Watching THE MAZE RUNNER For The First Time! Movie Reaction

[@tktopmovies]

Woahhhhh! This movie had us on the edge of our seats! Now we NEED to see the sequel! Watch The Maze Runner with us on Patreon! Our full reaction at: www.patreon.com/tktopmovies 🎉

[@vle72391]

I dont know if you guys were informed already but there are actually 3 movies in this franchise. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is the second one and the third is called Maze Runner: The Death Cure. All three movies are great and action packed. Also i love Dylan O'brien. He is a Great Actor! 😊❤

[@CuddleCakez]

3 months and no sequel reaction? Guess I'm not going to sub.

[@anorak3334]

The Maze Runner films are based off of books, and there's quite a few interesting differences between them. For example: In the books, Thomas and Teresa could speak with each other telepathically. Also, the maze wasn't just out in the open, like how it's portrayed in the film, it was actually underground, along with a fake dome projecting the sky and all that put over it. At the end, they also escaped inside of a bus, instead of a helicopter. When they reached that room past the Griever hole, the shoot-out that happened there still hadn't actually happened yet, when they got there, all the workers were still there to meet them, before then the armed men came in and shot them dead. On the topic of the Griever hole, it's also VERY different in the book. In the book, it's essentially like a camouflaged/concealed room, in what from their perspective looks like the void. Like at a certain point in the maze in the book, the maze just drops off into a void of sorts, before they then discover that by jumping over into a specific point, they fall into the griever hole. Another thing is that part after they discover the griever hole, where the doors no longer close at night. Instead of like where in the movie it all just happened over one night, in the book, it happened over multiple nights, where every night the doors would stay open and the grievers would stay there, until they successfully snatched away one person. I'm pretty sure this happened three times, with Gally then being the last person for it to happen to, with him then meeting them back up at the Griever hole likely already there, afterwards (where I think Gally also then instead tries to attack them with a knife). Another interesting thing to note is that in the book, there were A LOT more Gladers in general, with I think there was like at least a couple dozen more. And so then you remember that group that left with Thomas to try and escape at the end? Originally there was a lot more in that group as well. I can't remember what exactly the numbers were, but in the movie only like 13 gladers left with Thomas, and then when they left the maze, after fighting the grievers and all that, only something like 10 remained. Meanwhile in the book version, at least like 30-40 Gladers I think left to escape with Thomas, but then once they left the maze, only 20 were left (Alby's death is also different, he never dies in the griever attacks on the glade and leaves with Thomas to leave, before then getting torn apart by Grievers at the entrance to the Griever hole). I'll prove more interesting info about the number of gladers with them between the movies and the books when you watch the sequels, because it only gets way more interesting and confusing from there lol

[@Markyajv]

Hi kidz! Newt is played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990) is an English actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005). He voiced the latter titular character in Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015; 2024-present) and subsequently gained wider attention with his roles as Jake Murray in Accused (2010-2012), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013-2014) and Newt in the Maze Runner trilogy (2014-2018). Continued acclaim ensued with the independent films Nowhere Boy (2009), in which he portrayed Paul McCartney, Bright Star (2009), and Death of a Superhero (2011). Born16 May 1990 (age 34) London, England Other names Thomas Sangster Occupation Actor Years active2001-present Spouse Talulah Riley (m. 2024)​ Brodie-Sangster received praise for his roles in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and as chess champion Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020). The last of these earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He has since portrayed the titular pickpocket in the Disney+ miniseries The Artful Dodger (2023) and Rafe Sadler in the upcoming miniseries Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (2024). Thomas Brodie-Sangster was born on 16 May 1990 in Southwark, London, to Mark Sangster and Tasha Bertram. Brodie-Sangster's father's family is from Banchory, Scotland. He has a sister. Brodie-Sangster plays bass and guitar, and he learned to play left-handed guitar to portray the left-handed Paul McCartney in the feature film Nowhere Boy. He also learned to play the drums for his role in Love Actually (2003). He is not the singer from Finland that you are thinking of.... In fact who were you thinking about... Is it Issac Elliot? If so he's only 23. Thomas, the actor is 34. Now. But this movie was made in 2014. Issac was only 3.

[@wilhelm-z4t]

A very nice reaction. I enjoyed it. The "Maze Runner" films are very good, and they're a lot deeper than many viewers realize. Here's a brief analysis that helps explain things: If you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," of course. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus, a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus also betrayed Minos, just like Thomas did WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas was sent by WCKD into the maze. The Glade and the Gladers are Athens and Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence of an all-female maze. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure." The Glade's Athens is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Who can forget the pig that arrived with Thomas, either? Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Things which we do see play out in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute leads us to believe that at some point in the trilogy Thomas will die. Gally, in the first film, probably represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to make Ralph's decapitated head an offering to the beast, which represents darkness/fear/the innate primordial savageness of the boys. Despite his sometimes impulsiveness, Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Does Alby see Thomas as a catalyst? The significance of the names that are the closest surrounding Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies. When Thomas and the others arrive in the Glade, they're essentially born into it, actually and symbolically. The water is the amniotic fluid, the glass cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were christened with by WCKD. So, when Alby says that the creators only let them remember their name, he's not exactly correct. They don't remember their actual name, only their WCKD name. That's why no two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw in this film that WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants of some sort. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off. The average Gladers is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. Alby maybe reluctant to answer Thomas because he's afraid of what Thomas might do. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas. Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing the immunes. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung. Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. He doesn't approve at all. In fact, it's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps into the maze after Minho and Alby. Which brings up the question of why Minho is bringing Alby back if he's been stung. The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear take over, and Minho abandons both Alby and Thomas to their collective fate. Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. Thomas is somewhat ambiguous, too. Is Gally right about Thomas? It's not clear what to make of his dream-visions. Is he an agent of good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he was sent into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. Both Thomas and Theresa are clearly mysterious. After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. This means the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct code. Only those subjects who successfully exit the maze are candidates for the second trial. Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus. Likewise, Newt is in love with Thomas. As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which had precipitated the solar flares that scorched the Earth and indirectly brought about the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of his friends. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over the Gladers. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' eventual betrayal of WCKD precipitated his downfall and the tragic course his subsequent life followed. Tragic heroes suffer, and so Thomas will suffer throughout the films. Another aspect of the tragic hero motif is that those nearest and dearest to the hero often wind up either in some sort of deadly peril or just plain dead. Most often, it's dead. The trilogy manifests several themes. One that runs through all the films, and is the main theme, is the question of whether the end justifies the means. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Another theme which we see in this film in particular, is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.

[@tobionabanjo1176]

You know, I completely get Galley's frustrations, he was technically right. Things started going wrong/different the moment Thomas showed up lol. Then to found out the whole reason you and everybody here is stuck here is BECAUSE of Thomas and this organization I would be upset at him too. It may have been in constant fear but, it was familiar and comfortable to co exist with grievers and stuff. idk I just get it, me personally though I would have gone with Thomas cause I recognize main character energy when I see it lol

[@hello.kitty-bong]

no same I get it to through it really took me all 3 movies to really get it. tho it is really easy to hate him at first and don't knock anyone who does.

[@propriov]

Yeah these movies need to be watched in a row! 😊 Some knowledge from the books without spoilers: many of the kids were named after great figures, like scientists and Nobel Prize winners of our time - Isaac Newton/ Newt, Thomas Edison/ Thomas, Albert Einstein/ Alby, Galileo Galilei/ Gally, Mother Theresa/ Teresa, etc. WCKD controlled Chuck's action at the end and made him purposely cover Thomas from Gally's gunshot, only in order to make Thomas feel more guilty - in stressful situations and harsh environments in fact, antibodies against the virus (=the Flare) strengthen. James Dashner, the writer of the books, did a cameo as one of the chairman around the table at the end. Also, less CGI than you would think: the maze entrance walls and the Glade are real. Looking forward to the Scorch Trials and the Death Cure reactions 🔥🔥

[@ArabianLady]

Hi Ty and Katie! 😊 I need to rewatch these. It's been a while. It's a crazy series. The lead young man went so hard in making these that in the 3rd one He was seriously injured and had to take a significant amount of time to recover and heal in the hospital/ rehab. He wasn't certain he could keep acting at first. But His career continued to grow after this. :)

[@Aliya_know09]

Just watched all the maze runner movies today and I absolutely loved it definitely in my top 5, can anyone who’ve read the books give me an idea of that happened after the 3rd movie? Just the general idea no spoilers please 😊

[@wilhelm-z4t]

SPOILER (Can't be avoided) The films follow the basic outline of the books but deviate in detail markedly. The books won't be able to answer your question because things evolve differently in the films. Although the characters and many of the challenges are the same, the books and films inhabit different universes. The books end with a rather conventional happy-ending. The trilogy doesn't. It has a tragic ending because the film's storyline is fundamentally a tragic one. Indeed, the trilogy adheres to the model of tragedy as described by Aristotle in his "Poetics." In the films, Thomas isn't just a hero, he's a tragic hero. He's Theseus and Daedalus melded into one. The trilogy also adheres to a general structure, called the monomyth, common to all heroic narratives and summarised by Joseph Campbell in his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)," namely: A hero (Thomas) ventures forth from the world of common day (What remains of the "normal" world to include WCKD) into a region of supernatural wonder (Maze, Scorch, City): fabulous forces are there encountered (Cranks, WCKD and other antagonists) and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons (Thomas' blood cure) on his fellow man (the non-immunes) It's useful to realise that the trilogy ends in the same place it began. The Safe Haven is the new Glade. Instead of being surrounded by an ocean-like Maze per se, it's surrounded by an actual ocean and the beyond, which constitute a new Maze. Thomas looks at the vial and then the ship that brought him to Safe Haven. The meaning is clear, Thomas is going to reenter the Maze. In other words, Thomas is going to seek out the remnants of WCKD (ask yourself where WCKD were evacuating to) and offer himself as "the Cure," fulfilling WCKD's ultimate objective. He's tried to do this arguably twice already. The first time Dr. Paige rejected the bargain, the second time she accepted, but Jansen upended it by killing Paige. Since Thomas is a tragic hero, this will likely mean his death, but he's going to do it anyway. He is a Christ-like figure.

[@tokimekidreams]

Never read the books but do have the movies. I think you will like the movies.

[@tiffanyphillips6086]

Love this movies!! Need to wacth all three

[@propriov]

still waiting to the rest of the trilogy....

[@lilypink5618]

Pleeease watch the second one!

[@Jim-ub9ky]

their are 3 of them

[@salvadormartinez8577]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOVIE THEATER CHAIRS

[@kelserin]

3 movies! the second movie was my least favourite just because it was SOOOO different from the second book which was my favourite book of the series, in the books the 'cranks' are smart and set traps and are 10 x creepier than zombies, the second movie bascially just makes them zombies which was very disappointing for book-readers but i think the last movie made up for it