The Very Worst Movie Of The Past Two Years (at least) !!

I already have a job. I get $7.64 plus expenses for every movie watched. It is low paying but it keeps me in popcorn.

You mean get a life?

Thanks for the thoughts Mr. Manager. In my original post I did not present a proper description of my opinion. On a 1-10 scale I actually gave this movie a 3+, and over the past couple of years I have given several movies a lower rating. For example I gave "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" a 2-, and the current "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" a 1+, but no one expects those types of movies to be really "high quality". What I should have said in the original was something closer to your comment. Considering the source material, the budget, the expectations, etc., it was EXTREMELY disappointing.

I haven't read the book, but will now make a point to do so. I've seen it compared to Hunger Games and Divergent as emotional rather than action. I felt that the movie didn't really give us enough background, then sort of rushed through the second half.

I think HG was well written and excellently adapted for the movie. I'm all but done the Divergent series. I find it was a great idea, but just not as well written as it could have been - and the movie was actually better.

After reading how Mr. Maniax's felt that "The Giver" was at least not as bad as either "The Hunger Games" or "The Maze Runner", I decided to do a little bit of movie viewer research. The first thing that became apparent was that the viewer opinions for all three movies are VERY polarized. For "The Hunger Games" , about 20% as many viewers hated it as loved it. For "The Maze Runner" the hated-it percentage was up to about 30%. Finally, for "The Giver" the hated-it percentage had risen to 40%. I think these numbers make two facts clear: 1) "different strokes for different folks" AND 2) viewers are getting tired of this type of movie.

Yaknow, if you don't like futuristic movies depicting a dystopian society that emerged from some cataclysmic war or ecological disaster, or something, then DON'T WATCH THEM. Doesn't give anyone the right to SLAM all of them!

All of those movies ("Hunger Games," "Divergent" and "The Giver") are based on books that are labeled as "YA," for young adults. In the case of "The Giver," after watching ALL the bonus material on the disc, which I just finished, including the study guide, I see it's a book often assigned in grades 6-8. I haven't read THAT book, but I DID read all three "Hunger Games" books when the first movie came out (the first just before the first movie came out, and the other two right after), and I picked up a copy of "Divergent" just prior to its release. I'm in my mid-50s, and although I don't see 35 movies a week, I'm well-versed enough after a lifetime of watching MANY, MANY movies (although a great many of them only after they reach HBO or something, and NOW only after they hit discs, and I can get them via Netflix), and frankly I just don't get all the SLAMMING!

I was impressed enough with "The Hunger Games" to go see the movie, which I thought was a slightly disappointing adaptation, but not too bad (there are a few things missing in all three adaptations so far I see no reason to have left out that I think ADD to the story). After reading "Divergent," I elected to wait and rent it. I guess my opinion was accurate, as it did only a third the box office of any of the "Hunger Games" films, and I found the movie to be about like the book -- good, but not great...

I haven't read "The Giver," but I thought the movie was pretty decent. It seemed to very well accomplish its story-telling ideals, and I don't see where the acting was bad. Indeed, if you were looking for EMOTIONAL performances from the actors to call it a GOOD movie, well, they weren't SUPPOSED to feel intense emotions, only mild happiness and very little in the way of sadness. They didn't even have words for joy, love, hate, anguish or other intense emotions in that society. Indeed, inhibiting its citizens from seeing in anything other than black and white seems an ideal way to help ensure they never experience any complex emotions, as that was a "black-and-white" society, where there were only rules, no exceptions. Everyone followed the rules, or else. Nobody seemed certain what the "else" was, but nobody seemed to want to find out, either. Nobody even understood the concept of DEATH. People just "went elsewhere."

Again, if you're not a vegetarian, DON'T eat tofurkey and then complain because it doesn't taste like real turkey. And if you don't like dystopian futuristic movies, don't watch them just so you can say how bad they are! Frankly, I suspect folks who HATE this sort of movie are the same ones who like to deny there are any major problems in modern society -- at least in American society. In fact, the way we're heading -- with uncontrolled population growth and decreasing tolerance for the differences of others (and I don't just mean "US" not tolerating "THEM;" I also mean "THEM" not tolerating "US"), it wouldn't surprise me much at all if we ended up with a swift, massive reduction in the world population caused by a Third World War, whether military, biological, or otherwise (induced worldwide famine is one way -- sabotage major food crops with a virus or something that wipes most of them out). So quit dismissing this type of movie out of hand.

Maybe you don't dismiss futuristic dystopian movies out of hand, you just don't like any of the ones you've seen. Well, if so, then WRITE ONE THAT'S BETTER! Don't just complain.
Jeff

Umm...yeah. A movie based on a book that predates any of the others you reference by about two decades and which has been in the planning stages for about 10 years certainly deserves to be dismissed as a knock-off of the Hunger Games. Look, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but you end up looking a lot less foolish if your opinion reflects at least a cursory understanding of the facts. Especially when you adopt a pretentious user name like CognitionLoop.

honestly sounds like your brain is underdeveloped, especially when you feel the need to put yourself above others (inferiority complex) You know your dumb, so you go out of your way to put others down.

Dear a3c7r2d2,
After reading my original comment, did you hopefully read my other two follow-up thoughts on the movie before thinking that I had lost it, because I care. Really.