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The Giver (2014)
Soulless bastardized corporate bland garbage
This movie. Good god, this movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the book when I was reading it, as it provided broad, philosophical ideas and insights that made me think about the world and how much we take for granted, such as emotion, color, and pain. This movie pretends to be about this, but is actually just trying to be like The Hunger Games or other teen dramas of the time, which is by adding a two dimensional, bland, uninspired villain, who's only redeeming quality is being played by Meryl Streep, a chemistry less romance between this bland twenty-five year old man pretending to be sixteen, and someone who did not have much purpose in the book, other than being a representation that not everyone is on Jonas' side, including his closest friend, and is now nothing. This movie also has a happy go lucky ending compared to the original book that only aims to tone down the story to make it more marketable and less thought provoking, which provides a cavalcade of generic stock footage, which was also when I experienced the only other emotion I felt during this travesty, which was utter laughter, seeing as this movie showing Tiananmen Square protests came out of the leftest of fields on Earth that I burst out laughing. I could go on about how the credits play a generic pop song, or Taylor Swift's bad acting, or the fact that this was made by the Weinsteins, but, as much as I rib on this movie, it just is not enjoyable, and is the most miserable viewing experience I have ever felt watching a feature film. This was snubbed of a Razzie nomination, not that it would have won against Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, but it would have deserved at least one category nomination.