tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post6825854349331817561..comments2024-03-28T21:59:22.465-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: InsurgentBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-31800797224554287782015-03-23T05:57:37.767-04:002015-03-23T05:57:37.767-04:00It's interesting that they've changed the ...It's interesting that they've changed the book quite a lot for this one. I haven't read any of the books, but I do know two significant things about the ending of Allegiant and I noticed what looked like a change to one of them here, so I wondered how much they'd changed. I still feel like the premise doesn't really make sense, but the revelations at the end of this film did actually help it make a little more sense for me. One the other hand, I thought Caleb was very badly served and his motivations were a mess. Plus, I haven't even seen The Fault in Our Stars, but I've seen enough gifs of it on tumblr to be distracted by that whenever he was on screen!Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-65811922930252687432015-03-22T21:55:42.408-04:002015-03-22T21:55:42.408-04:00I've only read the first book in the series, a...I've only read the first book in the series, and I found the first movie to be decent but very flawed. This time around, I went in basically with no knowledge of what was to come, and I was pleasantly surprised. <br /><br />I don't know what did or didn't translate well, and I wonder if that's why I liked it. I thought Shailene Woodley was excellent, and really carried the movie along. The supporting characters were a bit mixed in overall performance. But those small characters didn't bother me so much.<br /><br />In fact I didn't even realized that was Naomi Watts until the credits rolled. So I think that means she totally disappeared into the role (which I found interesting and ambiguous). But she did look too young to be that character's mother. <br /><br />The CGI was surprising, and built on the simulations from the first film. But mostly it was where the plot went. I didn't expect as much to unfold as it did. Since there are two more movies coming (from one book), there is obviously more story to tell. But this felt almost like a finale, in a lot of ways there was more closure in this movie then we get in a lot of other films of similar plot and themes.Samantha M. Quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02340568293992559934noreply@blogger.com