Divergent movie (SPOILERS)

sfgiantsjo · March 2014

So, more of probably saw this over the week - What did you think? How did you feel about things changed/left out?

Young_Love · March 2014

I liked it SO much more than I expected to! I was seriously expecting it to be terrible and I was really surprised with how good it was!

I wished they would have fleshed out the friendship w/ Christina/Will a little more, and the friendship w/ Al, so his betrayal was more of a shock. I thought the actors who played Al and Will looked too much alike, so it was hard to keep them straight. I didn't like that her fear w/ Four in the fear landscape was of him raping her (WTF) instead of just intimacy. (Fear of rape is legit, but I think it changes the nature of her relationship w/ Four if deep inside she thinks he's going to rape her. I can understand having that fear of Peter or Eric or some unknown Dauntless. Four is the one person she trusts.)

But overall I was SUPER pleased and surprised! Two thumbs up!

(And MH who hasn't read the books enjoyed it, too.)

Young_Love · March 2014

Oh, and I totally promised MH some eye stabbing, so I was bummed they didn't include that just because he kept waiting for it and it never happened.

When Tris goes to see Caleb at the Erudite compound, MH said, "that's where you would be." I said, "NO WAY. Amity for life!" But you don't learn much about Amity in the movie, so I forgive him. haha

hopecounts · March 2014

I liked it, I haven't reread since Allegiant though so that may have helped. I disliked the changes to the knife throwing scene and leaving out the drunk 4 scene because I love it in the book I thought Theo James did a really good job of making 4 not come across as an Ass when it would have been easy for that to happen. shaileen woodley's height bugged me but wasn't awful.

SnShne322 · March 2014

I liked it just fine. I didn't go in with high expectations so I wasn't disappointed. Four didn't do it for me as much as I'd hoped, but he was still good. I wished there was time for a little more detail into Four and Tris's relationship, but I think it's what was needed to make the movie progress. The chasm wasn't as scary to me in the movie as it it was portrayed in the book.

J went with me and only knew a little bit about it, but ended up really liking it. He doesn't want to read it, but he's looking forward to the next movie. I didn't have the heart to really tell him how it's just not as good.

Young_Love · March 2014

SnShne322 said:

I liked it just fine. I didn't go in with high expectations so I wasn't disappointed. Four didn't do it for me as much as I'd hoped, but he was still good. I wished there was time for a little more detail into Four and Tris's relationship, but I think it's what was needed to make the movie progress. The chasm wasn't as scary to me in the movie as it it was portrayed in the book.

J went with me and only knew a little bit about it, but ended up really liking it. He doesn't want to read it, but he's looking forward to the next movie. I didn't have the heart to really tell him how it's just not as good.

Hopefully the movie people have no qualms about changing up books 2 and 3 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to actually make them good. Book 2 = characters running everywhere for no discernible reason...the movie could actually be *better*

mrsvedo · March 2014

I agree with most if what was said so far. I was still pretty meh on Shailene until the scene where her mom dies. I'll admit to a few tears.

SnShne322 · March 2014

Young_Love said:

SnShne322 said:

I liked it just fine. I didn't go in with high expectations so I wasn't disappointed. Four didn't do it for me as much as I'd hoped, but he was still good. I wished there was time for a little more detail into Four and Tris's relationship, but I think it's what was needed to make the movie progress. The chasm wasn't as scary to me in the movie as it it was portrayed in the book.

J went with me and only knew a little bit about it, but ended up really liking it. He doesn't want to read it, but he's looking forward to the next movie. I didn't have the heart to really tell him how it's just not as good.

Hopefully the movie people have no qualms about changing up books 2 and 3 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to actually make them good. Book 2 = characters running everywhere for no discernible reason...the movie could actually be *better*

I was thinking the same. Normally I don't like changes that are too big, but in this case they can change nearly the whole book and it would be better. Book 3? It will be a new story if they end up making it a movie.

sfgiantsjo · March 2014

I don't even need to comment Y_L said EXACTLY every single thing I was thinking.

jlq2005 · March 2014

I didn't like it, but I appear to be the minority. I felt like they left too much out, and there was basically NO development of the secondary characters. We meet Christina, and that's basically it. There's nothing else. Al is hardly a presence, and so I felt like when they tried to push her over the chasm it wasn't as intense as it was in the book, because Al was her friend and you didn't get that in the movie IMO.

I was also disappointed there was no eye stabbing. I felt like leaving that out lessened how real the competition was to make it into Dauntless.

The more I think about it, the more I dislike it.

jlq2005 · March 2014

Also, they totally left out the part about Tris asking Caleb to research the serum! Like she just went to chat with him and that's not why she went there, so that also irritated me.

Young_Love · March 2014

OH, I also like that they gave a purpose for Four bringing Tris into his fear landscape. I never really understood WHY he did it in the book.

Young_Love · March 2014

jlq2005 said:

I didn't like it, but I appear to be the minority. I felt like they left too much out, and there was basically NO development of the secondary characters. We meet Christina, and that's basically it. There's nothing else. Al is hardly a presence, and so I felt like when they tried to push her over the chasm it wasn't as intense as it was in the book, because Al was her friend and you didn't get that in the movie IMO.
I was also disappointed there was no eye stabbing. I felt like leaving that out lessened how real the competition was to make it into Dauntless.
The more I think about it, the more I dislike it.

HA! This is how I was prepared to feel. I'm shocked that I actually liked it.

myJunegirls · March 2014

Young_Love said:

SnShne322 said:

I liked it just fine. I didn't go in with high expectations so I wasn't disappointed. Four didn't do it for me as much as I'd hoped, but he was still good. I wished there was time for a little more detail into Four and Tris's relationship, but I think it's what was needed to make the movie progress. The chasm wasn't as scary to me in the movie as it it was portrayed in the book.

J went with me and only knew a little bit about it, but ended up really liking it. He doesn't want to read it, but he's looking forward to the next movie. I didn't have the heart to really tell him how it's just not as good.

Hopefully the movie people have no qualms about changing up books 2 and 3 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to actually make them good. Book 2 = characters running everywhere for no discernible reason...the movie could actually be *better*

I read a VERY interesting article about just this last night. How book 2 was sort of plotless and book 3 made all the rage come out of people. So would the screenwriters give audiences the movies they actually WANT to see or would they continue to follow the books.

It will be interesting to see what they do.

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