There is about to be some serious reviewing going on here and therefore this post will DEFINITELY contain spoilers to both the book annnnnnd the movie Divergent.
Ok so can I just say WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!!!! So to start off I just want to say that me and my friend-who also read the book- went to see Divergent last night and we counted 65 (am I the only one that wishes you could cap numbers?) things wrong with the movie. Now to be fair the movie itself was amazing and I loved it but the number of things WRONG-as far as not accurate with the book- was soooooo high. For instance the very first sin(I'm stealing the idea of mistakes from CinemaSins on youtube) was that in the freaking OPENING CREDITS they telllll you that they are in Chicago! Like wtf?! You aren't supposed to find out about that until the feel jerking third book. I honestly would have been able to overlook that if not for the fact that the people who we went to the movie with-who hadn't read the book- said "Why is it important they are in Chicago? Do we need to know that? What happened to the rest of the world? Why is the outside off the wall nicer than the inside"? So yeah, I counted that as my number one sin. My second sin was just something that made me angry and not something necessarily wrong with the movie, the cast. I personally feel that Shailene Woodley is both way to pretty and tall for Tris. Tris is meant to be short and awkward, not MODEL gorgeous. Alsoooo Shailene is very proportional(if that makes sense). As for Theo James, well he is perfection so moving on. Well the rest of cast is just nit picking so I guess I'll skip to a different sin. Oh but I do need to say that I am SOOOOO PISSED that they barely emphasized on Uriah and Zeke(more Uriah but still). Okay since I don't remember all the sins the next thing I am going to say is that the they had multiple days when the movie starts before the aptitude test. ANNNNND that the serum is a drink and not a shot. Annnnnd where was the rest of the test? Where was the man on the bus thingy? Also they completely left out Tris's neighbors but I can get over that. Next is that Jeanine Mathews DID NOT speak to Tris and Caleb at the choosing ceremony, Tris never met her until when she went to visit Caleb. I counted this as I sin because it seemed out of character-the Dauntless should NOT have clapped for Tris when she chose them. Next is the train, this isn't a big deal just something I noticed, where was the one guy that DIDN'T make it on the train? Okay now we are at one that had me sooooo angry because to me it was important, where was the girl who died when jumping of the train? Then there is the part where the sleeping area was wrong, the room was sooo not supposed to be that big, and the beds were supposed to be bunk beds, and the bathroom was definitely its own room. Next I have the fact that in training they made Tris fight first because she jumped first where in the book i'm pretty sure she sat out that day. Also, I didn't like that they got to see their rank move the whole time. Next on my list is that when Christina got in trouble and had to hang over the chasm the chasm was supposed to be a giant gushing waterfall, not a leak in a pipe. Also another thing that made me angry was that they barely showed how much Christina and Will liked each other. Then there is the whole part where Edward NEVER GOT STABBED IN THE EYE! Like really people? Then there is a small one where when Tris was taking Al's place in front of the target Tobias threw four knives instead of three, and he never taunted her. Then during capture the flag they DID NOT shoot each other with dart like thingys, they shot each other with paintballs, also Christina never tried to steal the flag. Then when Tris was being molested and about to be murdered, she did NOT take off Al's mask, mostly because she was the one with the mask on! Then there is when they start stage two, it seemed to me like Tobias practically said "I know what you are" and well, that never happened so there. Oh and just because I'm just remembering this, when Tris ended up in the hospital she was NOT almost thrown out of Dauntless. But back to stage two. Well that was it for stage two so now a quick couple side sins, no visiting day, saw mom at random loading dock, never met Will's sister, was NOT supposed to run into Jeanine, why the hell does everyone know about fucking diveRgence except Tris(SOOOO WRONG), then there is when Tris and Tobias went into the cave by the chasm-oh wait that NEVER HAPPENED IN THE MOVIE- then there is the fact that IN THE BOOK the transfers were not MADE to burn their old factions clothes, then there is the part where Erik catches Tris sneaking back in after seeing Caleb- oh wait that ALSO never happened in the movie. Ok so now I'm at stage three, I didn't really have a problem with stage three other than Jeanine was not there watching the simulations. Then there is when the simulation is going on and Tris was caught, she was supposed to be drowned not shot you dumb fucks. And then when she got in to Dauntless, well to say the VERY least no Erudite was supposed to be controlling the simulation, it was only Tobias. Then there is the part where the skipped out on like 50 pages of ending.
Overall if I hadn't read the book I would give the movie a 8 out of 10. But I did read the book so on the scale of 1-10( 1 being this was a book? and ten being omg they did this perfectly) I give Divergent a 6.
In case you want to know the scale:
1-this was a book?
2-are you sure this is based off of ___?
3-this was a really bad movie but the book was awesome.
4-I guess this could pass for ____.
5-They just royally fucked up this ending.
6-This would be perfect if not for ___________.
7-Terrible choice for cast and I can't believe they took ____ out.
8-This was pretty damn good if not for the fact that THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
9-This was so accurate!
10-ITS LIKE WATCHING THE WORDS! THEY DID THIS PERFECTLY!
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