Divergent Faction Review: ‘DIVERGENT’ movie!

I was lucky enough to see Divergent 3 times. The below are my honest feelings and opinion.

First off let’s talk the the Divergent actors. Shailene Woodley is the perfect Tris. She knocked it out of the park with her acting. Theo James is Four. Zoe Kravitz as Christina was so spot on. It truly came natural for her. The whole cast was great. Maggie Q as Tori is definitely my favorite.

Divergent was shot beautifully and it stayed close to the book. We know that things of course had to be changed.

My 2 favorite scene had to be after the Choosing Ceremony. When I saw Tris and the other Dauntless Initiates running to catch the train something inside me leapt. My second favorite scene was of course the zip-lining scene! That is all that I’ll say about that. You’ll have to see the movie to know.

Shailene Woodley in this movie shows another side of herself. There is a scene in the movie (trust me you’ll know what scene I’m talking about when you see the movie) where Shai has to do a certain emotion and man did she nail it.

Veronica Roth also has a quick part in the movie. As soon as I saw her I had to clap and cheer because V is our girl. Without her this world wouldn’t have been created.

We all know that all book to movie adaptations has its flaws.

In the movie sadly, there was not much character development. We find out the character names and the different factions that the Dauntless Initiates came from, but we found out basically nothing else about them. We all know that Peter is pretty evil. In the movie I feel that his character should have definitely been developed more. We barely got to see Ben Lamb as Edward, but it is totally understandable. We also didn’t get the eye stabbing scene. It was filmed but was not in the movie.

Also something else, in Tris’ last fear simulation when Four was attempting to rape her I got a bit confused. That in no means is in the book nor should it have been in the move. Tris in no way ever thought that Four would rape her. She was scared of intimacy with him.

I absolutely loved this movie. I laughed and I cried. Yes I can enjoy something and think that it had it’s flaws.

Seeing this movie come to life on screen has made me so happy. It had it’s flaws yes, but all in all it was a good movie that I enjoyed entirely.The fact that we get to see another strong female leading a movie is amazing to me.

Insurgent will be even better. Loved the movie. Please go out and see this film. You will not be disappointed.

What were your thoughts on the move? Share in the comments.

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‘DIVERGENT’ DVD & Blu-ray already available for pre-order!

Divergent just hit theaters last night, but it is already available for pre-order in regular format and Bluray. Thanks to RedCarpetEnding.com for pointing this out.

Pre-order the DVD, Blu-ray, or HD format of the Divergent DVD over at Amazon.

Will you be pre-ordeing your Divergent DVD asap?

‘INSURGENT’ movie officially greenlit by Lionsgate!

Divergent hit theaters in a some theaters last night at 8pm. Others where able to see the film at 12am. Either way Divergent has been a hit so far. It has $4.9 million for just Thursday night. That is a great number.

That being said Insurgent has officially been greenlit by Lionsgate!Read Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer’s statement:

“We’re off to a great start with strong numbers from all regions of the country, urban, suburban and rural alike,” said CEO Jon Feltheimer on Friday. “We’re confident that Divergent is on its way to becoming another important franchise for us, and we have just greenlit the second film, Insurgent.”

Insurgent already has a release date of March 20th, 2015.

Are you guys excited? I know I am!

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‘DIVERGENT’ makes $4.9 million Thursday night!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Divergent has grossed a strong $4.9 million on Thursday night.

Initiates remember we must support this movie. Go watch Divergent at your local theater.

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Ben Lloyd-Hughes joins the cast of ‘The Moon and the Sun!

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that our Will, Ben Lloyd-Hughes has joined the cast of The Moon and the Sun. The film also stars Pierce Brosnan and Kaya Scoderlario.

See Ben as Will in Divergent this Friday.

Maggie Q to star in Kevin Williamson’s psychological thriller on CBS!

Maggie Q is one busy woman. Deadline is reporting that a she will be starring in a lead role in a drama pilot by Kevin Williamson. Maggie Q will play the female lead opposite Dylan McDermott in the project, from Warner Bros.

Written by Williamson and directed by Liz Friedlander, the psychological thriller revolves around two detectives, Beth (Maggie Q) and Jack (McDermott), who handle stalking incidents for the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD. Detective Beth Davis is the opinionated and obsessive, workaholic Division Captain of LAPD’s Threat Assessment Unit who also narrates the story.

Maggie Q can be seen in Divergent and in Conspiracy On Jekyll Island. She is also attached to star in event limited Red Flag.

‘DIVERGENT’ director Neil Burger talks Shailene Woodley and train jumping!

Neil  Burger spoke with Vulture about filming Divergent, power of Shailene Woodley and more.

What would be in your fear landscape?
Just directing a fear landscape! [Laughs.] Trying to figure out the best way to do it! Yeah, that was one of my favorite things going into it, because inLimitless, I had explored some of those trippy effects, psychotropic mindscapes, where we’re trying to represent them in the world of the mind. So I thought this was an opportunity to take it one step further. So the first idea was the aptitude test, to do that infinity mirror room, which is something I had played around with in Limitless as well, and then we were able to do it in a really cool way in this. And then with the birds, it’s like trying to envision what’s your worst nightmare, and what’s really the logic of a dream?

One of Tris’s fears is about intimacy with Four, and Shailene has great chemistry with Theo James. What was it like determining that, testing the two of them together?
It was incredible, actually. We did a worldwide search for Four, and so when we finally found Theo, I saw him, I met him, I thought he was great, and then we put him in a room with Shailene, and did a screen test. And I knew immediately, because they just had this electricity, this energy, where she’s a really strong actress, and it can sometimes overwhelm the actor she’s playing against, because she is so good and she is so powerful, but not here. He was the one that was sort of intimidating her, which was the perfect dynamic for their relationship. She was really infatuated with him, and he was sort of intrigued by her, and it was perfect. I always wonder, because people keep asking me, “Are they together? They’re a couple, aren’t they?” And I’m like, “You know what? They should be.”

Have you read Allegiant yet?
Of course I have, yeah. [Laughs.] I know! I saw that story plastered all over the web — “Neil Burger hasn’t read Allegiant yet,” which always invites death threats, you know. [Laughs.]

Sorry! But because you hadn’t read it when we last talked, you mentioned that you went to Veronica Roth to clue you in before it came out, so you could revise Divergent accordingly. What changes did you make based on those conversations?
I’ll tell you this — when I first got the script of the movie and came on to it, it was kind of sketchy. There were some scenes that weren’t in the script, the zip line, or Christina hung out over the chasm by Eric, and I thought, “Those haveto be in the movie.” They’re such iconic scenes. And I understood why they tried to cut them out when they were developing the script, but they had to be in there. So often, it was trying to fight to get everything into the movie, which was the real challenge.

With Veronica, I was asking her lots of questions about the world, why was it the way it was, and what was going on. I wanted them to go outside the wall. I was thinking that for the end of the movie, I should have them go through the fence, and outside the fence, which in a way they do. And when Four brings the Initiates to visit the fence, they climb up and they look out, and they sort of speculate on what’s out there. And Tris turns to Four and says, “Do you know?” And I wrote something, that he had been out there, that he had ventured out, and wasn’t going to tell what he saw. I asked Veronica, “What if he had been out? What do you think?” And she said, “I don’t think he could have been out there to any degree, venturing into the world, just because of what happens in the third book.”

If the zip line and the Christina-chasm scenes weren’t in the original script, what about Edward’s eye getting poked out?
Not only was that something else that I put back in — and we shot it — but we took it out. We had to keep it moving, and that was a really painful thing to cut, but we did shoot it, and it’s a great scene. It’s one of those things in movie-making, to make the whole better, you sometimes have to kill some of these. It’s called killing your babies.

Let’s talk about the train jumping. What was that like to shoot?
That was one of the bigger challenges to do. I wanted it as much as possible to be real, with the stunts, with everything, with the train. I didn’t want a train sitting stationary on a soundstage, with them jumping on and off against green screen. So we built our own train car, we laid out hundreds of feet of train track, and we also had them climb the real L-tracks. That’s not what they do in the book, it’s something that we added, but I just thought it would be very cool. And they are really running along that train, getting on, and then they are jumping off of a moving train. It’s connected together with some visual effects, but they’re really doing it, and that train is moving. Maybe it was about 15 miles per hour? You have to actually do it at a speed that they can run that fast to get on. You get to 15, and it starts to get a little bit hard.

Did you ever try to do it yourself?
I did! Oh, yeah. It was great. I always feel that way as a director — if they’re going to do it, I have to do it. But I did not get up on that zip line. I would have liked to do that. But the same thing, we strung a zip line through the streets of Chicago, and in all these things, we did them in a variety of different ways and combined them together, but we always did it for real. The zip line was a more complicated thing because it started up on a crane, like 200 feet in the air, so getting up there was no joke.

Click here to check out the rest Neil’s interview with Vulture.

Divergent will be out in theaters this Friday. Have you purchased your tickets yet?