 Hello again, so it's time for another episode of the movie being better than the book it's adapted from and For this episode, I'm gonna talk about the fifth wave now you've you may have already seen the video I did on the fifth wave book series it's extremely long extremely in-depth and basically me just going over how terrible those books are because they really are but Throughout that video. I also brought up how the movie that was made in 2016 and only covers the first book is kind of better than the book in a lot of ways because Like the movie is bad. Yes, but the book is just so so much worse and You know, it's basically impossible to talk about how exactly that works without spoilers So from here on out it this video is gonna be full of them but basically the book is a mess in terms of plot and The movie cleans that up at least a little bit so if you're unaware this series is about aliens coming to earth and destroying most of humanity in a series of attacks called waves and It's never properly explained why the aliens came to destroy people or anything, but You know, that's what happened and so the vast majority of the human population was killed off by like some earthquakes and some EMPs that went off and a Avian flu that went out and killed most people and then we start following our main character whose name is Cassie and she winds up being separated from her brother who is the last of her family and then she goes off to find him and then From there the story just falls apart like that's done fairly well in the movie, but the book start is It's horrendous. So basically the book starts with a prologue Which specifically shows that aliens are coming in and Infecting humans so that the humans will grow up and have an alien mind in them And then they'll be on their side like we just know about that from the beginning from the prologue and So when it comes up later, it's not really a surprise or anything Okay, and then immediately after that we cut to Cassie and it's after the world's already been destroyed She goes into a store. She kills a soldier We get an intro to what her life was like before the aliens came and before everything really fell apart and then we see how the world was destroyed and That sounds fine when I describe it like that, but it goes back and forth so much like it'll be okay I'm walking into the store I hear a noise and then think back to what her life was like before the world was destroyed for a couple of pages and then I go into the back to investigate the noise and then Think about that for a few more pages and then start to think about how the world got destroyed and how we wound up in this point And then look there's a soldier there I think he has a gun have a brief conversation shoot him and then like that's the real end of the Prologue I guess you call it like that's the real intro to the story, which is Really really confusing to read like I know the way I'm describing it there It sounds bad enough, but there's really not even a transition between them Like it's not as though it'll end one chapter in the present and then it'll go into a flashback chapter But and it's not like there's a line break and then everything's in a towel It it's halux to show okay That is a flashback or anything like that it'll just go one paragraph is one subject And then a completely different subject in the next paragraph So it is just a mess and then after that we just show Again we go into permanent flashback and we just show everything from like the world being destroyed and her mom dying and stuff all the way up to her being separated from her brother and deciding to go off and find him and That's like a little better, but it's still just the beginning of this book is an absolute mess the movie is Much simpler. Okay, it just shows Cassie go into the abandoned gas station find the soldier shoot him Realize that he was innocent She didn't need to shoot him and then be upset and then after that it goes back to what her life was before Everything was destroyed and then just everything after that is in order So it's nothing really different or unique or like avant-garde or anything Which the book might have been trying to do but at least I can tell what's going on and you're never sure and you're never Wondering if it's like oh is this past present or future because like you just know and sometimes that is best Sometimes it's best to just be straightforward with these things In fact, I would go so far as to say that this movie while it is overall pretty bad The first half hour is pretty good because after that when we see the whole world get destroyed We actually see it get destroyed You know when Cassie is describing it in the book it's fine She's basically just saying yeah, there was an EMP which knocked everything out And then they caused these earthquakes which destroyed a bunch of stuff whereas In the movie we actually see her when the EMP comes and she's like oh, hey all the electronics are out That's weird and then we see her when the earthquake comes and she actually gets hit with a small tidal wave coming off of Lake Lake Erie, I think I don't remember it's not important one of the great lakes And we actually see some stuff that happens around the world which she didn't and It's an impressive scale is the thing like you really get the feeling. Oh, man, the world is the world is ending You know, this isn't a local disaster or anything most of humanity is gone after this especially with the The avian flu that comes in and kills people like you see massive piles of corpses and you see how like football stadiums and stuff are being set up as like quarantine zones and trying to help sick people and stuff like that and So you really feel like yes, this is a disaster. This is huge This is this is horrendous And so it actually you feel some of the weight of yes the world is ending and these aliens are ungodly powerful and by doing it this way we also get to connect with Cassie a little bit and actually care about her and Well, I can't go into too much detail about that because it's it's pretty simple to do It's just like yes, here's a character. Here's them living their lives. Here's them Having some small flaws, but overall being an enjoyable person to watch like yeah, this is Cassie So much fun. Should we just take our shirts off right now and go jump in? Oh, yeah, certainly Oh, what would I even say to him? I don't know him. He doesn't even know me. You're a girl. He's a boy Oh And so we actually care about her as opposed to the book where we feel kind of bad for her for accidentally killing someone But that's that's kind of it beyond that She doesn't have much personality and then after all of this both the book and the movie cut to this character named Ben Now the thing about that is that in the book He has mentioned maybe once as this guy that Cassie kind of has a crush on and then it just cuts to him Months after the world is destroyed. He's in a refugee camp and then he joins up with the military and it goes several chapters without telling us what his name is and Even once it does I had to stop and remember. Oh, right Ben. Yeah, he's he's that guy in the movie It actually shows Ben for a couple of not for very long But like for a couple of seconds at least and he he's named at the beginning intro part where it's just showing the world before everything goes to shit and Then later when it shows him joining the military. We just see okay. Yeah, it's that guy like it's it's just less confusing is the thing That was the last time I saw Ben bearish That's part of the issue with cutting between different POVs. I've talked about that before But just like cutting between first-person POVs is a very delicate process. You have to be careful with it in in the movies it's just much easier, you know and Maybe that's not really anything intelligent on the part of the scriptwriters or directors or anything But it is at least a baseline level of competence that the book is missing This is also around the time that Cassie meets Evan who is like her main love interest throughout the series and in the book it's very obvious that he's an it that he's an alien in a human body because again We have that prologue so we already know that's a thing and then we also get a chapter from his perspective Where he's like, you know, I see that girl and I want to protect her so I'm gonna do that and So there's like no tension. There's no build-up. There's no wondering Oh, what what is this guy's motivation? Is he really on her side or anything like that in the movie Cassie gets shot And then she wakes up in this guy's house And he has helped her out and she's kind of freaked out by it and tries running away And it's understandable why she might do that There is tension we don't know what's going on she doesn't quite know what's going on and so When he's hiding the fact that he's an alien and when the audience doesn't know that he's an alien there is some mystery and The book for whatever reason just doesn't have that and I really don't even know why they put those scenes in because you could Just cut them out and it wouldn't make any difference to the rest of the book It's not important for like character development or the storyline or anything like that You can just cut them out and it would make the whole thing a lot better So I really don't even know why they bothered doing that and so when the twist comes in the book It's not even a twist because we already know that But in the movie when the twist comes sure it's still pretty easy to see coming Let's be honest even if you never saw the trailers or anything. It's easy to tell like okay Yeah, this guy. He's an alien that churn good But it does at least have some weight for the story and it makes some sense why it would have weight for the character as well now we also see all of the military training stuff with like zombie aka Ben and Sammy Cassie's younger brother and That's pretty much the same in the books as it is in the movie like the books just go into more detail with it It's all kind of dumb if I'm being honest and not that interesting Easily the weakest part of an already pretty weak story, but I mean the movie's not doing it worse and At the end when they finally go on their one mission and realize oh, we're being controlled by the aliens they In the book they straight up blow up one of their teammates or rather He blows himself up because he doesn't believe that the aliens would have implanted explosive charges in them And then he's like no see look at this and they push the button and kills himself Which is honestly really funny, but it's not supposed to be funny in the movie. They just they just cut that bit out So that's handled slightly better Again, this is all just a bunch of things that are tweaked very slightly to make them a million times better It's not even that amazing. It's just baseline competence and so after Cassie realizes that Evan is an alien and tells him to go fuck off she Manages to sneak on to the base where her brother is being held and goes to try and save him Now in the movie this this is I mean this is the climax in both cases But in the movie this is Cassie's doing like she's the one who came up with this plan And she's the one that executes it in the book It's just Evan came up with the plan and he tells her what to do and throughout the whole process She's thinking okay Evan told me to do this Evan told me to do that Evan told me to do this Evan Had an idea and he said if I run into this problem. I should do this and It makes her seem like so much less of an independent character so much less of an intelligent character so much less of a determined or skilled character it's like it's just very basic things that are wrong with this and Then we get to the real climax where Evan comes back and helps him out and then Ben runs into Cassie and they're like Oh, hey, let's get Sammy and get out of here And then they blow up the bad guy's base and there and then it ends on a note of like well now what what do we do and that That's kind of it overall Very dull movie and quite frankly. It's a bit of a mess Like it feels like not even a complete story And I don't mean that in the sense that it's part of a trilogy so there's going to be more to this I mean like it feels like they started a story and then just ended partway through and Even though there is a climax it doesn't feel like that much of a climax so the whole thing really is just a mess and Even the parts that are handled a little bit better a lot of stuff is only Explored at like a surface level like you know the characters for example their Personality and motivations are only explored at a surface level like we know that Ben's family is killed Yes, but we don't know much else about that like we like okay I want to kill the aliens because my family's dead because of them like okay That's that's about all we know about him the apocalypse as well like it's We see the world get destroyed, but we don't really feel that much of the ramifications of it You know we see people the remaining people are mostly like hiding out in the woods or they joined up with the remnants of the military and that's That's about it. You know, we don't see people trying to gather up and rebuild or anything like that It's just yep the apocalypse has happened Yeah, that's it, but All of that aside it's still better than the book It's still better than the book because the book has pretty much all of the same problems Maybe worse in some cases so and The movie also has a couple of things that are good like I said the first half hour is really solid We get to see the world get destroyed We actually get to be connected with Cassie in particular and some of the other characters We really see her relationship with her father and so it's kind of sad when he gets killed All that and just overall Chloe Grace Maritz has gives a very good performance like she She carries that entire film on her back and the script doesn't give her a whole lot to work with but she Frickin does her best and she really tries to elevate this movie beyond the schlock that it is but Even she can only do so much and same with Lee of Schreiber who plays the villain Colonel Vosch like he's clearly trying But the script gives him even less to work with than Chloe Grace Maritz. So Like what are you gonna do and to be fair? That's like that's an even worse problem in the books like Vosch is one of the shittiest villains I've read in a Very very long time Really that that's what this whole thing comes down to like the movie is not good by any stretch but It's less of a mess than the book, you know, like I I Just don't understand why the books got as popular as they did because they were fairly big But the movie I mean the movie didn't do well But if it did well, I would at least understand that like I can understand why someone would watch the movie and Enjoy it for one reason or another like I I understand that the book. I just I just don't even get it like what What what is there to be enjoyed there? There's just not much to it and While while I was getting my notes together and everything I was thinking man I would I would really like someone to just remake the books or reboot them or something like that just take most of the same basic ideas and character concepts and everything and then just Try and fix it, you know, just try and write a series that isn't total shits because of it and Yeah, that's about it really, you know I don't think that you can really go Super in-depth and analyze everything about the characters and the storyline and the world and everything about this series Or especially the movie because there's really just not that much to it. Yeah, it's a very Simple straightforward storyline which they still manage to screw up It's a very simple straightforward or most of the characters are simple and straightforward and they managed to screw most of that up But the movie the people who made it were clearly trying and they managed to fix a lot of the issues. 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