blog #6 - about the fifth wave....

Wow. I loved the book The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey. It was awesome. There was a lot of humor mixed with some romance but a lot more mystery and action. I was the perfect balance! The major plot was the main character, Cassie, trying to find her brother. That was her main goal, not falling in love with the mysterious guy in the woods who saved her life. About that... What the heck??? In the movie the "big reveal" about the creepy guy in the woods was totally obvious from the start. In the book it took me a little while to get it. I mean, the actor who plays him kind of even looks like an alien so that's how I knew. In the book, the characters were also WAY more developed (obviously). I could always tell what they were feeling. 

At one point in the movie, I thought Cassie was pissed at the guy in the woods (I do not know his name) but they were definitely not mad because they started making out. That was something I was not expecting, I may have sheildes my eyes because I act like I am 5 sometimes in moments like that. The movie was way over dramatic with the romance. I feel like it was to appeal to the female audiences, but it still sucked. 

The movie also had way too much action. There were some parts wher eI didn't even understand what was going on because there was so much gunshots and fire. I hate movies like that. That probably why I hated The Fifth Wave.

blog #5 - trailers ( The Fifth Wave )

(this is the trailer that i watched and will be referring to)



I do not have very high expectations for this movie. I absolutely loved the book, and I am afraid the movie will ruin it. The book was mostly "oh no aliens we have to shoot them before they shoot me." I feel like the movie will have a more "lets have a thought out action plan to kill this one alien soldier we should blow everything up" sort of perspective. I hate stuff like that, movies over dramatize everything. They just need to kill the guy, not shoot a randomly placed barrel of gas to blow up an entire town.



I am also very confident in the fact that the movie will have too much romance in it, to appeal to male and female audiences. The trailer had stuff blowing up and guns (for guys) and hot guys and making out (for girls). The romances in the book were subplots, they do not need to take up the entire movie. There were no "I love you's" so are the romances that important?



To be completely honest, the main character (Cassie) does not match the images in my head at all. I pictured Cassie to look like a killer, because she is in the book. She stops at nothing to find her brother. The girl who plays her (Chloe Grace Mortez) I personally dislike as an actress in general, because of the movie If I Stay. In all the trailer I have seen for the movie, Cassie always looks scared. In the book she never really shows fear. I mean, look at this picture. She is alone in the woods and still looks horrified.









She also looks scared in this picture.





And this picture (even though she is with a hot guy and a gun)





Look! She's scared again.





She isn't scared of owls though.

blog #4 - adaptations

1) I screamed.
2) I threw the book off my bed.
3) I buried myself in my pillow.
4) I took a 30 minute mental relaxation to comprehend what I had just read.

That was me while reading the turning point of Gone Girl. I loved that book. It is one of the few books that I read in one day. It was one of the few books that I read in one day. I was just written so well, it read very fast. For this book, I HATED the movie. It was just weird. They over exaggerated the sexual parts and it was very unnecessary.

As for books I hated but movies I loved, one word - Divergent. I have so much to say about this book and movies. About the books. I only liked the first one. I read Divergent in one day. It was such a fast paced book, reading was easy. I was yelled at multiple times in my classes to stop reading and pay attention, I love books that make me do that. I thought I found a new series that I could potentially fall in love with, but boy was I wrong. When I got Insurgent the next day, I started reading. I hated it. Nothing was happening. I still forced myself to read it though, because that's the type of reader I am. It ended up taking me a month to read it. After I finally finished Insurgent, I was so  relieved. It then took me three months to read 38 pages of Allegiant, and I still didn't finish it. It was so bad. However, I did love to movies for this series. They were so action packed and exciting. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, I watched them both in one day. I think the movies portray the story a lot better than the books.

A representation of my feelings in the Divergent movies.