It's a shame cause I really like one of the actors in the movie, Nick Robinson, but I'm kinda meh on seeing this movie.
Trailer for The Fifth Wave starring Chloe Moretz in generic alien disaster movie
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It's a shame cause I really like one of the actors in the movie, Nick Robinson, but I'm kinda meh on seeing this movie.
Gabriel_Logan
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I think my sister told me the Fifth Wave is love or something?That book sounded awful like a sexy invasion of the body snatchers.
Chuckie
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Yeah I have a soft spot for Chloe. She seems so sweet and kind. But no way I am going to watch this trash.
Wait, what?!!! Isn't that the big reveal at the end of the Fifth Element, that the fifth element is in fact love?
And here is a film, which literally uses the word 'fifth' in it's title too, using the same plot device?
Urgh.
I might need to see this film after all.
i watched it and it was super 'meh'.
Predictable twists, predictable tropes, predictable characters.
Atrocious in-universe explanation as to why it has to be young adults / kids who are the 'combatants'
the funny thing is - the movie starts off setting up some Walking Dead like tone, when the main character kills an innocent man, because she thought he had a gun ...
later, we find out that this is literally 2 days after the 'new world order' had started.
it feels like the last hoorah of these kinds of young adult films, that are all the same. Young protagonists, love triangles, post apocalypse... Thankfully.
Predictable twists, predictable tropes, predictable characters.
Atrocious in-universe explanation as to why it has to be young adults / kids who are the 'combatants'
the funny thing is - the movie starts off setting up some Walking Dead like tone, when the main character kills an innocent man, because she thought he had a gun ...
later, we find out that this is literally 2 days after the 'new world order' had started.
it feels like the last hoorah of these kinds of young adult films, that are all the same. Young protagonists, love triangles, post apocalypse... Thankfully.
CadetMahoney
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Reverend Funk
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Avatar?
Goddamn, never watched it. Fucking James Cameron.
I didn't realise that this was an old thread and the movie was already out because I've never heard of it. NOT LIKE THIS CHLOE!
At first I realised how few views the trailer had, then I noticed 2 out of the 9 comments are GAF related.
Hmmm, to watch or not to watch .... 17% on RT is putting it into "Fuck it I need a laugh" territory.
At first I realised how few views the trailer had, then I noticed 2 out of the 9 comments are GAF related.
Hmmm, to watch or not to watch .... 17% on RT is putting it into "Fuck it I need a laugh" territory.
Fox Mulder
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They actually put the trailer for this bullshit before star wars tfa.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Now I have to rent this tonight to see how much of a hot mess it is. Keep in mind, I was able to stomach both Divergent movies. So I should have a high tolerance for YA bullshit by now.
Hollywood really needs to turn this genre on its head. These movies are all starting to blend together. I know the differences between Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent, etc but I have to imagine that most people just think they're all the same thing. This SNL sketch could not be more accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTltDzqhzM
Hollywood really needs to turn this genre on its head. These movies are all starting to blend together. I know the differences between Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent, etc but I have to imagine that most people just think they're all the same thing. This SNL sketch could not be more accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTltDzqhzM
I watched it a few weeks back and saw this thread and decided NOT to bump it.
Didn't know anything about the movie and thought the first act was incredibly cool.
Then it turns into teen novel horse shit so godamn fast that I actually pitied Moeretz in this.
Movie starts off making me think its her surviving alone against aliens. Kinda like The Walking Dead but with Aliens hunting her.
Spoiler alert "hunky" teen guy nurses chloe back to health. She accidentally finds him taking a bath in the lake.
I was like man. Fuck this.
The 5th wave is
. So fucking stupid,
Didn't know anything about the movie and thought the first act was incredibly cool.
Then it turns into teen novel horse shit so godamn fast that I actually pitied Moeretz in this.
Movie starts off making me think its her surviving alone against aliens. Kinda like The Walking Dead but with Aliens hunting her.
Spoiler alert "hunky" teen guy nurses chloe back to health. She accidentally finds him taking a bath in the lake.
I was like man. Fuck this.
The 5th wave is
the aliens posing as the army and training human children to kill adults
I thought the movie was solid YA post apocalyptic drama. Better than the last Hunger Games movie, probably similar to the last Maze Rubber in quality, at least as good as a Diverg/Insurg/Allegiant, and not as good as The Giver or Warm Bodies. I took my little brother to see it and we had a really good time.
Btw, unless I'm totally misremembering the movie, this wasn't the case at all.
Wait, what?!!! Isn't that the big reveal at the end of the Fifth Element, that the fifth element is in fact love?
And here is a film, which literally uses the word 'fifth' in it's title too, using the same plot device?
Urgh.
I might need to see this film after all.
Btw, unless I'm totally misremembering the movie, this wasn't the case at all.
Watched this last night. First act was impressive thought it was going to be way better then I expected....then the rest of the movie came.
captjohnboyd
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Nope. Hes right. The fifth element is in fact love. At least sort of. Shes the fifth element but she isn't "active" without love so basically the same thing
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Score. My campus theater was playing this. Free entrance with student ID, $0.50 popcorn. Can't beat that. Saved me from paying to rent it on PSN or Amazon. I was literally the only person in the theater. Only other time that happened was when I went to see The Road, which was creepy as fuck because of it. But it's finals week so maybe people had better things to do.
The popcorn was the best thing about the experience. The movie started out okay...typical disaster movie cliches but it was working. The moment we get to the training base the film goes off a cliff. I felt like there were no surprises in this because every revelation was so predictable.
The worst thing about a lot of these films is they aren't good standalone films, they are only in service to being continued. The first Hunger Games works by itself. There are some dangling threads that get picked up in the sequels, but it felt like complete book/film. This felt like the first half of a tv mini-series. It's baffling how this movie takes so long to do so little. It splits the narrative and eventually they end up intersecting again, but everything in the middle is full of paper thin characterization. I don't even know if you can call them character moments, because they don't really expand on what we saw from the characters within the first 15 seconds of them being introduced.
I'm perfectly fine with some cheesy writing. But the scene in the barracks where they introduce Ringer was noticeably bad. I know the character isn't the focus of the film, but you can establish someone as a badass without going the tired route of the other character's talking about how "I heard blah blah blah..." right before their entrance. And then later in the movie they even managed to fit in the classic "We're not so different..." speech from the villain.
I'm sure I'll be complaining about this again when they turn it into a tv series like Mortal Instruments. The tv landscape has room for all the YA film franchise non-starters.
The popcorn was the best thing about the experience. The movie started out okay...typical disaster movie cliches but it was working. The moment we get to the training base the film goes off a cliff. I felt like there were no surprises in this because every revelation was so predictable.
Every bad guy talks in a menacing tone, even when you're supposed to think they're good guys at the time. And the little love triangle was hilariously phoned in. The kiss at the end, where we get a quick cut to Zombie's reaction. Come on. And having Zombie & Cassie be saved two separate times by people out of nowhere in the last 10 minutes was so lazy. You might be able to get away with one of those...but 2 and at the big finale of your film. No. Just no. I've never read the books but there is a 0.0000000% chance that Hunky Alien is actually dead. Let me guess, he shows up again after Cassie and Zombie begin to establish a relationship. Zzzzzzz
The worst thing about a lot of these films is they aren't good standalone films, they are only in service to being continued. The first Hunger Games works by itself. There are some dangling threads that get picked up in the sequels, but it felt like complete book/film. This felt like the first half of a tv mini-series. It's baffling how this movie takes so long to do so little. It splits the narrative and eventually they end up intersecting again, but everything in the middle is full of paper thin characterization. I don't even know if you can call them character moments, because they don't really expand on what we saw from the characters within the first 15 seconds of them being introduced.
I'm perfectly fine with some cheesy writing. But the scene in the barracks where they introduce Ringer was noticeably bad. I know the character isn't the focus of the film, but you can establish someone as a badass without going the tired route of the other character's talking about how "I heard blah blah blah..." right before their entrance. And then later in the movie they even managed to fit in the classic "We're not so different..." speech from the villain.
I'm sure I'll be complaining about this again when they turn it into a tv series like Mortal Instruments. The tv landscape has room for all the YA film franchise non-starters.
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