5 Teen Dystopian Movies That Defined the Genre & 5 That Were Just Ridiculous

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Some dystopian movies defined the genre while others nearly ended it. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the five best and five worst teen dystopian films. Our countdown includes "The Maze Runner," "Divergent," "The 5th Wave," and more! What is YOUR opinion on these movies and the genre as a whole? Let us know in the comments below!
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@MsMojo 13 часов назад

What is YOUR opinion on these movies and the genre as a whole? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 30 Best Teen Movies of the 2000s - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Oosq8R7ktQE.html

@trinaq 13 часов назад

Saoirse Ronan was the best part of "The Host", though not even she could save it from mediocrity. At least she later got Oscar nominated twice afterwards.

@Kayjee17 12 часов назад

She did a great job playing the nuances of a very mature and empathetic alien living inside a very young and angry teen girl with both of them questioning their prior assumptions about the situation the whole planet is in - and I bought it. However, literally no one else in the movie is anything other than a dull, cardboard cutout place filler character acted either too blandly or with Shatnerian levels of stilted emotions. Too bad, because with a better storyline and actors (besides the main actress who's name I can never spell), the basic concept that maybe some of the "body-snatchers" are good is a more interesting idea for modern audiences than the OG horror movie.

@HenshinHeroesMedia 12 часов назад

For a better story about two people in the same body, watch dragonball z abridged. It's a funny scenario

@ckarts1225 11 часов назад

I preferred the book over the movie myself.

@NatReads 13 часов назад

I’d argue that the Mortal Instruments isn’t a dystopian, but yes, still ridiculous.

@Kayjee17 12 часов назад

Definitely NOT dystopian.

@isaacmartinez6904 13 часов назад

The Hunger Games is a classic.

@grahamdamberger7130 5 часов назад

There will most likely never be another teen dystopia quite like it.

@scottsummers4234 6 часов назад

Suzanne Collins ATE with the Hunger Games

@ComedyPlastic 13 часов назад

The Hunger Games is the best in my opinion.

@trinaq 13 часов назад

I feel like the "Uglies" film missed the entire point of the original novels. None of the characters were actually ugly, but constantly told they were, which fed into their insecurities. You'd also be forgiven for thinking that they're a rip off of "The Hunger Games" or "Divergent", but they've been around longer than those series.

@Kayjee17 12 часов назад

True, but the books were pretty bland too except the last one.

@EmmySwimmy-j2e 12 часов назад

It felt like "Hey there fellow kids! let's talk about body image"🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

@jasminetaylor9678 4 часа назад

I think that was the point the film was trying to make. Their natural looks are considered “ugly” in their future dystopian society. And the mandatory surgery will make them feel “pretty” and that they have a wonderful life and are accepted. The books that were released on the early 2000s explain this more. I ln my opinion, the movie isn’t that bad. It definitely reflects/ relates to what people feel in real life that are insecure in with their natural looks. Thinking that just by changing the way they are will be more acceptable and fit in more. Especially teenagers. Hence why it says in the books all the “uglies” are that turn 16 year that get the mandatory surgery.

@maryastutzman5654 12 часов назад

The fact that the giver isn’t on here is crazy. Or maybe it doesn’t really count as dystopian?

@erikadogmomanddoc 13 часов назад

I recently rewatched "the giver" and it was actually pretty good. for "the uglies" I watched a 11-minute You-tube summary of the movie and that was definitely all I needed. Nothing will ever be better than Hunger Games series.

@usha9807 13 часов назад

Enders Game was brilliant and I agree with your picks.

@StLProgressive 57 минут назад

Loved it. Harrison Ford doesn’t play too many villains, but when he does he’s superb. Then again, when is he not? The kid who played Ender was excellent. They did a great job bringing that world to life.

@rosebookfan7677 13 часов назад

And I absolutely disagree on The Host. It was a fair adaptation to its original book & the actors were on-point, the complex love square of Wanda Ian Melanie & Jared was highly compelling, & thematic messages of life & what it means to be human is universally poignant😆

@lauriivey7801 12 часов назад

I think they really blew it for Wanda's 'body' ... the rest was okay, but could've been so much better. The book was great!!

@robertmcnally2220 11 часов назад

I enjoyed "the uglies " . Joey king is definitely not ugly in any way. She's a good actress

@nickw7967 13 часов назад

Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner are defined for me.

@LucienSabre 12 часов назад

You mean defining series in general…because Harry Potter is *not* a dystopian series - the muggle world is our world, not an apocalyptic one or such (and the wizarding world is its fantastical hidden side).

@yonathanasefaw9001 11 часов назад

Lol Harry Potter?

@rfresa 9 часов назад

@@LucienSabreIsn't Mortal Instruments the same? Just a secret magic society within the present world?

@nickw7967 6 часов назад

@LucienSabre I know, but I couldn't resist putting it on the list.

@LucienSabre 42 минуты назад

@@rfresa Yeah, and in fact it shouldn’t be here either.

@rosebookfan7677 13 часов назад

Hey! No fair to Allegiant. Yes I do agree that the film relied to heavily on CGI, but it succeeded in characters, chemistry, action, romance, & political struggle. It would’ve been better if the filmmakers actually finished the series!😤

@trenae77 9 часов назад

Insurgent and Allegiant were poorly adapted. The books were more philosophical and it was difficult to translate to screen. That, and they were trying to emulate ‘popular’ themes of other genres at the time and ended up a mess.

@laurenregnier3710 13 часов назад

It's too bad the Divergent series never finished , so close , one more movie . 😢

@Kayjee17 12 часов назад

Yeah, but the book ending sucked! She didn't need to be teen-girl martyr... she needed to be teen- girl Moses who lead her people to a better way of being.

@trenae77 9 часов назад

@@Kayjee17Thing is, regardless of what the movies would want you to think, Triss wasn’t the real focus of the story. Her death was needed for the true focus find his purpose in the end.

@dianetraughber9316 12 часов назад

I kinda liked The Host!!😊

@AudreyC379 8 часов назад

I was *obsessed* with the Maze Runner series when I was a teen. I read the books multiple times and still have them. ☺️ The movies are ok, but like many adaptations, the books are better.

@dianetraughber9316 12 часов назад

Mortal Instruments was slow and kind of hokey. Not as good as the book. The TV shows they made later, called The Shadow Hunters were amazing ... I loved them to pieces .❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

@hannahlowe794 13 часов назад

Anyone else ever think it’s odd that Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley played siblings in Divergent and love interests in The Fault in Our Stars?

@PawClow 12 часов назад

They Alabama'd so hard

@ThatGirlShelbyy 12 часов назад

It took SO long to even click in that it was him in both movies 😂 I saw AFIOS when it first came out but never watched it again after that. I associate him with the divergent series way more 😅

@maryastutzman5654 12 часов назад

No, because they’re not siblings in real life?????

@eugeniapatroncosta920 13 часов назад

Maze Runner traumatized me! It was the more horrifying movie I ever seen!

@YtuMamaTambien22 6 часов назад

Wait, The Mortal Intruments is NOT a dystopian. And Meryl Streep wasn't on The Host, she was in The Giver...

@billm5555 12 часов назад

I loved "The Host".

@QueenOfTheDead2023 7 часов назад

As someone who's read the Divergent trilogy, I personally disagree with where you placed Divergent. Not saying that it's a bad movie, I just feel like a few good scenes from the book shouldn't have been changed or left on the cutting room floor. It probably also doesn't help that it would be difficult for any YA dystopian book adaptation to break out of the shadow left by The Hunger Games' success.

@nathangrund7216 9 часов назад

I think Miles Teller's involvement was also definitely worth acknowledgement. Plus I enjoyed The Host. Most of the rest was fairly accurate if not obvious.

@AngelVoice23 6 часов назад

Um, Ender's Game was actually not that great of an adaptation if you read the book. They got the major plot beats, but the details were all wrong. And Harrison Ford sleep-walked through his role.

@APhizzle 10 часов назад

I’ve legitimately never heard of “The 5th Wave” lol, never saw a trailer for it, never heard even a single person mention it.

@wearetheiam4720 3 часа назад

I don't really see Hunger Games as Y.A just because the main characters are teenagers. The themes are much darker, the message isn't contemporary, it's much closer to something Orwellian. It isn't a coming of age, it isn't hyper focused on the romance aspect outside of the need for survival. The children and teenagers aren't a main feature because it's Y.A. They are because it's horrific. It's like calling The Boy in Striped Pajamas a children's book. The thematic elements are much more mature than thay of any other Y.A dystopian fiction. So, it is technically classified as that but it isn't glossy, or cool, or fun like Divergant, Maze Runner, Enders Game. It is unsettling, extremily sad and in my opinion is just straight up 'dystopian sci-fi'.

@DaniqueEmiliaSteinfeld 12 часов назад

I loved the Maze Runner, but the sequels were a big drop in quality. In the end the whole plot seemed pointless. I hope the books were better.

@alisoncircus 5 часов назад

They weren't, and sadly for exactly the same reason. It's as if the author was inspired with the nightmare imagery that was so effective in the first part (Maze Runner, book or film) and was then scrambling to find some kind of societal explanation for how that came about. Each book was slightly better than the movie of the same name, but at the end you were left with exactly the same conclusion: All these resources were used up in a complete waste of time for a culture that desperately needed to make maximum use of what they were left with - and chose to do this instead. And not even self-aware enough to be meta about it.

@PerfectlyImperfect93 13 часов назад

Shadowhunters tv show is 1000000 times better ❤

@Kayjee17 12 часов назад

I agree!

@IsaAC-ct5rx 12 часов назад

Is mortal insturments a dystopian society?

@rfresa 9 часов назад

Good point. If that's on the list then so should Harry Potter.

@rfresa 9 часов назад

Is Mortal Instruments really dystopian, though? It's just set in a fantasy version of the present. If you're going to include that, then you have to consider Harry Potter too.

@louiseeriksson6515 12 часов назад

MsMojo is on fire, the list was finally done thanks to Uglies release.

@littlebrockstar1324 11 часов назад

Im amazed you didnt mention "The Darkest Minds." It was just x-men mixed with Maximum Ride, but a lot of it was poorly done

@jacobdrolet4262 13 часов назад

Fantastic video Rebecca from both Ms mojo & watch mojo young adult books that adaptation into movies that are defined or ridiculous how they made in films,marvellous job. I really like enjoy immortal instruments city of bones movie,somewhat the host too. To me what was ridiculous is the darkest mind,Artemis Fowl and Spiderwick chronicles many others too.

@pipkin3 48 минут назад

City of Ember is so underrated!

@hotram1 12 часов назад

I don't remember Ender's Game being all that good and the studio didn't go forward with a sequel so it didn't do well at the box office. It wasn't ridiculous but I don't think it should be in the defined category either.

@LeonardoKlotz 13 часов назад

I watched UGLIES just because of McG I'm a fan of his work, especially "Charlie's Angels", "Terminator Salvation" and "The Babysitter"

@dianetraughber9316 12 часов назад

Enders Game was magnificent. Just always wished there was a second part ❤❤❤❤❤

@imogensullivan2210 3 часа назад

So many of these are so so so wrong and I say this as a massive fan of dystopia. the uglies books ARE a commentary on beauty standards, the characters aren't necessarily ugly at all and have been manipulated to believe they are by the government. and it came out... three years before the hunger games (how the hell is the CGI bad????) AND HOW THE HELL ARE THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS DYSTOPIAN?!?!?!?!?!?!? THAT'S FANTASY!!!!!!

@jamesheatherly4209 7 часов назад

Last year I watched the first Divergent movie for a school project.

@Rebelwithacause94 7 часов назад

I’m still upset about Allegiant 😭 they messed up that series soo bad!

@maytalacedo2942 12 часов назад

The ugliest was a dystopian thing long before the hunger games but the problem it wasn't adapted right and they waited 20 years for This.

@samuelcollantes1175 13 часов назад

I don't have a personal opinión, i haven't watched any of these movies. Happy friday afternoon, Rebecca, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well

@scifigirl74 13 часов назад

The City of Ember was a bad adaptation of the book. Maybe that's why the other books never got the movie treatment.

@holliekendall7897 Час назад

I quite liked city of bones. I read all the books and i thought that the adaptation was relatively accurate, despite some pacing issues. The TV show that came out afterwards i thought was the worst adaptation. Its a good show if you havent read the books but i just couldnt separate them in my head. The only redeeming thing from shadowhunters was Malec