*The Maze Runner* Is A Hidden Gem (or i just missed the memo) | REACTION
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- I hope you enjoy my reaction to "The Maze Runner" (2014)!! I had so much fun with this movie and am excited to continue the series!
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I liked Dylan ftom Teen Wolf, a pretty good show. I recently reminded it. Unfortunately, there was one season where he was largely absent due to a severe injury on the set of Mazr Runner 3.
OMG Maze Runner was my biggest obsession when I was 13!
Same! That was my hunger games lol!
To answer the title of your video, it’s probably a hidden gem a bit nowadays, but it was a hugely successful book series and the movies were very successful (made over nearly a billion total against a total $150m budget).
It’s really the only successful Hunger Games YA movie trend “copycat” that was really successful.
Also, they’re GOATED for not doing the stupid splitting the final book into two parts thing. It’s a clean trilogy all done by the same director, so it feels very cohesive and of a whole.
So yeah, not my favorite story ever, but have a soft spot for it for a variety of reasons. Also, the Grievers were WAY more terrifying in the books. Gave me nightmares as a kid. James Dashner was really good at horror and that kind of unbearable, creepy tension.
And yes, watch the rest of the trilogy! It's good stuff.
"Maze Runner" is not a copycat. Both "Maze Runner" and "Hunger Games" are based on the same Greek myth: "Theseus and the Minotaur." Okay, in that sense, they're both copycats of the Greek myth. They're similar in that they both share the same source material, although "Maze Runner" is actually truer to the original source material than "Hunger Games." Actually, isn't "Hunger Games" a copycat of "Battle Royale?" Nihil sub sole novum. Thankfully, "Maze Runner" doesn't have the typical "love triangle" elements that "Hunger Games" has. It does have a love story, though.
Omg so glad you’re watching this!!!
100% react to the next 2 movies, theyre really cool and help build the world up a bit explaining the actual virus etc
Looking forward to the second movie! Scorch Trials will be _immersive_ 🔥
This series is super underrated.
And unhinged. Lol
@@ShadowDogProduction in the best way possible 🔥
Criminally underrated
I KNOW RIGHTT
It's an hidden gem 💚 and this is one of my favourite trilogies ever, truly. Criticism comes mainly from disappointed readers who didn't like the changes and missed the richness of the plot in the books. If you can treat the movies and the books as two separate things they're very enjoyable & thrilling movies, that managed to set themselves apart in the dystopian genre and to bring interesting moral questions! ---- pretty different from each other too but well-made: Wes Ball did an amazing job, especially in the visual department, with such a small budget (and less CGI than one may think - the entire Glade and the maze's entrance walls in this one are real) plus he also made the perfect casting choices, whole cast sold every minute on these movies.
16:39 prepare yourself, Thomas is going to look back a lot during the journey 😂
9:09: “I’m so happy you did that cuz…Drama” 😂 make it a catchphrase!!
OH MY GOD THIS IS JUST WHAT I NEEDED RN AHHHHHHH
OMG I LOVE THIS SAGA :D AHHH I'M EXCITED TO SEE YOUR REACTION
Teen wolf was his first acting gig if i remember correctly but its soooo good you'd love it since you love buffy!
I love this series so much, Newt and Minho have always been my favorite characters, I'm glad you enjoyed the movie! I'm excited to see what you think of the other two movies! Also i think your intro video is really cool!
A great trilogy 💜💜
This trilogy is one of my favorites ever but it's so underrated it's a crime!! I love to see new people "discovering" it and reacting!! Please do the other 2 movies, can't wait to see it !
Moi aussi!
ahhh! im si excited youre watching this series!!
25:54 I'm glad you're pointing this out because this is a huge plot hole in the movies since in the books the Glade and the Maze where all underground with a simulated sky and instead of a helicopter in tbe books a bus picks them up. Ig they wanted to show the Maze from above. I think that all the other boys still in the Glade where killed by Grievers so they couln't have rescued them anyway so yeah hope I could help. :)
Why would the helicopter land in the Glade? The "rescuers" are WCKD. The goal of the Trial was to escape, not remain in the Glade. If you remained in the Glade, you failed and didn't survive. It's essentially survival of the fittest.
So everyone who was in the Maze after they left was attacked by Grievers. Gally was the only one alive who could catch up to them.
Gally followed Thomas to either extract retribution, force them back or was driven out of the maze by Grievers. Gally was likely accompanied by some or all of the remaining Gladers. Gally acquired a "key" from a dead Griever along the way. This group would have included runners who quit earlier since they were seen palling with Gally afterwards. That's how Gally would know the code. Gally's companions were evidently killed, and he was the only survivor. It's safe to assume any who remained in the Glade died. Since they didn't escape the maze and pass the trial, they were probably of no use to WCKD.
I'm only commenting this because it's not mentioned in the movies, I think, or it was slightly retconned. And you looked slightly put off by Thomas's name; I'm guessing because it seemed very basic^.^ Soooo, none of the names of the kids are their real names. Those are the names WCKD gave them. The names all represent people of note(especially scientifically/academically) in the past, present, and this fictional future. Like Thomas is Thomas Edison, Newt is Isaac Newton, Gally is Galileo, and so on~ So, when Alby says their names are the one thing "they" let them keep, he's unknowingly wrong, and it's so sad and messed up that they don't even get that~~~
Yeah, Alby was wrong about that, but Newt was right to say that the people they were before the Glade/WCKD no longer existed. So, terribly sad. It's a form of death to so completely lose your identity, isn't it? But then the whole symbolism of the "box" and them being wet or in water was that of rebirth into the Glade. Also, since the Gladers/immunes were all test subjects (lab rats), the WCKD experimenters would want to distinguish between them for analytical purposes. Therefore, they'd all be given unique names. No repeats.
Omg Cass, I'm so happy I found your new channel! I have been a fan of you since your Game of Thrones reactions and all the other reactions you did after GoT ended 😍😍 so happy to see you back with a new channel ❤❤ lots of love~~
Can't wait for the last two!!
Nice reaction. The Maze Runner trilogy is a retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Etc.
2 words: Thomas Sangster!😍
OMG IM READING THIS FOE A PROJECT LOVE U CASS
WOO MAZE RUNNER WOO YOU DID IT
When someone offers an opinion like "X is a hidden gem," one invariably encounters a few comments like "No, it's not. It's YA trash (actually, it's an adult film),' "It's boring" etc. The inescapable conclusion is, clearly, there are a more people out there with histrionic personality disorder than one might otherwise suspect.
If they weren't also overwhelmingly ignorant, they'd know the classics. "The Maze Runner" is a retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur, of course. That's not trash. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. The Glade and the Gladers are Athens and Athenian youth, 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 is King Minos. Although there aren't any formal mazes in the following films, the maze motif is repeated in both the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure."
The Glade's Athens is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island in the middle of the maze. Themes in that well-known classic novel 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. That's not trash, either.
Thomas, as we will find out, is an 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. Newt has also fallen in love with Thomas.
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. Tragic heroes suffer, and Thomas is going to suffer throughout the trilogy because of his hubris. Thomas' betrayal precipitated his downfall and the tragic course his subsequent life followed.
The three "Maze Runner" films mirror a three-act play. The first film, or first act, is primarily used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in. The film ends on the question of whether Thomas has escaped from WCKD or not.
It seems incredible but heroic stories often follow the same basic pattern. In his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," Joseph Campbell, distilled the world's myths into a common structure which he called the monomyth or hero's journey. It's very concisely summarized as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. That's the "Maze Runner" film saga in a nutshell.
The whole trilogy is told more or less from Thomas' perspective. We know what he knows; as he learns, we learn. The Gladers don't like to talk about the maze. This is out of both fear and ignorance. That's frustrating for Thomas - and us. Only the runners know something of the secrets of this mysterious and sinister maze-realm. In fact, the runners function as a sacred priesthood. Only when Thomas is anointed runner does Minho tell the new initiate all in the map hut, the Glade's holy of holies. We also learn pretty early on Thomas is a rule breaker, which will be especially interesting in the context of the second film. As the story develops in the films, parallels will emerge between Thomas and Theresa. In the first film, Thomas' dream-visions hint at his backstory and make his character ambiguous. Is Gally right about him? This interplay between Thomas and Gally is quite good. Gally isn't some cardboard caricature antagonist, he's very solid and real. As others have noted, what Gally says makes complete sense. He and Thomas are in almost perfect antipodal balance with one another.
One wonders if after Thomas stung himself, he doesn't remember more than he lets on. He acts like he does. He seems to know why he was put into the Glade. Earlier, he told Newt and the others he didn't recognize Theresa, but we know he did. Very, very uncharacteristic of Thomas to lie. Does he have suspicions and not want to give voice to them? Or does he not want to amplify suspicions others may already have about himself?
The Flare virus is the "Maze Runner" trilogy's MacGuffin. In a way, therefore, you really shouldn't try to make too much out of it. According to the films, by stress-stimulating the brains of the immunes an enzyme is produced that crosses the brain-blood barrier into the blood. This treatment of the immunes permanently alters their brain chemistry and, hopefully, will eventually yield a more effective enzyme. At least that's what WCKD believes. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to produce the curative enzyme so humanity can be saved even if it means killing immunes.
The WCKD agenda begs the question of does the end justify the means, a principle often associated with totalitarianism, which is the central theme of the "Maze Runner." The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed.
People frequently complain because a film doesn't follow a book exactly. There are obvious reasons why this is rarely possible, and it's often not even desirable. Books and films are two different art forms. There are different creative impulses at work in each. People need to understand the "Maze Runner" books and films as depicting two separate universes which, although inhabited by the same people facing similar challenges, evolve differently. They are going to diverge, and vive la difference! If all is done well, and the films were done very well, it doubles the fun.
To sum up, these are very good and quite entertaining films which touched upon deep waters. Definitely not boring. Well-acted and well-crafted, too. The production crew and the actors together created an excellent trilogy.
You should definitely watch react the next movie on here and I would love to see your reaction to it because it’s so good!! Can’t wait to see more 😌
Yes please do the reaction for the other movie
I would love to see your reaction to the 2nd and 3rd movie❤
Dylan Obrien is epic.
I love your reaction
So quick thing about this movie as an adaptation that will lead to some non spoiler things about the other two movies. Its fairly accurate but a huge part of the book is that thomas and theresa have a telepathic connection and its something that becomes important in the other books. They didn't include this in the movies because at the time they didn't think they could do it without coming off as cheesy which in hindsight is kind of a cop out. The other two movies are big departures from the stories of the books in a lot of ways but my philosophy with adaptations is that if you have to commit the sin of changing stories in adaptation i can go with it if the changes you make are just as compelling if not more so than the book and in my opinion the movies accomplished that goal for me. i think it'll be a better experience for you watching the movies first then reading because then you won't be doing comparison.
There's a hint that Thomas and Theresa are telepathic in Thomas's dream-visions, but, yes, they didn't develop it in the films. Personally, for the films, I think they made the right choice not to do so.
saw this when it came out
15:20 wait for the next movie it'll answer your question
Hi Guys. Love this movie.
The maze and monster sequence reminds me of Words of Radiance. Anyone else?
The third movie made me cry 😭😭😭 its so sadddd -=₪۩۞۩₪=𝕤𝕠 𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕕𝕕 =₪۩۞۩₪=-
The Hair tho 🤌✨
you’re welcome
Hello there 🤨🤨🤨
Do a reaction video on the music video of the song "Rajieen" please!!! ❤
We need chemtrails reaction now
Because I loved Teen Wolf and thought Dylan was the best actor in it by far, I dragged a friend to the theater to watch this, and neither of us knew anything about this series of books. We both fell asleep and I haven't finished the series, but now I get to by watching you watch it. To be fair, I was too old when it came out, definitely not the target audience.
Fell asleep? Incredible!
i watched this in theatres having no idea what it was about or that it was based on a popular young adult novel. I loved the plot of this movie, a bunch of teens trapped in a maze that they're trying to solve with monsters that come out at night. At the end after they escaped the maze my interest for the rest of the story completely died off.
Too bad.
PLEASE react to the last two movies. If anything at least give us a reaction to the third... please
The Society Season 1 was really good and it should have gotten a second season. Also you really should watch the other 2 movies on camera, and just overall Newt is the best character from the series. The books personally for me were a lot better than the movies, but they were still fine.
Maybe spoiler below because I can’t remember if it is or not.
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I don’t remember if they mention or not, but Gally was stung that’s why he was acting so crazy at the end there.
The society could have been among Netflix's biggest hits with the missing season, what a waste!
This film is so great, I thought I'd elaborate a little more about it. The "Maze Runner" is a 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, 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 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 make Ralph's decapitated head 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 cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were assigned by WCKD. So, 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 in this film that 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 him, the party is in his honor. Once a month, the Gladers have a celebration.
The average Gladers 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 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. After Thomas is first introduced to Newt, Thomas keeps looking after him as Newt walks away. Even Newt seems to glance back at 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, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung. It also may be victims of a sting can't remember being 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 impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps 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 holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. 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.
Staying near the door to the Glade is probably the first place a Griever would look for a potential victim.
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. Thomas is somewhat ambiguous, too. Is Gally right about Thomas? It's not clear what to make of his dream-visions. Is he an agent of good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he was sent into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. Both Thomas and Theresa are clearly mysterious.
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. This means 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. Only those subjects who successfully exit the maze are candidates for the second trial.
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?
One theme, which we see in this 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.
the books are wayyyy better but the movies are still good
I found it boring. Not appeasing. I took a look at the views not surprised only 2000 as your other movies got 20k n up. I see your identity reaction is missing. Has Song red flagged it down?
I thumbs up for you heating up pizza. I want a slice. This movie is YA trash, but better than Divergent
No it's not hidden gem it just trash with the lid tightly placed