How do we feel about Hunger Games but with zombies

>>212316276 (OP)
I watched the first one and it was one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever sseen.

I read them all and watched them all and I still couldn't tell you what happens after they leave the maze, just very convoluted forgettable garbage

reminds me of when a couple of gypsies tried to steal some copper near my house and didn't realise it was high voltage and got fried to a crisp

>Mom look, I did it again! I took a screenshot of Twitter and posted it here!

i literally did not understand the movie
so the world is infected with a virus that turns people into zombies so they put them in a maze and if they get out they out they might be the cure?

>>212316276 (OP)
the first movie is cool in a style over substance kind of way, the cast is decent

>>212316276 (OP)
I saw the first movie at my buddy's girlfriend's house like 8 years ago. I was playing chaperone because she still lived with her folks and they were extremely strict on having bf's over (despite being 25). I was laughing hysterically throughout the entire movie, I especially lost it when the cyber-spider showed up, and when everyone in the control room pretended to be dead. Unfortunately my friend and his girlfriend did not think it was that funny and they were legitimately trying to enjoy the movie.

>>212316767
There's no point in trying to understand it. The entire premise for the series is completely incomprehensible and utterly impossible.

time to build a giant maze to cure cancer

How come they didn't just use the resources they put into making the maze into making walled off cities like the one in the third movie in the northern and southern most parts of the planet ? Have the military start processing the survivors and then just wait for the infected to slowly die off. Probably way easier and less convoluted than making giant death mazes designed to find a handful of teenagers who can be drained of their blood in order to make a cure for 200 million people spread across the planet.

>>212317449
I never bothered watching past the first film: what do the mazes even *do*? Like what part of these trials test for immunity to a virus?

>>212317643
Might be remembering wrong but the world is getting too hot and they have to build safe environments, and at the same time the heat or uv creates a virus that only affects adults. So they use children to tests cures, and they put them into the mazes to both test their safe environment tech and to stress the kids out because it helps the science. The maze part is hunger games, the survivors are science experiments.

Honestly fuck if I know it doesn't make much sense

>aaa Monster???
>in sci-fi fantasy Movie???????
>wtff this is the craziest most insane thing ever wtf thats fucked up
normies love running phrases to the ground as soon as they get popular

>>212317643
The tl;dr is this
>solar flare hites earth
>a couple billion die and the coalition of surviving nations is formed to figure out what to do with the survivors
>they only have enough food for >70% of the survivors and to avoid a collapse they engineer a virus to kill off 30% of survivors
>virus was supposed to painlessly kill off it's victims but instead it mutates and creates zombies by fucking up their brains
>they figure out that children have an immune response which creates an enzyme that targets the virus
>this response is triggered in especially high stress scenarios so the mazes are constructed to create this stress and stimulate the production of the enzyme
>the plan is essentially to find the survivors and drain them of their blood to create a cure.

>>212317643
There's some schlmazel about needing to study the brain's response to stress and trauma, but it's a handwave

It makes slightly more sense in the book, where it turns out that the head of the bad guy science company had long since lost any hope of finding a cure, and so decided that the only solution was to send the immune somewhere far away to restart civilisation. In that context the mazes work as a selection process to weed out the weak and the retarded to give the colony the best chance. But they cut that out of the movies and just have them defeat the bad guys and fuck off to restart civilization by themselves.

>>212317449
soft disclosure, there are giant mazes under Antarctica

>>212316767
It’s genius you see

The teen who escaped the maze was obviously immune to the zombie virus so they would be special, just like the rwtarded viewer, and then get milked for their blood

>>212317643
It’s kind of like Danganropa

An absolute shitshow for the sake of it

>>212316767
It's literally the reverse plot to Resident Evil Revelations 2:

>immunes get their immune shit harvested so the normie elites can stay alive (it's only a treatment though, not a cure)

>Le Fear and Strife makes the immune shit more potent when harvested

Doesn't matter though because in the end the virus mutates and goes airborne and there isn't enough harvested shit to go around

>>212317922
Thank you for writing that out. That is mind-meltingly retarded.

>>212317922
>skipping immediately to mass genocide of your own people because rioting might cause riots
top kek

>>212316276 (OP)
>tfw most of /tv/ is too young to remember SKARCHposting

>>212317922
why not just take the 30% into camps and gas them with zyklon b? Logistically impossible?

>>212316767
don't forget the constant threat of death and isolation inside the maze as well, they need that inside the maze
Otherwise they would be outside, with a constant threat of death and the feeling of isolation

>>212318767
>why not just take the 30% into camps and gas them with zyklon b? Logistically impossible?

>>212316635
But it gave us a decent meme

Okay but how did they build the Grievers, possibly the most advanced robots ever created by mankind?

>>212318525
>>212318554
>>212318767
... is this is your first time to YA post-apo novels?

>>212316767
They harvest loosh from the survivors.

>>212319219
CIA Skawrchposting was fun while it lasted as part of the expanded 4Universe

All I remember is CIA yelling "THE SCARCH"

>>212317944
>There's some schlmazel
I think you mean "spiel" a Schlimazel is an unlucky person.

>>212319550
What is this Hebrew nonsense?

>>212319704
>What is this Hebrew nonsense?

>>212319779
kek it's funny because the diaper pedo is white and the guy that caught him is jewish!

>>212316276 (OP)
I'm glad that genre of post-apocalyptic YA movies died because those were even more boring than capeshit.

>>212317063
>The entire premise for the series is completely incomprehensible and utterly impossible.
Like all those young adult books for girls it's just highschool in a weird setting. It's not even supposed to make sense. It's just there to create cliques and drama.

>>212320257
I'm aware. I think the Maze Runner stands out in the genre for how utterly baffling the entire premise is, even using the story's internal logic.

>>212318970
>jew posting his fetish porn again

>>212320456
>jew posting his fetish porn again

>>212320373
Not like Hunger Games, Divergent or Twilight are any better.

>Hey, for some reason we have to sacrifice some of your children every year

>>212318554
It's pretty dumb too because in this same comic SF is fine which means they still have a good chunk of California which can help in the reconstruction and the redevelopment of agriculture. Probably a better idea than unleashing a virus with no cure.

>>212320688
>Oh no, we can only sustain 70%
sounds like a problem that would solve itself anyway.

>>212317922
Billions have died, and all I got was a shitty trilogy for pre-teens

>>212320776
Kek right? Okay, looks like the 30% died, tragic. Good thing we didn't build a network of incomprehensibly large mazes, facilities, and the most advanced combat robots ever made costing trillions of dollars.

>>212317922
>>this response is triggered in especially high stress scenarios so the mazes are constructed to create this stress and stimulate the production of the enzyme
Couldn't they just use a treadmill and a gun?

>>212321146
they could just have made them all farmers. the usa has enough land.

>>212321195
Maybe the solar flare fucked up all the soil

oh, you maze lunnah?

Going to watch this movie now, shill campaign was successful

>world where vampires, werewolves, elves and idk some other group exist
>they all go to that one highschool where all those creatures go
>they each have their houses, of course
>biggest event of the year is some sort of competition in some wild magical dangerous forest
there. where's my trilogy?

>>212316827
Sure, if you’re retarded

>>212321269
I understood this reference

>>212321432
That sounds like it could have been hit about 20 years ago.

>>212321432
That's the Wednesday addams show with snood but without the dangerous magical forest.

>>212321432
This sounds like a Disney channel original. Idk, this would've probably sold 20 years ago.

>>212321770
too tame? do women need to be sex slaves nowadays, like in that one show where they're all dressed like nuns?

>>212321314
Just started and holy fuck women get off on this high school clique bullshit don't they

>>212321888
Trips acknowledged.

No I just mean the premise itself. The whole "different factions/houses of teens do the things" is completely played out as a feature in the genre. You gotta have a female lead destroying a patriarchal society with leftist/progressive political elements that are obviously intentionally inserted but are regarded casually by all the protagonists. Because boys aren't really reading anymore.

>>212321770
>>212321815
Kek, 20-year hivemind.

>>212321432
I feel this was already a cheap Canadian SyFy tv show over a decade ago

I'm sick and tired of having to pretend this is a serious person

>>212322026
>The whole "different factions/houses of teens do the things" is completely played out as a feature in the genre.
mh, yeah. girls don't read anymore. gotta write something for bitter hags now. explains the urge to destroy it all.

>>212317922
>they only have enough food for >70% of the survivors and to avoid a collapse they engineer a virus to kill off 30% of survivors
That's fucking stupid

I'm actually liking this movie, they don't make slop like this anymore

>>212323107
>they added a girl
Fuck, I was just getting comfy

>>212316276 (OP)
I met the guy who wrote these books
Nice guy but this shit is retarded
disjointed worldbuilding that throws in zombies halfway through the series cause he didn't have any other ideas
Plus it's one of those shitty futures that doesn't have any space travel just a weirdo version of earth with completely redesigned infrastructure such as giant mazes. Like Hunger Games with its twelve districts and shit.
awkward as hell

Finished it
Not enough Maze Running

You kids wouldn't last a day out in the scarch.

>>212321432
That's Wednesday.