Not only does Jai Courtney (star
of films like Divergent and Die Hard 5) have an iconic character to live up to, he also has to recapture Reese's iconic 1980s look (duster jacket, Nike shoes, etc.), and as we found out while visiting the Terminator Genisys set, the performance was nowhere near the challenge as getting the costuming just right.
Not exact matches
While the top 20 most downloaded
films included some prestigious movies
like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority
of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books —
Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation
of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots
like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many
of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.
The studio has decided to give it the official title
of The
Divergent Series: Insurgent, not
like the later titles in the Twilight franchise used the qualifier The Twilight Saga to precede the subtitle
of the
film.
Adapted from the book trilogy by James Dashner, The Maze Runner is the seventh YA
film to hit screens in the past twelve months and while it hasn't hit the success level
of Hunger Games or even
Divergent, it seems to have effectively avoided the gallows
of recent DOA flops
like Vampire Academy and The Mortal Instruments.
The greatest achievement
of the
film's psychedelic roller coaster is the potent and passionate music
of Junkie XL, whose previous scores on
films like «300: Rise
of an Empire» and «
Divergent» could have never hinted at the masterpiece composition he would create for George Miller.
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The
film, about a daring girl named Tris (Shailene Woodley) who discovers she's «
divergent», meaning she doesn't fit into any
of the five factions that make up her city (a post-apocalyptic Chicago)
like everyone else.
«Insurgent» could have been the «Catching Fire»
of the «
Divergent»
film series, building on the original premise in bold and fresh new ways, but instead, it's more
like «Mockingjay: Part I,» a sluggish, twiddle - your - thumbs chapter that's more about the setup than the payoff.
Miles Teller has started to make a name for himself after a mix
of big budget
films like That Awkward Moment and
Divergent to smaller gems
like The Spectacular Now.
The concept
of Divergent, page the original
film in the series, was interesting with individuals in a dystopian Chicago being divided into five camps (
like modern - day members
of The Breakfast Club) in a seemingly idyllic society, that was anything but.
The
Divergent film series has always felt
like an inferior version
of the more character - driven Hunger Games movies.