halfway through because it was THAT FUCKING BAD. They made a *movie?*
I personally liked his other series better. The Monstrumologist... To be fair that was the only reason why I even picked up the 5th wave.
That's the same author??? I would never have realized!
Wait, that was written by the same guy?! Those books were pretty good. I should give them another read. I guess he went more for the "YA" thing in the 5th Wave, which is a shame.
Yeah same! I listened to the monstrumologyst an unhealthy amount, and when I was done with the rest of the series I looked for other things written by yancey. It did not work out.
Same here! I was hoping for the same writing and unique style but was met with the same kind of ya tropes we see everywhere else 😞😞
So will "The Host" and "Darkest Minds" be on the chopping block?
School just got cancelled yesterday, but now I know today will be a good day
I thought kids were supposed to hate school.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter having to finish your senior year of high school away from friends isn't very appealing.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter also no more D&D after school.
@@personman8008 At least you still get to attempt to have your Spring of Senior Year. Schools shut down in March, and I haven't seen any of my friends since.
The whole "we have been fighting other humans" twist has been done before by the likes of twilight zone, several novels , animes, etc. Probably the best version and pretty much being done in an extremely similar fashion is qualidea code. Where SPOILER ALERT the aliens are sending children modified to a superhuman degree to fight against human forces , using them as a human shield in their last foothold on earth as after years of war humanity has pushed em back. Meanwhile the children are told that they are in the last remaining bit of human controlled land. This is oversimplifying it but qualidea code is the fucking LotR compared to this garbage in the amount of detail, good writing , story threads and character it has on display.
Damn that sounds awesome!
Remind me of a Doctor Who episode where the last humans in the future were uh- kinda surgically crammed into drones, sent back in time and used to fight the modern humans. It was a weird episode.
Seriously, three waves is enough to cripple mankind, and it would've given them time to teraform Earth. There's no reason for them to disguise themselves as humans when they could let the humans kill each other for resources.
I told my mom about this explosion and she said that actually, maybe the tank had too LITTLE gas, because fumes can, and often do, provide more fuel to an explosion like that than actual gasoline. So my bet is that they didn’t double check how much fuel and fumes were in the tank, there were actually more fumes than they calculated for (if they even calculated for the fumes at all), and yadda yadda there goes those storefronts.
With how little they planned the characters it would not at ALL shock me to hear that they didn't properly calculate how much of a BUS was going to EXPLODE.
Skyrim did for vampires and werewolves what Twilight could only dream of.
Absolutely lame that twilight werewolves are literally just a normal wolf but bigger.
Skyrim werewolves? Monsterous, perfect blend of man and wolves, one of the best werewolf designs in my opinion
"I always felt different.. growing up there was this voice in my head"
me, someone with schizo-affective disorder: "same man same"
Thank God im not the only one who get upset about perfect hairstyles in survival movies.
The last time I was this early, I had faith in YA fiction. And 2020.
Bruh, been a while, hope you’ve been doing great.
Also, I already agree with the title, the movie bored so much, I avoid it because I remember hating myself for seeing it.
This is late as hell but I'm a med student and I think I might have at least an explanation about Cassie being unconscious for a week from a gunshot wound, tho I can't say anything about if this was intentional in the book or not. She's been in survival mode for days, weeks, a couple months. Scavenging whatever she can for food and water and more than likely getting only a few poor hours of rest with long hours of walking at a time. Definitely several all nighters of just walking trying to stay one step ahead of the aliens/anyone else hunting her and trying to get to the base. By the time she get's shot she's running on very little sleep, very little food, probably a bit dehydrated, and she's mainly running on fumes and determination to get her brother back. That combined with blood loss and shock can knock you out for a few days. A week would not be completely out of the question under those conditions.
But something tells me no one actually thought of that when they were writing that scene... -_-
Let's all just take a moment to appreciate how GORGEOUS Krimson's hair is!
I read this trilogy after the movie was coming to theaters...I started it excited. But yeah, by the end I was tired of her going gah gah over boys and the waste of the use the premise. THERE WERE some good and fascinating ideas throughout, but they were underutilize and bogged down with boring sh*t.
edit: Loved that Disney bit
7:41 "storytelling by obligation" describes exactly how I feel about a lot of movie adaptations
35:15 how every screenwriter/ya novelist decides their pairings
The man, the myth, the legend is back!
IT TUELLY IS THE RAPTURE FOR BOOK JESUS HAS RETURNED TO US!
Turuly
All hail book Jesus!
Please don’t say that because it’s seems like your mocking Christians.
“But I say unto you, that every idle word that men speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement.” Matthew 12:36
@@variangaming8559 I am a Christian
@@variangaming8559 Nobody is mocking christians, and anybody in there right might will not interpret this as such. Also quoting the bible doesn't necessarily mean to us what it means to you. For *me*, it looks like you are trying to use as an argument, which is not.
FINALLY! Book Jesus takes on Alien Twilight.
Please don’t call him Jesus there is one Lord and he is Jesus Christ.
6:57 John Crichton on his worst day and just has pop culture references can come up with something better.
Yes! My favorite youtuber uploaded! I have missed your videos so much! You put so much work into them and they are so appreciated! Thank you for everything you do. I literally rewatch The Book Was Better and Krim's Masochistic Tango everynight to help me fall asleep or when I'm having a bad day/anxiety attack. I have also learned so many tips about writing from you and they have really helped improve my book! ❤
Question from a European, are those red plastic cups as common at parties in North America as film has lead me to believe? Or is Hollywood run by big red cup?
Disposable cups are a staple for social gatherings and parties here. Red Solo Cups specifically are more of a meme, though some people do use them unironically.
11:24 That music drop made me think Beatrix enters and slaughters the rest of the cast. Probably would've made for a better story. Lol
Honestly, the best thing I can say about this book AND the movie is that it got you to make a new video and reference the GONE series
It's like Evangelion if Evangelion was... boring and kinda dumb.
So... Exactly like Evangelion?
it's nothing like Evangelion, but I understand the sentiment
@@ranwolf76 It was more of a joke than a sentiment
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor There are giant cyborgs in 5th Wave?
@@ranwolf76 Book 3 I think
The talk of plot twists reminds me of Trails of Cold Steel and how it does and does not surprise with such things.
The twist in CS3 with the Gnome in the ranks? Insanely good.
The one near the end of CS1 where you discover the identity of terrorist group you’ve been fighting the whole time? Not so much.
I'm guessing that you haven't watched The Last Airbender.
Omg😂😂😂😂😂
He could even cover it : P
lol
He has joked about covering it, saying how since the seasons of the show are called "books" it's a loophole.
He already read all three of Onion boy’s books. He doesn’t need anymore torture
"The things" was also used to great success in the 80's movie. Vague names like that can be used so ominously. This story just fails to use this.
I know you are a busy man, but with all the weird stuff going on in the world. You should try to finish the hunger games series.
Just found this video (loved it) and was pleasantly surprised to see GONE on your shelf and then hear you talk about the series! It's been my favorite for...whoa, maybe a decade now, and I've barely heard of anyone reading it. Looking forward to more content!
15:02 my dude, since when has killing civilians ever been a problem for the US military.
Well... I’d hope killing civilians from your own country would raise an eyebrow
Krimson: "THink about the Zerg"
Me: You mean Hive Fleet Leviathan.
A fellow man of culture I see
I believe you mean Hive Fleet Kronos: The thinking man's fleet.
@@DelightfulTyrant No cause the Zerg have the exact same colour palate as Leviathan
ah yes a hive fleet the true swarm strategy
Finally, someone talking about the 5th wave. I was obsessed as a teenager
Now I know what it's like for videos not to show up in my subscriptions. Glad I came across it!
Krimson is back, what a good time to rewatch the whole The Book Was Better series
Ah yes, teenagers make for perfect soldiers. What with their strong temperament, inate desire to reject authority, tendency to disregard orders, cover, and defensive tactics, and just being generally inferior to mature soldiers in basically every way that matters.
Aka the perfect canon fodder, who you always send first.
I remember seeing that plane crash in the trailer and thinking, "Oh no, those aliens must have some kind of Physics Disruption Ray that saps inertia or something!" but no, I guess not. Just bad special effects. :(
Every time you mention the Gone series I’m reminded of THAT experience…I haven’t been able to look at red vines the same way since. It’s been too long since I read those books
Always so great to see you've posted something! Your videos are ones I end up watching over and over!
I started feeling excitement when I heard Final Fantasy 9.
PRAISE HIM, THY NAME OF BOOK JESUS!
"I'll sing my praises for the Gone series until my deathbed".
That series was so good that as soon as I was done with the first book I went out and got every other book in the series. Except the last one wasn't out yet, so I had to wait for that one.
Totally worth it.
Nice video! Btw I love your cats!
Here’s a more interesting take for the scene where Cassie’s father is shot up.
The soldiers had a plan when they went to the refugee camp. They take away the children and gather the adults together, instilling fear in them about the Others invading them. They intentionally
instill panic, and intentionally leave some people away from the adults (aka cassie) to leave survivors. The adults and soldiers gather more tension and eventually both groups start shooting at each other when they become paranoid the Others are among them. Cassie hears the gunshots and hides in the camp, seeing the soldiers look around for survivors. One almost finds her though leaves, and the soldiers finish up. Eventually they leave and Cassie finds her dead father and the other people. Spotting one soldier barely alive, she briefly speaks with him. He tells her the survivors had started firing, and that the Others are among them, then dies. This would hopefully instill a fear and interest in the reader, finding out the Others are infiltrating the survivors. This is of course followed by smart clue-leaving to the plot twist of the Others actually being the army.
So yeah that’s what I got. Sounds a bit more interesting I think?
I like that idea so much better! I didn’t watch the movie, but even the book’s scene was a little strange and I didn’t quite like it. This idea would work a lot better!
Holy shit this book is a rip-off of The Host.
I want to say "There is no way", but unfortunately…
Worse, the author turns aliens into eco terrorists of planetary scale, yes they want to bring humanity to the stone age again, where they will never progress from again(?) and thus saving all animals.
@@Raximus3000 and those aliens gain what in destroying a civilization and reseting a planet to a worst situation?
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They are enviromentalists, they are very dumb and they have no profit other than earth's safety.(in their twisted little minds)
Basicaly they have all that tchnology but they could not cure idiocy.
@@Raximus3000 with that technology why not just hyper boost humans past environment destroying technology you can't get to clean energy from stone age so they are just sitting there and constantly destroying humanity instead of making an actual solution
Hey! I was in this movie! And I have a story for you...
I'm cackling that you covered this. So I was in this movie as one of the high school students that eventually went to the refugee camp/ became captured/ became a soldier/ base kid and lmao you hit the nail on the head with lazy directing. Genuinely the director and assistant director didn't give a SINGLE fuck. When we filmed the "kids on bus from refugee camp to training facility" scene, the littlest kids got put in the front of the bus. I was on the same bus as the little brother character, so the assistant director would frequently pop on and off to give him and us direction. Some bright-eyed little boy (in his first movie as an extra and clearly excited about it) asked the director, "Your job is so cool what made you wanna make movies? " and the assistant director flatly and curtly looked this boy in the eyes and said "money." and walked off the bus. I was shocked at how blatantly an asshole this guy was to this kid, like dude, at least PRETEND for the 8-year-old's sake you pretentious english ass wipe...
Chole was cool as fuck tho and mad respect to her and how nice she was to all of us unimportant day-players.
Rick Yancey corrected us on set when we tried to compliment him on writing a YA novel with a strong female protagonist "Actually there are two strong women in this book". 🙄 OK dude Ringer is a secondary character but whatever man lmao
Also unimportant to plot but the additional second assistant director (Manes, he was in his mid-thirties to early forties while on set), wouldn't stop hitting on girls playing 17-year-olds 🤮barf.
Ps. - the biggest irony is that the bus exploded and became a "firefighting learning opportunity". PSH - Half the scenes I was in were filmed in Macon AT A FIREFIGHTING TRAINING FACILITY. LMAO.
I've been wondering when Krimson's next video was going to come out, and now it's here! I'm excited and happy at the same time!
Who did it better?
5th wave: "I want to drink in his sweet Sammy smell forever, but I can't."
Twilight-New Moon: "I locked my arms around her, gasping to inhale as much of the scent of her skin as possible."
Maybe comparing 5th Wave to Twilight is an apt comparison.
How is it that TWILIGHT sounds better? That shouldn't be possible, but somehow it IS.
At least in New Moon, that line could be used in a lesbian erotica. That line from 5th Wave is overflowing with The Creep Factor.
@@thegreatstoneddragon9432 Creep Factor?!? Haven't you heard of The Mortal Instruments or Game of Thrones? Incest is totally in right now! lol. yuk
@@JibberJabberUA-cam Incest - fun for the whole family.
@@thegreatstoneddragon9432 Not just that but it had been confirmed the vampires DO smell nice to humans. Everything about them is alluring to bring prey into a state were they are easy to take. So Bella breathing in her pleasing scent actually does make sense. She likes the scent of vampires and its been a scent she misses. I admit I like to smell a new candle if its a scent I really like but haven't had in awhile.
Krimson keep being awesome and party on dude. Don't let the fat cats get to ya.
I am so excited to see an upload form you! Hope you’re doing well. And I think your hair looks awesome my man.
I read the 5th wave after the movie came out. I loved the first few chapters because of the personality but that was my favorite part of the book and the rest I literally didn't remember anything about it until you recapped it
Quality use of the Mass Effect music here, Krim. So excited for the remaster.
Really bad ya novels are my guilty pleasure. They cant be boring they have to be SHOCKINGLY bad. The 5th Wave, while I didnt think it was boring I didnt think it was bad either. I disagree with some of your points but I respect your argument and can see your points.
YAY KRIMSON UPLOADED!!! Literally makes my day better
Don't think I didn't notice Fablehaven on that dart board at 2:27. I'd love that movie ngl
When the movie came out, I was genuinely interested in the premise. I love science fiction and alien invasion, I actually want to write my own Independence Day if you will but with more enjoyment than this book. I actually bought all three of the Trilogy at my local bookstore and after book 1 I gave all three to the use bookstore lady down the road. 5th Waves is the perfect example of how not to do an alien invasion, while the tactics are good but the story itself is awful. One thing that drove me absolutely crazy was the changing protagonists. Unlike most books where they stick to first or third person narratives, for some reason the author choose to split half of his book to the male lead without explanation. Like I legitimately got confused as to why the chick was suddenly dying in a camp and abducted into the army, turning into a child soldier. It wasn't clear as to why the author choose it or clever it was confusing and annoying. Oddly enough I founded the guy's storyline to be better than the girl's whose supposed to be our lead. I didn't finish the Trilogy but if the other books were just as dull and confusing I'm glad that I got rid of them. Not glad I spent a crap ton of money. Thank you for doing this review Krim!
At this point in time, I wish an alien invasion would happen. At least 2020 would be exciting again. I mean there’s no way an alien invasion would be boring, right?
This book: “Observe.”
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🐍 no step on snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
i watched movie this a couple christmas’ ago as a distraction with my cousins, went to get maccas and we sat there and complained about the end of the movie almost the entire, i don’t have much of a memory about the events but i just remember not really having fun watching the movie itself, being kinda scared since i was little-ish and scared of everything, but also a lot of clowning on the dumb parts
Leven Thumps on the dart board! That's one book series I still have on my shelf that helped me through middle and high school, loved it to bits. Though considering how Hollywood is with YA novels, probably best it doesn't get a film adaptation...