I thought this would be a somewhat decent alien invasion movie, yet halfway into it, this turned into another run of the mill hero teen movie like Divergent, Ender's Game, etc...
Hope this genera fad dies fast!!!!....
This genre is the worst. The ultimate when it comes to the implausible.
sharePlease- western is the worst genre
shareEndoman - me too! Saw the preview On Demand and thought it was right up my alley - alien invasion/end of the world action pic. Nope - a crappy version of Divergent meets Hunger Games meets Independence Day is all I got. I want my $6 back.
shareYea, OnDemand made this look dope even though I saw the horrible reviews. They turned out to be right. The very beginning seemed interesting with the Tsunamis, and all. Once the "army of others " showed up it went farther and farther into nonsensical.unfortunately this will probably be made into a series of films. I don't know because I am not into reading this crap.
BTW.. Westerns are definitely not the worst genre. If you get a good one(which is rare) they are great. I'll throw out 3:10 to Yuma and Salvation as 2 that were great. It's just that the theaters are saturated with these little kid teen films that after long enough you wind up watching them.
THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!
After reading the book I was really excited at the potential for the movie. Yet again they are chasing twilight fame and turn it into a teeny bopper crap film.
shareInteresting that you would classify Ender's Game as a run of the mill teen movie. I would say that the themes run far deeper than any other YA film and even normal movies, and the book material (which incidentally is not about teenagers at all) is even farther from it.
shareI agree. Ender's game had a similar plot point of using child soldiers partly due to their ignorance, but that is a solid plot point. That's not why 5th Wave wasn't very good. The love triangle is what killed it.
Ender's Game had a starship troopers feeling too when you imagine what monsters us humans are being to our neighbors across the universe. For that it is very thought provoking. I dont understand why people dont like it.
The 5th Wave just needed The Host subplot to be removed and then it would have had time to be more epic and emotional with fewer characters to worry about. As is I'd say it was a mediocre 6/10 but without the love at first sight/HS crush parts it could have easily been very good.
Ender's Game was a terrifyingly bad movie, made more terrible by the ridiculous appearance of an old, broken-down Harrison Ford, in need of a paycheck.
The title itself is insipid-- it's the kind of title where you know the author picked the book's title first and then engineered the character's name to fit ("OK, i want to make a pun of "End Game"... Entwhistle... Endor... Ender!")
I personally dislike the movie (though the soundtrack is lovely) because I feel that it represents the book badly, but I think the cast was great. They just weren't given enough to work with. The book is one of my favorites and the sequel is even better.
As for the title, I can see why it seems that way. But I think it fits :)
They have these things called trailers and plot summaries. You might want to look into them.
shareYea, unfortunately the plot synopsis looks good, and all you get from trailers are the best parts. They don't throw in the other hour and 52 minutes of filler crap that makes no sense. Those had to be the lamest aliens ever!!
THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!
Horrendous ! Apparently no electricity / EMC does not stop the new "Forever 21" spotless clothes and life as normal. Pure stupidity.
shareWow, what happy kids alrhough their parents were slaughtered, military grade black eyeliner. What the hell was Peter Gibbons thinking, did he fall that far this fast ?
shareHaha the makeup was driving me crazy! The military lady with her bright lipstick and the stupid teenage girl with her eyeliner. Hello? This is the apocalypse! I actually had to stop watching The 100 because I couldn't figure out who was waxing the girls' eyebrows in space prison. Huge pet peeve of mine.
shareGot tricked too. At first I was enjoying it, decent effects too and then.... It turned into a teen movie, damn!
shareYour English teacher also "douped" you. There is no such word.
It's hard to take a comment seriously when the title contains such an obvious spelling error.
That doesn't even take into account your misuse of the word "genera". I'm not sure if you were going for "genre" or "general". But please, it's not that hard to write comments using correct English.
there is an epidemic of teen-tween crappy movies like this, from hunger games to harry potter to the teen vampire movies. they all suck.
is that market that large? or are there a whole lot of adults with teen-tween minds?