Ah yes the 'Maze Runner'. Quality quality stuff indeed. Truly nothing to complain about in this film in my opinion.
I read the books once upon a time. I may have owned them but I think perhaps I borrowed them from the library. The library days were pretty epic. Anyway, I did read these books and found them pretty enjoyable. Straightforward and gritty. The movie does a pretty spot on job with recreating the book. Massive massive props.
I think I saw this first one years ago, but definitely not the next two films. So essentially this is a fun experience that I look forward to enjoying, it's a long time coming too. I'm currently re-reading 'The Inheritance Cycle' and so, I ended up back at this series after some web surfing.
I think the reason I didn't watch this series in full was for several reasons. 'Eragon' was done super poorly, as well as another favorite of mine 'Cirque Du Freak' combine that trauma (LOL) with life events and generic laziness, yeah, it's 2025 and I haven't actually watched all of these.
But yes I recently watched 'The Maze Runner' and it was just awesome. I totally see why people love this series and why it consistently brought in very much strong numbers at the box office. They averaged approximately $300 million a pop. That's nothing to sneeze at! The movie is fast and action packed, the story is fascinating, and the characters are good. Seriously just checks all the boxes of an action movie as well as having an actual good story. The movie was not shy about anything either, very bold and aggressive.
I love the idea of The Maze. It's so infinitely symbolic. Everyone feels trapped by something sometimes, unwilling to take risks, unwilling to explore. Whatever the case my be. It even teases some conspiracy theories but that's just my silly brain 🤪LOL. Still that's what good sci-fi/fantasy does in my opinion.
This film was like a weird more violent version of 'The Truman Show'. Kinda, sorta-ish LOL.
Seriously this is such a fun film. Incredibly rewatchable. That's said a lot about films but this is soooo true for 'The Maze Runner'. I anticipate that I'll enjoy the next two since I liked the books and well, this film was excellent. Since I will likely like the next two, I could totally see myself wasting a day watching these three back to back.
There's just something I really respect about this movie, just bam, here's there situation, it's chaos, figure it out or perish. Then the mystery behind everything just adds that perfect element.
Awesome stuff.
