This is not a Veronica Mars post though it should be
-I mostly liked it because lbr all I needed was for Tris/Fourbias to have chemistry and then have makeouts and that happened, so. What else can I ask for.
-THAT SAID I did spend half the movie being outraged every time I remembered the third book and how nothing makes any sense and how dare Veronica Roth make Tris' mother such an intriguing badass who grew up in Dauntless only for everything to be OOPS GENETIC EXPERIMENT LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT ALL OF IT. nothing about this goddamn series makes any sense and it makes me so mad. I MEAN it never made any sense, but even the character journeys all became so pointless and meaningless in the face of Allegiant. Why am I not over this yet. /o\
-why would anyone ever choose Dauntless though. It is not a good choice. Literally any other faction would be a better choice.
-Kate Winslet is great but her American accent seemed off to me. I think it was just a little too nasally sounding? Not quite David Tennant levels of bad (although WHAT COULD BE) but still off.
-Theo James' American accent otoh seemed perfect. Also he was surprisingly good and super hot????? I mean I saw the trailer and everything but still, DAMN. I was so distracted by his hotness that I even forgot for most of the movie that his previous best known role was that Guy Who Died Having Sex With Lady Mary.
-Overall the casting was better than I was expecting. I really liked Zoe Kravitz as Christina and Maggie Q is always flawless. LOL @ Flopgerald playing Andrew Prior though. He was definitely more likeable in his two scenes as Tris' distant father than he has ever been on Scandal.
-Shailene was okay, although she felt very Katniss-y to me. WHICH tbf was probably deliberate because why not try and capture THG's audience. But one of the things I like about Tris is she is generally more active than Katniss, but she spent most of the movie walking around with a blank/dazed expression on her face, and didn't really ~take charge until the last 10 minutes or so. Oh well.
-A lot of the plot points felt very crammed in but that's fair when it comes to movie adaptations JUST ASK HARRY POTTER FANS. I did miss some of the underlying survival politics among Tris and her friends, though. Al's storyline in particular was so shoe-horned in. I didn't even really know which one he was until he died truthfully.
-THAT SAID I thought the movie did a much better job at clarifying that Tris could go undetected in her fear landscape as long as she acted like a dauntless rather than a divergent - because that was not clear at ALL in the books, and at least makes it somewhat more plausible that no one in the higher ups realized she was divergent much earlier on.
-lol @ the climax, it was so much more dramatic than in the books (although actually made a lot more sense than Jeanine & Co. randomly just leaving Fourbias all alone in the control room for easy pickings). YOU GO PUTTING KNIVES THROUGH JEANINE'S HAND TRIS. I ACCEPT THIS INSERTION.
-Remember how in the books, one of Tris's fears was of sexual intimacy which made sense given her age and that she was raised in abnegation and had her first boyfriend while everything around her was fucked and I MEAN who doesn't have that fear, really? And then afterwards they actually talked about it and Tris had agency and stuff? AND THEN IN THE MOVIE IT BECOMES SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE? whyyyyyyyy.
-I see that this movie actually did fairly well at the box office this movie thus ensuring two sequels and I am unsure how I feel about it. On the one hand, book 2 martyr!Tris is my favourite Tris, but on the other hand, this series is a source of agony and frustration that I need to move on from. But who would I be if I didn't at least have one fandom in my life creating more problems than not.
I also saw the Veronica Mars movie last week and liked it a lot, but I don't really have a lot to say about it besides "it felt like a very long episode and thank you gift to the fans" and I am fine with that. I feel that a Veronica Mars sequel would cause me less frothing rage than a Divergent sequel tbh.
-THAT SAID I did spend half the movie being outraged every time I remembered the third book and how nothing makes any sense and how dare Veronica Roth make Tris' mother such an intriguing badass who grew up in Dauntless only for everything to be OOPS GENETIC EXPERIMENT LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT ALL OF IT. nothing about this goddamn series makes any sense and it makes me so mad. I MEAN it never made any sense, but even the character journeys all became so pointless and meaningless in the face of Allegiant. Why am I not over this yet. /o\
-why would anyone ever choose Dauntless though. It is not a good choice. Literally any other faction would be a better choice.
-Kate Winslet is great but her American accent seemed off to me. I think it was just a little too nasally sounding? Not quite David Tennant levels of bad (although WHAT COULD BE) but still off.
-Theo James' American accent otoh seemed perfect. Also he was surprisingly good and super hot????? I mean I saw the trailer and everything but still, DAMN. I was so distracted by his hotness that I even forgot for most of the movie that his previous best known role was that Guy Who Died Having Sex With Lady Mary.
-Overall the casting was better than I was expecting. I really liked Zoe Kravitz as Christina and Maggie Q is always flawless. LOL @ Flopgerald playing Andrew Prior though. He was definitely more likeable in his two scenes as Tris' distant father than he has ever been on Scandal.
-Shailene was okay, although she felt very Katniss-y to me. WHICH tbf was probably deliberate because why not try and capture THG's audience. But one of the things I like about Tris is she is generally more active than Katniss, but she spent most of the movie walking around with a blank/dazed expression on her face, and didn't really ~take charge until the last 10 minutes or so. Oh well.
-A lot of the plot points felt very crammed in but that's fair when it comes to movie adaptations JUST ASK HARRY POTTER FANS. I did miss some of the underlying survival politics among Tris and her friends, though. Al's storyline in particular was so shoe-horned in. I didn't even really know which one he was until he died truthfully.
-THAT SAID I thought the movie did a much better job at clarifying that Tris could go undetected in her fear landscape as long as she acted like a dauntless rather than a divergent - because that was not clear at ALL in the books, and at least makes it somewhat more plausible that no one in the higher ups realized she was divergent much earlier on.
-lol @ the climax, it was so much more dramatic than in the books (although actually made a lot more sense than Jeanine & Co. randomly just leaving Fourbias all alone in the control room for easy pickings). YOU GO PUTTING KNIVES THROUGH JEANINE'S HAND TRIS. I ACCEPT THIS INSERTION.
-Remember how in the books, one of Tris's fears was of sexual intimacy which made sense given her age and that she was raised in abnegation and had her first boyfriend while everything around her was fucked and I MEAN who doesn't have that fear, really? And then afterwards they actually talked about it and Tris had agency and stuff? AND THEN IN THE MOVIE IT BECOMES SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE? whyyyyyyyy.
-I see that this movie actually did fairly well at the box office this movie thus ensuring two sequels and I am unsure how I feel about it. On the one hand, book 2 martyr!Tris is my favourite Tris, but on the other hand, this series is a source of agony and frustration that I need to move on from. But who would I be if I didn't at least have one fandom in my life creating more problems than not.
I also saw the Veronica Mars movie last week and liked it a lot, but I don't really have a lot to say about it besides "it felt like a very long episode and thank you gift to the fans" and I am fine with that. I feel that a Veronica Mars sequel would cause me less frothing rage than a Divergent sequel tbh.