Quadrilogies are played. The YA films acting styles and stories are too simular. A planned franchises never got past the 1st film. Now they are gonna do a tv show? Financiers are looking faith backing this genre, i think.
-- Sent from my 13 year old P.O.S. Desktop®
Agreed.
I happened to stumble across "Allegiant" and wanted to see what all the fuss was about with these YA dysoptian novels and their being adapted into films. I then went back and watched the first two films in the series and certainly agree that the quality declined after the first film was released.
I'm well past the age for which these novels/films was intended, but I have younger relatives in the age group so I hear a lot about it from them. Generally (with rare exceptions in order to create dramatic twists), the adults are villainous jerks (Jeannine? Fear-mongering, power-hungry b!tch; Wanted to shoot her myself. David? Lying sack o' sh!t. Evelyn? Jeannine-light) who messed up the world such that future generations (ie, children and teens) have to save it. And if they don't have to save it, they're made to eke out a harsh existence while the adults merely observe and/or are entertained by it all.
The kids who grew up reading this stuff are now today's millennials who many accuse of having a sense of entitlement--that the world somehow OWES them. It'd be a stretch to attribute this entirely to the genre, but I can't help but wonder if it didn't contribute juuuuuuust a little bit.