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Books and films on fictional dystopias existed way before Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games trilogy. At the time, books like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale depicted a world very different from our own that was not impossible if a certain chain of events happened. But unlike More’s Utopia or Bellamy’s Looking Backward,…

In my reviews of The Twilight Saga and how I mention the late ‘00s and early ‘10s trend of Hollywood taking young adult novels and turning it into films, you might know my position on studios and how they take the final book, split it into two movies, and milk the series for as much…

My favorite film in The Hunger Games series definitely has to be Catching Fire. In my last review of The Hunger Games, I talked about how the film was a good movie, but in terms of cutting out the more meaningful minutiae of the book source, could have done much better. The Hunger Games: Catching…

The late ‘00s and early ‘10s were a time of marrying Hollywood and popular young adult novels into movies that either flopped or did really well with its target audience. Aside from the obvious Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga series that were the arguable trailblazers for this type of movie, you also had contenders…

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is the final installment of The Twilight Saga film series and the last film you should watch in the order of Twilight movies. Unlike the first film which is packed with forgettable filler moments meant to pad the runtime, this movie was an improvement and had a…

We can’t fault the Twilight franchise for doing it when other young adult film adaptations are also guilty of doing the same after 2010. The Harry Potter franchise started it in 2010 when it released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. A year later, the Twilight Saga saw Breaking Dawn – Part…

My personal favorite film out of the five in The Twilight Saga has to be Eclipse. While it’s the penultimate book in the series and the third in the five films, it is arguably the novel that expands the lore of the universe not only in terms of Bella and Edward’s love story, but also…

Every time I read someone on the internet criticize The Twilight Saga for being about a teenage girl being in love with a teenage vampire, I can’t help but roll my eyes. Sure, Twilight does focus on that, but when you look at The Twilight Saga sequels, it’s more than the love story between Bella…

Stephenie Meyer released the first novel of the series, Twilight in 2005, but it wasn’t until three years later when the iconic film adaptation Twilight was released in cinemas in 2008. Nobody knew it at the time, but the series would go on to have five more commercially successful movies, spin-off novellas, millions of fans…