Maze Runner Movie Comparison

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The Maze Runner may not have been a particularly good movie, especially once it decided to move away from being a Lord of the Flies knockoff in favor of a "escape from the giant mechanical spiders" movie - even though that sounds reversed from how it should be. It made a lot of money, though, so it now has a sequel: The Scorch Trials. Set directly after the events of the first film, the second follows Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and co. as they continue on the run from WICKED, an evil organization that wants children in order to produce a cure for a virus that essentially wiped out civilization as we currently know it. If you remember the first film - and nobody can blame you if you don't; I finally saw it less than a month ago and I barely recall what happened - you may be thinking that the cast of the first film already escaped WICKED, and that they were rescued by nice men with guns. Well, it turns out that these people are also part of WICKED, so they have to escape again, only to find themselves in a desert post-apocalyptia, where they have new challenges to overcome. Outside of the elements, they also have to deal with zombies (called Cranks), factions that still exist even in the desert, and WICKED, who continues to pursue them for reasons that The LEGO Movie can explain more accurately than anyone else. Thomas is The Special, and as such all of the important events …show more content…

The teenagers from the first film - Thomas, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Minho (Ki Hong Lee), and a couple of others - run from place to place as WICKED chases them, stopping only until the area they're in starts to get dangerous, and then they're on the move again. What should have been reaped from Mad Max was the way that world-building was done without much exposition, and how characters still manage to show us their depth and develop despite the near-constant

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