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My favorite segment is Todd and Viola find a CULT
Tom Holland is having a bit of a rough year...
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This book was never gonna work as a movie. It's a story specifically made to be written. The noise works so much better in text format than in audio.
Yeah it's still one of my all time favourite book trilogies and I was excited to see what they did but after I saw the trailer I just fully noped out it looks SO BAD
It's weird but thoughts or in this case noise is usually better represented in text, my favorite books are the Ender's game series and just like Chaos walking the movie adaptation flopped because the most interesting part of the books is on what the characters are thinking and there is several pages of what a character is thinking in 1 second of real time, so unless you stop time in the movie there is no way of showing all that, I haven't read Chaos walking but I feel the problem might be something similar.
@@BernardoPC117 oh definitely! I think in the book when Todd first walks back into his town, the entire page is just COVERED in overlapping writing of all different types of handwriting and it was really hard to read, but it really showed how intense the Noise was and how you couldn't escape it.
Absolutely agree. When they announced an adaptation was in the works I immediately knew it was gonna be bad. Some (many) books just don’t need an adaptations.
@@britwww Exactly, just because a book did well, doesn't mean you can turn it into a movie. The dynamics of some books are so unique to the text format that they don't make sense as a movie.
0 marketing, book adaptation and reshoots are perfect cocktail
Reshoots by themselves aren't necessarily a bad thing, I think it's pretty common for movies to reshoot at least some scenes. It can be bad if it the reshoots are done to make serious changes to the plot
I actually saw the advertisements.
off topic but i swear i see hk everywhere
"Mwow" - the profile picture
Apparently the only person that marketed was Daisy Ridley because Tom and mads both had different movies coming out and they are contract to market it had expired. Idk if she got paid extra or she help out
Hearing that Daisy was a fan of the books just makes this so much worse I feel so bad for them lmao
RIGHT?? the cast and the author deserved so much better :( it had the potential
@@elsakin Yeah :/ it wasn't their fault
LMAO
chaos walking isn’t even so bad it’s good chaos. it’s just bad chaos.
Chaotic evil movie
Chaos floundering
It has an interesting premise but the story was all over the place.
It was always walking in chaos (sorry that was bad)
@@raychangalarza179 the real chaos walking was the friends we made along the way
What upset me a bit was how the aged up the characters just so they could have the weird sexual themes which were annoying and Todd’s mother’s journal was suppose to be such a bigger thing, from it being a weight on his shoulders to it saving his life.
yes! the journal was so important and it made me cry when in the second book he started learning how to read so he could read her words to him
Their young age in the books makes everything that happens wrench your heart. There some pretty dark stuff that happens and they’re only like 13 years old. It’s unfortunate that they aged them up.
After how bad the kids in Lord of he Flies got messed up filming, don't ever excpect a live action thing with lots of under 16 year old actors. The children actors had a very hard time seperating reality from fantasy and needed years of therapy.
@@kyleellis9177 which is completely understandable but then you gotta look how the Stranger Things cast did, the kids did absolutely impeccable acting in a horror scene and were still being taken care of, it can be done it just takes the right people.
@@janellelives5158 I know and it just annoys me that they did it more to sell their steamy kiss and hints at sexual themes more than anything.
I’ll never forgive them for making Tom miss the Endgame premiere to do reshoots for this movie 😭 And Tom seemed so excited about this movie when he was first filming it, only to end up deleting most of his posts about it and not doing any promo for it.
Tom is a great actor but I feel like both this movie and Cherry are going to be black marks on his career and could turn him into box office poison now that his time as Spiderman may soon come to an end.
and his co-leading role in 1917. that must've suck.
@@PlanetXerox He was supposed to be in that? Damn, missed opportunity.
Could be worse, you could be like Michael Caine and miss your Oscar ceremony because you were filming Jaws The Revenge.
@@barbiquearea And w his next role being in Uncharted. . .this is def not a good patch for him.
Amanda referring to Nick Jonas as Joe gives me life
AHA OH SHIT, I TOTALLY KNEW IT WAS NICK TOO
I personally loved Davie Jonas. It brought distract memories of tentacles played the organ to my mind.
@@AmandaTheJedi lol
I feel bad for Tom and Daisy, the time of this film could have been spent on something else 😅
I think Tom missed the Endgame premiere for reshoots
@@AmandaTheJedi oh dame 🙁
@@AmandaTheJedi *No* .....
Oh God that's awful.
@@AmandaTheJedi and was also meant to star in 1917 so...
It’s the fact the Tom doesn’t even acknowledge the film
poor f*cking tom holland man
His Uncharted movie is getting delayed like every 5 days, he had to play hostage negotiator with Sony and Marvel over Spider-Man and Cherry polarized the hell out of people lol (I thought it was fine)
And now he's in talks of doing a movie that incorrectly identified the disorder DID as MPD (it's previous name) in some promotional tweets, so I don't know how I feel about that
Wait.. theres still an uncharted movie in the making?
@@2millune756 pretty sure they finished filming it
@@2millune756 It's been in the works for a while. They literally had just started filming it when COVID happened and it's already been delayed like 2 or 3 times as a result
Holland's playing a young Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg is playing Sully
@@icedcapplord710 let’s hope The Last of Us HBO show is the superior adaptation of a Naughty Dog game.
I love that Lucy Hale is always just right there behind you, smiling like a supportive little friend
I was convinced that was Kylie Jenner for all this time..
@@Giulia-lv8ws oh
Lmao
You wasted your Tom, Daisy, and Mikkelsen, how do you get such good talent and waste all of them
This kind of thing happens more times than it should.
Daisy Ridley gives major ‘end of the f****** world’ vibes with that wig
Yesssssss
Girl GIRL gurl DATE - cinematic poetry
Tom Holland is having a bit of a rough go, guys
i would love to hear your reviews on the new Creepshow series
10:38 ... did you just call nick... joe? 💀👀
This movie kinda reminds me a little bit of the comic Y: The Last Man. Only it’s switched and it’s all women and like 2 men lol
@@aidannorton3526 i wanna say she did it on purpose as a joke but i honestly cant tell lol
@@OkanaWolf Did you know there's a Y The Last Man TV show coming?
Velocipastor Shirt🤘🤘🤘
Love it, I didn't know there was any merch around for that movie 😍
Where did she get it ? Anyone know
@@ROCKONplaceboforever I second this
@@ROCKONplaceboforever wish I knew
@blast52drummer it's available thru Teepublic
This is Artemis Fowl levels of development and adaptation hell, jesus
Oh god I forgot that movie existed T_T
No no this is Inkheart's.. both Inkheart and Inkspell were MY LIFE growing up. To see them be butchered (by them trying to combined the stories from both of them into the one movie omfg) was too much. Y'know damn well one book is already DIFFICULT as fuck to be condensed down into one movie, but to squeeze in shit from the second one...... Also Eragon as well, cannot forget that one either.. I also absolutely loved Artemis, but by the time they put the movies out I was older and didn't even hear about it. Based on this comment I'll stay away from it haha
As a Chaos Walking trilogy fan, I feel your pain in solidarity.
At least we got to see Mads Mikkelsen in his Fuck Me Fur coat 😔🙏🏽
Bruh in the books the Mayor always wears a clean white suit. I didnt ever undertand why they make him look like a Los Angeles hobo in the film.
"Viola? Viola what?" "Viola Skywalker." "Oh... I didn't know we were using our fake names. Okay... I'm Spiderman."
Damn, this one of them layered memes.
I don’t know if I love this or hate this
Viola never gave her last name in the books
@@rhaynhillyard9772 Well dang. I guess the Star Wars and Spiderman joke falls flat then. Not only did she not give her name... it likely wasn't even Skywalker. Literality once again destroys comedy. It happens a lot. Last week a horse walked into a bar and the bartender said "Call animal control. Horses should not be inside bars." It was true... but not very funny.
@@darkhoursofday6250 damn ok man I'm sorry
... I'm so sorry, but until I heard you say her name, I just referred to her a "Cody Sprouce with a wig"
omg
Yes!!!! She looks like Dylan and Cole Sprouce but in girl version..!!! I've always said that... Even in star wars!!! But noooo they said i was crazy.. lol
@@oolivegreen In this he looks more like Dylan who is blonde.
Those twins are actually blonde - Cole Sprouse has dyed black hair for Riverdale 🤣
@@barbiquearea they’re both blondes
No lie, I'm having a hard time with the fact that the aliens are named after a substance used to repair drywall. Like are we sure that wasn't supposed to just be a placeholder name that never got changed?
Maybe it's a symbolic thing? The Wikipedia page for spackle says that the word is likely derived from a German word meaning "filler"
I haven’t read the books in a couple years, but I think it was explained that they say a word in their native language that sounds like “spackle” and the humans assumed that was what they were called
I looked it up because i was curious too. The Spackle settlements have "es'Paqili" written on their buildings so that's what th settlers called them. Supposedly it means "the people" but i also read that the Spackle refer themselves as "the land"
In the only piece of written language they found they simply wrote "es'paquili" which eventually got simplified into Spackle. It was thought to mean "the people" but when you start reading 1017's POV you find out that they are "The Land"
My brain kept autocorrecting the name to Sparkle. Neither are great options.
I think they were worried Daisy looked too much like Rey as a brunette lmao
*Me seeing the title not having a clue that one of my favourite books was having an adaptation* : Please no, Please no, Please no,please no, pleasenopleasoenopkeanoselaldkdk
Same. 😂
I for one thought that the thoughts of a teenage boy were made very accurately. Like, the scene where Todd imagines kissing Viola? Would totally happen (in a boys head), but it's very unlikely that the teenage boy would act upon it (depending on personality). I thought Todd was being rather considerate by sleeping out in the rain simply to avoid Viola from hearing his thoughts. Thoughts are impulsive. Like the call of the void, people won't always act upon them, nor should they be blamed for having such thoughts
me: I'd like to read this
me after finding out the dog dies: I would no longer like to read this
Todd gets a horse in Book 2, and that survives the series.
It’s absolutely worth the read. I reread the series even though I’d have to read through that scene again :( but the rest of the first book honestly made it a little better
Same.
I felt cheated that we couldn’t hear Manchee... it’s honestly the reason I picked the book up. I mean, I loved the series for other reasons after I read the books... but opening with “this dog can communicate and the first thing this dog says is that he needs to poo” just really sold me on it.
YES YES YES. I was SO MAD when I couldn’t hear the dogs or horses! Or even the crocs! Made me so mad and I immediately knew the moved would be shit 😩 pop Todd, poo
Ruddy good dog
“I’m not a huge Spider-Man Fan ...”,
Girl we see the giant Spider-Man in the background, you’re not fooling us.😂
That's the Garfield version though, for better or worse...
she said “i’m really excited for this one not because. . .[everything else]. . .i’m a huge spider-man fan” which means that she is a huge spider-man fan but it wasn’t the main reason why she was watching chaos walking (also, apologies in advance if your comment was meant to be a joke !)
I feel absolute agony hearing "I'd rather watch the Percy Jackson Movie". Why would you even ever say that? :'(
I mean. The percy Jackson movies are pretty rough
in a way, at least those are competently made? sure the PJ films are still bad story-wise but what Chaos Walking, Allegiant and The Dark Tower managed to achieve is by making a film that's not only poorly written, but poorly directed & presented.
at least the Percy Jackson movies have Alexandra Daddario in them.
What Percy Jackson movies? I'm sure you mean Peter Johnson, cause there are no Percy Jackson movies out there.
@@minat.t.785 lol what? There's a whole series
Just thinking about people being able to hear my thoughts terrifies me more than every horror movie I've ever seen lmao
The dog scene in the book is famous in the YA world and it's precisely why I've never read the books and won't watch the movie. My heart can't take that.
Yeah, back in the day I read up to the dog and had to stop. There is no excuse for that.
yeah there’s a line here. No hurting pets. I’m still traumatized from watching War Horse and I really don’t even like horses IRL. John Wick I knew about what was to come ans started crying as soon as he got the dog and we had to fast forward that scene. Can’t see any animal abuse. That and little kids. They’re too innocent
This is exactly why I can’t either
I’ll NEVER ever forget reading that! It was awful.
Todd?
Todd?
Viola in Prentisstown: Excuse me, I'm new in town, and it gets worse
Oh my God, I found another John Mulaney fan!
Are we supposed to believe that Mads Mikkelsen is the father of a Jonas Brother?
More like the other way around
@@leenaleewitch3731 what ?
I am literally so happy that there's at least one person out there who has read the amazing books after that terrible movie, thanks for giving them a chance!!
Right? I remember my friend forced me to take the book out from the library when we were in school and I was like wtf is this what's this title this is so weird. And literally the first page had me HOOKED lol it's one of my favourite book trilogies ever
Yeah, growing up the books were absolutely my shit. I read them before anyone else in my friendship group did and every time I saw one of them reading the series, I felt so smugly excited to watch them go through it.
@@seanthebluesheep I remember being absolutely DESTROYED by what happened in the last book but it was so amazingly well written it's still stuck with me years later and the audiobooks are amazing too
Yessss it’s so hard to convince people “the book was better” for this particular movie cuz it was just that bad lol
Easily one of the best books for 'young adults' in existence. The writing is extraordinary and it has layers for readers from all ages. I have no interest in seeing this film, it looks like it's just riding on the YA dystopia train. Doesn't understand the story.
You said 2019 was two years ago and I almost choked.
I was surprised to learn that Daisy Ridley was the only one doing interviews and promoting this film...
I didn't realize ANYONE was promoting it honestly
I mean
This is literally like her first big mainstream role post-Star Wars and given this film went so under the radar for so many people she's probably like "You ain't taking this away from me"
@@icedcapplord710 Her career seemingly has been hurt as she’s done this, Baba Yaga, and Audibles Islanders after that and not much atm...
@@uscman I've never been crazy about her acting skills, but even then it's a shame to see someone go from Star Wars (regardless of quality) to...all this lmao. Any films of hers that you'd recommend for solid performances?
@@service-smile210 I agree, she's not a very strong actress but she deserves better than this and Last Jedi.
Amanda: How did they know I’m in Canada?!
*mentions being in Canada in almost every video in some capacity*
HOW DID THEY KNOW?!
we love you though.
Bold of you to assume studios watch my videos. They just ask for previous accreditation.
Too bad a VPN couldn't be used to fool them ;)
that river scene fucked me up a bit ngl like just how fast it happens 💀
I was spamming fast forward I was like NOT TODAY
Lmao I glanced down to text a friend and missed the entire death
@@songbird6414 oh lucky you then 😭😂
@@aidannorton3526 lmao I wasn’t confused because it was pretty obvious what happened but like damn
😭 That scene was even more brutal in the book
Chaos walking is one of my favorite trilogies bruh, I can't belive they actually made todd this old. He's like 13, i wish they had found an actor his age.
Not gonna lie, I think Tom Holland did an excellent job acting in this. But yeah, he would've been better as Davy Prentiss Jr.
12-13 in New World years.
May be closer to 14.
I may be the only person in this comment section who's watched the Hannibal tv show from a few years back, but "if I had a nickel for everytime I saw Mads Mikkelson get shoved/fall off a cliff, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?"
(This is a line from Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension... I'm not trying to come for Doof like that.)
No we're two ! Loved Hannibal,became my favorite tv show !
Ya kidding? Who HASN'T watched Hannibal? It's awesome!
Dude he’s a Seasoned actor (who gets pigeonholed as a villain) lol he’s had to have fallen off more cliffs than that
hannibal’s a pretty popular show lmao
Ironically he plays a character named cliff in the game death stranding
Once, I walked past Patrick Ness in San Francisco. I only knew it was him because he wore a name tag that said Patrick Ness. By the time I realized an author I really liked had appeared, he was gone. This is the first time I've had an excuse to share.
It was so vindicating when you said you rather die than live in that world because the TERROR I felt when I read the movie sinopsis and thought of what a world like that implied was truly something
I am a Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley stan, I read all 3 books TWICE so to say I loved them is an understatement. I was so excited for the movie in 2017, but by 2021 I had expected it would flop and boy did it flop...
Such a heartbreaking thing for fans of the actors and the books. Especially because it had such potential.
I don't care how bad any movie is. If it has Mads Mikkelsen in it, I'm hooked. 😂
Heck, I'm going to give the Fantastic Beasts series a second chance because Mads was cast in it.
The fact that she works on a Shadow and Bone video make me SO happy, I honestly love this show
The crows are so cool and the casting is amazing ! They really ressemble to the book characters ! And the chemistry of Kanej and Helnik 😍 and Jesper is so cool !
@@orym_angel every kanej scene has me sobbing on the floor, because I love them so much hahaha. And Helnik is great too!
Jesper is baby. The addition of milo the goat only confirms this😌
If you think the books series this movie was based on is surprisingly brutal for its target audience, you should see the disturbing stuff in the "kid-friendly" Warriors series.
The first series alone has a scene where a character gets a wound so severe that it kills them NINE TIMES. And they describe it in great detail.
Wha- How?!
@@victoriashevlin8587 the characters are cats, they have nine lives
Warriors and Redwall are some of the most brutal stories I’ve ever read...both made for children 😭
Lol nah, Warriors is still rather tame. They're cats and its still not that graphic for their target audience, which is around 11 or 12
@@samuelwood8010 Their target audience is 8 - 14 years. Also, them being cats just makes it worse since it's cute animals.
PS: Not saying Warriors is bad or should never be shown to kids. Just that its brutality is kinda surprising. lol
This book series was so amazing growing up
are the books better than this movie?
@@trilynn9202 so much better
Yeah they're a lot better
That seems to be the case with a lot of book to film adaptations.
@@trilynn9202 I read them probably at least 8 years ago and they still remain some of my favourite books - the first one is quite good, but as Amanda touches on the sequels get quite heavy addressing how in conflict there are a lot of sides that all think they're right and mostly they all do (to different levels) some bad stuff to try to get the outcome they want. There's lots more to it than that, but I think once you get used to the writing style in the first book they are the type of book that you can't put down.
Unrelated but I've always thought Daisy Ridley looks like a Sprouse twin, I can't tell which one.
Woah you're right. I think she favors the one from Riverdale. He has a slimmer face than the other one. Sorry, I don't remember their names 😅
holy shit, why is that so accurate??
Oh heck, yes! It's been bugging me for literal years and I could never figure it out...
@@queencleopatra007 Dylan and Cole Sprouse. Cole is the Riverdale one and is Cody.
Have you ever planned on reviewing His Dark Materials show? Cause as an adaption it's really well done.
Wait there's a show?
@@samreddig8819 Yeah under the same name, made by BBC. It's a really good adaption, currently 2 seasons out.
That show ia amazing! Reasly well adapted.
Ok, this is the THIRD film that Tom Holland has starred that was not very well adapted... first there was The Devil All the Time, then Cherry, then Chaos Waalking.... what is happening???
BTW Tom Holland's performance in all of them was exceptional!!
I actually REALLY liked The Devil all the Time
@@AmandaTheJedi the movie is good, but there were changes from the book that flattened out a bit the dramatic climax of the novel and some characters were a bit underdeveloped to fit the chosen narrative frustrated me a bit (especially the serial killers and the preachers narratives). But again, Tom Holland's performance (all of the performances, actually) were spectacular!
I try very hard to see books and their adaptations as two separate art forms (which, they basically are) but it still is an exercise (at least for me) to try not to compare the source material and the adaptation? We watch the screenwriters' and ultimately the director's interpretation of a story, and we may not always agree with them 🙃
All in all, I always find it interesting how our preferences and our experiences differ! Makes discussions more fun (in a respectful and polite setting, of course)
@@barbaradiniz7283 They are separate art forms, but they are not separate, if that makes any sense.
@@WhiteScorpio2 it does! That's the problem 😂😂 we always want to feel with the adaptations the same way the books made us feel! It is ultimately the characters we came to care about, the narrative that intrigued us, the atmosphere surrounding the plot and the worldbuilding 🤩
We get super excited to watch and marvel at the universe that we've created in our imagination in a TV screen, that it opens an enormous ground for disappointment... much like a rug that was swept under out feet and we face-planted in concrete 😂😂
"I'd rather rewatch the percy jackson movies"
*when your two favorite series are percy jackson and chaos walking*
Lovely.
Tom Holland accidentally reveals the end of chaos walking "its shit "
I was going to see this movie instead of Godzilla v Kong
Good thing i didnt.
I think I'd still rather watch this but I don't like big monster movies
Go see nobody with bob odenkirk
Patrick Ness is my favourite author ever. So many gr8 books and also such a great lgbt author too. Really disappointing that his books were distroyed by a bad adaptation.
Day 1 of asking Amanda to review The Haunting of Hill House.
Probably saving for closer to halloween :)
@@AmandaTheJedi what if we die until then 🥺💕
@@AmandaTheJedi yasssss queeen
@@elvoooooooo6071 then we shall do the haunting of our own
Wow. Day 1 and you already got a response. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I'm just remembering a comment from a previous video about Tom Holland getting in bad movies. The replies offered other great movies, but I just keep hearing about bad ones 😭
Chaos Walking is literally the only bad one he's done 4 YEARS AGO! Ever since then he's only had powerhouse performances which carried his movies. The Devil All The Time and Cherry were both amazing imo
I loved these books when I was younger & this is literally the first I’m hearing of a movie adaptation of it
What
That's what I'm saying the marketing for this was trash
I read the books in middle school and have been waiting for the movies for like 8 years ;_;
Disappointment of the century
Eagerly awaiting Amanda’s Shadow and Bone video
poor tom holland just keeps having a bad movie streak
Did you even watch his most recent movies? The Devil All The Time was much acclaimed, especially his perf btw. Cherry got him more awards buzz than any other of his prior movies because his performance was nothing less than Oscar worthy. Chaos Walking is the only one falling off and well, they filmed it 4 years ago and he distanced himself from it because Lionsgate is a hella shitty company
Oh... I didn't know that Mads Mikkelsen was in this! I might have to watch it now.
read this series in my 20s and its one of the best YA trilogies imo. the story gets better and better and can get pretty brutal haha. i was leery of this adaptation bc i think one of the most important aspects of the books was how young and powerless todd and viola were surrounded by adults so i wasn't a fan of the movies aging up. i was also curious as to how they would show the Noise. kinda sad that it turned out so poorly! but im glad you enjoyed the books :)
I was watching that movie yesterday and for a moment, I actually believed all the women had killed themselves cause they got tired of hearing all the men noises.
Ok now I need you to do a Percy Jackson video. I love the book series and I can't even watch the movies
Thank you for covering this. I was going to watch it. But I can’t handle movies where animals are harmed or killed. I don’t care how “amazing” the movie might be(Marley and me).EDIT: i literally just started crying when you talked about Manchie’s death in the book.
I feel sorry for old Doug. He's done some crackin' films. It's sad when a director misfires so badly that his first draft is unwatchable. It's not unheard of, but I feel sorry for them when it does.
There are some things that should be left as books
Amanda talking about brutal YA makes me want her to talk about Unwind lol, who doesnt love books about bodily autonomy and forced organ harvesting... I mean, I did
i agree
Never heard of it I'll check it out!
@@AmandaTheJedi I hope it interests you! From what I remember that series was dark
Organ harvesting? Is it the movie starring Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan? I forgot it's name.
Unwind is the only book that has ever given me nightmares!
Dude I LOVED this book series as a teen, loved that it was dark and gritty, loved the stylized parts on the pages when there was lots of thoughts at once. I had no idea they were making a movie based on it.
Amanda confidently calling Nick Jonas by Joe is basically me at everything in life
The book series is one of my favorites of all time and I was eagerly watching every update on this movie from its first announcement to the casting info, the hellish shooting schedule, Tom completely ghosting on all promo for it, and the actual release. The movie was... interesting. I think if it had come out in 2016/17 when movies were still a thing it would have been good, but in the modern day it would have been an AMAZING TV series with depth and so much world to explore. Definitely disappointing. We got Percy Jackson'd.
She only briefly mentioned ‘I’m thinking of ending things’ but now I’m just like 😢
This premise sounds like a horror movie for everyone involved.
My favorite dystopian YA novel was called "Life As We Knew It" and was about an asteroid crashing into the moon, driving it slightly closer to Earth, which messes with the tides and volcanoes, essentially causes the apocalypse.
It's basically The Road: Teen Girl Edition and was some heavy sh*t when I was 13.
I've always wondered why they never tried to make a movie out of it.
I read this book series about gosh 8 years ago or something I chat really remember but to this day the entire series still haunts me, I can recall actual passages from this book perfectly. The way it handled some really intense themes was absolutely incredible and I loved how Todd was absolutely not a moral hero (the ask and the answer and monster's of men really proved that). I just found that it was a "kids" book that treated the audience like they actually had a brain and didn't spoon-feed them anything (also hey the topics they tacked were heavy and needed tackling) so to see this adaption just really sucks it takes everything about the brilliant series I adore and just sorta goes hey here's some pretty cgi around the noise oh also all the characters are super bland versions of how they originally were have fun!! Also just such bad use of really good star power
So YMS pointed out a bunch of problems with the movie, The Mayor is the only one that can constantly control what noise he emits, right? So how in the hell did nobody in town ever think "Maybe we shouldn't have killed all those women?" Also, why in the hell did the entire town decide to collectively hide all of this from one random kid? How exactly did Todd know the faces of the women David killed in order to emit the illusion of them appearing when he had no chance to ever meet them?
I couldn't read Chaos Walking cause I found out about the dog death scene and someone showed me the passage and I had huge panic over it. I cannot deal with any dog death especially one that talks.
Same
Oh my god it still haunts me
I sobbed so hard when I read that part
THANK YOU! They had amazing actors and I was so dissapointedbecause its such a good premise
They did not do right by Mads Mikkelson. His talent is wasted in this.
It's basically Maze Runner without the maze.
- one dude and his group of boys ? check.
- a girl appears ? check.
- virus ? check.
- destroyed Earth dystopia ? check.
- maze with monsters ? Nah.
I couldn't tell if you were saying "mayor" or "mare" the whole time and now I feel like the character is just a big ass horse
I'm just upset about what they did to manchee in the books. 😭 the poor thing was begging todd to save him.
The real nightmare is the fact that most people will never read one of the best book trilogies ever written, because the idea that they have of the property is this movie. I reread these books ever two years and they are an amazing piece of modern literature. If done right, an adaptation could boost sales and have an entire new fanbase, this however, will turn people away and it's just sad considering how GOOD the books are.
Not gonna lie, I like how they visualised the Mayor's noise when he's doing his "I am the Circle" chant.
I am here, know nothing and yet I come when Amanda arrives 😍😍
I think Tom Holland is going to have a tough career because no matter what you see him in he will always be spiderman like for Dan radcliff as HP, elijah wood as frodo and well tobey maguire as well spiderman. Alot of companies is going to want to capitalise on his teen heartthrob status and cast him in these sort of teen action films that are rarely good. I hope he can get to branch out somewhat like Rob pattinson post twilight when his career became really interesting and diverse
Ahah they took eveything I LOVED about this book series (with themes that stuck with me for a while after reading it) , chucked it out the window and ended up with something bland and forgettable....
It's honestly incredible considering the budget really, they even got so many famous actors and yet managed to screw literally everything up.
Yes the themes in the books are great.
sometimes,, books should just be left as books
was really looking forward to this movie at one point but now...well thanks as always for doing the hard work amanda!
Amanda you are what makes certain days the best.
There's a small flat person standing behind you
That's lil lucy
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU AMANDA!!! I've only recently discovered your videos, but I've binged watched a TON. I don't have any of my own money to support you on patreon, but I always click on your youtube ads
I realllllly liked the books and own the whole series. This movie could have been so good and when I went to watch it it just kept getting worse and worse and oh my God make it stop lol
New World? You know, Trigun called it's planet Gunsmoke. Heck, that Fox movie named it's planet Bob.
I kinda feel bad for Tom Holland. He's a great actor, but a lot of the films he's in just don't end up very good.
As a fan of the books, one of the worst changes they made in my mind was to remove the animal's noise. Manchee's final scene in the book made me, an adult, cry harder than any other book moment before. I was bawling and my family mocked me lol but it was a really emotional moment. Manchee's presence is so minimal in the movie it's like Todd doesn't even care about him until he dies, and then he's sad for a bit but kinda gets over it bc of Viola?? Like Cillian is dead and Todd doesn't know when he's ever going to see Ben again so Manchee is the only family he has left, at least in the book he has these moments where he's expecting him to be there and is going through the painful process of realising he's not there and he'll never be there again. It's just so lackluster, you've given us this whole new world but not really shown us the world.
I've recently discovered you and you're so good. I'm wanting to learn about YA novels/films to write for this age group and you're reviews are so good at unpacking the hopeless complications
of YA books. Where do you get the energy to present your long complicated videos?! But you constantly give me ideas so I do thank you for your sharp cleverness and sheer amazing stamina!
It's like a workout in itself! Your ability to remember all this stuff is phenomenal.
I'm super impressed! I'm a convert!
I love the books, it takes really topical issues and twists them into the most extreme situations. The movie takes everything great about the characters, every creative concept that was pretty well built upon in the books and just throws it in the trash.
I don't know why but the Scott Pilgrim clip made me laugh so hard.
I was waiting for your video on this, it's the perfect amount of crazy yet interesting.
I read these over 10 years ago and absolutely loved it. I didnt even know there was a movie adaptation but hearing you talk about Manchee immediately brought tears to my eyes, like it did when I first read the books! Now I think I have to revisit them sometime
I just watched the movie and to be honest, despite all the negative reviews - I really fucking loved it. I liked the concept of the noise, and how they made it work in the movie. The pure concept of having to SOMEHOW hide your thoughts when they materialize immediately just when you think them is crazy, and I never saw something like that. As always, every movie starring Tom has a special place in my brain, If I like it or not lol. I don't care for unexplained things like the native species, or other things, it doesn't have to always be explained. Just following the characters and seeing them evolve is what makes a good movie for me. I was hooked for every minute. Sad that it isn't available on many platforms
"There's no way it's going to get it's sequel" LOL I literally want there to be a sequel just to get a reaction out of Amanda
Ben and Cillian are confirmed together in the book series by the last book - Cillian was referred to as ben’s “one in particular” which is basically their phrase for significant other or soul mate. This is also used for one other mlm relationship in the books.
I remember reading this book! I couldn't remember the title, but I definitely remember the premise. I didn't know they were making a movie about it before seeing this video